Chapter VII - Physiology
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the same reality to discord we do to harmony, one has
the same reality to discord we do to harmony, one has
as high a claim on confidence and obedience as the
other. If evil is as real as good, error is as real and
immortal as Truth. What we name diseased action is
discord, but harmony is the reality of being; hence the
former is a belief only, and not the Truth of being; if
death is as real as Life, immortality is a myth, and if
pain is as real as the absence of pain, it will be immor-
tal, and harmony is not the order of being. Personal
sense discords, and is therefore a belief only; matter
has no sensation; the action proceeding from Soul is
harmonious and eternal.
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In Mohammedan belief, a pilgrimage to Mecca was
In Mohammedan belief, a pilgrimage to Mecca was
salutary to save man's Soul, and in still another belief,
inanimate matter is able to save man; one is paganism,
the other materia medica. Disease germinates in un-
conscious mind, until it reaches what is termed con-
scious matter, or the body, named personal sense, but
there is no conscious matter; therefore disease is mind
still, named matter; thus the belief of sickness is
developed as a germ, rising above its soil, and we have
a crop abundant or scanty, according to the variety and
strength of soil, the mind full of materia medica, laws
of health, physiology, etc. The diagnosis of disease
helps more than most things to cultivate the seeds of
disease, causing them to take deeper root in the pa-
tient's mind, and to spring up, bearing fruit "after its
own kind." Doctors deport themselves, generally, as
if there was no law of mind; at least, they regard not
this law, or they would sooner administer poison in
matter than mind. They fight disease with matter and
admit it with mind, and this makes it a certain thing.
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They propagate it mentally, and then consider a thing
They propagate it mentally, and then consider a thing
of mind should be dosed with matter; but after all,
'tis faith in drugs, etc., that cures, mind is their remedy
at last.
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Faith is all that ever made a drug remedy the ailments
Faith is all that ever made a drug remedy the ailments
of a man. Mortal mind is belief, the immortal is un-
derstanding, the latter is Spirit, the former personal
sense; we must learn to hold immortal and mortal
mind or belief separate. The cause and cure of disease
is solely mental, and to understand this renders mind
less productive of disease, and able to destroy it. Mat-
ter has neither action nor sensation of its own; mind
moves the body, and feels for it. We cannot retain
the old positions diametrically opposite to metaphysical
science, and conquer disease with mind. And because
physics must eventually yield to metaphysics, it will
keep the old schools fighting science for the next cen-
tury. Ignorance, superstition, or avarice will shut the
door on health and harmony not obtained through their
systems. When there were fewer doctors and less
thought bestowed on sanitary subjects there were better
constitutions and less disease.
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In olden times, who ever heard of a case of dyspepsia;
In olden times, who ever heard of a case of dyspepsia;
if one had chanced to appear it would have yielded at
once to benevolence, or hard work; people had little
time then to be selfish, or to think of their bodies, and
for sickly after-dinner-talk. The exact amount of labor
the stomach could perform was not mapped out in mind
by physiology; therefore a man's belief was not a law
to his digestive organs. The action of mind on the
body was more harmonious before the "tree of knowl-
edge" had taken deeper root in man's belief. The