Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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mind, and a single instance of this proved, as when
mind, and a single instance of this proved, as when
people die from mental causes, justifies this statement.
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If mind is the only actor, how do we explain mechan-
If mind is the only actor, how do we explain mechan-
ism, apparently acting of itself, or through what we term
matter power. Simply that mind has constructed this
mechanism and carries it on. A mill at work, or the
action of water on a wheel, is secondary, and not the
primary cause; mind caused the mill and constructed
the machinery. The eternal mind first "divided the
waters," and controlled the wave. Mind is the primi-
tive, and the derivative would not continue without mind
to put it in operation; perpetual motion in matter is a
failure; but perpetual motion of mind is science. Intel-
ligence is the motive power, or procurer of all action.
Take away mind and the body is without action; there-
fore it is but logical to conclude mind produces its
action; but when we go farther, and cure diseased
action through mind, that medicine could not remove,
we gain this undeniable evidence.
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Mind, like a telegraph office, holds the message con-
Mind, like a telegraph office, holds the message con-
veyed to the body, and to prevent any bad results we
must be careful the telegram is from science instead of
sense. Deprived of this despatch, the body returns no
answer of inflammation or disease, from the fact matter
has no Intelligence of its own. The body is not an
independent sovereignty, or reigning autocrat over
man; any supposed government matter holds over
Intelligence, is wholly mythical. The belief our body
is substance, is not more true than that it is Life and
Intelligence. What a material world we address; but
Truth must be spoken; if not at all times, at some
time, and we seem destined to take the enemy's first
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fire, for speaking it this time. We have faith this book
fire, for speaking it this time. We have faith this book
will do its work, though not fully understood, in the
nineteenth century. The revelator read its history in
the little book, "Sweet in the mouth, and bitter in the
belly." Though but a hint in time, it is a tale for eter-
nity. Materiality must and will go out, though it be
slowly; the spiritual era advances when physical effects
will no longer be attributed to physical causes, but
discerned in their final spiritual cause.
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When fear causes the blood to bound through veins
When fear causes the blood to bound through veins
and arteries, or languidly to move the palsied mechan-
ism, destroy the fear, and the system regains its equi-
librium; anodynes, counter-irritants, or depletion can
never reduce inflammation like the Truth of being.
Faith, or belief, is a poor equivalent for science; we
must understand man metaphysically, before we can
control him aright, physically. Ignorance, coupled with
a smattering of metaphysical learning, is a shocking
bore; the Truth of being reduced to a petty cross-fire
on every poor cripple and invalid, sending into him the
cold bullet, "nothing ails you," had better be unsaid
until it be understood. If a boil appears suddenly,
that you say is painful, is it pain? The boil has
no pain, for matter has no sensation; it is mind that
feels, and that boil bespeaks your belief of heat, pain,
swelling, and inflammation, but you call it the boil.
Heat is a product of fear; warmth is the normal condi-
tion of Truth, cold or heat is not; body bereft of
mind is cold at first, and afterwards nothing. Fear pro-
duces the heat, and another phase of belief tries to
expel it through yet another form of belief, called a
boil, that now appears on the body, mind holding at