Practical Instruction on Animal Magnetism

to which we shall have imparted a determined movement.

11. The direct action of magnetism ceases when the magnetizer ceases to will, but the movement imparted by the magnetism does not cease on that account, and the smallest circumstance is sometimes sufficient to renew the phenomena it first produced.

12. A constant will supposes continuity of attention; but attention is sustained without effort when one has entire confidence in one’s own strength. A man who walks toward a goal is always attentive to avoid obstacles, to move his feet in the appropriate direction, but this sort of attention is so natural to him that he does not account for it, because he has first determined his movement, and he recognizes within himself the strength necessary to continue it.

13. The action exerted by the fluide magnétique magnetic fluid being relative to the movement that has been imparted to it, this action will only be salutary insofar as it is accompanied by a good intention.

14. Magnetism, or the act of magnetizing, is composed of three things; 1°. the will to act; 2°. a sign which is the expression