Chapter IV - Creation
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out from the infinite Spirit, and touches the ragged
out from the infinite Spirit, and touches the ragged
shores of belief, has been met with derision and chains,
scourged out of synagogues at first, but afterwards par-
doned and received.
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To the pulpit we appeal. Judge not this science
To the pulpit we appeal. Judge not this science
until you prove whether it be Truth or error; test its
Principle by the rules laid down, and then will you
learn God is the life of man, and that materia medica,
or theology, never can take the place of the science of
God, in healing the sick, and casting out all error. The
beliefs that form the body mortal are not destroyed at
once; "it is not all of death to die." After what is
named death, the belief of sickness, sin and death con-
tinues, until the science of being is reached, and man's
Life is found Soul, and not sense.
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Adam being created before Eve, proves the mater-
Adam being created before Eve, proves the mater-
nal egg never propagated him, and Eve being formed
of Adam's rib, shows her origin was not that; "knowl-
edge" defined man falsely then, even as at present;
although physiology has since been grafted into the
forbidden "tree." An infant a few hours old was said
to be immersed in water, to test the possibility of mak-
ing him amphibious; and this daily ablution continued
until the infant could remain under water, and the or-
dinary functions of lungs be suspended twenty minutes
at one time, playing the while and enjoying the bath.
The infant is wholly controlled by its parents' belief;
addressing the mother mentally, we have stopped the
moaning and restlessness of her babe, but could not
affect the child, except through its mother.
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This should furnish a hint to parents to control their
This should furnish a hint to parents to control their
offspring mentally; beginning in the science of being
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to govern their bodies; employing mind instead of
to govern their bodies; employing mind instead of
matter, to heal them, and also to prevent their being
sick. We should be able at the bedside of a mother,
without medicine or applications of any sort, to prevent
the pangs of child-birth; labor should be painless, and
this dreaded hour be without suffering and joyful,
even as the opening of the buds, or the development
of the flower. Mind controls embryology without pain
to the universe, and why not the same with woman?
The parent's mind develops the infant before and after
birth, until the mother says, my child can take care of
itself; at this period the human species, bird and beast,
dismiss their offspring from their immediate maternal
eye, and commence educating them to what is termed,
self-dependence; but alas! on the ground that Life
depends on matter, and this destroys the self-reliance
that science would give.
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Although the advancing stages of human develop-
Although the advancing stages of human develop-
ment require the higher order of parental mind to guide
their offspring aright, we regret to say, the human
species make shocking work of it. The peculiar traits
and characteristics of progenitors are transmitted from
generation to generation; but this is a transfer of belief
only, the parent's mind passing to their offspring.
The poisonous reptile, bird of prey, beast carnivorous,
and mortal man, are products of mortal belief, of error
and not Truth, of sense instead of Soul. The belief
that Life and Intelligence belong to the body, is the
source of all wrong-thinking, and wrong-acting; it
takes away from Soul and gives to sense, and is the
fountain of sickness, sin, and death. All formations are
shadows of being, and we their Soul and Substance;