Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
378:1
dark. We thank Wisdom, that revealed this great error
dark. We thank Wisdom, that revealed this great error
to us before these pages went to press, that the years
we have labored to bless our fellow-beings be not
wholly lost through this trespass upon the blessing of
mental healing.
378:6
We knew of no harm that could result from rubbing
We knew of no harm that could result from rubbing
the head, until we learned it of this mal-practice, and
never since have permitted a student, with our consent,
to manipulate. We gained the little we understand of
the Truth of being through our own experiences and
proofs, and learned this opposite error standing face to
face with it, through another's mal-practice; shall we
deny the ability of the mathematician to say wherein
the mistake lies of examples wrought incorrectly, or say
to the musician who gives the true tone, you are not
able to say what is the discord?
378:17
Because we never manipulate the sick, the oppor-
Because we never manipulate the sick, the oppor-
tunity to learn any evil possible to head-rubbing was
not afforded us until years after our first investigations
of science. The doctor that depends on manipulation
(and he cannot employ it honestly without such depen-
dence), works from a matter basis, whence come all the
evil deeds and inventions of Satan. A cure wrought
in science is the spiritual predominating over the
material; Truth mastering error; the very opposite of
mesmerism and the mal-practice aforesaid. In science
mind must rise above matter to admit the fuller efflu-
ence of Spirit, God, that heals the sick and casts out
error, but manipulation prevents this result. The
multitudinous minds a physician has access to, enables
him, through this medium to do much good, or much
evil, throughout the community. This should be
379:1
regarded when employing a manipulator of the head,
regarded when employing a manipulator of the head,
that moulds mind and controls it, though less publicly
and suddenly, not less surely than the mesmerist who
comes more honestly before the foot-lights with his
performance. Through his mesmeric control over
minds, the mal-practitioner can hold his patients and
practice, whether he heals the sick or not, and he
moulds some of them into a belief they are healed, but
others he must keep moulding, that is, continue to treat,
or they will relapse. There are certain self-evident
facts; this is one of them. A student of science,
understanding its high requirements, cannot be un-
familiar with the fact that the teacher must have
reached it worthily who has grown to its discovery,
for this cannot be without pursuing faithfully the
straight and narrow path that leads to Truth. There-
fore, to know this and acknowledge it, is honesty and
understanding on the part of a student, and not to
know it, or acknowledge it, ignorance or dishonesty,
and every true student will bear testimony to this
statement. Paul said, "Live peaceably with all men
inasmuch as in you lies." This is wholesome counsel,
and a most desirable thing; but could he live peaceably
with all men, when "that which is perfect" had come
to his understanding, and that which is imperfect was
to be done away? Not the learning of a Roman student
spared him when he girded on the armor of Truth and
rushed to battle with the age. When he "fought the
good fight" and kept the faith, he passed from the
forum into toil and dishonor, and from a dungeon to a
scaffold and a crown.
379:32
If virtue forgives vice, it cannot love it; if charity
If virtue forgives vice, it cannot love it; if charity