Chapter VII - Physiology
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the weather-vane; she saw it was due east; the wind
the weather-vane; she saw it was due east; the wind
had not changed, but her difficult breathing had gone;
therefore it was not the wind that produced it, and our
explanations broke this mental hallucination, and she
never suffered again from east winds. Here is testi-
mony on this point.
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I was suffering from pulmonary difficulties, pains in
I was suffering from pulmonary difficulties, pains in
the chest, a hard and unremitting cough, hectic fever,
and all those fearful symptoms that made my case
alarming. When I first saw Mrs. Glover, I was reduced
to such a state of debility as to be unable to walk any
distance, or to sit up but a portion of the day; to walk
up stairs gave me great suffering for breath. I had no
appetite, and seemed surely going down the victim of
consumption. I had not received her attention but a
short time, when my bad symptoms disappeared, and I
regained health. During this time, I rode out in storms
to visit her, and found the damp weather had no effect
on me. From my personal experience I am led to be-
lieve the science by which she not only heals the sick,
but explains the way to keep well, is deserving the earn-
est attention of community; her cures are not the result
of medicine, mediumship, or mesmerism, but the application
of a Principle that she understands.
JAMES INGHAM,
East Stoughton, Mass.
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Mortal man is divided into five points of sensation,
Mortal man is divided into five points of sensation,
called personal sense; these five points constitute pleas-
ure, pain, sin, sickness, and death; what would be left
of man at the mercy of personal sense? Spirit is superior
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to matter, and the body that is ours, should be under
to matter, and the body that is ours, should be under
our control; settle the question then, which shall be
master, Soul or body, but do not think to serve both,
for you cannot. Soul, owns man now and forever; let
the owner of man then govern him, and the body will
be harmonious and eternal. Neither a blade of grass
appears, nor a spray buddeth within the vale, nor a leaf
unfolds its fair outlines, nor a flower starts from its
cloistered cell, without the Principle of man, even that
Intelligence which the winds and sea obey, hath done
it; naught but universal Soul, that numbers the very
hairs of our head, and marks the sparrow's fall, can
govern man. Sin, sickness, and death are inharmonies;
they are not identity, action, or being, they are matter‑
beliefs, that appear and disappear, governed alone by
mind, but without the reality or support of law or
Spirit. That God is the law of discord, is morally impos-
sible, or that Wisdom instituted penalties to protect us
from what is without law, except to belief, is again im-
possible. Wisdom never made matter to subdue Spirit;
to say it did is like concluding it made Hades to get
ready for sinners; but there were so many sinners
they had to make their own Hells. God is too pure to
behold iniquity, "in Him was Life," etc.; and har-
mony never produced discord, or Life death. Good-
ness makes its own heaven, sin its own hell, and belief
its own sufferings. A dream seemeth a reality while
it lasts; a falsehood is true to those that believe it,
and sickness is real to such as have it, but mind and
not the body is responsible for it all. Pain and pleas-
ure are mind, not matter; the body has no sensation of
its own. Discord is unreal, harmony is real; admitting