Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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of thought poisoned and dammed up with such mystery
of thought poisoned and dammed up with such mystery
and madness is a miserable catch-penny plot, or an igno-
rance worthy the dark ages. As mind throws off its
cruder beliefs of matter and becomes more spiritualized,
phenomena resulting therefrom will become more won-
derful, and should be understood on the basis of Soul,
throwing off its own idea of Intelligence and Life, and
opinions of mountebank and charlatan, that perpetuate
sickness and sin, discord and mortality, be held back.
But here the advanced thinker must wait before some
'ism, and the vain pause before caste, so the vultures
that prey on the hour have it much in their own hands.
Supineness and hypocrisy on the one hand and persecu-
tion on the other, are porters at the door of error to shut
out glimpses of Truth. Although the science of being is
greatly in advance of to-day as our iniquities declare, it
is demanded even more for this, and he that layeth not
down all for Truth, is not worthy of it. Every step of
spirituality is linked to Wisdom, but it carries us
thither through much tribulation; greater violence will
be done Truth as the capacities of mind develop, until
mind is better understood, and can be met and restrained
with science.
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Penal law may restrain the manifestations of error,
Penal law may restrain the manifestations of error,
and punish them, but cannot reach the subtle thought
before it is manifested; but the higher law of science
destroys the mental error before it results in deeds;
thus avoiding the penalty, and affording a remedy for
dismay and wickedness between the periods of materi-
ality and spirituality. The contest between error and
Truth whereby all 'isms will finally disappear, and the
age pass into science, has been going on with pen and
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tongue for centuries, and yet, sin, sickness and death
tongue for centuries, and yet, sin, sickness and death
abound, because science that called the battle has been
suffocated with opinions and theories. We boast of
material law, but find it fails to save from sickness, sin
and death; what we need is spiritual law, the Soul's
jurisdiction over sense, more potent than man to work
out salvation in obedience to the command, "Work out
your own salvation," for God worketh with you. Man-
kind have wrought centuries on material platforms;
now let us labor on a spiritual one for succeeding
generations, and the body will become harmonious and
immortal.
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Any mode of treating the sick through manipulation,
Any mode of treating the sick through manipulation,
will-power, or mesmerism, is a very poor substitute for
science; in the first place it is morally wrong, because
it does wrong by inoculating error, and it is better to
take the inanimate poison, than the evil of some people's
nature. The less limited the power of an evil mind,
the more sin it commits; it is the escaped felon that
ventures on more daring crimes according to opportu-
nity. Unless the moral growth equals the knowledge
you obtain of the powers of mind, to meet and restrain
them, confining them to doing good only, this developed
power is to be dreaded. Stealing is not worse physi-
cally than metaphysically, and you have no more business
to control your neighbor's mind except to do him good,
than to control his body, or his household; any attempts
to do this should be exposed and punished; mind should
be protected as well as body, and any interference there-
with outside the moral law of science, is a flagrant
wrong. The higher law of justice forbids this evil
action, and in spiritual science your quickened sense of