And as the patient's sufferings are supposed to originate
from a deficiency or alteration of his own specific scent, we can well
see how the mesmeriser, by his mesmeric or odoriferous emanations, may
effect a cure. He may supply the want of certain odoriferous substances
in the patient, or he may correct others by his own emanations, knowing,
as we do, from the experiment of Mons. Ligeois, that odorant matter does
act on odorant matter.
One remark more and I have done. By the Esoteric Doctrine we are told
that the living body is divided into two parts:
1. The physical body, composed wholly of matter in its grossest and most
tangible form.
2. The vital principle (or Jiva), a form of force indestructible, and,
when disconnected with one set of atoms, becoming attracted immediately
by others.
Now this division, generally speaking, fully agrees with the teachings
of science. I need only remind you of what I have said before with
regard to the formed tissues and structures of the body and its
formative agent the protoplasm.
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