Practical Instruction on Animal Magnetism

of this will; 3°. confidence in the means one employs. If the desire for good is not united with the will to act, there may be some effects, but these effects will be disorderly.

15. As the emanation of the magnetizer, or his fluide magnétique magnetic fluid, exerts a physical influence on the person being magnetized, it follows that the magnetizer must be in good health. As this influence is felt over time on the moral character, it follows that the magnetizer must be worthy of esteem for the uprightness of his mind, the purity of his sentiments, and the honesty of his character. Knowledge of this principle is equally important for those who magnetize, and for those who have themselves magnetized.

16. The faculty of magnetizing exists in all men, but all do not possess it to the same degree. This difference in magnetic power between various individuals depends on the fact that some are superior to others in certain moral or physical qualities. In the moral order, these qualities are: confidence in one's own strength, the energy of the will, the ease of sustaining and concentrating one's attention, the feeling of benevolence that unites us to a suffering being, the strength