The supreme book of all Magics (Translated): Hidden treasures within everyone's reach - white Magic - red Magic - green Magic - black Magic

By Albert the Great and David De Angelis

In the work of Albert the Great are his admirable secrets containing many treatises on the conception of women, the virtues of herbs, precious stones, animals, augmented with a curious compendium of physiognomy and a method of preservation against plague, malignant fevers, poisons and infection of the air that spreads disease. THE SUPREME BOOK OF ALL MAGIC puts within reach of the scholar and the erudite the marvelous secrets of natural and cabalistic magic, in which one finds the hand of the master, whose art is also embodied in the mysterious plates of the talismans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stargatebook
• Release date: Jul 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220830775

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THE SUPREME BOOK OF ALL MAGICS

HIDDEN TREASURES WITHIN EVERYONE'S REACH - WHITE MAGIC - RED MAGIC GREEN MAGIC - BLACK MAGIC

Albert the Great

Translation and edition 2021 by David De Angelis - All rights reserved.

INDEX

WHITE MAGIC

THE RED MAGIC

LOVE OR GREEN MAGIC

BLACK MAGIC

WHITE MAGIC

THE MAGICIANS

The magical ones are the ones who have mainly been pleased to fascinate. A gypsy sorcerer, quoted by Bognet, changed jars of hay into piglets and sold them as such, warning, however, the buyer, not to dip them in any kind of water; but a buyer of the gypsy's cattle not having wished to follow his advice, instead of piglets saw boots of hay swimming over the water from which he wanted to feed his pigs.

Delrio tells that a magician, with a certain bow, shot an arrow made of a certain wood and made a river suddenly appear in front of him, as wide as the distance the arrow shot reached.

Magic gives to those who possess it an irresistible power, to which nothing can counteract; with only a movement of their wand, with any sign, they upset the elements, they confound and confuse the immutable order of nature, they put the world under the power of the infernal spirits, they unleash the winds, they blow up storms, and send out the cold and the heat. The magicians and sorcerers, says Wecker, are transported through the air with a rapid movement, they go where they please, they walk above the waters, like Odon the pirate, who wandered over the waves on the high seas without skiff or ship.

It is related that a magician cut off the head of a servant in the presence of a crowd of persons whom he wished to amuse, and with the intention of putting it back on its place, but as he was about to do so, he saw another magician who was obstinate in preventing him, in spite of the entreaties he made to him to let him continue his operation; and then causing a lily to grow on a table, and having knocked off its head, his enemy fell to the ground lifeless and headless. Then he restored the servant's head on his shoulders and disappeared.

In the year 1284, the inhabitants of Hamel, in Lower Saxony, were plagued by a prodigious number of mice, to the extent that there was not a grain left that they did not damage or spoil; and some of them trying to find a way to get rid of this scourge, suddenly appeared a man of enormous stature and horrible appearance, who promised with a large sum of money to throw the plague of mice out of the territory of the city at once. After the agreement was reached, he took a flute out of his pocket and began to play it. Suddenly all the mice that were in the houses, on the roofs, on the tiles, came out in flocks in the middle of the day, and followed the musician to the Weser, on whose bank, having taken off his clothes, he entered the river, and the mice that followed him drowned in it.

After he had fulfilled his promise, he went to ask for the money he had been promised, but found those who had agreed to give it to him very unwilling to satisfy him. This act of bad faith angered him greatly, and, filled with rage, he threatened them with terrible vengeance, if they did not pay him at once what they had contracted for; but his debtors mocked him and his threats.

The next day the magician appeared with a terrible countenance, under the figure of a hunter, played another flute very different from the first, and all the boys of the town from four to twelve years of age followed him spontaneously. He led them to a cave which he had left, on a mountain somewhat distant from the city, and none of them have since been seen, nor has it been possible to ascertain what had become of them all. Since this astonishing adventure took place, it has been the custom in Hamel to count the years since the departure of the children, in memory of those who were lost in this way. The Transylvanian annals have made use of this story, and say that at that time some children arrived there, whose language they could not understand and who, having settled in Transylvania, perpetuated their language there, so that even today the German-Saxon language is still spoken.

The second proof will be seen over the gate called the New, where in verses it was read, that in 1284, a magic man snatched 130 children from the inhabitants of the city and led them to a cavern in the Coppenberg mountain.

