Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... of the thunder, or the throes of the quaking earth." "Like the still small voice that spoke to the Prophet Elijah when the Lord passed by -- it has come in the low whispers of two new sciences--the science of Life or magnetism, and the science of Soul or Psychology. Only the very first elements of these two magical relations have as yet dawned upon our age, but they have shown us enough to be assured that when they are fully understood and scientifically applied, they will afford a clue to all the mysteries of the past, and enable man to achieve by natural law, all those phenomenal demonstrations which in ancient times were termed miracles." We must give to Paracelsus the honor of having rediscovered the powers of the magnet and restoring to life the almost lost science of magnetism, and to the noble and illuminated Swedenburg, that of having presented that glorious element of Psychological science which completely supplemented the opinions of Paracelsus concerning magnetism. But it remained for Anton Mesmer to combine these two supreme soul forces into their correlative relations, and demonstrate by the practical application of magnetism, the possibility of emulating the natural endowments of Seership, through the revelations of the magnetic sleep. We cannot attribute to either Paracelsus, Swedenburg or Mesmer any new discoveries in nature. They only rekindled the lights of divine science which had been nearly extinguished in an age of ignorance and superstition. "Magnetism the life principle and Psychology the soul power of the Universe, had been the motors of all magical operations, and the knowledge of this fact and an understanding of how to apply these sublime forces, constituted the wisdom of the Ancients and the arcanum of all...
