Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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heads of his patients, communing with them mentally
heads of his patients, communing with them mentally
as he does this, but instead of speaking to them only
Truth, and that which promotes harmony, he takes this
opportunity to introduce into their minds side-issues,
such as suit his sinister purpose, imparting his own
likes and dislikes to the patients, either from vengeance
or ambition. If the doctor helps the patients through
head-nibbing, it is through their belief he does it, and
mind is controlled either with Truth or error. And a
bad effect can as certainly follow this practice as a good
one, but the patients are wholly unconscious of this, or
how it is produced. If he has imparted error he cer-
tainly will deny it, but if he had not done this we
should never have learned what this mal-practice was.
Through an erroneous influence on their minds the
patients are made, in a day, worse physically, while to
him whom they owe this state, even the author of
it, all unconsciously they turn to be healed. We have
learned this mal-practice is impossible in science, and
is mesmerism demoralized. Had it been possible for us
to control mind through this subtle, criminal agency,
we could not have been tempted to do it, even in self‑
defence; the temptation, even, could not reach us, and
we resorted to our pen to expose this evil that reached,
for the first time, our apprehension.
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Some newspaper articles falsifying the science, call-
Some newspaper articles falsifying the science, call-
ing it mesmerism, etc., but especially intended, as the
writer informed us, to injure its author, precipitated
our examination of mesmerism in contradistinction to
our metaphysical science of healing based on the science
of Life. Filled with revenge and evil passions, the mal-
practioner can only depend on manipulation, and rubs
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the heads of patients years together, fairly incorporat-
the heads of patients years together, fairly incorporat-
ing their minds through this process, which claims less
respect the more we understand it, and learn its cause.
Through the control this gives the practitioner over
patients, he readily reaches the mind of the community
to injure another or promote himself, but none can
track his foul course; the evil is felt but not under-
stood. It can demoralize a community, and the mal-
practitioner be undiscovered in his work and claim
fidelity in mental healing – a sacred and solemn trust.
Controlled by his will, patients haste to do his bidding,
and become involuntary agents of his schemes, while
honestly attesting their faith in him and his moral
character. Talking one way and acting another, he
occupies a position the very opposite of Truth. This
is no idle picture of pen or imagination, but a faint por-
traiture of facts discovered through the victims of this
mal-practice; facts that we submit to others for proof.
Try it, whoever will, manipulate the head of an indi-
vidual until you have established a mesmeric connection
between you both; then direct her action, or influence
her to some conclusion, arguing the case mentally, as
you would audibly, and mark the result. You will
find, the more honest and confiding the individual, the
more she is governed by the mind of the operator. But
learn the lessons of the science of Life, and through
these go up higher, to the discovery of this great Truth,
and do this if you can; it would be as impossible as for
light to be darkness.
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If you had the power that mesmerism gives to influ-
If you had the power that mesmerism gives to influ-
ence minds wrong as well as right, the science herein
explained would take it away. To control minds with