Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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fire, for speaking it this time. We have faith this book
fire, for speaking it this time. We have faith this book
will do its work, though not fully understood, in the
nineteenth century. The revelator read its history in
the little book, "Sweet in the mouth, and bitter in the
belly." Though but a hint in time, it is a tale for eter-
nity. Materiality must and will go out, though it be
slowly; the spiritual era advances when physical effects
will no longer be attributed to physical causes, but
discerned in their final spiritual cause.
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When fear causes the blood to bound through veins
When fear causes the blood to bound through veins
and arteries, or languidly to move the palsied mechan-
ism, destroy the fear, and the system regains its equi-
librium; anodynes, counter-irritants, or depletion can
never reduce inflammation like the Truth of being.
Faith, or belief, is a poor equivalent for science; we
must understand man metaphysically, before we can
control him aright, physically. Ignorance, coupled with
a smattering of metaphysical learning, is a shocking
bore; the Truth of being reduced to a petty cross-fire
on every poor cripple and invalid, sending into him the
cold bullet, "nothing ails you," had better be unsaid
until it be understood. If a boil appears suddenly,
that you say is painful, is it pain? The boil has
no pain, for matter has no sensation; it is mind that
feels, and that boil bespeaks your belief of heat, pain,
swelling, and inflammation, but you call it the boil.
Heat is a product of fear; warmth is the normal condi-
tion of Truth, cold or heat is not; body bereft of
mind is cold at first, and afterwards nothing. Fear pro-
duces the heat, and another phase of belief tries to
expel it through yet another form of belief, called a
boil, that now appears on the body, mind holding at
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the same time the conclusion that boils are painful, but
the same time the conclusion that boils are painful, but
prolong Life, alias Intelligence. An error of premises
produces error in conclusion, mental error occasions all
the discords of body.
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Heat would pass off as painless from the body as gas
Heat would pass off as painless from the body as gas
expelled from boiling water, but for our opposite be-
liefs. Chills are the effects of heat; ulcers, boils, etc.,
are heat coming to the surface; but mind, and not
matter, creates this heat and forms all the identity dis-
ease has. The invalid may conclude a humor in the
blood causes boils, and when this humor is brought to
the surface the system is relieved; but mind, and not
matter, has formed this conclusion and its results. You
will have these forms of disease so long as you regard
them channels for disease, or inevitable results of matter,
Cherish any particular belief of disease and you are
in danger of reproducing it on the body. Reverse the
case and destroy your belief in this modus operandi of
matter, and your fear of disease will not engender the
heat to be thrown off; and what you thought before
was scrofula, bile, and physical causes, you will learn
was fear and mind acting on the body.
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Disease, destroyed in its origin, viz., mind, never
Disease, destroyed in its origin, viz., mind, never
reappears again, and is cured effectually; but matter
can never destroy it. A mental position taken doubt-
ingly, is a very weak one; you must understand these
points in science, or you are never thoroughly persuaded
in your own mind of the power of belief and its sad
effect on the body; neither can you discern the Prin-
ciple bringing out the capabilities and harmony of
being, that enables you to hold what you understand.
In the positive belief and fear of disease yourself, it