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Examples
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Mrs Piper falls into trance spontaneously, without the intervention of any magnetiser.
Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research Michael Sage 1897
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I thought of the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the will power of the magnetiser exercised over his subject miles away, and at times I asked myself if it might not one day be possible, through some gigantic stride in scientific discovery, to throw a celestial bridge from our world to its sister spheres in space.
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If the magnetiser has the power of affecting the subtler counterparts also he makes them similarly vibrate in assonance with his own.
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Annie Wood Besant 1890
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When such an object is magnetised a change is effected in the ethereal portion, the wave-motions are altered and systematised, and made to follow the wave-motions of the ether of the magnetiser; it thus comes to share his nature, and the denser particles of the object, played on by the ether, slowly change their rates of vibration.
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Annie Wood Besant 1890
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In addition to this, experiments made in the domain of magnetism, equally prove that in certain determined psychological cases, a mesmerist can act on his subject at a distance, not only of several yards, but of several miles, or even hundreds of miles, according to the sensitiveness and the lucidity of the subject, and no doubt also according to the will of the magnetiser.
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I saw Miss Bölte magnetised one evening at Mrs. Buller's by a distinguished magnetiser, who could not sound his h's, and who maintained, nevertheless, that mesmerism 'consisted in moral and intellectual superiority.'
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This whole discourse, so closely resembling a cross-examination, had altogether the appearance of such an interrogatory as a magnetiser would address to his subject; and the answers I received were given with the plain, involuntary precision characteristic of hypnotised persons.
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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According to M. Deleuze, any person could become a magnetiser and produce these effects, by conforming to the following conditions, and acting upon the following rules:
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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All are under the power of the magnetiser; it matters not in what state of drowsiness they may be, the sound of his voice -- a look, a motion of his hand -- brings them out of it.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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That is to say, "be very credulous; be very persevering; reject all past experience, and do not listen to reason," and you are a magnetiser after
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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