Practical Instruction on Animal Magnetism

8. For one individual to act upon another, there must exist between them a moral and physical sympathy, just as there exists one between all the members of an animate body. Physical sympathy is established by means that we shall indicate: moral sympathy by the desire one has to do good to someone who desires to receive it, or by ideas and wishes which, occupying both equally, form a communication of sentiments between them. When this sympathy is well established between two individuals, we say that they are in rapport state of magnetic connection/mutual influence.

9. Thus, the first condition for magnetizing is the will; the second is the confidence that the one who magnetizes has in his own strength; the third is benevolence or the desire to do good. One of these qualities can supplement the others to a certain point; but for the action of magnetism to be at once energetic and salutary, all three conditions must be united.

10. The fluide magnétique magnetic fluid that emanates from us can not only act directly on the person we wish to magnetize, it can also be carried to him by an intermediary, which we shall have charged with this fluid