Chapter VII - Physiology
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To personal sense opposites affinitize; but not so in
To personal sense opposites affinitize; but not so in
science, the mind of Soul, where Truth never mingles
with error or the so-called mind of the body, and there-
fore is able to cast it out. Spirit is Intelligence; matter
is not; there is a mind of Soul, but not of body, of God,
but not man. The mind of Soul is the aroma of being,
the atmosphere of Intelligence thrown off by Spirit;
but the so-called mind of man is the belief that a pulpy
substance under the skull contains mind, yea, that mat-
ter is Intelligent, and this belief is false, the mocker of
Intelligence, even error calling itself Truth. This is
the scientific statement of mortal man, but man is im-
mortal, therefore this is not man, but a belief anatomized
metaphysically. To classify Spirit and matter thus,
that Spirit is distinct from matter but must pass through
it to be identified, is a mistake. The limitless would
destroy limits if it entered them, and Spirit cannot be
limited. It is a dream and illusion that Soul is in body
and matter the medium of Spirit. We are not aware
it is a dream, the terrible nightmare, that makes suffer-
ing or enjoyment just as the dream chances to run.
We would prefer the suffering that makes one willing
to be aroused from this dream, to the pleasure that
tends to hold it.
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We frequently heal the sick who are absent from us,
We frequently heal the sick who are absent from us,
without the least consciousness of it on their part, ex-
cept from their recovery. Now reverse the case, and
mathematical you prove that if mind eschewing laws
of health, dietetics, physiology, etc., restores the sick, an
opposite mind crammed with physiology, etc., might
make them sick. This proof we gain of our body, for
such mind causes us what are termed the physical
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sufferings that matter is powerless to do and could not
sufferings that matter is powerless to do and could not
produce. Whenever we have taken charge of a practice
to establish a student, it was not necessary for us to see
the patients to heal them; we could do this without
seeing them; if the student was not advanced spirit-
ually, we failed to benefit the sick so much in connec-
tion with him. Mind acts mesmerically or scientifically;
it is will in mesmerism, and Truth in Science, that heals
the sick. I can have no effect on the sick through
manipulation, and cannot affect them mesmerically.
Cases of healing the sick without seeing them, we record
as proof of our statement. Mrs. Sarah Crosby, of Al-
bion, Maine, sent for our aid, in case of an injury to her
eye. At the time of writing she was hundreds of miles
away, but after receiving her first letter, as soon as the
mail could bring it, we received another from her, of
which the following is an extract: –
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"Since the accident to my eye, it has been so ex-
"Since the accident to my eye, it has been so ex-
ceedingly sensitive to the light, I have shaded it, unable
to do any writing or sewing of any note. The Sunday
I mailed you a letter I suffered a great deal with it;
Monday it was painful until towards night, when it felt
better; Tuesday it was well, and I have not worn my
shade over it since a week ago Monday, and I have
read, sewed, and written, and still all is well. Now
you may form your own conclusions. I told a friend
the other day you had cured my eye, or perhaps my
fear of my eye, and it is so; though I am sure, for the
life of me, I cannot understand a word of what you tell
me about the possibility of a spirit like mine having
power over a hundred and seventy pounds of live flesh
and blood to keep it in perfect trim."