Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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us towards material things; hence away from spiritual
us towards material things; hence away from spiritual
Truth, and all Truth is spiritual. To depend on medi-
cine or the so-called laws of health, prevents the sick
being healed by Truth; and to observe rites and cere-
monies prevents the Spirit that is Truth. We shall all
learn we cannot serve two masters. Physics act against
metaphysics, for these opposites produce different re-
sults; and if we trust one we mistrust the other.
When the metaphysics of the science of being are un-
derstood, we shall not believe in physics; in which case
we cannot produce the effect through medicine we did
before. All seeming effects from matter are effects
of mind, that constructs the aeriform, liquid, or solid;
matter is inertia; all action is mind. Certain forms of
belief we call substance, and name matter, others more
rarefied, mind; the discordant, mutable and mortal,
are not realities, they are beliefs and illusion; the har-
monious and undying are all that is real; Principle,
and its idea is the only reality. To depend on person-
ality is error; words cannot always be depended upon,
and are sometimes less real than thoughts; treasures in
matter are all lost. Persons are not to be trusted;
Principle, is all there is to trust; hence, the greater re-
liability of science, than all else; but this word, science,
will not be appended to humbugs, when once we catch
its meaning. "Absent from the body and present
with the Lord," were Paul's directions for a scientist,
for this is spiritual understanding reaching outside of
personal sense, and material things. Life, Truth and
Love displace the material with the spiritual, but they
are self-expressed, and self-existent; nothing is wanting
in them. Not that Soul is voiceless, but that it is in-
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capable of jargon, or words "such as hypocrites use."
capable of jargon, or words "such as hypocrites use."
"Let us lay aside the weights that so easily beset
us," for the better proofs of Christianity in love to
our neighbor, and a perceptible gravitation toward
Spirit, and away from matter, whereby man is gov-
erned by Soul, instead of sense, by God, instead of man.
As religion yields creeds and rites, it will build on
the great corner-stone, Truth, the church of Christ.
Creeds are beliefs instead of understanding, products
of man instead of God. A higher state of existence
will be attained only as we lose the beliefs of personal
sense, and gain spiritual sense. When we lose our
opinions and theories that are false, we shall find God
the Principle of being, and the only antidote for all the
ills of mind and body; Truth makes man harmonious
as nothing else can.
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To help us ascend the scale progressive, we naturally
To help us ascend the scale progressive, we naturally
appeal to the pulpit, so efficient on the side of right, in
all our mighty struggles; and rejoice that in some
instances already, it is preaching away creeds, and in
their place preaching "Christ, and him crucified "; in
other words, Truth, and the persecution it meets from
error.
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Already we find materia medica losing matter, and
Already we find materia medica losing matter, and
gaining mind, and the latter more potent to heal the
sick. Homoeopathy is a step in advance of allopathy
simply because matter is fading out of its doses, and
mind supplying its place; it takes the moral symptoms
largely into account in diagnosing disease, whereas
allopathy consults only the physical; the former
method is a step toward spirituality, and the science
of life. Homoeopathy proves the more you extermin-