Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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quences. There is no pain without mind; matter can-
quences. There is no pain without mind; matter can-
not suffer or produce suffering. Disease is a fear ex-
pressed physically, not by the lips, but the functions
of the body. Mitigate the fear, and you relieve the
affected organ; destroy it, and the body regains its
healthy functions. However impossible this may ap-
pear to our educated views on this subject, it is, never-
theless, a fact in science that we have tested sufficiently
to declare it, as unhesitatingly as any other demonstra-
ble Truth. That man is unconscious of his fear, neither
changes its effects on the body nor the mental fact;
ignorance of the cause, or approach of disease, not in the
least militates against its mental origin. More or less
fear accompanies all ignorance; who that understands
the power of mind over body, its impelling force, and
how controlled, and this very ignorance, like walking
in darkness on the edge of a precipice, is an ever-pres-
ent involuntary fear.
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We say, my body suffers, and mind has nothing to do
We say, my body suffers, and mind has nothing to do
with it; this is simply impossible. The martyr, burn-
ing at the stake, conquers his body with mind, and
silences personal sense with Soul. So the opposite
extreme of stolidity meets his punishment with less
torture than a mind touched to finer issues. Death has
occurred from imaginary phlebotomy; individuals have
died of contagions, hydrophobia, etc., believing they
had been exposed to them, when such was not the case.
Many instances of the mind's control over body, produc-
ing death, prove this control absolute, instead of partial.
Physicians are ready to admit mind affects the body
somewhat; but this is but a small part of the fact;
science reveals all action produced and controlled by
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mind, and a single instance of this proved, as when
mind, and a single instance of this proved, as when
people die from mental causes, justifies this statement.
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If mind is the only actor, how do we explain mechan-
If mind is the only actor, how do we explain mechan-
ism, apparently acting of itself, or through what we term
matter power. Simply that mind has constructed this
mechanism and carries it on. A mill at work, or the
action of water on a wheel, is secondary, and not the
primary cause; mind caused the mill and constructed
the machinery. The eternal mind first "divided the
waters," and controlled the wave. Mind is the primi-
tive, and the derivative would not continue without mind
to put it in operation; perpetual motion in matter is a
failure; but perpetual motion of mind is science. Intel-
ligence is the motive power, or procurer of all action.
Take away mind and the body is without action; there-
fore it is but logical to conclude mind produces its
action; but when we go farther, and cure diseased
action through mind, that medicine could not remove,
we gain this undeniable evidence.
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Mind, like a telegraph office, holds the message con-
Mind, like a telegraph office, holds the message con-
veyed to the body, and to prevent any bad results we
must be careful the telegram is from science instead of
sense. Deprived of this despatch, the body returns no
answer of inflammation or disease, from the fact matter
has no Intelligence of its own. The body is not an
independent sovereignty, or reigning autocrat over
man; any supposed government matter holds over
Intelligence, is wholly mythical. The belief our body
is substance, is not more true than that it is Life and
Intelligence. What a material world we address; but
Truth must be spoken; if not at all times, at some
time, and we seem destined to take the enemy's first