“The 11th of August should be observed as a day of humiliation by every learned Society in the civilised world, for on that date in 1784 a Commission, consisting of the most distinguished representatives of Science in the most enlightened capital in Europe, pronounced the rejection of a pregnant scientific discovery — a discovery possibly rivalling in permanent significance all the contributions to the physical Sciences made by the two most famous members of the Commission — Lavoisier and Benjamin Franklin.”

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On August 11, 1784, the Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism, appointed by King Louis XVI, declared Mesmerism as “the action of imagination on imagination,” adding …

“This action is always dangerous; one can observe it as a philosopher and it is good to know it only to foresee or forestall its effects.”

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Imagination is always dangerous to the Modern Science of Religion and its many myriads of Science-Theologians.

The Age of Enlightenment was mostly a materialistic trick made up with mirrors and lights.

The Scientific Revolution was mostly spun around in circles inside of circles by arrogant spin doctors.