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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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mentioned without being attributed to demoniacal<br />

^^^ influence, <strong>and</strong> as all who were dumb, deaf, or<br />

paralyseJ would not have been described as ^<br />

demonised,' it is evident that all physical, or even<br />

mental distempers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same class were not<br />

ascribed to <strong>the</strong> same cause: some might be natural,<br />

while o<strong>the</strong>rs were demoniacal. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>,<br />

<strong>the</strong>re were more or less violent symptoms <strong>of</strong><br />

disease in every demonised person, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>se<br />

were greatly aggravated in <strong>the</strong> last paroxysm,<br />

when <strong>the</strong> demon quitted his habitation. We have,<br />

<strong>the</strong>refore, to regard <strong>the</strong> phenomena described as<br />

caused^ by <strong>the</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> such * spirits,'<br />

primarily, upon that which forms <strong>the</strong> nexvs<br />

between body <strong>and</strong> mind, <strong>the</strong> nervous system, <strong>and</strong><br />

as producing different physical eflTects, according<br />

to <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nervous system affected. To this<br />

must be added a certain impersonality <strong>of</strong><br />

consciousness, so that for <strong>the</strong> time <strong>the</strong><br />

consciousness was not that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demonised, but<br />

<strong>the</strong> demoniser, just as in certain mesmeric states<br />

<strong>the</strong> consciousness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mesmerised is really that<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mesmeriser. We might carry <strong>the</strong> analogy

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