Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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In case of insanity you argue, mentally and verbally,
In case of insanity you argue, mentally and verbally,
against the belief that brains are diseased, the same as
in other cases of physical disorders, for all physical in-
harmonies proceed from mental causes; insanity is but
another form of mental error. We could afford to
scorn a bold denial of personal sense if proof was want-
ing; but when it is not, and this reversed idea of man
restores harmony to mind and body, as nothing else can,
we must admit it science. Did not this Truth of being
silence personal sense and the so-called laws material,
man were lost, and discord, sin and death, immortal.
Insanity is a very interesting case to treat metaphysi-
cally, it being a clearer case, and affords better evi-
dence of the effects of mind on the body. The only
good effect you can produce on body or brain is the
result of mind instead of matter, through the Truth of
being that destroys error; but you cannot introduce
the science of being that restores health, through ma-
nipulation; as soon teach man mathematics by rubbing
his head. If the physician is scientific he is morally
and practically fit for healing, without manipulation or
medicine, and speaks as one having authority, possess-
ing the Truth that destroys error. Under some cir-
cumstances it is well to converse with the patient
audibly, explaining to him the science of his course;
but under others, it arrays him and his sect against you
and thus retards his recovery. Should a nurse or the
friends of the sick think lightly of metaphysical healing,
or despair of the patient's recovery, you should inform
them as much as they can comprehend, of its basis and
results, requesting them, for the sake of the sick, to
leave the patient out of their thoughts as much as pos-
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sible, that the influence their minds hold over the sick.
sible, that the influence their minds hold over the sick.
may be obviated. You have as much better opportu-
nity to be heard mentally, when speaking alone, as
physically; we admit one cannot be heard when others
are speaking louder than himself, or talking on other
subjects; and this is why the physician needs to be
alone with the patient, when mentally healing him. A
scientific practitioner never converses on other subjects
when he is treating the sick; you cannot gain the
spiritual sense of your patient if you are addressing his
personal senses, by manipulating him; besides you need
to learn your patient's mind, and to do this you must be
silent and still; manipulation, or conversation on other
topics are injurious. The spirituality that abstracts all
attention from the body, never manipulates and is the
only positive position of scientific healing. The de-
monstrator of the science of healing is to-day an Atlas
with the world on his shoulders, and the only reason
he heals in one or a majority of cases is, not that law
material or a single opinion or prejudice is in his favor,
but because it is the Truth of being demonstrated by
its fruits. Understanding the science of music, we
have firm reliance on our ability to practice it; so with
the science of Life, the only difference is, the latter
demonstrates God controlling man, and the former,
God controlling music; but the latter meets with more
opposition because it tends to destroy all error, and is
not understood at present.
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The Scientist sees more clearly the cause of disease
The Scientist sees more clearly the cause of disease
in mind, than the anatomist can in body; the latter
examines the body to learn how matter is committing
suicide, and the former reads mind to find what beliefs