Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-22

confident imagination Imposters and philo-
sophers alike know that IL any other skeleton
patients would not the less be restored to
health, as they believe that they approach the
true relic"
DR.. John Hunter, an English snatomist.
physician. and surgeon, eminent in his profess
sion one hundred years ago, said: AS the state
Of mind is capable of producing a disease
another state Of il may effect q cure"
Reveille-P PARSE has said: "s Many a
disease is the coutre coup, SO TO speak. of a
strong mental emotion; the mischief may not
appear at the time, but its germs will be never
theless inevitably laid"
HrPSorrsM IN DISEASE AND CRIME.
In a number of the Popular Science Monthly
for April, 1888, is an article on "Hypnotism in
Disease and Crime" by A. Benet and c. Fere.
we find the following in regard to the action of
the law Of suggestion" in the case Of diseased
appearances: Those who undertake miraculous
cures act by means of suggestion, and by grad
ually intoxicating the idea that the disease is
durable, until the subject accepts it, The cure
Is sometimes effected by the suggestion, and
when it is said to be by saving faith the express
sion used is rigorously scientific These miracles
should no longer be denied but We should un-
derstand their genesis and learn TO initiate
them. When a believer associates the Deity
with his idea of cure, he is accustomed to ex-
pect it to be sudden and complete, as the result
OF definite religious manifestation; and this
fact often occurs. We had well-known in
stance at the Saltpatriere. where a woman of
the name of Etchverry was. after her deyotions
in the month of Nav. suddenly cured of hemi-
plesia and contracture. by which she had been
effected for seven years. This may
be termed experimental miracle, since the ply
slclans had prepared for il beforehand. having.
Tor long time previously, suggested 10 the
subject that she be cured when a certain re-
hglous ceremony took place, and which ex-
plains the numerous cures by the laying on of
hands which are recorded In the Bible"
similar case is cited in the Cosmopolitan as
occurring at the chapel of Ste. Anne. A man.
dumb from birth. walked 20 miles TO the shrine,
dumbness, and had ever after the power of
speech.
RECENT EXPERIMENTS IN HYPSoTIsM
The experiments in hypnotism by DR.. Char
cot and his disciples, Luys, Binet, and Frere at
the Saltpatriere hospital, in France, are being
published in newspaper and magazine articles
In every civilized country. and are read and
commented upon as strange" and interest
ing" exciting much the same quality of mild
surprise as occurs when the same class read
that tea is adulterated,' oatmeal indigesti-
ble," or that some modern microscopic has
discovered the specific pneumonia microbe."
In our large cities We have ''Soirees hypno-
tiques," where politician and diplomat phifoso-
pher and scientist spend an hour or two as
q
which, IL they could fully comprehend Its awe
inspiring qualities. would change the whole
channel of their methods of existence. In an
account of such experimental exhibitions given
IN the August number of the North American Re-
view for 1885, we read the statement of the oper-
ating hypnotizer that he .'shonId not like to
give gum-drop to the most sensitive of mes
meriZed ladies and afterward tell her she had
swallowed strychnine." And also lengthy ac-
count of burglary committed by hypnotized
subject, which proceeding was witnessed by
Gen. Greeley Senator henna. and W. l.. Cur
tbs, the well-known journalist" the hypnotizer
having requested them to follow his subject
to see no harm befel him."
BROAD CLAIM.
Upon the basis of all these scientific" state
ments of mind possessing causative power, of
the published results of Charcot at Saltpttriere
IN eight or nine years experiments in hypno-
tism through the law of suggestion" and DOM
mating ideas, and the investigations of psy-
chical research societies in Europe aud
America it may not at this period of time. APP
pear such a preposterous assumption to claim
that all diseased appearances are the visible
expression of a mental hallucination. the result.
SO to speak, Of an universal mesmeriZed or
hypnotiZed state of the finite mind, under the
dominating error of belief in material en-
vironment," or the power Of matter" to make
man a shining, sick ard dying ceature."
.'cursed" in his creation and damned in his
destination.
We are told Kepler said of his book. "Har-
monies of the World published in 1919, 1t
may well wait a century for a reader when God
has waited 5000 years for an observer"
When the question arises, as ii necessarily
will, lis it possible for man to overcome the
last enemy, Death?' reference is made, for the
present. to the physiological process of this
possibility as evolved by the regular" medical
thought of to-day presented last year in an in
teresting newspaper article by DIR. Vim. Ham
mond on the Possibility of Not Dying" where
a materialistic premise of possibility of "Eter-
nerve, tissue, and bone-making processes, is
carried to its ultimate.
TELEPATHY
The causative power of thought is not con-
fined to the creation of pathological conditions
or applied solely as a therapeutic agent, but is
eing investigated and experimental with as a
telepathic agent. This method of Transmission
has long been claimed as a possession of some
of the Oriental races, notably the Hindu. Their
method of transmitting information has been
so rapid and has been known to occur under
such peculiar circumstances that officers of the
English army stationed in India have assumed
it to be something inexplicable. Recently the
press has published a statement that some
tribes of the North American Indians possess a
knowledge of practical thought telepathy.
All the literature of the day is filled with sug-
gestions OF a dawning glory, an awakening to a
perception of a law of mind which governs
humanity as its inheritance from the Infinite
mind, whose existence, a governing principle
of our being, was never before realized by u.s.
The law acts, though we fail to perceive or
recognize it.
In the holiday number of the Wide Awake
for December of this year Mrs. Jessie Ben
ton Fremont, a clear-headed, large-brained
woman, has propounded a question, How the
good news came out from the west?" which this
law alone will answer. OF the incident on
which she bases her query she says: 1T would
have been a ghost story pure and simple in
olden times, but to be in keeping with to-day it
is but beautiful fact which science may vet
deed, and one which, when understood and in
diligently applied, will reduce the telegraph
and the telephone to the plane of crude me-
chanics.
The demonstration of the causative, or crea-
tive, power of thought, through an intelligent
investigation and application, and an elevation
of its consideration from the plane of Mes
merism," "Hypnotism," Magnetism" ''Occul-
tism." Magic" and the Super Natural" will
create such a revolution in the world of mind.
that, in the future the clergy will not be set
all a-9uiver by the publication of a book like
Robert Ellsmere. which has been called forth
and is the ultimate of the scientific materialism
of the age compelling a denial of the demon
STATIONS of Jesus, and which Ruskin character
ICES as "a prurient itch, to discover the origin
of life in the nature of the dust and prove that
the source and the order OF the universe is in
the accidental concurrence Of its atoms"
Z. II. Sheldon.
The Ice Lens and the Suns Nature.