Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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in matter; and you will find it easier for mind to destroy,
in matter; and you will find it easier for mind to destroy,
and to enjoy health yourself, and help others to do so.
The basis of all disease, is error or belief; destroy the
belief and the sick will recover. To be cheerful in
sickness is well, to be hopeful is better, but to under-
stand the nothingness of disease destroys it utterly. An
invalid is a deplorable instance of mesmerism, with
which one belief controls another, and error re-produces
error. We admit one mind can control another mind,
and thereby control the body, but never calculate we do
this daily with our own body. The mesmerizer causes
his subject pain without any physical cause, proving
he produces this sensation through the subject's belief,
and not that it existed in the body; then, to the belief
of pain were he to add a belief of disease in any part,
and keep up this state of mind sufficiently long, the dis-
ease would certainly appear there. The mesmerizer
makes a limb rigid by making his subject believe he
cannot move it. Thus it is with the sick; they mesmer-
ize their bodies unconsciously, through their beliefs, to
conditions of stiffened joints, disease, and death, and
the only difference is, the cause in one instance, is un-
derstood to be mind, or belief, producing the results,
and in the other case, believed to be matter; hence mind
is employed to remove one, and matter the other condi-
tion, whereas both have their origin in mind, and are
removed through mind. The lame man mesmerizes his
body through the belief an accident or disease caused
him lameness, and so long as this belief lasts, his lame-
ness continues.
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Sometimes faith in medicine, or the lapse of time
Sometimes faith in medicine, or the lapse of time
wears away fear to such an extent the belief changes
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with regard to the disease, sufficiently to remove the
with regard to the disease, sufficiently to remove the
bodily ailment. Remove the belief that holds the limb
rigid and it is restored. But, says one, no man can
mesmerize me. This may be true, and because you
mesmerize your body so positively, others are negative
to you; but such an individual would be difficult to cure
with other's mesmerism, or materia medica, unless he
had more faith in them than himself. Science would
heal him more readily through the understanding, for
such minds are generally self-reliant and assured, hold-
ing strong, if preoccupied grounds. There is no law of
matter that governs Intelligence; mind alone is su-
preme law. What we term laws of nature, govern-
ing man, are nothing more or less than man's belief,
producing the results of mind on his body and not
matter. Life is not evolved, but evolves phenomena.
Life is eternal, giving forth its representation as the
sun emits its rays. That Life is supported by food,
drink, air, etc., that it is organic, or in the least depend-
ent on matter, or sustained by it, is a myth.
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Soul has a body when all matter is destroyed; the
Soul has a body when all matter is destroyed; the
mortal body is a thing of belief called man, an error
from its origin to its end; the Truth of being is immor-
tal Soul and body. Expose the body mortal to certain
temperatures, and belief says it has colds and catarrhs;
to severe labor, and fatigue follows; to prick a vein lets
out Life, and this man is at the mercy of a bodkin!
putting aside mind, no such results follow to man. So
long as the belief remains that dampness or cold pro-
duces catarrhs, fevers, rheumatism, or consumption,
these effects will follow, and the air of tropical climes
will afford exemption from them; but change the belief