Chapter VII - Physiology
355:1
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
356:1
have only to find it mortal. The belief of Life and
have only to find it mortal. The belief of Life and
Intelligence in matter is destroyed; but Life and man,
still are, and ever will be.
356:4
Matter is not the medium through which Spirit acts,
Matter is not the medium through which Spirit acts,
or is manifested. Spirit is never individualized, and
there is no medium for it. Spirit is infinite, because it
is Intelligence, what then can limit it? Again, to Spirit
Intelligence alone is Substance, and there is no matter.
If the body was intelligent, it could never return to
dust, for mind dies not, and Intelligence never devel-
oped from matter.
356:12
Physiology makes man both Spirit and matter; and
Physiology makes man both Spirit and matter; and
this error would make man mortal. If brains are mind
matter is mind; and a stone, a lesser degree of man.
To admit Spirit is not in matter, and then say it is man-
ifested through it, contradicts facts, for matter manifests
mortality only, and Spirit is immortal; not a glimpse or
manifestation of Spirit is obtained through the erring
or decaying. Spirit is positive to all things, and if it
passed through matter it would destroy it, or become
negative to it. Metaphysical science, dry and abstract
though it appears, should not be overlooked for the
transient and mortal sense of things; health, harmony
and immortality are gained through spirituality only;
and this will be understood sooner or later. Truth
has but one department for its students, and but one
branch of education, viz., the science of being. Studying
into the nature of matter, that embraces sin, sickness
and death, hath no real advantage; and matter-laws
of health lay the foundation of sickness. Knowledge
embraces neither Life nor Truth; but when we define
the material with the spiritual, and look from nature