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18th century predecessor of HPB

Apr 17, 2004 12:11 PM
by stevestubbs


On reflection I remembered that THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSART identifies 
the predecessor of HPB (according to her reckoning), thus:

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton. The famous physician who rediscovered and 
applied practically that magnetic fluid in man which was called 
animal magnetism and since then Mesmerism. He was born in Schwaben, 
in 1734 and died in 1815. He was an initiated member of the 
Brotherhoods of the Fratres Lucis and of Lukshoor (or Luxor), or the 
Egyptian Branch ofÆ the latter. It was the Council of Luxor which 
selected himùaccording to the orders of the Great Brotherhoodöùt act 
in the XVIIIth century as their usual pioneer, sent in the last 
quarter of every century to enlighten a small portion of the Western 
nations in occult lore. It was St. Germain who supervised the 
development of events in this case; and later Cagliostro was 
commissioned to help, but having made a series of mistakes, more or 
less fatal, he was recalled. Of these three men who were at first 
regarded as quacks, Mesmer is already vindicated. The justification 
of the two others will follow in the next century. Mesmer founded the 
Order of Universal Harmony in 1783, in which presumably only animal 
magnetism was taught, but which in reality expounded the tenets of 
Hippocrates, the methods of the ancient Asclepieia, the Temples of 
Healing, and many other occult sciences.





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