# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1900_S71
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Weltmerism.“ 71

diese Kraft zur Wirksamkeit oder Manifestation dadurch, daß wir dem
Patienten positiv versichern, daß solche Kraft in ihm vorhanden ist; wird
dies angenommen, so ist es ihm eine Offenbarung, und fegt aus seinem
Leben alle Unwissenheit, die drin ist“, 109. 111. „Indem der Leser dieses
Buch zumacht, so wird sich in seinem Geiste die Frage erheben: Kann ich
dies thun? Ich antworte positiv, an deiner Statt: Ich weiß, daß du
kannst. . . . Vertraue dem Entschluß (daß du es thun willst und kannst),
verlaß dich auf denselben; das ist Autosuggestion, Probe und kann nicht
fehlen. Je eher du diese Wahrheiten anerkennst, desto eher wirst du frei sein.
Jetzt ist die Zeit“, 126. „Ein Gedanke kann nicht im Geiste gehalten
werden, und wenn er das könnte, so wäre er dem Talente ähnlich, das im
Schweißtuch verborgen ist; Thatsache ist vielmehr, daß der Gedanke den
Geist hält; der Geist hält nicht die Ansicht (Delièef); die Ansicht hält dich.
Das habe ich schon vor Jahren durch hypnotische Suggestion gelernt“, 76.77.
„Die Handlungen und das Leben des Menschen sind bloße Producte seiner
Ansichten, beliefs“, 82. „Die Ansicht hält den Menschen, ein Gedanke be—
herrscht ihn; nicht er hält oder beherrscht den Gedanken oder die Ansicht,
sondern die Ansicht oder der Gedanke hält ihn“, 84.1)

1) Weltmer schreibt: „The man who is the victim of some vicious habit,
can free himself if he can assume the possibility of being able to do s0; let
him assume that the power is within him to do it, because it most certainly
s within him. Of course, he can act with the assistance of another, but the
Other's assistance is of no value whatever, unless the sufférer is willing to
accept the truth ofe the statement that the power is within imsey. Auto—
suggestion is stronger than the suggestion of another. All controlling in-
fluences in any life originate with an auto-suggestion, strengthened, prob-
ably, by the suggestion of another. Auto-suggestion, to be powerful as the
suggestion of another, must be as intelligent and appropriate. Every person
has within bimself the power to Overcome any of his ailments or his habits
by auto-suggestion, if he knows what suggestion to act upon, and how to
give the suggestion. ... The most powerful suggestion that you can offer
to another is: All the power necessary to bring to you the good there is in
life, is in you.“ If the subject or the patient to Wwhom this suggestion is
given, accepts it or assumes the truth of it, you have thrown à flood 0f life
and light and power into his mind that will control him to the end of his
days. The mind that fully accepts this suggestion, finds in it a well of water
springing up into everlasting life,“'' 80. „An auto-suggestion, to be à con-
trolling influence, must be à positive suggestion left undisturbed; it must
be regarded by the person entertaining it as aà πϰαρεενε in his life; not subject
to change or modification,“ 81. „There are one or two of the hypnotic ex-
hibitors in this country who have made startlings experiments and who have
shown to what extent thought controls the human body. One, with whom
IJam very well acquainted, using his wife as a hypnotic subject, gives her
the suggestion of rigidity; bher body becomes as rigid as iron, and she is
suspended between two supports and a weight of twelve hundreéd pounds is
placed upon her suspended body. Included in this weight is à stone weigh—