Chapter VII - Physiology
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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-
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cause they were latent things of mind before they ap-
cause they were latent things of mind before they ap-
peared as matter, that grosser strata of mind, and never
in a single instance, were mistaken in results. Again,
during an aggravation of symptoms that occur in the
changes, or chemicalizations that sometimes alarm the
patient, we have seen the mental signs that assured us
the danger was over, and said to the patient, you are
healed, sometimes to his discomfiture, when he was
incredulous of the fact, but it always proved as we
foretold. We name this merely to explain the mental,
instead of physical origin of disease, therefore, that
rules of health, taking strong hold of the belief of the
patient, beget and foster disease, by keeping mind on
this subject, fearing and trying to avoid sickness. The
faith reposed in drugs had better remain in one's self;
understanding the control mind holds over the body,
we should have no faith in matter. Science reveals
the origin of disease wholly mental and not physical,
also that it is cured through mind and not matter.
However much we trust the drug, or medium through
which this faith is exercised, it is the faith and not the
medium that heals the sick. The spirituality that
enables us to read the minds of patients, enables us to
heal them also, for the action of Spirit on matter is
to restore the harmonious relations of mind and body.
Healing the sick through mind instead of matter, en-
ables us to heal the absent as well as the present.
The spiritual capacity to apprehend thought, is reached
only when man is found not having on his own right-
eousness, which is the law, but the righteousness which
is of God. Science fits us to read the mind of the sick,
and heal them through mind; for having learned man