Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-04

city, and which cease not their fight unit
they have found resting place in th'
minds of his sympathizing and excited lis
teners. The clergyman calls to repentance
with the same terrible and irresistible law.
The physician, perhaps totally ignorant o.
the power he possesses, acting positively up
on bedridden patient, often raises the in
valid as if by magic, when the potency Of
medicine was doubted, and by wave of the
hand and glance from his eye, rescues the
sick man from the very threshhold of the
grave. Ignorant of this electrical law,
which, in his extremity, he resorted to, he
attributes the cure to crude causes, totally
insufficient to produce the effect desired when
employed on other sufferers Is it to be
wondered at then, that strong positive bat
terry acting through the utnar, nlediGn OF
optic nerve, can control patient far be-
meath him ia mental resolution, in indomita-
bic WILL? In order to illustrate the manner
in which these astonishing effects are pro-
duced by an accomplished operator, we ex-
tract the following passages from the Elev-
tv0v.s~-4f n IL e e ectrian1 D,-
chology," and in which the whole mystery,
as exhibited by Williams and others, is
plainly and enderstandingly treated
Before proceed to notice the most easy,
sure, and direct mode by which an electro
Psychological communication may be estab-
lished, l will, in the first place, speak of the
philosophy of communication in general 1t
is evident that the p0Sitiye and negative
forces of the two eleotricities prevade all
nature. These call in my seventh Lecture
the male and female electricities. These
two forces not only permeate, more or less,
all substances in nature, but they also un-
ceasingly emanate from them in electric Cir
cles. Hence, as man is a part of the uni
verse, he constantly takes into his system
large portions of electricity with the air he
inspires, with the water he drinks, and with
the food he eats And by mental and mus
cular action, and the common operations of
animal life, he. uneonsciously throws it off
through the nervous force. Onpassing from
his system into the surrounding elements, it
forms around him his electric or magnetic
circle How large this circle may be- is as
yet to us unknown Hence, when two in
| dividuals come within a certain distance of
each other, their circles meet, and touch
each other at two points. And if one of
these individuals is in the electro -psycholog-
ical state, the communication will be taken
through the positive and negative forces.
And though this communication was taken
without personal contact, yet it was done
dividualism or personal identity. A com
munication in this manner can be established
with those persons only who are very sensi-
tive. As only about one in twenty five is
naturally in this state, so | can step before
an audience of thousand persons, state to
them what intend to do, so that all shall
understand me; then request them all to
close their eyes firmly, and say, You cannot
omen Qour eyeS : and forty out Of the thou
tbouaands of coryoborations Of the fact, instead
of hundreds, as at present. Will any one ven
ture to say that o force having relation TO such
| A. 1icht is not material pc vert The light pro
cseds feom tha brain Of person willing, and
! mpnges on a sleeper sent TO sleep by magnet
or by crystal height is sent forth by the
| will of hat person, and becomes motive pow
Or, for the recipient sleeper moves and opeys the
mandate received through the luminous agency
| 7 have reneatedly performed an experiment. under
! these oircnm mstances, and tho results have been
| ae above stated But though have ctten WIlled
| nerEons awake as well as sleep-wakers, and even
magnetic and crystallic- -sleepers, to do my silent
bidding, proving that the light from my brain is
a motivs power, lregard some other experiments
m rare sabects to be still moro conclusive rs to
the material agency of the light which emanates
rom the human brain. | have caused 1t to
| travel " miles. producing Immediate ELECTS. l
have wiouesses who can testify that have re-
peatedlv willed an individual to come to me when
the distance nearly twe niles vs hsys & uSs %HS
5irns ~ Il uifga the force of the light emauating
from my brain by the exertion of the will, to en-
able her TO elecp at oil, when she was ut the dis
sance olnearly two miles from Ioe. HuudrvtS
of persons have seen an individual made insenai-
bic and rigid by my Imagining circle round
her In her delirium, which made her muscles
enormously powerful, she would occasionally
master several persons. MY will, lmplngng lts
light upon her, rendered her not only traotable
for a time, but set her fast, for hours, in deep
sleep and rigid spasm. If imagined bar on
the capet, she could indicate with accuracy the
position and limits of that bar. She descIibedit
ls a bar of blue light on the carpet; and Ii sne
were desired to get up snd pass over II, sac oe-
came insensible and fell on the floor like any IN
animate object. Sometimes have placed this
oar of light across the threshold Of a door, and
it has been impossible for her to pass over IT,
The sight of the blue bar oflight, placed by an
effort of my will, even after many repetltions OF
the experiment, made her fall down lnsenHD !;
and she has remained insensible to ali external
Impressions, like a person dead asleep on the
door, until have willed the bar to disappear
Hundreds Of persons have seen me perform this
experiment Onone occasion | left the bar for
one hour and half, and she remained quite un
conscious, getting up Immediately when WllIeo
it's 4 sappearance Though not q common, this
has not been a solitary case Illustrative OF such
a striking fact Charpignon (Etudes Phys. sur
le Maen Amin Paris, 1S43) has proposed phys
ical tests to establish the existence of the mes
meric faid. One of them consisted in collecting
the faid from the ends of the fingers 1nte glsss
tumbler and then getting patients to lOnale the
air collec ed in that glass vessel. This put the
individuals TO sleep. Several persons have seen
while awake the blue light proceeding from my
fingers, and collecting in the glass. have dl-
rooted their attention to other objects, so that
they could not be aware OF my resumlng holo o.
