Chapter VII - Physiology
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horizon, not having risen yet to recognition. The valve
horizon, not having risen yet to recognition. The valve
of the heart, opening and closing for the blood, is not
less obedient to mind than our hands, that perform the
offices of our will; but because mind embraces one ac-
tion consciously and not the other, we say the cause is
physical and not mental. Stop the action of mortal
mind wholly, by what is termed death, and every func-
tion of the body mortal ceases; proving organic action
produced by mind and not matter. Brains are totally
ignorant of thoughts; matter has no consciousness of
its own, and its propelling power is mind; all mechan-
ism is controlled by mind.
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Personal sense is a supposition that matter is conscious,
Personal sense is a supposition that matter is conscious,
that brains are competent to say how much mind a man
has; that heart, lungs, stomach, etc., are capable of
determining his harmony and continuance. Soul is not
heard in all this; the immortality of man is silenced
with utterances of mortality, Intelligence mute before
non-Intelligence. This personal sense is the source of
sickness, sin and death; but there is no personal sense;
matter has no Intelligence, and Soul is incapable of
error. Life goes on scientifically in Soul, undisturbed
in its harmony, but personal sense has no recognition of
Soul or Truth. All discord is error, belief; the Truth
of being is harmony and understanding. Destroy the
belief or error, and the discord disappears.
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The metaphysician understanding this, in case of
The metaphysician understanding this, in case of
decaying lungs, destroys in the mind of his patient
this belief and the Truth of being and immortality of
man assert themselves over the error and belief of de-
composition, and the lungs become sound and regain
their original proportions.
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Physiology has never explained Soul, and had better
Physiology has never explained Soul, and had better
not undertaken to explain body. Truth has no begin-
ning, and therefore no end. Life was, and is, and ever
will be, for Life is God, and its idea was, and is, and
ever will be, and this idea is man, that Spirit has made,
and matter cannot unmake. Our body is as dead that
we call living as ever it will be, and when dead, as
much alive as it ever was. Life is Spirit, not matter,
and if you understand the law of Spirit you understand
how to make the body immortal. Physiology is like
the drugs we say make man suffer because he took too
little of them; it causes sickness, and then to cure it
we double the dose. "Take no thought about the body
what ye shall eat or what drink or wherewithal it shall
be clothed," and the body, or matter, will give you no in-
timation of its own wants, for it has no requirements of
its own. Happiness or misery belongs to mind and not
body; sensation is mind and not matter, and mesmerism
proves this when belief is seen to determine sensation.
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Every new method of obtaining health has its advo-
Every new method of obtaining health has its advo-
cates, and when you get the consent of mind to this
method as preferable to others, the body will demand
it and be benefited by it so long as this belief lasts. You
can educate a healthy horse to take cold without his
blanket, but the wild animal left to his instincts, snuffs
the wind with delight. Epizootic is an educated finery
that a natural horse has not. The Principle of being
reveals the immortality of man, on the basis of Spirit;
but personal sense defines him as matter, hence the
mortality of this man.
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We have discerned some diseases approaching, weeks
We have discerned some diseases approaching, weeks
before they made their appearance on the body, and be-