New-York tribune., 1905-02-05
Hypnotic Suggestion
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! u1e, ana as now apprehended by students |
OF mind, man is twofold nature, material
and Spiritual. As a spiritual being, the
created copy of God, he is continuous in
nature with God; and by reason of his
divine pedigree he is invested measurably
with supernorrnal attributes, faculty and
knowledge, which under certain con-
d1tions he has power to utter in his OBJ
| jective existence. He thus has perfect
control over the flesh-both over bodily
functions and over intellectual, emotional
and moral expression. Where such con-
troll has become relaxed, he may be in
| spired to reestablish it and to perfect it,
the only limitations being physical con-
ditions
The transfer of spiritual energy from the
higher to the lower nature is possible to
every man who is willing to submit him
self to the touch of a qualified sugges-
zionist. If wisely instigated the Inner
Personality, or true Ego, never fails to
correct and eXalt the earth life. And
suggestion is nothing more than a high
minded, earnest appeal to this superior
and all-powerful human self, the success
of which appeal is measured absolutely by
quality of soul in the one who makes it
The talisman is Personality. The patient
is awakened to a consciousness of his own
suffCiency, and in the light of rational
explanation is stirred to exercise power
that inhereS in him.
There is no personal domination. 1t is
not the will of another that constrains and
regenerates 1t is not God compelling
worthy action. 1t is the free agent him
| self coming to his own assistance in re-
/
ible by its conformity to eXpediency and
truth. 1t is self-help at climax. The
will may be the ring upon which are
strung all the keys of our objective
+ nature; but the will bends and breaks be-
I fore the force of impulse launched in the
cause of truth and righteousness from the
trans-liminal plane of spontaneous, abso-
lutte command of the objective man by the
man subjective. No mans will can with
stand such impe1ling force projected from
his better, Godlike nature. In the words
of Wetterstrand: The spirit governs;
the body obeys."
/ The secret of suggestion is to stimu-
/ late that output of spiritual energy which
overwhelms the antagonism OF the Will,
and automatically compels in the intelli-
gent creature adjustment to the law of
right Life indeed IS always greater than
the frail objective man that lives it.
/ Thus the theory that one mans will can
be forcibly Chat is, without his consent
and approvaD subjected to another mans
will either in or out of sleep, or that his
objective will, in actual conflict, can pre-
vail against the divine potency in the
man, is inconsistent with an exalted con-
ception of the inherent dignity and
worth of human nature.
In the physical sphere, knowledge of
the natural history of the diseases to be
treated is a sine qua non in the sugges-
ZIONIST. The diplomaed physician alone
IS qualified Auto and post-hypnotic
suggestion are utilized by the reputable
practitioner always with reference to
what is possible and practicable, as well
as to what is desirable. 1t is unchristian,
antichristian, criminal, to employ either
as an agent for deceiving the credulous,
for riveting their faith to imposslblht1es
in the line of cure through persuasion of
some lower stratum of the subconsclous
self that miracles are not out OF date.
/ No conscientious physician pledges the