Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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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
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sinister motives, or in any but a right direction, would
sinister motives, or in any but a right direction, would
destroy your position in science. Influence the minds of
others from motives of selfishness, revenge, impurity, or
any bad motive, and you would lose your ability to heal
in science, and never regain your position until you had
suffered sufficiently from this error, to forever destroy
it, and not venture again on ground so dangerous. A
mal-practitioner can never reach the standard of scien-
tific healing. It would be as impossible as for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle.
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To prevent the evil of this criminal outlawry growing
To prevent the evil of this criminal outlawry growing
without let or hindrance, the community should under-
stand it; this error can lift its giant proportions above
common modes of doing evil, and hold more arbitrary
sway over minds than any other past or present power
of sin. The science of healing is incapable of evil, but
this opposite practice is as clearly proved capable of
great mischief, and even crime; able, while it lays high
claims to right, secretly to work out a hidden wrong
against humanity, justice and Truth. Malice will some-
times show itself and defeat its own purpose; falsehood,
uttered aloud, is met with rebutting testimony; but
this method of injuring others by a silent, and subtle
impregnation of falsehoods and prejudices in the minds
of individuals, to be spoken by them to others, is
"Satan let loose," the sin that "standeth in holy
places." Law cannot restrain, or punish it as it
deserves, and community will be slow to acknowledge
the heinous crime, until they learn its power to work
iniquity, and note its workings; "more subtle than
all other beasts of the field," it coils itself about the
sleeper, fastens its fang in innocence, and kills in the