Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also mesmerised people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.

They have transgressed the king's explicit orders, and fear that now they will be called to task, certainly censured, perhaps thrown into prison or even executed for their disobedience.

Possessing The Quraan and professing “Muslimship” do not make righteous people. As elsewhere in the world, individuals need judging by actions they perpetrate.

To appear again as identically the same, would require the palingenesis of Plato, that is, the recommencement of all things, so as to have the same series of causes and effects from the very beginning; but this creed implies the finality of God's power in the phenomenal universe, and Plato never thought that.