1885.] 
Seen and the Unseen. 
577 
Magnetism composes the sphere — rather the atmosphere 
—by which every person is individually surrounded ; besides 
there is a medium which extends through all things placing 
man over the lower animal creation. All animals are sub- 
jected to man s control by the positive or subduing power 
which he possesses, and they receive this to their minds by 
the. same medium which exists between an organ and the 
brain. Man being positive, and all else negative, the latter 
must yield to his control.” 
When a system is demagnetised sensation then only exists 
upon the internal or mucous surfaces which produce vital 
aCtion : the negative power only remaining, vital aCtion 
becomes torpid and feeble, according with the loss of power 
which previously controlled it. This is the magnetic state ; 
and in this peculiar condition the patient is in sympathy 
with, 01 is submissive to, the will or positive magnetic 
powei of the operator. flhe subject and operator form one 
system in power. There is a visible disunion, yet there 
exists an invisible union. Thus the phenomenon does not 
controvert or subvert any of the laws of Nature, but should 
rather be looked on as a progression and further develop- 
ment of the laws which govern organic beings. 
There are four magnetic states of magnetism. In the 
first no particular phenomena are witnessed : in this state 
the person loses none of his senses, but is subject to all 
external impressions. In the second state the patient mani- 
fests his intellectual faculties, but is deprived of all muscular 
power. In the third state there is a strong sympathy between 
the operator and his subject. The chain of sympathy which 
connects the mind of the operator with that of his subject 
is animal electricity — the fluid which is the agent of all mus- 
cular motion, and through which magnetic sleep is induced — 
this is supposed to be the clairvoyant state, but it is not ; it 
stands in analogy to natural somnambulism. The first is a 
phenomenon induced by magnetism ; the latter is a similar 
mental state naturally produced by an inactivity of the 
magnetic medium, or sensation. In the passage from the 
third to the fourth state the mind loses almost all sympathy 
which attaches it to the system, it being nearly discon- 
nected, and sustains the connection by a very minute and 
rare medium, the same that connects one thought with 
appear to manifest any sensation of pain. I forget the result. I have an 
indistindt idea that aher a short time the man died, owing to a fever which 
supervened. 
