SECRETS OF MAGICIANS AND MYSTICS

"HIDDEN FOR THE AGES"

Thoughtful students of history have dug into the annals of ancient days to show that magic and healing have common roots. The priests of bygone eras were commonly known as magicians as well as healers.  The Austrian physician, Joseph Ennemoser (1787-1854) wrote a sublime text called The History of Magic in which he told that magic descended from the early ages as shown far and wide by primitive records of the human race. He quoted the first century Roman Pliny saying, “No one doubts that magic first grew out of medicine.” Magic “is so intimately connected with the nature of man, that we can only feel surprised that the learned should doubt it …” “The powers of nature testify with far greater weight than the arguments of learning…. A grain of experience is of more value in medicine than a book full of reasoning.” “Man may become, by the assistance and co-operation of spiritual powers [aka magic], and the capacities of his higher divine origin, capable of a higher sphere of activity, as well without as within himself, which gives him dominion over his own, and over surrounding nature.” Dr. Ennemoser added that, “Mysticism is common property. All men are mystics: True mysticism must include the idea of truth and goodness, of beauty and virtue, as beams of spiritual perfection and religious self-consciousness; and as a universally illuminating centre, must penetrate the whole spiritual organism.” William Howitt was contemporary with Ennemoser living from 1792 to 1869. The English historian wrote the two-volume The History of the Supernatural. Early in his book, Howitt suggested that the Holy Bible was in fact built on a miraculous basis. Miracles are woven within it from beginning to end. “Miracle is both its warp and woof; miracle is still more, it is the very substance of the Bible’s material. It is all miracle, or it is nothing.” Jesus Christ was known by his miracles, even while his detractors considered him a mere magician. But, “The miracles of Christ are at once accepted as the results of magic.” And, his followers were to be known like Jesus as miracle workers and magical healers as well as mediums of spirit power. Speaking of Apollonius, the Greek miracle worker of the first century AD, Howitt wrote that, “Magic he held in the original sense, as a power conferred by science and the Divinity to promote health and virtue…” Howitt wrote that in later times, numerous Popes were accused of performing magic. Eventually, the Church turned from direct hands-on miracles, magic, and healing. As fewer sainted healers gathered attention, the Church turned to healing shrines and holy wells of which there are many hundreds still spread across Europe. The Frenchman Jules Du Potet (1793-1881) focused largely his works and writings on“nature” as the key to  spirit power. Du Potet equated nature-spirit with magic or the occult power which was understood and used long times past.  “The ancients admitted in man intelligence, natural, universal or metaphysical, ethereal and divine…. They claimed even that the soul of man, enclosed in his carnal body, could then communicate with the intelligences released from matter, and drawn by them to the most instructive lights.” [As in “I AM the light of the world … Ye are the light of the world.”] Much as Jesus and the Disciples used it, “Magnetism [aka magic] was daily practised in the temples, of Isis, Osiris, and Serapis!”  Two centuries ago, Du Potet noted that science largely ignored nature. Therein lies “an agent superior to matter, a secret law which proves the existence of a God and of another life.” Today, nature is even more ignored when so much of medicine takes place in diagnostic investigation, laboratory testing, technological studies, and scientific protocols. But, nature-spirit and magic power persist. “Nothing without nature, everything with it!!!” “All is magic in us, around us …”

I –– I’ve Got a Secret
II –– What Might Have Been
III –– Mesmer and Me
IV –– Mesmer's Recompense
V –– The Future is Now
VI –– Greatrakes, The Irish Stroker
VII –– Father Gassner
VIII –– The First Mesmerist
IX –– DuPotet, Magician Healer
X –– Painless Amputation
XI –– Painless Mastectomy
XII –– Elliotson Heals Breast Cancer
XIII –– Esdaile's Painless Surgeries
XIV –– Olcott, Theosophical Healer
XV –– Newton, Early American Healer

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