Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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plaint was induced, trampling upon Laws of Health,
plaint was induced, trampling upon Laws of Health,
it was a good deed, the witness is a usurper of man's
liberty and rights, and should be consigned to oblivion.
Watching beside the couch of pain in the exercise of
Love, that fulfills the whole law, doing unto others as
ye would they should do unto you, is no infringement
of law, for no demand, human or divine, renders it right
to punish a man for doing right. If man sins, our Su-
preme Judge of equity decides the penalty due to sin;
but he can suffer only for sin, and for naught else can
he be punished according to the laws of God; then
what jurisdiction has your Honors, Materia Medica and
Physiology in the case? 'Sittest thou to judge a man
after the law, and commandest him to be smitten con-
trary to the law?' The only jurisprudence to which
the prisoner shall be made to submit is Truth, Life and
Love, and if these condemn him not, neither shalt thou
condemn him, but shall restore to him the liberty
against which you have conspired.
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"Your principal witness (Laws of Health) deposed
"Your principal witness (Laws of Health) deposed
he was an eye-witness to the good deeds for which you
sentence a man to die, and even betrayed him into the
hands of your law, then disappeared on that occasion
to reappear on this, against Man, and in support of
Personal Sense, a known criminal. The Supreme
Court of Spirit, versus matter, finds the prisoner, on the
night of the alleged offence, acting within the limits,
and in obedience to the divine statute, upon which
'hangs all law and testimony, giving a cup of cold water
in my name,' etc.; and thus laying down his life, he
should find it; such deeds bear the justification, and
are under the protection of the Most High ruler. Prior
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to the night of the arrest the prisoner summoned two
to the night of the arrest the prisoner summoned two
judges, Materia Medica and Physiology, to prevent his
committing liver-complaint; but they employed their
sheriff, Fear, who handcuffed him and precipitated the
deed you would now punish, leaving Man no alterna-
tive but to believe your law, fear its consequences,
and be punished for all this. The judges struggled
hard to rescue the prisoner from the penalty they con-
sidered justly due; but failing in this, ordered him to
be taken into custody, tried and condemned, where-
upon these abettors appear at the bench to sit in
judgment against him, and recommend the jury, Mortal
Minds, to find the prisoner guilty. Their Honors sen-
tence Man to die for the offence they compel him to
commit; construing obedience to the law of Love dis-
obedience to the law of Life, claiming to wrest Man
from the penalty of law at one time, and at another
sentencing him by it.
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"One of your principal witnesses, Nerves, testified he
"One of your principal witnesses, Nerves, testified he
is a ruler of the State, (body) in which he says Man
resides; that he is on intimate terms with the plaintiff,
and knows Personal Sense to be just and truthful, but
man, the image of God, a criminal. This is a foul as-
persion on his Maker, unworthy a worm; it blots the
fair escutcheon of Intelligence; 'tis a malice afore-
thought to condemn Man in defence of matter. At the
Bar of Truth, in the presence of Justice the judge of
our Supreme Court, and before its jurors, Spiritual
Senses, I proclaim this witness, Nerves, destitute of In-
telligence, without Truth, possessing no reality, and
bearing the messages of Error only. Man self-destroyed,
the testimony of matter respected, Intelligence not al-