Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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Mental power, governed by science instead of personal
Mental power, governed by science instead of personal
sense, by Truth instead of error, makes man eternal,
and will destroy sickness, sin and death; while the
material methods for reaching the ultimate harmony of
man, have failed to accomplish this. The attention
given medicine, laws of health, and saving souls, be-
stowed upon the moral elevation of man, or the meta-
physical understanding of him, would usher in the
millennium. Jesus understood this, but the Rabbis
did not; hence their scorn of the glorious Nazarene
and his demonstration above theirs. Soul takes care of
the body in science, where God is an ever-present help
in times of trouble. Keeping the body, or "the outside
of the platter, clean," is only done by keeping the mind
right. Bathing and brushing to remove exhalations
from the cuticle, should receive a useful hint from Christianity,
and another from the Irish emigrant, who is in health,
although in filth; showing that the physical must cor-
respond with the mental. When dirt gives no uneasi-
ness, body and mind are equally gross, and the result
is not so chafing. Filthiness that harms not the filthy
in mind, could not be borne with impunity by the refined
or pure; but what we need is the clean body and clean
mind, and the body rendered pure by mind and not
matter, for the latter can never do it permanently.
One saith, "I take good care of my body," and repeats
his decalogue with all the zeal of a devotee; but the
scientist knows he has taken best care of his body who
leaves it most out of his thoughts; hence the demand,
absent from the body and present with God.
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John Quincy Adams, and hundreds of others were
John Quincy Adams, and hundreds of others were
instances of health and physiology; so the tobacconist
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who has taken poison for half a century, assures you it
who has taken poison for half a century, assures you it
preserves his health; but does this assertion make it
so, or establish the fact that tobacco is a good thing, or
prevent the conclusion he would have been better with-
out it? Such instances only prove the power of belief
over the body, and fasten our conclusions in science,
"as a man thinketh, so is he." Mind decides the effect
of drugs, regimen, physiology, etc., on the body; for
man is governed by mind instead of matter. The only
condition of health and happiness, is ignorance of the
so-called laws of matter, and understanding God, hence
more confidence in Soul governing sense, and rising
above selfishness, or mere personal considerations, in
which pleasure or pain of the body is taken so largely
into account, into the atmosphere of Spirit instead of
matter.
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A highly opinionated man, booked in the old school
A highly opinionated man, booked in the old school
systems, has little room for enlarged reasoning; meta-
physical science being intangible to touch or taste, he
casts it overboard. His treasures laid up in sects, pride,
person, or popularity, are in earthen vessels, that yield
little space to God. The man of avoirdupois is shocked
at our small estimate of exquisite viands; the diminu-
tive intellect, alarmed at our exclusive appeals to mind
and the man of sense, sad at the prospect of Soul only!
thus, when the world is bidden come to the feast or
Truth of being, one has a farm, another a merchandise,
and another a wife, therefore they cannot come; but
ere long Truth compels us to come in ways we least
expect. When sickness overtakes man, he is weak with
all his imaginary strong-holds of matter, having nothing
but material law to lean upon, and this, he owns he has