The Library of Occult Knowledge: Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism. How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical Sys (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986736961)

There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was not invented till 1850. In it was wrapped up the "mysteries of Isis" in Egypt thousands of years ago, and probably it was one of the weapons, if not the chief instrument of operation, of the magi mentioned in the Bible and of the "wise men" of Babylon and Egypt. "Laying on of hands" must have been a form of mesmerism, and Greek oracles of Delphi and other places seem to have been delivered by priests or priestesses who went into trances of self-induced hypnotism. It is suspected that the fakirs of India who make trees grow from dry twigs in a few minutes, or transform a rod into a serpent (as Aaron did in Bible history), operate by some form of hypnotism.

Author: A. Alpheus
ISBN-10: 1986736962
ISBN-13: 9781986736961
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2018
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d