The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.Various
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The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.
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Reichenbach has found, through experiments made with many sensitives,
that the end of the Magnet which seeks the North pole of the Earth, the
end we call positive, sends to the left hand of a sensitive a fresh
breeze, while the other end emits a tepid one. He also found that the
positive end emits in the dark a blue light, while the negative one
emits a yellow red light. His sensitives found that in the dark, the
right side of the human body emits a blue light, while the left side
emits a yellow red one. Then the right side of the body has the same
quality of Magnetism as the positive, or North seeking, or Austral pole
of the Magnet, and the left side has the same quality of Magnetism as
the negative, or South seeking, or Boreal pole of the Magnet. Those
experiments of Reichenbach agree thus entirely with those made by Mr.
Durville. His polarity of the Human body is also the same as given by
Andrew Jackson Davis, page 91 of his work “The Harbinger of Health.”
There are consequently very strong reasons for believing that the
theory of Mr. Durville is the right one, since it has been confirmed by
practical experiments made by himself, Reichenbach and Davis.
Mr. Durville concludes his article in the “Journal du Magnétisme,”
January number of 1886, with some interesting points in Therapeutics.
Diseases can be classed as of two kinds, those due to atony or
paralysis of the organs, and those due to excitation or inflammation.
The object of Medicine is to excite the functions of the atonic organs
and to calm or moderate those which are too active. Magnetizers knew
that the ends of the fingers presented within a few inches of the
diseased part, will produce excitation, while the palm of the hand
applied on produces calm; but they could not always obtain the desired
effect for want of the knowledge of the true polarity of the Human body.
The right hand will produce attraction, calm and easiness on the left
and back side of the body; and repulsion, excitation and uneasiness on
the right and forepart of the body; and the left hand will produce the
same corresponding effects on the right and forepart of the body, and
on the left and backpart. The right-hand, a positive pole, will act
with more energy than the left-hand, a negative one.
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