Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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conclusions of this practice? that you should be subject
conclusions of this practice? that you should be subject
to evil because you are sometimes subject to good?
Never trust human nature in the dark, if this nature is
so dark it covers its footprints.
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Manipulating the head, we discovered, establishes
Manipulating the head, we discovered, establishes
between patient and practitioner a mental communica-
tion not in the least understood by the patients or the
people. Through this medium the doctor holds more
direct influence over their minds than the united power
of education and public sentiment. Mesmeric power is
stronger for evil, than good, in contradistinction to the
enlargement of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual
being that science imparts to individuals, elevating the
capacity to do good, above others.
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In proportion to the mal-practitioner's power to
In proportion to the mal-practitioner's power to
govern the minds of his patients with his selfish motives,
is his ability in science diminished. Whoso doeth
evil that good might come, incurs the sentence, "his
damnation is just."
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Witnessing this abuse of metaphysics, a friend anx-
Witnessing this abuse of metaphysics, a friend anx-
iously said to us, "You discovered metaphysical heal-
ing, and have also discovered this abuse of it, and
the evil done through mesmerism; now why do you
not forestall this wrong by controlling the minds of
individuals or the community to disbelieve its false-
hoods?" To this we replied, "We have neither divine
authority, nor the power to control minds for any other
than their own benefit, and we are giving the results of
our moral, spiritual, and metaphysical researches to the
world as fast as possible, but the footsteps of falsehood
and error are swift, those of honesty and Truth slow,
and strong. The community must understand the sci-
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ence of being to appreciate it, and they must detect the
ence of being to appreciate it, and they must detect the
wicked mal-practice to appreciate that; therefore the
true verdict is not yet given, and Truth can wait, for
it is used to waiting. Will should be impotent except
in 'good will to man,' and this involves open action
and upright conduct; science is not a blind Samson,
shorn of his strength."
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The silent argument used in his own behalf, as he
The silent argument used in his own behalf, as he
manipulates the head, the mal-practitioner would blush
to make audibly. Suppose he has a juror for a patient,
and establishes the mesmeric connection between them,
he can influence more than law or evidence, the verdict
of that honest juror. If a bargain is to ratify, or a
purpose to accomplish for himself, or his reputation at
stake, he looks out for an opportunity to manipulate
the head of some party concerned, and controls their
actions or conclusions to suit the occasion and meet his
desires. Friendship is not too sacred for his depreda-
tions; the friends of many years he separates, covering
all recognition of his villainy and raising himself in the
esteem of those very individuals to whom he has done
irreparable injury.
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Our rebuke to a false student elicited his revenge,
Our rebuke to a false student elicited his revenge,
and through this we discovered the mal-practice we
expose. We have seen manipulating the head form a
habit more pernicious than opium-eating, in which the
treatment must be continued, or the patient go back
to a worse condition than the first.
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It is more difficult to heal the sick, subject to this
It is more difficult to heal the sick, subject to this
mal-practice, than under treatment of drugs; and yet
the patients are strangely attached to their doctor.
We have started patients at once out of disease on the