Chapter VII - Physiology
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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
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is governed by Spirit that understands all things, we
is governed by Spirit that understands all things, we
know Spirit is that to which all things are possible.
The approaches to this great affluence of Truth that
heals the sick, are made through the footsteps of our
Master. Christianity alone is its basis, and physiology,
that pins our trust to matter instead of God, its very
opposite. Ignorant of the footsteps and foundation of
this science, the world may call it mesmerism, trance,
mediumship, electricity, etc., but not one of these in
the least expresses it, and whoever reaches the science of
being in the high sense of its sudden cures, learns it is
by taking up the cross and following Christ. We are
scientific only as we let go material things, drugs,
manipulations, etc., for the spiritual, and leave all for
Christ, trusting only Truth to heal the sick. Our
beliefs are not spiritual, they are from the hearing of
the ear, from personal sight and sense.
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Spirit never believes in God because it understands
Spirit never believes in God because it understands
Him. Power is a belief of matter, a blind force, the
offspring of will and not Wisdom, of the mortal, and
not the immortal mind, – yea, of error, and not Truth.
The headlong cataract, the devouring flames, the tem-
pest's breath, the lightning and storm, together with all
that is selfish, dishonest, and impure, represent power.
Might belongs to Spirit, the very "winds are in His
fists;" and, controlled by Spirit and not matter, they
are harmonious. Error is the prototype of will; and
willing the sick to recover, or man to do this or that,
infringes on his rights; it is mesmerism capable of all
evil, instead of the science of being. Christ, Truth,
stills the tempest and is the "peace be still" to de-
structiveness or disease.