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that character, talents, virtues, and qualities are powerfully affected by beef, mutton, pie-crust, and rich soups. I have often thought that I could feed or starve men into many virtues and vices, and affect them more powerfully with the instruments of cookery than Timotheus could do formerly with his lyre.”
The principle applies to clairvoyance (lucidity). Be so healthily, or not at all. Selfmesmerization is a very safe and sure road if it is a slow process. As a matter of course, every tyro and experimentalist will not make a grand success, because in too great ahurry; nor is it to be expected; neither will every one skate or sing well who tries, until a fair amount of practice shall enable them to do so; that practice necessarily involving many failures before the final triumph. Mesmerism, self or foreign, has been in use as an educator for hundreds of long ages, as is proved by the sculptures and tablets of Ancient Egypt, Syria, Nineveh, and Babylon, fashioned by civilized man over forty thousand years ago, if there be any truth in the archzeological conclusions of Botta, Mariette, Champollion, Lepsius, Rawlings, Leonard Horner, and Baron Bunsen; and in those ancient days, magnetism and clairvoyance, judging from art relics yet remaining, were, as now, used practically. Then probably, as now, a large class of learned men affirmed diseases mainly to spring from bad states of the blood and organs, totally ignoring what clairvoyance then, as now, asserted, that they were (and are) frequently the result of deeply hidden causes, albeit there is some doubt whether they even distantly glimpsed the recently discovered fact, that every disorder bears its own signature or means of cure, as plainly as its direct symptoms themselves are apparent; that many diseases that have successfully baffled medical science are due to magnetic disturbances in many instances, —fairly eluding detection until forced to yield the secret to clairvoyance ; that still other, and many, diseases can only be accounted for on the doctrine of spores, — already herein explained; nor, furthermore, were the ‘“‘learned” ones of that day, any more than their brethren or class in our own time, probably aware, that at least three-fifths of all the evil in the world — social, mental, national, religious, physical, and moral, sickness, agony, and premature death — sprung and spring from troubles, fevers, colds, and acidities in the love departments of our common human nature, as clairvoyance universally demonstrates be
that character, talents, virtues, and qualities are powerfully affected by beef, mutton, pie-crust, and rich soups. I have often thought that I could feed or starve men into many virtues and vices, and affect them more powerfully with the instruments of cookery than Timotheus could do formerly with his lyre.”
The principle applies to clairvoyance (lucidity). Be so healthily, or not at all. Selfmesmerization is a very safe and sure road if it is a slow process. As a matter of course, every tyro and experimentalist will not make a grand success, because in too great ahurry; nor is it to be expected; neither will every one skate or sing well who tries, until a fair amount of practice shall enable them to do so; that practice necessarily involving many failures before the final triumph. Mesmerism, self or foreign, has been in use as an educator for hundreds of long ages, as is proved by the sculptures and tablets of Ancient Egypt, Syria, Nineveh, and Babylon, fashioned by civilized man over forty thousand years ago, if there be any truth in the archzeological conclusions of Botta, Mariette, Champollion, Lepsius, Rawlings, Leonard Horner, and Baron Bunsen; and in those ancient days, magnetism and clairvoyance, judging from art relics yet remaining, were, as now, used practically. Then probably, as now, a large class of learned men affirmed diseases mainly to spring from bad states of the blood and organs, totally ignoring what clairvoyance then, as now, asserted, that they were (and are) frequently the result of deeply hidden causes, albeit there is some doubt whether they even distantly glimpsed the recently discovered fact, that every disorder bears its own signature or means of cure, as plainly as its direct symptoms themselves are apparent; that many diseases that have successfully baffled medical science are due to magnetic disturbances in many instances, —fairly eluding detection until forced to yield the secret to clairvoyance ; that still other, and many, diseases can only be accounted for on the doctrine of spores, — already herein explained; nor, furthermore, were the ‘“‘learned” ones of that day, any more than their brethren or class in our own time, probably aware, that at least three-fifths of all the evil in the world — social, mental, national, religious, physical, and moral, sickness, agony, and premature death — sprung and spring from troubles, fevers, colds, and acidities in the love departments of our common human nature, as clairvoyance universally demonstrates be
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