But let it not be said that this story is true, but only that it was believed to be so. How did the parents let their children go? If they feared the magician with the flute, why did they not pay him? How did these children go a hundred leagues under the ground to reach Transylvania by a path that could not be discovered? If the devil has transported them through the air, how has no one seen them...? Some sensible writers say that these children were taken away, in consequence of a war, by the victor, and that the old women of the city, according to their laudable custom, forged a tale in their own way, to frighten the children. Others regard this adventure as imaginary.

Here are some other facts a little older and. which are as true as the departure of Hamel's children.

The magical Lexilis, who flourished in Tunis shortly before the splendor of Rome, was put in prison for having introduced by diabolical means the son of the sovereign in the room of a beautiful girl that his father reserved for him.

At the same time an extraordinary adventure happened to the jailer's son: this young man had just married and was celebrating his wedding with all his relatives outside the city. When night fell, they began to play ball, and the newlywed, in order to keep his hand free, took off his wedding ring from his finger, and put it on the finger of a statue that was nearby, in order to take it back; but he closed his hand and it was impossible for him to do so. He did not say a word about this strange prodigy, but when everyone had already entered the city, he returned alone before the statue, which he found with his hand open and extended as before, but without the ring he had put on it.

This second miracle filled him with surprise, but that did not stop him from going to join his wife. After they had both lain down, he wanted to approach her, but he felt that he was prevented by a solid thing that stood between him and his wife, and which he could not see. It is I whom you must embrace, said a voice to him, since with me you are betrothed this day; I am the statue on whose finger you have put your wedding ring.

Horrified, the young man could not answer, and spent the whole night without sleep. For many days, every time he wanted to embrace his wife, he felt and heard the same thing.

At last, yielding to the warnings and admonitions of his wife, he referred him to his father, who advised him to go and find Lexilis in her dungeon, and gave him the key to do so. The young man immediately went to the prison and found the magician asleep on his table. After waiting a long time without his awakening, he gently pulled him by the foot, and his foot and the leg torn from his thigh remained in his hand.

Then Lexilis woke up and gave a terrible scream, and the door of the dungeon closed by itself. The unfortunate young man fell on his knees before Lexilis, begged her forgiveness for his imprudence and implored her help in what was happening to him. The magician granted him everything and promised to free him from the statue if he would set him free. After they had reached an agreement, the leg was put back in its place and they both left the prison.

When he arrived home, the magician wrote a letter, which he gave to the young man: Go, he said to him, when midnight strikes, to a crossroads where four streets divide, and wait in silence for the chance that will lead you there. You will not be there long without seeing many people of both sexes pass before you: knights, footmen, noblemen, artisans, some armed, others unarmed; some sad, others very cheerful. But no matter how much you see, no matter how much you hear, be careful not to speak or move. Behind all this crowd of people will follow one of prodigious stature, seated in a chariot; you will deliver this letter to him without saying a word, and all your wishes will be fulfilled.

The young man did exactly as prescribed, and saw in that crowd of extraordinary people a courtesan seated on a mule, with a golden rod in her hand; her clothes were so thin, and she wore them so slovenly, that all the forms of her body were visible through them, and her contortions and lascivious movements revealed her at every moment.

The leader of this mob of people came last. He was seated in a beautiful triumphal chariot, adorned with emeralds and sapphires that glittered brilliantly in the darkness. As he passed the young husband, he cast a terrible glance at him and asked him with a threatening gesture how he had had the audacity to go to meet him. The young man, frightened and overcome with fear at hearing these words, nevertheless had the courage to stretch out his hand and present his letter. The spirit, who recognized the seal on it, exclaimed, reddening: That Lexilis will be on earth for a long time yet.... A moment later, he sent one of his servants to remove the ring from the finger of the statue, and from then on the jailer's son ceased to be tormented in his loves.

In the meantime his father had caused the king to announce that Lexilis had escaped from prison; and while he was being sought for everywhere, the magician entered the palace, followed by twenty very beautiful young women, who brought the prince exquisite delicacies. But, although he affirmed that he had never eaten anything so delicious, the sovereign of Tunis did not cease for this. to renew the order to imprison Lexilis; the soldiers wanting to seize him, they found in his place only a dead and disgusting dog, in the belly of which they all had their hand....

