Pivot: Animal magnetism

What we called love poured out of the horns, moving to surface upon electrified spheres. The colors were pirated, downloaded from some other source, resembling a compressed version of the same. The hand brushed aside the forelock, the body bent at the waist as if to offer counsel. 




79.  There is a fixed law of nature that a reciprocal influence on all bodies exists, and this consequently affects all their constituent parts and properties.

80.  This reciprocal influence and the relationships between all coexistent bodies constitute what one calls magnetism.

160.  Humans are constantly situated within general and particular currents, and are permeated by these.

161.  Currents exit and enter the most protruding parts or extremities.

238.  If two beings are affecting each other, their respective positions are not insignificant. Two beings have the greatest influence on each each other if they are placed in such a way that their similar parts are precisely opposed. Consequently, two people must be face to face in order to have the strongest possible effect on each other. In this position they can be viewed as if they only constituted a single whole. From this it follows that one must touch the right side with the left arm and vice versa in order to maintain the harmony of the whole.

from Aphorismes de M. Mesmer, 1785. Franz Mesmer.