Chapter VII - Physiology
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well. Hundreds of similar cures might be named, that
well. Hundreds of similar cures might be named, that
we wrought contrary to what are termed laws of nature,
regulating disease and recovery, but prefer you should
learn the Principle of these cures and be able to do
your own work. Experience also has taught us the
greater the moral or spiritual distance between us and
an individual, the more they persecute us; as with
individuals so with the general thought, those cures
remote from the comprehension of the age, have only
afforded our enemies new opportunity for detraction.
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Theories admit the limbs are matter and moved by
Theories admit the limbs are matter and moved by
mind, but the fact is, all is mind of different admis-
sions and constructions. Mind increases or retards
action, causing sickness or health; but this is not be-
cause of physical action, for it is effect and not cause.
You say man cannot exist with a headless trunk, or
consumed lungs; but man was never for a moment
despoiled of his fair proportions; it is matter you are
talking of, and not man. Nerves have neither con-
sciousness nor sensation; the body has no life; Spirit
is the only Life and Principle of man; but never for a
moment enters matter, or is destitute of its idea or
man. Hearing is not because of the ear or its mechan-
ism; if the construction of the ear or auditory nerve is
destroyed, man is not deaf. Intelligence is left, and
hears, sees, etc., independent of matter or organization.
The error or belief of Life in matter should give
place to this understanding of Spirit's indestructi-
ble faculties, that cannot be lost, because they exist
without the necessities of matter; otherwise, they were
mortal.
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Again, a change of belief changes all the reports of
Again, a change of belief changes all the reports of
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personal sense, and man sees, hears, etc., independent
personal sense, and man sees, hears, etc., independent
of the organs that you say determine the existence of
these faculties. If the mesmerized subject whom you
call man, accepts the belief that he sees, with closed
eyes, or from the top of his head, or hears without
sound, such will be the case. To him sight is not con-
fined necessarily to organization, and is only what his
belief says of a thing. Change his belief of cold and
heat, pleasure or pain, and cold is to him heat, and
pleasure pain, and vice versa. Here you perceive nerves
bear a changed report with a change of belief; there-
fore personal sense is not a standard, nor is sensation
dependent on organization; it is not matter, but mind
that determines sensation. Science reveals to spiritual
understanding the body without sensation, and man
the reflex shadow of Soul, and Soul embracing all the
faculties of being, having no lack of emotion, speech,
sight, or sound; and possessing the consciousness of all
things, its blessings are not at the disposal of organiza-
tion, that accident or disease can destroy. All being is
spiritual and not material, for this is the scientific state-
ment of being, the basis of immortality, and we shall
all ultimately learn this. Nor can we begin to under-
stand Life a day too soon. Every theory opposed to
this prolongs sickness, sin and death, making that
which is immortal in understanding, mortal in belief.
When the belief of Life and Intelligence in matter dis-
appears, its physical manifestation will cease, and mortal
man return to dust, and why? because he was simply a
belief, and this belief an error, instead of the reality of
being; for man is not matter, and never dies. To prove
the body called mortal man error and not Truth, we