This prodigy excited general laughter. When they had calmed down, the king ordered his guards to go to the house of the magician, who was leaning out of the window watching his people coming. As soon as the soldiers noticed him, they ran to the door of his house, which suddenly closed by itself. The captain of the royal guards ordered him, on behalf of the king, to surrender, threatening to break down the door if he refused to obey him.

And if I surrender, said Lexilis, what will you do with me? We will conduct you courteously to the king's palace," replied the captain.

I thank you for your courtesy, replied the magician, but which way shall we go to the palace?

This street," added the captain, pointing his finger at him.

And at the same time he saw a great and mighty river coming towards him, swelling its waters, and filling the path he was pointing out, in such a way that in less than a moment the water reached their throats. Lexilis, laughing maliciously, shouted at them:

Go back to the palace alone, I don't want to go like a water dog.

When the prince learned of this fact, he swore to lose the crown rather than let the magician go unpunished; he armed himself to pursue him, and found him in the field strolling peacefully. The soldiers surrounded him at the moment to seize him, but making a movement Lexilis, each soldier found himself with his head between two stakes, with two huge deer horns that prevented him from being able to withdraw. For a long time they remained in this posture, while two children gave them tremendous blows on the horns with a stick.

The magician was jumping for joy at this spectacle, and the prince was furious. But having noticed on the ground, at the feet of Lexilis, a square parchment on which were painted many figures and characters, he himself reached down to take it without being seen by the magician. No sooner had he held this piece of parchment in his hand than the soldiers lost their horns and the stakes vanished. Lexilis was taken prisoner, chained and led to the jail, and from there to the scaffold to be beheaded and quartered. But even here he wanted to play the king a good piece; when the executioner was unloading the blade on his head, he gave the blow on a drum full of wine, which spilled over the square, and Lexilis appeared no more in Tunis....

Moreover, since the magicians have skilful and diligent servants among the infernal cohorts, they do not take much pains to appropriate, without anyone's knowledge, the good of another. Thus worked these magicians, who had the wheat of their neighbors brought to their barns, and that magician who, according to DéIrio, ordered the devil to milk the cows of her companions and bring the milk to her house.

A magician of Magdebourg earned his livelihood by performing various wonders, enchantments, fascinations and omens, in a public theater. It happened that one day when he was teaching for some money a very small little horse, which by the virtue and power of his magic he made perform truly prodigious things, when he had finished, he exclaimed that he earned very little money among men, and that he was going to ascend to heaven.... Having at once thrown his whip into the air, he began to soar..... The little horse, having caught the end of the whip with his teeth, also soared upwards. The magician, as if he wanted to stop him, grabbed him by the tail and followed him through the air. The wife of this skilful magician seized her husband by the legs and went with him; in fine, the maid took her mistress by the feet, the footman the dress from the maid, and pretty soon the whip, the horse, the magician, his wife, the cook and the footman, the whole family arranged in the manner of a flock of cranes, or like the grains of a rosary, flew through the air and soared so far away that they were lost sight of. While all the spectators remained stupefied with a very natural admiration for such a prodigy, a man arrived and asked them the cause of their astonishment, and when he knew it: Do not be afraid, he said to them, for your son; he is not lost yet, I have just seen him at the edge of the city with his wife, his servants and his cabin: or.... If this is true, it will be necessary to agree that the devil does for his friends shocking jocosities.

ALBERTO THE GREAT

Albert the Great says in his admirable secrets, that by placing a diamond on the head of a sleeping woman, one knows whether she is faithful or unfaithful to her husband, because if she is unfaithful, she wakes up startled and in a bad mood, and if on the contrary she is chaste, she embraces her husband with tenderness. It is already good that this secret is not safe, because it would be playing a bad trick on a husband by advising him this test.

Little Albert, who is no less a man of profit, gives this means of assuring himself of a woman's fidelity: Take, he says, the tip of a wolf's genital member, the hair of his eyes and that which he has under his mouth by way of a beard; reduce it all to powder by calcination, and make the woman swallow it without her knowing it, and then you can assure yourself of her fidelity. The marrow of a wolf's backbone produces the same effect.

PHYSONOMY

The art of judging men by the features of their faces, that is, the judgment of knowing the interior of a man by his exterior.

This science has gained more enemies than proselytes, and appears extravagant only when it is too far removed; all the faces, all united beings differ from each other not only in their races, their sexes, their families, but also in their individuality. Each individual differs from another of the same species; why should not this diversity of forms be a consequence of the variety of characters?

l.° The soul with its faculties produces the effects, acquires the ideas, they are innate, that is, they are born with it.

