A treatise on mental alchimy, electro-psychology, biology, magnetism and mesmerism — 精神錬金術――電気心理学・生物学・磁気・メスメリズム論

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A treatise on mental alchimy, electro-psychology, biology,magnetism and mesmerism精神錬金術――電気心理学…

原文 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by G. Brown Williams, in the

Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.B00006｜原版スキャンp.7／原…

原文 In justice to the science, and without egotism on our part, we would state that we have

never taught a private class without giving entire satisfaction, as the following cards wills…

原文 The state of the nervous system to which Mesmer, in 1784, called public attention, failed

to give that satisfaction calculated to carry conviction to many of the learned andinvestigat…

原文 By this process, any person in the audience can subject himself to this mysterious agency,

and ultimately effect this normal change in his nervous system, if he will properly comply wi…

原文 We wish it distinctly understood, therefore, that we do not venture deductions in

opposition, in the least degree, to those that now maintain, but merely to call attention to t…

［歴史的資料・現代の医学／心理学上の推奨ではありません］電気の作用を言うときのように電気、その理解できない弾性、地球とその付属物、そして地球。

原文 chained to earth by the laws of gravitation, and compelled to move upon the same clods

with the worm, yet with one mental effort lifts his majestic brow above all materialincumbranc…

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give him a stone V or in other words, if sick and diseased nature presents unmistakableindica…

原文 with our gases, are your home and ephemeral abiding place. In this ocean, then, we live and

move, in connection with the elements therein beating up against every pore and nerve, as fis…

物質で満たされていると、そして、もしあなたが望むなら、システムも、この人はここで可能な限り最小限の概念を持つことができない。

原文 being born, be an associate of, and receive intelligence from, us, who are the positive

recipients of the elements ot the great womb of nature \ This would be a miracle and requiredi…

原文 from Him to one, would make it immortal, and to the other mortal. B00039｜原版スキャンp.25／原書p.21…

想像力の病的な分泌を助け、そしてしたがって私たちの心態の能力にそれを説明するように求めます、最も深い生理学的現象;。

運動があるので、その精神がまだ残っていると結論づけられ心臓に不快な神経排出を発生させ、それによって前と同じように血が循環する。

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Where is this spiritual body 1 — does not nature, comparatively speaking, answer this verymyst…

原文 from its respiratory, oceanic and terrestrial, having the sun as its centre, as the nervous

system of man has the bruin as its centre — his respiratory system the lungs — his circulating…

原文 what it loses on the other. Instead, then, of regarding the mind as its own, its very actions

prove to the contrary, — as "in a young child sleeping with an aged person. The complaint oft…

原文 Let, then, this system become charged naturally with its elastic and nervous attendant —

the lightning's flash • — now make the least possible pressure where you did before, and adif…

原文 the nature of the organ of mirthfulness to secrete, when stimulated, in a mental sense, a

disposition on the part of the mind to laugh, and in some cases apparently shake to pieces its…

原文 fluid of the system ; every word that is spoken occasions its own specific atmospheric

undulation, and those undulations produce their specific action upon the auditorynerve, inthei…

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respectfully say to the skeptic, — Investigate her works as presented from her specialalchimi…

原文 Thirdly — They are given no zinc or copper plate to look at as a medium, or the

concentration of their minds mechanically upon any object.57 B00065｜原版スキャンp.39／原書p.35｜原文順0065…

原文 ter, presents to view the first born of all sciences, and as such its alchimistic movements

as far transcend ail others as mind transcends matter.B00071｜原版スキャンp.41／原書p.37｜原文順0071｜精神錬金術（…

原文 of the most pointed discoveries and apply it to the case in point as it now stands upon the

pages o£ science, as regards vegetative creation. Take a small quantity of mustard or cressse…

原文 While that condition of the nervous system, which has given rise to the practical

developments of such new manifestations of our nature, has of late excited so much interest,bo…

— that men can elevate their wills, conditionally, so as to positively invade their involuntary

powers, and not only interfere with the involuntary movements of the stomach, but actuallyvom…

原文 taught, or in turn were taught by others, merely because they could mechanically make

subjects perform startling feats before audiences, that they would, while the audiences were

精神科医になるためには、自分の身体を。物理的および精神的な印象、そしてあなたが今ここで彼らが教えてくれるすべてのです.そして私たちが正しく理解している場合、実践的に秘密を学んだ紳士から…

原文 Why should it not be, — when we were the first to present it and safely pass it through

the ordeal of public as well as private scrutiny? We have never, in any instance, knowinglyab…

原文 subordinate organs, or even in the circulation, is removed only bya special demand upon

thebrain asthe centre of the physical organism. The brain, then, becomes the finite fountain…

原文 an impression, when presented through this agency, does not commence, at once, a

consumption of this involuntary power, by the reaction of the mind, it is perfectly clear it i…

原文 brain for their centre, to absorb from the living spirit, entombed within, that freshness of

vitality which imparts motion and life to the body, as well as eloquence and power, in their …

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relation to its nervo-vital circulation. Is there not a reason, then, why we hear a call at th…

原文 this involuntary reaction, his mind may, and that too instantly, recognise upon tho

established principles of nature, the thoughts or influence of the will of another, so as tor…

原文 tive inhabitants of the spiritual world j but we have merely called attention, imperfectly,

to what we conceive to be the cause of such mysterious and dreaming phenomena, to preparethe …

原文 We merely mention the preparation of the coin that the reader may be informed as regards

practical magnetism ; and notice, also, that when you wish anything done, if the subject israt…

原文 HUMAN MAGNETISM AND MESMERISM. 77 B00135｜原版スキャンp.81／原書p.77｜原文順0135｜人間磁気とメスメリズム（ウィリアムズ）［歴史的…

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external agency of nature alone, which, in our opinion, from the adaptation of means to ends,h…

— it is, at last, nothing but that healing power of the system that repairs it generally and

specially when we are asleep ; and therefore steals , as it were, our unconscious moments for…

原文 DISEASES AND THEIR MODE OF CURE. 83 B00146｜原版スキャンp.87／原書p.83｜原文順0146｜疾病とその治療法（ウィリアムズ）101［歴…

原文 If the involuntary discharges from the brain are positively withdrawn from the hands or

feet, can the will move them ? — or, in other words, if they do not positively consume theinv…

原文 Oh nature, swayed as thou art by the law of equilibrium ; that delighteth in setting the

Heavens on fire, and making a great noise in bringing about an equality of thy clouds, why di…

原文 Where are those that are gone and even now stand before us like the distant isles that

slumber in thy aqueous bosom 1 ? Are they gone forever, or have they passed into that statewhe…