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he makes a suggestion that suggestion itself is charged with a sort of aura and influences the aura of the person who has the hypnotic power passes into the body of the other. When the patient does anything in accordance with suggestion he has not his own will; his own mind is for the time being annihilated. He has the mind of the other person. Where the mind of one person is positive and the mind of the other person is negative they will unite. The hypnotic and mesmeric powers are not spiritual powers at all. Any good done while the mind is not in a state of operation cannot last forever, any more than this unnatural state can be permanent, and thus no permanent good is done either by hypnotism or mesmerism. Really speaking, it is the mind of another person, and this can never be the patient's power but the power of the practitioner. No person can inject consciousness into the mind of another; our consciousness is part and parcel of our own being. If one could do this, still the consciousness would not be ours, we should become that person. Consciousness is always connected with personality in human beings. It is only that soul which by its own powers grows in the spiritual life which can become saturated with the divine mind. Another mind acting over us is not the act of our own soul. Our own consciousness for the time being is not working at all. Our own does not gain from it. Therefore this system can never do any real good. It may cure disease on the physical plane, but the only way really to develop another person is through his consciousness.
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