2° The head is, in this world, the organ of manifestation of the soul.

3° The soul possesses various faculties which it manifests through as many organs or simple parts of the head.

4° The size of a cerebral organ, all other things being equal, is a positive measure of its strength of mental manifestation.

5º The size and shape of the brain are known by the size and shape of the external surface of the skull or head.

6º Every mental faculty has its mimicry, its physiognomy, its gesture, its external expression, that is to say, its natural and universal language.

History of human magnetism

Magnetism, like Phrenology, has existed since time immemorial. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Celts knew it; but they knew it only in its effects, and as an agent not subject to the will of man. The Egyptian priests said that their goddess Isis, during her dreams, inspired the faithful to cure their illnesses. The first Greek physicians used, in the cure of their sick, certain magical procedures very similar to the formulas of our magnetized ones. What were the famous Sibyls of the Romans, if not natural somnambulists: and their oracles answers of someone who spontaneously became magnetized? Does not St. Justinian tells us: The Sibyls said with justice and truth many extraordinary things, and when the instinct that animated them disappeared, they lost the memory of what they had announced? Among the Celts, the Druids or Priestesses, in a state of somnolence, healed or pretended to heal the sick who were considered incurable, had or pretended to have knowledge of the future, and announced it to mortals.

The history of magnetism has proved that many remarkable cures and other inexplicable prodigies of the Middle Ages, on which it is not my intention to enlarge, were all due to the operation of that agent. But the persons among those people who produced these surprising phenomena, were considered as supernatural creatures whom God had endowed with portentous faculties. There was in them a power which spontaneously developed, and which was known only by its effects. By this power, among the Medes, Persians, and other nations, they were cured or pretended to be cured, like our ignorant salutators, by means of certain practices and formulas, apparently extravagant, the offspring of an instinct to heal. This power was nothing more than spontaneously developed somnambulism; and this instinct a natural talent for healing, the origin of all medicine.

Magnetism in this state was like steam before Ful ton, or like electricity before Franklin; it existed, yes, but it was not mastered. In order to take advantage of this agent, it was necessary that the lord of creation should be able to direct them; and this is what Mesmer (1) did, who, like all great ingenuities, passed at first for a charlatan, and is now venerated, with a just title, as a benefactor of mankind.

Franz or Franz Anton Mesmer, was born in upper Suebia on May 23, 1733, and died in Switzerland on March 5, 1815.

Regardless of whether, before Mesmer, Maxwelles and others had already said that a magnetic fluid existed, it is indisputable that Mesmer was the first who, seizing Magnetism, magnetized. Also Seneca, more than 2,000 years ago, said that a new world existed; also the Icelanders are supposed to have disembarked in it 1,000 years ago, but Columbus, and only Columbus, was the one who, crossing seas and running over difficulties, took possession of it and made it the property of the human race.

Whether it was by the native force of his genius, by reasoning on the exorcisms of the church, by deductions made from the practices of the greeters, by observation of the influence that one man has on another when he wins the action or looks at him with dominion from landmark to landmark, by what some animals exert on others, like some snakes on different birds, whether by virtue of all these circumstances put together, Mesmer was undoubtedly the first man to adopt certain gestures, a certain way of looking, certain movements and shaking of hands and arms called passes, certain prestigious attitudes that constitute in general what is called magnetizing, and with which he artificially magnetized first of all.

Mesmer's sole and exclusive object in discovering to produce magnetic phenomena was to cure, was to present a new system of healing. His procedure, and by gathering, in a room prestigiously lighted and decorated, the sick, giving each one an iron wand, around a wooden cube a foot or two high. From this bucket came out some wires that each one of the sick people took and applied, if he wanted, to the part of the body that he wanted to treat.

(1) It is to be understood that Mesmer's discovery was not that of the nerveous or magnetic fluid, which is still unknown, but that of producing, by artificial means, the phenomena that this fluid produced, either spontaneously or by external or strange unknown influence. Mesmer discovered the way to put the nérveo or magnetic fluid in that state that produces the phenomena that today are called magnetism and somnambulism. As long as the cause of these phenomena is not discovered and mastered, that is, the nérveo fluid itself, human magnetism, as has already been said elsewhere, will not constitute a system or science.

that he had damaged. He encircled all the patients, who formed a chain by giving each other thumbs and index fingers, a rope that held them together.