the glass | had left, and have been unawares put
to sleep by my pouring the fluid on tho back Of
their necks. Ga several occasions lately, nave
sat in one room willing the mesmeric light into
a wide-mouthed phial of pint ca1acity, anc
have taken it into another room, where, pouring
the substance or a patients head, she mas IN
stantly fallen asleep. Repeated occurrences O
these facts, and, as they are easily reproduced
we shall have accounts of many Of hem, will es
sablish the conclusion that a force lehlch rs a
4 material agent, attended by on constituting
q | colored hght, enanGteS from the BRAIN Of man
=, en- he thinks ~ that his lcW can d1ect 1tS nm
Yi1oenlent--and that 1t as a nt0tlUe pot0er.
"A. J Davis, in his Spiritual Intercourse, thu
0 gysnhicaily exhibits the psychological power o
a the preacher: eAgsiD, let us, from our homes, g
into the nopular revival religious meetings an'
Q further observe there the workings Of this grea
I psychological principle Of sympathy The cler
= eyman, With T" his big, manly voice." Is posi-
tiveiy and dogmatioally enforcing inc eootrln
Of his creed the awfulness Of Divine justice
- the awsulness Of Divine vengeance; the awful
ness Of hell; the terrible awfuloess Of hell pun
isbments the awful magnihoence Of heaven
r the awful necefsity Of salvation; and the awlu
pivotal means upon which the whole sohem
turns whilst he threatens the fearful conas
9 duences of not accepting those means forthwith
d These and similar theme are represented by IN
i speaker, the powerful psychologist, to bis aud
enoe. hisgenerally passive and attentive subject
@ with all the glowing beauty of brillisntlanguag
"a and The sublime strength Of positive temperi
i mont. Fascinated by LIS intellectual power, or
u after another draws nearer 10 the alrar. Nes
h by sit Two equally honorable men; both INTEL
n gent, but differently constituted. Ihe one listei
and Ineditates with an almost provoking ind
o. ference the other is moved 10 the center OF b
n soul his gestlculations express agony u
- preacher has drawn picture Of awful terrors an
~ has powerfully daguerreotypsd it upon his MIN
l. he sees tho oicftlness there represented, az
al the shadow is to him as 3 reality. Now l
ms examine into this. The unmoved lndtVldu
has cold, resoute, positive, int llectusl orga
r izstion-he is more positive than the spsaKe
. and taeiefore that speaker eau NOS AWAKEN
- him fa so c0mpunctons CT conscience, Tie c'
,e NOT convince the honest man thai is an ''awi
II sinner" Bat this good man's tquaily COCO 81
honest neignbor possesses tne, impress lol
III elastic, slfsctionate organization he Is We
Y, negata0c to tina eloquent preacher, ana nen
m Feels every thing the minister says to os troe
= Those very positive Speakers always gb'fm wn
is thew pronsunoe it gives weight to tner worf
es and invests tn IN with seeming aut9oil'
"A And what is the consequence of this psYchoios
cal resultl It is simply this that good ma
Id that impr, ssbe and aIectionate MIND, IS InIo'
is into a fre zied state of moral contrltion' ne
Il hitherto been superior TO the utterlDg Of "n
su WAS untrue; but now he raptui ouslS pronouuc
o falsehooc after falseho0d Hefays- 1 In unC
a. J,,;ue condemlaton," which is not true.
e avs I'm talcardty dec1aved 5 which is
Vi trSe. He says lve been always D great g
,st ner - which ls not bTue, for he wa ono an I'M
ia cent child. end Of auch is The klngdom OF hei
en- He aays-"God is angry With me- viii
ry isn.t true, Tor " God is Love- aad bitter q
Of eweet. or love snd hate, can nos h)w f,om {
20 fonntsin He says" Gods spiut is stSivi
with noe % wbich is not true, for be is sim
Il psgchologized, by the sp aker, 10 zoe ev
Il; soIrg respecting his own state Invested "
ua o7pfslaess AMI himself as under the div
wv wrsth and oo1dcmnetion Atlast he calls ak
led Is D. | see the Holy Spirit p which is not tr
OF his vision is only affected by mental dela1
-. tre1,eas, srisng from the excessive intoxieat
III which ire powerful preaching has produced u
not his nervous system. And now, still moved
eut the controlling influence in the assemblage,