Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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immortal, and the so-called mind of body which we
immortal, and the so-called mind of body which we
name the mind of man, embraces all that is unreal and
mortal.
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Truth proceeds from Spirit; error from the material
Truth proceeds from Spirit; error from the material
body. The mind of Soul, Spirit, is science giving only
the idea of Truth; but the so-called mind of body, or
man, is belief giving false appearances. Because there
is no mind of man, that is, no material mind, thoughts
said to emanate from body or brain are delusions. How
may we determine the ideas of Truth from belief? By
learning their origin; thoughts from the Soul are ideas,
and from the brain beliefs; the former proceed from
spiritual sense, are not substance, and are harmonious;
the latter are the product of personal sense, and are
supposed substance at one time, and spirit at another,
and are inharmonious; the former are understanding,
the latter, beliefs begotten of error. To love our
neighbor as ourself is an idea from Soul, yea, from
Wisdom, Love and Truth; and this idea personal sense
cannot see, feel, or understand, but spiritual sense
can; "the carnal mind cannot discern spiritual things."
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Matter is but a grosser strata of mortal mind, wherein
Matter is but a grosser strata of mortal mind, wherein
one belief introduces and destroys another in Darwinian
process. As before stated, Spirit is Intelligence, whereas
the basis of matter is belief; the former is science, the
latter mesmerism. The body that is mortal is an indi-
vidualized belief that germinates, grows and decays,
"dust unto dust," and mortal man is just this belief;
even a phenomenon of mesmerism, an error construing
man matter. Excite the organ of veneration or the
religious tone of this belief, and it manifests the most
profound adoration; but change the action to an oppo-
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site development, and it blasphemes. Mesmerism is a
site development, and it blasphemes. Mesmerism is a
belief, constituting mortal mind, error is all there is to
it, which is the very antipode of science, the immortal
mind. The former is hallucination, the latter reality;
one a wholesale mistake, the other the Truth of being.
Mesmerism assures the sick they are recovering, when
there is no evidence or basis for this conclusion, turns
belief whithersoever it wills, and is the blind leading
the blind. Nothing can be more antagonistic to sci-
ence; it hides the Truth that man is the image and
likeness of God, and as such cannot be sick, sinning, or
dying, and claims that mortal mind and substance-mat-
ter constitute man, thus admitting through personal
sense what Soul denies in science. Mesmerism is a
direct appeal to personal sense, proceeds from it, and
derives its only prestige from belief; it is predicated
on the supposition that Life is in matter, and a nervo-
vital fluid at that; whereas science reveals man's Life,
God, and therefore dwelling not in matter. Mesmer-
ism is error and belief in conflict; but science masters
error and belief with the understanding of Truth, and
reveals man immortal, sinless and undying. Mesmerism
is one error at war with another, "a kingdom divided
against itself that cannot stand;" but science is harmo-
nious and eternal. Mesmerism is personal sense giving
the lie to its own statements, denying the pains but
admitting the pleasures of sense; whereas science denies
all sensation to matter, and holds the reins in the hands
of Spirit. The gulf fixed between science and mesmer-
ism is impassible. Vitalized matter is a grave mistake.
Electricity is the last boundary between personal sense
and Soul, and although it stands at the threshold of