…it annoyed Benjamin Frankton all to pieces. He was never able to like the idea at all. After the development of Mesmer, which were promptly denied by nearly every field of science, the matter dropped into comparative obscurity until more recent times, when…

…living problems of modern man. One of the pioneers of this unfortunate truth of magnetism was the celebrated Anton Mesmer. Mesmer had an unfortunate personality. and this can often complicate the attainments of even the most brilliant and sincere person.…

…sustained, and more serious, quiet, and demure persons have carried his work far beyond the degree which he had attained. Why Mesmer should have originally placed most of his essential concepts in cipher and code is not perhaps entirely clear. He may have…

…of course, the code has long since been deciphered, and we are in fair knowledge of his essential findings. Mesmer advanced his principled beliefs in what are called twenty-seven propositions. These unfold more or less sequentially. his findings, and…

…indebtedness to the earlier works of Paracelsus von Hohenheim. There is also a legend that the mysterious Count Saint-Germain assisted Mesmer in the formulation of his doctrine. In any event, his findings were based upon the earliest concept of magnetism.…

…carefully and eternally noted in the rings of trees, we can also realize that this phenomena does have certain terrestrial significance. Mesmer then went with Paracelsus to the theory that as all forms in nature exist within this that all these forms…

…nature. It gives the impression of a fluid, but it is far more subtle than any fluid that we know. I think Mesmer termed it fluidic because he perceived within the substance of it certain tidal motions, certain ebbing and flowing, which we associate with…

…as well be associated with these magnetic patterns which seem to lie beneath the surface of frost pictures on a window pane. Mesmer was convinced that this magnetic material formed not only a natural field around man, but was to large measure the basis of…

…absent in the dead but available in the living and controllable by those who knew how to operate the magnetic laws Mesmer went still further in affirming that the principal source of derangement within the body might be claimed to have magnetic origin.…

…man's life as referable to the seven ages of man, and to the climactrics which mark the various divisions of human life. Thus, Mesmer tells us, the available magnetism at any given time may not be the same as at some other time. These currents with…

…they are now obscured by an indifference on the part of most of our learned people. Considering the problem of magnetism still further, Mesmer pointed out that just as the year has its seasons, so likewise there are seasons within the life of man. He is…

…of life. If these fields can be more thoroughly explored, we shall then begin to recognize a number of practical working solution. Mesmer suggested a few, and based upon his concept we can point out his idea that each person having a magnetic field and…

…direct magnetism. Mind was able to direct magnetism from a person to another person. And for all that we or Mesmer could know, this mind was capable of projecting magnetism to an indefinite distance. This indefinite distance, perhaps constituting the sympathy…

…attitude must arise in consciousness and be communicated therefrom directly into the fields of energy which support the body. Researches by Mesmer and others have shown beyond doubt that the magnetic field to operate best must be in a state of tranquility.…

Modern research in the field of hypnotism began with the researches of Antoine Mesmer in the 18th century. While these researches in many ways produced positive results, they were open to criticism and suspicion, perhaps at least in part because of the…

…results, they were open to criticism and suspicion, perhaps at least in part because of the rather flamboyant way in which Mesmer practiced the art and the peculiarly bombastic style in which he wrote on the subject. Even a progressive man, philosopher and…

…to reality if he can gain this attitude he will then have the energy fields of his body in the best possible relationship Mesmer and several of those who worked with magnetism were quite convinced of the reality of a magnetic factor in the human being…

…in the field of perpetual motion could come under the same heading. But anyway, this emotional or vital field of energy, which Mesmer referred to, he said very simply, that as long as this radiant field of energy was protected, the individual would have…