He would place Mesmer on a table or somewhat elevated platform, and from there he would direct to his patients significant looks, prestigious attitudes, expressive movements, etc., or he would do all this immediately to each one of the patients until, either by the moral influence that all this produced, or by the direct physical influence on the nervous fluid, after fifteen or twenty minutes, some felt strong headaches, others experienced nausea, others tremors, others electric jumps, etc., etc.

When this happened, Mesmer shouted in a stentorian voice: la crise, la crise, la crise.

There is no kind of insult or denigration with which his opponents did not greet him, but he produced, by these means, admirable cures, and gained immense riches, which it seems that some of his emulators still covet them. Mesmer then had henchmen, but the most formidable was d'Eston, who followed the practices of his master and defended himself tenaciously and victoriously against his emulators.

Thus Magnetism continued until 1784, when Puysegur, a disciple of Mesmer, noticed when magnetizing a patient, that the latter felt and acted like the magnetizer himself. This is the origin of what is called somnambulism: because after Peysegur's discovery, magnetization was only sought in effects or phenomena, which can be produced by complete insensibility, except for the magnetizer, transposition of senses, transmission of will without communicating it except by thought, intuition or vision of the interior of the body, foresight or sight of objects at long distances and through opaque bodies, captive talent and prophesying of future events (1).

Of some of these phenomena, and others equally marvellous, which cannot be believed without being seen, and perhaps without being produced, I cannot say that they are true for me because I have not verified them, but it is quite indisputable to me that many of those who are magnetized lose their physical sensibility, and some to the extent that they can be amputated without their feeling it; It is not only that many of them see objects clearly with their eyes closed and through opaque bodies, and that not a few of them predict, with all accuracy, the day and hour in which some access or some disease is going to come upon them.

Of Magnetism in relation to spirituality, freedom and immortality of the soul.

Assuming that Magnetism is a fluid that circulates through the nerves, like blood through the veins, which is what I believe, which is what the facts so far observed and collected on the matter demonstrate, this discovery is nothing more than a new advance in human physiology, and in mental philosophy.

(1) Regarding somnambulistic prophecies, it should be noted that they are like the prophecies of the magnetized, i.e., deductions or more or less certain assumptions.

With regard to Physiology, Magnetism has extended, according to the incessant march of progressive advancement, our knowledge in the functions of the nervous system; functions which, although their immediate cause is not subject to our observation or mastery, are the twilight of important new discoveries, are links in the great chain of human progress.

With regard to mental philosophy, magnetism has also widened its sphere in human eyes. As, on the one hand, in the natural order, the divine breath that animates us only manifests itself through the head and the rest of the organism to which God in this world has mysteriously united it; and as, on the other hand, it can only manifest itself according to the condition of that head and rest of the organism, Magnetism, a purely physical agent, activating or modifying in a special way the organs of manifestation of the soul, these reveal to us certain mental phenomena, certain attributes and modes of activity of our spirit that without its help would perhaps have been forever hidden from us. If a somnambulist sees with blindfolded eyes or. But the soul sees by virtue of the visual and cerebral apparatus having acquired a new force, a special and particular activity, just as the sight of the myope, when through concave glasses he sees objects at a long distance, whose impressions the brain receives and then transmits positively, we know that the spirituality, freedom and immortality of the soul lends new help to make its divine attributes stand out and shine more and more to the human eyes. For, indeed, the soul is pure, spiritual, immortal, with its innate freedom and the destinies which religion teaches us; but just as when a surgical operation is performed on the eyes by removing cataracts, it manifests a sight more complete or less impaired than before; and that when the nerves of sensation are sterilized, it does not manifest sensation externally; so also when the organism is magnetized, it manifests itself according to the new state which that organism acquires or assumes. A child of four years of age who commits an act, however heinous and criminal it may be, will be acquitted as innocent by any court. Why? Because it is known that at that age the cerebral organism is so weak, so immature, that neither the reason nor the will can manifest itself in its complete freedom or robustness. Later that organism is modified, it becomes more vigorous with the years; with the years it reaches greater maturity, and it is already supposed later that the soul manifests itself more completely in all its faculties, and the same innocent child transgressor is considered a man, a criminal transgressor. Well then, Magnetism, in the last result, comes to effect what the years effected in the child, that is, they modified his cerebral organism, by virtue of which modification the soul manifested itself with new or more robust attributes. So that what I have said above concerning the complete harmony between the phrenological doctrines and the spirituality, freedom and immortality of the soul, is applicable to the known magnetic doctrines and facts.

