Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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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-
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ate the drug, the more potent becomes the dose, and its
ate the drug, the more potent becomes the dose, and its
pharmacy is your process of mentalizing the vehicle, as
you shake and count; the higher attenuations become
more potent, as mind, instead of matter, and with spir-
itual natures, the less matter and more Truth is the
grand secret of success in healing.
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The ages are passing from the material to the spirit-
The ages are passing from the material to the spirit-
ual, and to make this passage more pleasant and bene-
ficial we should welcome the fact, and aid it with the
understanding. As the cruder foot-prints of the past
disappear, let us retain primitive simplicity as much as
possible in our customs and habits; resting assured
that no imaginary pleasure of sense is lost without its
higher recompense in Soul. For being to quicken into
Truth and Life, outside of matter, is not a trance, nor
the change called death; nor is there anything in it to
awaken dread, or superstition; it is the foot-steps of
progress, that we all must take to be immortal; in
science, it is as natural and painless a development,
as the unfolding of buds into blossoms. When we shut
out the belief of Life in matter, the transition from
matter to Spirit, will not be through death; but Truth
and Life, brought to light; the Master said, "I will
not leave you comfortless, I, Truth, will come unto
you."
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Life is not realized in the belief of death, nor of Life
Life is not realized in the belief of death, nor of Life
in matter; we must empty the mind of all this error,
before Truth can flow in. Life in matter is but a
dream that must be exchanged for reality, by awaking
to the science of Life, wherein Spirit is found the
only real being. If we would gain the harmony of
being, we must begin by admitting the delusion of