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<center>Light:<br>A Journal devoted to the Highest Interests of Humanity both Here and Hereafter.</center> | |||
<center>“{{Style S-Small capitals|Light! More Light!}}”—''Goethe''.</center> | |||
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| No. 100.—Vol. II. | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1882. | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | Price Threepence. | |||
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| source details = Vol.II, No.100, Saturday, December2,1882 | | source details = Vol.II, No.100, Saturday, December2,1882 | ||
| publication date = 1882-12-02 | | publication date = 1882-12-02 | ||
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| style="width:43%;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>M.A.(Oxon) and Madame Blavatsky</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 537 | |||
| style="width:43%; border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Hints to the Editor</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 543 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Miss C. L. Hunt’s “Instructions in Organic Magnetism.”</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 537 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Séances with Dr. Slade and Mr. Philips</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 544 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>The Astral Light and the Objectivity of Thought</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 538 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>The Fairy Land of Mathematics</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 544 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Central Association of Spiritualists</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 539 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>A Defence of Mediums</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 545 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Professional Physical Mediumship</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 540 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>The Teachings of “The Perfect Way”</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 545 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Vision of Departed Friends</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 541 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Conduct of Public Physical Séances</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 546 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>“Shells”</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 541 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Spiritualism in a Spanish Prison</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 547 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Our Future</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 542 | |||
| style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" | <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Mrs. Hardinge-Britten in the North of England</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | 548 | |||
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| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>Death-bed Apparitions</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
| style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.7em;" | 542 | |||
| <div style="display:flex; align-items:flex-end;"><span>style="border-left:1px solid; padding-left:0.7em;" |</span><span style="flex:1; min-width:1em; border-bottom:1px dotted; margin-bottom:0.3em;"></span></div> | |||
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| source details = December2,1882 | | source details = Saturday, December2,1882; includes review of Miss C.L.Hunt’s instructions in organic magnetism | ||
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<center>'''Contributed by “{{Style S-Small capitals|M.A. (Oxon.)}}”'''</center> | |||
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I have fallen on evil days, Madame Blavatsky, accompanied or attended by five chelas, has seen fit to devote no less than three columns of remonstrance and rebuke to me “from an altitude of over 8,000 feet above the sea-level.” I have been indiscreet enough to avow my belief that the Journal of Science, as compared with other journals and reviews of a like nature, is conspicuously fair in its treatment of Spiritualism and the Occult. I thought so in respect of its review of Mr. Sinnett’s book. It does not write from my point of view, and I should except to some of its remarks, but, after reading it again in deference to the rebuke of my critic and her “Chelas, who know their masters,” I am bound to say I think it contrasts honourably and strikingly with the treatment, let me say for example, that Madame Blavatsky met with in the pages of a prominent English Review. As to the chelas, if it be a wise son that knows its own father, no doubt it is a wise chela that knows its own master. But otherwise their wisdom is not apparent in what they write. For my friend, I beg to assure her that I have not consciously written a word that ought to cause her hurt. I am sure she claims and values liberty of thought for herself too much to deny it to me. I must be permitted to do my own thinking, and I regret to find that I cannot always, no doubt from inferior means of information, agree with her and others of my friends. That is all. She imports into my writings a spirit that does not animate them, when she reads in them any sort of personal animus. I will not even discuss the question: but to clear away possible misconception I may make a personal explanation. Since the Secretary of the Parent Society does not think it wrong to break the rules of secrecy which fence in the Theosophical Society, it cannot be wrong for me to say that I ceased to take any active part in the London Society some years since, and have during this year resigned my membership. | |||