Different ways of magnetizing

The various known ways of magnetizing are like the various known systems of healing. When any one is invented or discovered, its author wants it to be the only one, the exclusive one, the perfect one; until facts and experience show that the science of curing is the gathering of curative systems, just as the art of magnetizing is the gathering of all magnetizing methods. Brawn wants excitants; Broussais soothing; Le Roy cleansing; Hanneman the like, to cure; but all these will be good or bad according to the disease, condition and special circumstances of the sick person. The same must be said with regard to the way of magnetizing, all systems are good or bad according to the person who wants to magnetize; but all must be known to know how to use them when it is convenient.

The method by which the priest of Eumidia magnetized, and that which Mesmer used or made use of, has already been described; further experiments have shown that, with respect to the system adopted by Mesmer, neither the magnetic wand which he gave to each of his patients, nor the wires, nor the use of any kind of metal, produce the least effect on human magnetization.

The system that was adopted after Mesmer, and the one most generally followed, was the one entitled Deleuze's, which is as follows.

Deleuze's method

Let the person to be magnetized be placed in a comfortable seat and position, and in such a way that he can rest his head on a pillow or soft support, as if he wanted to enjoy the delights of a pleasant and restorative nap. In front of him, and somewhat higher, will sit the magnetizer, who will have his legs and feet inside his own. The patient should abandon himself to the will of the operator, not to think of anything, not to have any vehement desire, not to be distracted waiting for the effects to be experienced, to vanish all fear, not to get upset, nor to faint in case the magnetic action produces in him momentary pains.

After the operator has concentrated, he will take the patient's thumbs between his fingers, so that the veins of both touch, and will continue to look at him from landmark to landmark for two to five minutes, until he feels that an equal heat has been established in the thumbs of both. Once this is done, the magnetizer will withdraw his hands and will direct them, always keeping his eyes fixed on the patient's sight, up to the height of the head. Then he will place them on the shoulders where he will keep them for a long time, then he will pass them over the whole extension of the arms up to the extremity of the fingers, rubbing them lightly with the inner surface. These passes will be made five or six times in succession, and as he raises his hands, he will move them a little away from his body. He will then place the hands above the head, retaining them there for a moment, then lowering them down the forehead and face, at a distance of two inches, until they reach the pit of the stomach, where they will pause for about two minutes. The tips of the thumbs should touch the stomach, and the other fingers on both sides of the ribs, or better, if possible, without moving from the seat, to the end of the feet. This procedure is repeated most of the sessions. The magnetizer should also sometimes approach the patient in order to place his hands on his back and lower them along the spine, and from here on the hips, passing then along the thighs to the knees or to the feet. After the first few passes you can dispense with placing the hands on the head, continuing the passes from the shoulders to the end of the arms, and over the body to the stomach.

Some, believing that all magnetizing force and magnetic susceptibility resides in the eyes, believed that the true system of megnetization consisted in looking. This procedure, which has an effect on some very susceptible people, is as follows:

Sit the operator opposite; look at each other as steadily as possible. Perhaps the patient will exhale some deep sigh; then his eyelids will blink, showing some tears; then they will contract strongly several times, and finally, they will close. As in the previous procedure, it will always be very useful to make some passes from the head to the extremities. If the patient resists, some attacks of headache usually come upon him, which the magnetism through the eyes causes, from which the magnetizer cannot always get rid of. But all this is temporary.

It is said that it is also magnetized by simple will. That is, that R., for example, by making a strong intention to magnetize L., the latter is magnetized. I have not seen it nor have I executed it. It has happened to me, yes, after having magnetized many times some extremely susceptible person, to remain magnetized when she looked at me, supposing, by the expression of my countenance, that I wished her to be magnetized. I have not seen any case, in short, of a person being magnetized only because another mentally wanted it without giving him to understand it in any sense or in any way externally.

Some individuals, carried away by the idea that in Magnetism everything was reduced to surprise, dominate, win the action, impose with the prestige of command, in short, to morally effect the patient, tried to magnetize by this exclusive principle. Abbé Faría was the one who adopted this method to the exclusion of the others and for this reason it is known by his name. The system, then, of Abbé Faría, was as follows:

He would make his patient sit on a chair, recommending him to close his eyes, and after a few minutes of recollection, he would say to him in a strong and imperative voice: "Sleep! This single word, pronounced in the midst of a prestigious and solemn silence by a man of whom so many prodigies were told, sometimes caused in the patient such a vivid impression, that it produced a slight shaking of the whole body, a certain heat and perspiration, and sometimes somnambulism. If this first attempt did not succeed, he subjected the patient to a second; then to a third, and even to a fourth trial; but if after this he did not fall asleep, he declared the person incapable of entering into lucid somnambulism.

It is also magnetized, and it is a very usual system, making the patient sit comfortably in a chair, and standing two, three, or four rods away, the magnetizer, extends his arms and hands straight towards the eyes of the person to be magnetized, looking at him at the same time fixedly and from landmark to landmark.

Having become convinced that all the systems I have just indicated produce good effects according to the persons to whom they are applied; deeply convinced, moreover, that the nerve fluid is not only set in motion by the physical influence of the magnetizer but also by the moral influence, I have adopted a system, method or general procedure which has had a very good effect on me. In this method, which for the sake of distinction may be called, if you will, Cubi's method, I have endeavored to bring them all together, and to affect at once physically and morally (1) the patient. Here it is:

Sitting or standing, I place my hands on the patient's temples, with the thumbs on the eyebrows. Thus positioned, I look at the patient with my eyes from landmark to landmark, with such fixity and empire, that it seems to me that I have him completely under my dominion. After half a minute or a minute at most, I say to him, in a commanding voice, in the manner of Pariah: Sleep. As I say this word, I run my thumbs over the patient's eyelids, and place my hands immediately over his closed eyes and forehead without allowing him to open them. If the patient does not fall instantly asleep, which often happens, I repeat a few times, with a commanding voice: sleep. If this does not produce the desired effect, I put my hands on his head: I put my little fingers in his ears: or I make some passes; but the whole operation does not last more than three minutes. Usually the person who is susceptible of being magnetized falls asleep with this procedure; but if it does not happen, I repeat the operation two or three times. In case these repetitions have no effect, I consider the patient as unmagnetizable by me.

(1) Now, with the aid of phrenology, we know that to affect or influence the moral, is to present to man the objects or actions which directly move pleasantly or unpleasantly the circumspection; and this circumspection, thus affected, transmits through the whole organism, by means of the nervous system, its unpleasant state. To gain action, is nothing more than to have an object or person presented to us by surprise, which affects our veneration, conservativeness, and circumspection, in such a way that they advocate the action of the other organs, and we find ourselves, consequently, dumbfounded and almost without will. From whence it is inferred that looking at an individual agent to another patient, with a dominating, prestigious and effective intention, produces an effect on the organs expressed, similar to that produced on us by a person of whom we have heard great acts of valor or astonishing things. Before him we feel small, dumbfounded; his words have an extraordinary influence on us. For this reason, although the magnetic or tickling susceptibility resides in the patient, affecting it, moving it, will be executed with greater or lesser ease, with greater or lesser mastery according to the knowledge and prestige of the person or agent, that is, of the person who magnetizes or titillates.

The only thing that can and should be feared, the only thing that can produce any unfortunate or unpleasant result, is to magnetize in such a way that the patient does not hear the magnetizer. For this reason, in the act of saying sleep the first time, and then successively during the operation, the patient should be called by name. If he does not respond at the moment, proceed to de-magnetization or awakening as will be explained later. If he responds, there is no need to worry; but if he does not respond, I repeat, that without loss of time, the demagnetization must be carried out without difficulty; but if the patient does not respond for a few minutes, cephalagia, convulsions and other unpleasant accidents may occur. Otherwise, as long as he hears, there is no need to be frightened by any accident. If the blood rushes to the head, everything disappears, even if it makes those who have not seen it laugh, by simply commanding the operator to make it disappear, by blowing the affected region with the hand.

Demagnetization or awakening

After 5 or 10 minutes, usually it is not convenient to be magnetized longer, the patient is instructed to get ready to demagnetize. Are you ready?, he is then asked. Yes, he answers. Well then: wake up yourself, he is told in a commanding voice; and then his eyes are blown out and air is blown with his arms and hands over his face and the rest of his body. If this is not enough to produce a complete awakening, the patient is sent to take some fresh air, or he is blown with a fan; but it is rarely necessary to resort to these last means. It is advisable not to demagnetize or leave the patient until he is completely awake. If in the act of demagnetization he feels any pain, however incredible it may seem to the unobservant, it disappears by blowing on the painful region, or by blowing on it with the hand, telling the patient with a commanding voice to disappear.

Spontaneous and artificial magnetism

By spontaneous magnetism we mean the magnetized state in which some people naturally appear, usually after a nervous breakdown.

In the city of Leon, there is not a single neighbor who does not tell with astonishment the phenomena of exquisite sensitivity and sight through opaque bodies, of a lady who naturally and spontaneously enters into lucidity somnambulist after some epileptic accident to which she is or was subject. The ancients and the moderns, up to Mesmer, knew Magnetism only in its natural and spontaneous effects as just explained.

By artificial magnetism is meant the same natural or spontaneous magnetism produced by human efforts. In this particular, man has done nothing more than to wrest from nature

a secret which it alone possessed before. Note well that the fact existed; man has not created, produced or invented anything; he has only discovered the way to produce, with his intelligence and his efforts, what was previously reserved only to nature.

TABLE OF THE TWELVE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC

The signs of the zodiac are twelve, in the following order:

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Lion

Virgo

Libra

Scorpion

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarium

Pisces

INFLUENCE OF PLANETS AND ZODIAC SIGNS ON THE FETUS

On the Influence of the Planets on the Fetus

Since all the powers of the soul are enclosed within the body, it must be confessed that they come from superior and celestial bodies. Indeed, the first mobile which encloses by its daily motion all the lower spheres, communicates by its influence to matter the virtue of existing and moving; the globe of the fixed stars gives to the fetus not only the power to distinguish itself according to the different figures and accidents, but also the faculty of communicating them and of being able to transmit the power of differentiating itself, according to the different influences of this globe. According to the astronomers, the sphere of Saturn comes immediately after the firmament, and the soul receives from this Planet discernment and reason; then follows that of Jupiter, which gives to the soul generosity and many other passions; Mars communicates to it anger, hatred, and many other things; the Sun, infuses it with science, joy and memory; Venus the movements of concupiscence; Mercury joy and pleasure, and finally the Moon, which is the origin of all the natural virtues, fortifies them. Let us see how these influences are verified.

It should be noted, first of all, that the womb of man, which is to be engendered by reason of the coldness and dryness of Saturn, receives from this Planet a strengthening and vegetative virtue with a natural movement, and for this reason physicians say that Saturn is attributed to the fall of the sperm in the womb, during the first month of conception, and thereafter, because by its coldness and dryness, it hardens and precipitates the semen.

From here a doubt arises, yes: Does Saturn dominate in the conception of all embryos? In this respect it must be said that the first matter depends on the celestial bodies and their motions; which, according to the philosophers, comes from the fact that all that is inferior is subject to the superior, and is regulated by its motion. Thus supposed, it is necessary that all the inferior beings here below should be universally and particularly dependent upon those of the universe as a whole, because no element can be created without their participation and influence. For this reason it has been said that nature works nothing in the direction of higher intelligences, and for the same reason Aristotle said in his second book of generation and corruption, that at sunrise all animals are filled with life, and that when the sun sets they all languish.

Saturn has two powers; one to prepare matter in general, and the other to give it a certain form; but in saying that Saturn always dominates in the conception of the embryo, it is only meant that it communicates a disposition which another planet could not communicate. Therefore, it reigns only at certain hours of the day and night, yielding at intervals in its influence to give way to that of a different star, which influences in another sense than Saturn would.

Jupiter follows Saturn and dominates in the 2nd month, and by a special disposition and favor, prepares and makes the material of the fetus fit to receive the limbs that will be proper to it; it strengthens with its heat, in an intense way, the substance of the fetus and moistens the parts that Saturn had dried up in the first month.

Mars dominates in the third month of conception, and with its heat forms the head, distinguishes from one another all the limbs that are to compose man; for example, it separates the neck from the arms, the arms from the sides, and so on.

The Sun predominates in the 4th month and already imprints various special forms on the fetus; it creates the heart and gives movement to the sensitive soul, according to many astronomers and physicians; but Aristotle is of a different opinion and maintains that the heart is