Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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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
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right makes it impossible. We may know how a felon
right makes it impossible. We may know how a felon
steals on the sleeper, and for his purse plunges a dagger
in his breast, but a common moralist even could not do
this. To bring the Truth of being to the consciousness
and understanding of the sick, is the science that heals
them, and lifts its possessor above such a crime; but to
control minds for purposes of avarice or revenge, sinks
a practice to the committal of any error. The law of
Truth written on the Soul is the governing motive in
science, and he who pours into the minds of patients
falsehoods for his own sinister purposes, has made a
fatal mistake that will be seen in his patients; it will
not only hinder their recovery, but render the practi-
tioner unfit to name the name of Christ, and thus make
Truth powerless in his hands; all he accomplishes after
this, is through mesmerism. Any interference in prac-
tice with the mind's free and unbiased action, farther
than what relates to disease, and bearing one another's
burdens, "and so fulfilling the law of Christ," is averse
to science, and leaves the wrong-doer only the altern-
ative of talking science and practicing mesmerism; if
sentence against an evil work be not executed speedily,
this sin is not without a witness. The mischievous link
between mind and matter, called planchette, uttering
its many falsehoods, is a prototype of the poor work
some people make of the passage from their old natures
up to a better man.
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We are accustomed to think seeing without optic is
We are accustomed to think seeing without optic is
second sight, but this is first sight; even our normal
condition of being. He that formed the eye, did He
not see? hath not Spirit every faculty of Intelligence?
That sight is not in the eye is apparent when the mes-