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BOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 39.
Do you consider it wrong to try to cure a bad habit, such
as, for instance, drunkenness, by hypnotism ?
Answer: Most decidedly yes. Looked at from the
standpoint of one life, such methods as for instance those
employed by the healers of the Immamiel movement, are
undoubtedly productive of an immense amount of good.
The patient is seated in a chair, put into a sleep and there
he is given certain so called "suggestions." He rises and
is cured of his bad habit; from being a drunkard he be-
comes a respectable citizen who cares for his wife and fam-
ily, and upon the face of it the good seems to be undeniable.
But looking at it from the deeper standpoint of the oc-
cultist, who views this life as only one in many, and look-
ing at it from the effect it has upon the invisible vehicles
of man, the case is vastly different. When a man is put
into a hypnotic sleep, the hypnotist makes passes over him
which have the effect of expelling the ether from the head
of his dense body and substituting the ether of the hypnotist.
The man is then under the perfect domination of
another; he has no free will, and, therefore, the so called
" suggestions" are in reality commands which the victim
has no choice but to obey. Besides, when the hypnotist
withdraws his ether and wakens the victim he is unable to
remove all the ether he put into him. To use a simile,
as a small part of the magnetism infused into an electric
dynamo
before it can be started for the first time is left
behind and remains as residual magnetism to excite the
fields of the dynamo every time it is started up, so also