Claimed human disease could be cured by magnetically transferring it to animals and plants. Also, a vital spirit affects and interlinks all living things.

Human disease could be cured by magnetically transferring it to animals and plants—like a gas. Living things share the same life-stuff. This stuff is detachable from the matter that identifies a body.

One of the theoretical advantages of aetheric substances is that they can be added to established empirical knowledge with no penalty of contradiction, and the quantity of this matter can be increased also with no contradiction.

Another benefit of a detachable aetheric substance: it allows communion and community to really mean something weighty (literally). All living things share an identical substance. That really gives sibling-hood some real force.