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MAGNETISM
life in accordance with mental rules one may also make the bodily and soul life accord with the whole universe.
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This same power of magnetism is used by mesmerists and hypnotists, and the real difference with regard to the principles of these two schools is in the mode which is resorted to by them. One says that there is something flowing from one human body to another; the other says that there is no such substance but by suggestion they will put the patient into a passive state, and the suggestion of some act is then given and acted upon by him; but really speaking, when a person is put into a hypnotic or passive state, then the mind becomes vacant, as it were, and it is susceptible to any influence. The practitioner himself has his own aura, and it is powerful or not powerful according to the will; and when 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
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