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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. PART I.--THE INNER AND HIGHER MESMERIC POWERS--PHYSIOGNOMICAL SIGNS OF PSYCHIC POWER AND PSYCHIC SUSCEPTIBILITY. PART II.--EXPERIMENTING IN THE DEEPER STATES OF CONTROL, --DEVELOPING THE PSYCHIC OR SPIRITUAL FACULTIES AND THE ELEVATED STATE--REMOVING DEEP STATES OF CONTROL. The Inner And Higher Mesmeric Powers.-- Highly sensitive constitutions, when placed under mesmeric influence, are capable of manifesting extraordinary degrees of human wonders. Of these are the inner psychic or soul powers; but they must not be regarded as being limited to mesmeric subjects alone. Though generally latent and dormant, these powers exist potentially in every human being. In a few peculiarly magnetic temperaments they manifest freely and naturally. No doubt that were it not for the envelope, so to speak, of carnal and INNER MESMERIC POWERS 137 physical influences pressing so hard upon man's being, and thereby deterring the action of his inner and higher powers, power more marvellous than he already possesses by reason of his physical senses, he would more frequently give evidence of the possession of active psychic perceptions; and there would be little or no wonder at his being able to exercise them normally and freely. To persons who use these powers is given the name natural psychics; and to those in whom they have been awakened by mesmeric processes is given the name mesmeric psychics. Since, then, it may be the excessive material and sensuous condition of man that obstructs his soul progress, a frequent calming and stilling of them should gradually enable him to be unaffected by them. We claim for higher mesmerism the power to do this, and therefore also proclaim it an agent by which man's inner powers are reached and their obstructions..
