Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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"cannot tell whence it cometh"; the sick are healed
"cannot tell whence it cometh"; the sick are healed
by it, the sorrowing comforted, and the sinner re-
formed; these are the manifestations of Soul, not sense,
of science, and not mesmerism. Soul sends no des-
patches on matter; but to-day the electric wire car-
ries to Europe a submarine whisper foreshadowing the
science that is to come; little by little the action of
thought is losing its matter element, becoming spirit-
ualized, expanding outside of fetters, and science is
pushing onward the centuries. The operations of In-
telligence teach us God made man upright, but belief
has sought out many inventions; Life, Truth, and
Love act through no erring medium.
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Immortal man communes not with the mortal, and
Immortal man communes not with the mortal, and
cannot be made manifest through matter; these are dis-
tinct and opposite conditions; one is the idea of God,
of Spirit outside of matter, and the other a belief of
"spirits" and substance in matter; before we commune
with Spirit that is immortal, the belief of death must be
destroyed. What would be said of an English scholar
unacquainted with the classics, before he had entered this
department of learning, to claim he understood Greek?
You would say he was either an imposter or laboring
under some hallucination. What then of believing we
are wearing out Life and hastening towards death, com-
muning with immortality! If indeed this communica-
tion was possible between the mortal and immortal,
the media would never die, or pass the change called
death. And if the departed communicate still with
mortality, then are they sinning, suffering, and dying
still, in which case, wherefore look to them for proofs
of immortality and accept them as oracles? Commu-
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nications gathered from ignorance are pernicious in
nications gathered from ignorance are pernicious in
their tendencies; mediums describe disease, its symp-
toms, locality, fatality, etc., who know nothing about it,
warn people of death, and frighten them into it! This
obnoxious practice makes sickness. The case has been
proved that a man died from the belief he was being
bled to death, showing the cause of his death purely
mental; hence the danger of ignorant charlatans deal-
ing with disease. What science finds requisite to de-
stroy in order to heal the sick, mediumship strengthens
and perpetuates.
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Jesus cast out "spirits," error, did his work, confessed
Jesus cast out "spirits," error, did his work, confessed
the oneness of God, Spirit, and never described disease,
but healed it. If the sick are made more comfortable
through some error of process they are ten-fold more
the victims of disease in the end. The mysticism of
mediumship gives force to its words of doom, enabling
it to do more harm than drugs, for the sick are more
frightened by what a medium pronounces fatal, than
when an M. D. so decides; and this fear is the mental
condition that develops disease. Science would have to
go over the whole ground and uproot every seed of their
sowing to destroy disease. The evidence of belief is all
the medium has to rely on, while science repudiates
belief with the evidence of understanding, and demands
the Principle of being to bring out the harmony of Life.
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At one time a medium informed us we were ill, said
At one time a medium informed us we were ill, said
our brain was overtasked, and we must have rest. To
this we filed a vigorous objection, contending for the
rights of Intelligence, that mind controlled body and
brain, and the views she insisted on were the ones to
be rid of, in order to be well. Whereupon she stopped