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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 | 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* 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. | 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. | ||