The secret book of the black arts : containing all that is known upon the occult sciences of daemonology, spirit rappings, witchcraft, sorcery, astrology, palmistry, mind reading, spiritualism, table turning, ghosts and apparitions, omens, lucky and unlucky signs and days, dreams, charms, divination, second sight, mesmerism, clairvoyance, psychological fascination, etc. ... : together with a mass of other matter, giving inner views of the arts and sciences, whether recondite and obscure, or plain and practical (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Harold Jantz Collection. NcD · New York : Hurst & Co. · leaf 138
en the labor of the mesmerist when making the pisses. Now suppo-tia^ yourself to be the operator, y »u will tiki the left hand of your subject in your ri^^ht, and his right hand in your left, placing the ball of your thumb in th 5 center of the upper part of tlio palm of his hand near where ic j… … Thumb on Median Nerve. yonr thumbs is now pressinT^ against the median nerve, the second of the brachial plexus, and a compound nerve having the power of both motion and sensation. Now lean a little forward and fix your p^aze firmly upon the eyes of the subject, with a determination in your mind to…
Clairvoyance · Occultism · Magic
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