"Mesmer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ancients of producing the divining crisis, in his book De Mysteriis gyptorium, in the chapter, Insperatas vacat ab actione propria, page 58, and never mentions manipulation amongst them, of which mode, indeed, Mesmer seems to have been the original discoverer. The ancients, too, were aware (as we are) that the magnetic and divining state can be produced only in young and somewhat simple (simpliciores) persons. Porphyry confirms ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold |
