His work looks interesting and at least according to the french wikipedia he was along the lines of New Thought in some way and seems to have followed Levi's line on the more occultish side, as I assume many French occultists did. The book I mentioned follows the same pattern of using the Trumps as chapters but I couldn't find any of his books in English. Archive does have a short one on Magnetism and healing and a longer one on the power of the will. Scribd has a couple chapters about his book Méthode pratique de magnétisme, hypnotisme, suggestion : cours d'expérimentation à la portée de tous which seems available for purchase on the major ebook providers. I found this excerpt interesting:
La polarisation en deux modalités, positive et négative del'agent magnétique, n'a échappé à l'attention d'aucun des praticiens anciens ou modernes du Magnétisme. Perçue par RobertFludd et Paracelse, nettement affirmée par Mesmer, la polaritédu corps humain fut précisée par les travaux de Reichenbach,du colonel de Rochas et d'Hector Durville. Ainsi que nous leverrons plus loin, l'action de la modalité positive du magnétisme diffère de l'action négative. Dans la pratique, j'ai observé que, seules, des personnes d'une réceptivité exceptionnelle ou desmalades amenés à une réceptivité analogue par leur état, per-çoivent très nettement la différence du magnétisme positif etdu magnétisme négatif. Le côté droit et l'arête médiane antérieure du corps humain émettent du magnétisme positif.Le côté gauche et l'arête médiane postérieure émettent du magnétisme négatif. Le sommet de la tête (vertex) et le périnée peuvent être consi-dérés comme des lignes neutres.L'observance des lois de la polarité (voir paragraphe 5) estsecondaire dans la reproduction des phénomènes exceptionnels(ceux décrits au Livre III).
1) My french is not good at all but am I understanding correctly that by "l'arête médiane postérieure" and "antérieure" it is meant that the front side of the body is positive and the back side negative?
2) By some comments I think this is standard division on polarity in the body in western occultism. I wonder if you could clarify how does the anterior and posterior polarity relate to the left and right polarity? While trying to picture it, it isn't clear to me how can it be, for example, that the right side is positive while the front and back is negative (since the right side of the body has both front and back parts). Perhaps it depends if it is closer to the center of the body or to the surface of the body?
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Date: 2023-04-03 08:00 pm (UTC)His work looks interesting and at least according to the french wikipedia he was along the lines of New Thought in some way and seems to have followed Levi's line on the more occultish side, as I assume many French occultists did. The book I mentioned follows the same pattern of using the Trumps as chapters but I couldn't find any of his books in English. Archive does have a short one on Magnetism and healing and a longer one on the power of the will. Scribd has a couple chapters about his book Méthode pratique de magnétisme, hypnotisme, suggestion : cours d'expérimentation à la portée de tous which seems available for purchase on the major ebook providers. I found this excerpt interesting:
1) My french is not good at all but am I understanding correctly that by "l'arête médiane postérieure" and "antérieure" it is meant that the front side of the body is positive and the back side negative?
2) By some comments I think this is standard division on polarity in the body in western occultism. I wonder if you could clarify how does the anterior and posterior polarity relate to the left and right polarity? While trying to picture it, it isn't clear to me how can it be, for example, that the right side is positive while the front and back is negative (since the right side of the body has both front and back parts). Perhaps it depends if it is closer to the center of the body or to the surface of the body?