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ANIMAL MAGNETISM AND MAGIC. 327
exception of the coarse, unintelligent condemnation without
inquiry, which till very lately, prevailed in England) is quite
excusable. The fact I allude to is, that this agent is nothing
but the will of the magnetiser. To-day not a doubt exists
on this point, I believe, among those who combine practice
with insight ; therefore I think it superfluous to quote the
numerous assertions of magnetisers in corroboration of it. 1
Time has thus not only verified Puysegur s watchword and
that of the older French magnetisers :
i.e.
"
"
Will with belief !
"
Veuillez et !"
croyez
but this very watchword has even
developed into a correct insight of the process
From Kieser s
itself. 2
"
Tellurismus," still probably the most
thorough and detailed text book of Animal Magnetism we
have, it clearly results, that no act of Magnetism can take
on the other hand the bare will, with
effect without the will ;
out any outward action, is able to produce every magnetic
effect. Manipulation seems to be only a means of fixing,
and so to say incorporating, the will and its direction. In
"
this sense Kieser : says Inasmuch as the human hand
being the organ by which Man s outward activity is most
visibly expressed is the efficient organ in magnetising,
manipulation arises." De Lausanne, a French magnetiser,
pronounces himself with still greater precision on this
"
point in the Fourth Book of his Annales du Magnetisme
"
Animal (1814-1816), where he says :
" L action du magnetisme
depend de la seule volonte, il est vrai ; mais Vhomme
ayant une forme exte*rieure et sensible, tout ce qui est a
son usage, tout ce qui doit agir sur lui, doit necessairement
1 I only mention one work which has recently appeared, the explicit
object of which is to show that the magnetiser s will is the real agent :
"
Qu est ce que le Magnetisme ?
"
par E. Gromier. (Lyon, 1850.)
2
Puysegur himself says in the year 1784:
"
Lorsque vous aves
magn6tis6 le malade, votre but tait de I endormir, et vous y avez rtussi
par le seul acte de votre volonU ; c est dc memepar un autre acte de volontt
que vous le rtveillez." (Puysegur,
"
Magnet. Anim." 2me edit. 1820,
Cate"chisme Magne"tique," p. 150-17L) [Add. to 3rd ed.]