Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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with regard to the disease, sufficiently to remove the
with regard to the disease, sufficiently to remove the
bodily ailment. Remove the belief that holds the limb
rigid and it is restored. But, says one, no man can
mesmerize me. This may be true, and because you
mesmerize your body so positively, others are negative
to you; but such an individual would be difficult to cure
with other's mesmerism, or materia medica, unless he
had more faith in them than himself. Science would
heal him more readily through the understanding, for
such minds are generally self-reliant and assured, hold-
ing strong, if preoccupied grounds. There is no law of
matter that governs Intelligence; mind alone is su-
preme law. What we term laws of nature, govern-
ing man, are nothing more or less than man's belief,
producing the results of mind on his body and not
matter. Life is not evolved, but evolves phenomena.
Life is eternal, giving forth its representation as the
sun emits its rays. That Life is supported by food,
drink, air, etc., that it is organic, or in the least depend-
ent on matter, or sustained by it, is a myth.
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Soul has a body when all matter is destroyed; the
Soul has a body when all matter is destroyed; the
mortal body is a thing of belief called man, an error
from its origin to its end; the Truth of being is immor-
tal Soul and body. Expose the body mortal to certain
temperatures, and belief says it has colds and catarrhs;
to severe labor, and fatigue follows; to prick a vein lets
out Life, and this man is at the mercy of a bodkin!
putting aside mind, no such results follow to man. So
long as the belief remains that dampness or cold pro-
duces catarrhs, fevers, rheumatism, or consumption,
these effects will follow, and the air of tropical climes
will afford exemption from them; but change the belief
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with regard to this, and the effects will change, and you
with regard to this, and the effects will change, and you
will find the body manifests only what mind says, on
these, and all other points. Matter is governed by mind.
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Man, pursuing zeaoulsly the conditions of his belief,
Man, pursuing zeaoulsly the conditions of his belief,
(and this is all there is to mesmerism), if told how
mind affects the body, and, to illustrate, you quote the
evidence of this in mesmerism, replies, "no man can
mesmerize me." And yet he calls his body this me, and
that body is just what his parents first, and secondly
himself, has made it; and these parents were not matter,
but mind, as the body proves, that is no longer thy
parent, if mind has departed.
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When we reach the science of Life, we shall learn
When we reach the science of Life, we shall learn
Truth casts out devils and heals the sick, also, that
Jesus gave disease and devil one signification. Those
fear not they shall murder, whose perceptions reach the
average of goodness, and if our spiritual perceptions
were up to the standard of Christians, we should no
more fear sickness, sin, or death. It is not less wise
to fear sickness than to fear we shall steal; both are
admissions of moral weakness, and a loss of control over
the body that we should not permit. Let the slave to
a wrong desire learn the science of Life, and he never
more will cherish this desire, but rise higher in the
scale of being. Allowing Soul to govern sense, is sci-
ence, wherein we are a law of Wisdom to our body, of
Life and not death.
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Let mankind study this science with half the avidity
Let mankind study this science with half the avidity
they peruse volumes on disease, and try the different
drugs and drills for health, and they will advance not
from one disease to another, nor to decrepitude and
death, but beyond sickness into harmony and Life.