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The attention of educated Spiritualists is being increasingly directed from the mere surface phenomena, and the cut-and-dried explanations of them, to some systematic study of their inter-relations and of the causes which underlie them. One of the chief avenues of knowledge in this direction unquestionably is the relation of mind to mind, with the kindred subjects of transference of thought, or sympathetic impressions, and of the power of influencing certain sensitive and susceptible minds by power of will. Thought-reading attracts just now an amount of practical attention that bids fair to elucidate most of the superficial difficulties that surround it. Mesmerism<nowiki>*</nowiki> has, at all times, attracted students of the Occult; and from the study of it, intelligently made, much light will, I believe, be thrown on the obscure phenomena known as Spiritualistic. Some of these seem to be distinctly referable to the action of an invisible Intelligence using an unknown Force. Others are equally distinctly referable to the action of mind on mind, conceivably using the same Force, but requiring no importation of an external Spirit to explain the facts. What is the Force? Psychic Force is a name good enough. What is the Agent? In the former case, Unembodied Spirit; in the latter, the Human Will; aided or unaided, but at any rate energizing consciously. | |||
The little book now under notice contains a large amount of information, original and collected, respecting the subject of Mesmerism. There are in it, no doubt, some things calculated to repel the scientific mind, and the apparently preposterous price at which it is published is suggestive of a quality only too easily attributed to this and kindred subjects. It is fair, however, to say that the guinea charged for the book includes also a course of instruction to pupils. It would, perhaps, be better to separate the book from the oral or written instruction, and to charge a reasonable price for each. Be that as it may, I am concerned with the book alone, having had no other advantage in reading it. At the outset I may at once declare my belief that it will prove a serviceable and useful manual for the student who approaches the subjects with which it deals as a tyro. As a practical guide it is clear and concise, though it includes some questionable matter. The scientific student of causes who would exhaust his branch of a wide subject must go elsewhere; but he will find a guide to his steps in the list of more than a hundred works on various branches of the subject, which are enumerated in an appendix. | |||
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What are the general principles on which Mesmerism is founded? These simply. Every organism is surrounded by a magnetic aura which makes itself pleasantly or offensively manifest to almost all who come into ''rapport'' with it. These are usually sensitives; many of whom, for example, cannot tolerate a cat near them. This aura can be utilised by one who can, by exercise of will, control it. He can command and direct it, and can use it for purposes of relieving or healing disease. This is the broad statement. The controller is known as magnetiser or mesmeriser: the controlled as the subject. To the mesmeriser the qualities essential are purity of spirit, concentration of will, and a commanding magnetic gaze. The first is the energizing source of power: the second is the method of setting it in action: the third is the efficient cause relating the agent to the subject. The power possessed by the mesmeriser is said to be injured by improper diet, and by the use of alcohol and tobacco. It is dissipated by ebullitions of temper, and by an ill-regulated and unbalanced habit of mind, as well as generally by a lack of that self-contained force of character that renders a man impregnable to the assaults of external temptation. This is the allegation of our authoress. Probably it is true as respects the safe and beneficial use of a highly dangerous power. He who would safely wield such an influence should be physically, psychically, and spiritually “whole.” | |||
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What manner of person to the outward eye is the possible subject? A successful mesmeriser probably recognises his own subject instinctively; and different qualities are probably found suitable to different operators. But, as a broad rule, to which exceptions must be admitted, a subject is of negative rather than positive temperament, with the faith-faculty largely developed, with no dominant animal propensities, or physical powers, such as are indicated by a tightly-set mouth, a large chin and nose, and a high coronal development of the head. It is easier to say who is not likely to prove a good subject than to indicate one who is. Given a lithe, active, vigorous young man, with little repose and great muscular activity, with a dome-shaped head, a large nose, and a powerful jaw and chin, the mesmeriser would probably not regard him as a promising subject. If in addition his mental peculiarities included a strong will, a good opinion of himself, and a dominant self-hood, he might fairly be pronounced impregnable to ordinary assault. | |||
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How does the mesmeriser acquire his power? Somewhat in this way. He gains by practice the positive magnetic gaze which controls and searches the eye that meets it. All can probably recall some eye that seemed able to pierce through and through, and read the very secrets of the heart. This fixed “dynamical”{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-94}} | |||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Miss C. L. Hunt’s “Private Instructions in Organic Magnetism.” Printed for the Authoress by G. Wilson, 67a, Turnmill-street, E.C. | |||
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