A practical manual of animal magnetism : containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena, with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases / by Alphonse Teste ; tr. from the 2nd ed. by D. Spillan.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1843
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    Arnobius, who confirms the same fact,* states the re- proaches which the Pagans addressed to Jesus in these terms: He is a magician, said they, who has done all these things by a clandestine art: he has furtively taken from the Egyptian temples the name of the powerful angels, and has robbed them of their ancient customs, their secret doctrines. Finally, the supposed intervention of the goddess Isis,f who, according to the Egyptian priests, inspired the faith- ful during their dreams with a knowledge of the means of curing themselves of their diseases, seems to us nothing else than the instinct of those remedies with which our som- nambulists are endowed. § III. Magnetism among the Hebrews. The prophets of Israel, designated by the name of seers, were as well consulted for the ordinary events of life as for sacred things. We read, for example, in the ninth chapter of the Book of Kings, that Saul went to consult Samuel to learn from him what had become of his father's asses, which had been astray for several days. Ahab, king of Israel, wishing to know if he should make war to take Ramoth in Gilead, assembled his pro- phets to the number of four hundred. \ God speaks during dreams in the visions of the night' to warn man of the evil which he doeth, and to instruct him in that which he should know.§ The son of the widow of Sarepta became sick, and his * Adv. Gentes, liv. 1. f Diod. Sicul. J Kings, b. iii. chap, xxviii. § Job, chap, xxxiii.