The Secrets of Mahatma Land Explained; Teaching and Explaining the Performances of the Most Celebrated Oriental Mystery Makers and Magicians in All Parts of the World - Samri S Baldwin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...under the control of the subject. Sometimes the sense of hearing is also affected. In the second, or sleep stage, the mesmeric control is complete, as far as the physical senses of the subject are concerned. The senses refuse to act, and the subject is utterly unconscious to pain. Surgical operations can be performed on the subject while in this state, but his mental faculties are not properly under the control of the operator. In the third degree all the faculties become responsive to the mesmeric influence of the operator. The subject is, for the time being, almost or quite an irresponsible being. He sees, hears, feels, and thinks only as directed or permitted by the mesmeric operator. In the last, or Somnomistic degree, all previously mentioned phenomena may be exhibited, and in addition to them, psycho-vision or clairvoyance. WhAT DR. COATKS SAYS. Dr. Coates, in his work, classes the mesmeric stages into six degrees. He says: "All phases may be developed in one subject; some may pass rapidly in the fifth or sixth stage without apparently having passed through the others. Some subjects seem to have a natural fitness for one class and not another. Those adapted for the higher phases of thought transference, or sympathetic thought reading, would be injured (that is, their powers obscured) were they placed on the public platform; while chose most suited for public entertainments seldom or ever are fitted for the exhibition of the higher stages of the fourth degree, and certainly never for the fifth and sixth. This explains why the phenomena of the higher degrees have been so fugitive or unreliable. Mesmerists have endeavored to produce them, and in doing so. have injured their sensitives, not knowing that these phenomena depend more upon certain nervou...