Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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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-
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lowed a hearing, Soul a slave recommended to mercy,
lowed a hearing, Soul a slave recommended to mercy,
whose body is supposed to be executed – are the terri-
ble records of your mental Court of Common Pleas."
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Here the opposite counsel, Belief, called Science to
Here the opposite counsel, Belief, called Science to
order, for contempt of court, and their Honors, Materia
Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Mediumship, and Mes-
merism rose to the question of expelling Science from
the bar, for high-handed treason, and stopping the judi-
cial proceedings. But Justice, the judge of the Su-
preme Court of Spirit, overruled their motion on the
ground that parliamentary usages are not allowed at
the bar of Truth, that holds jurisdiction over the petite
Court of Error.
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Science then read from his own statute, the Bible,
Science then read from his own statute, the Bible,
remarking it was better authority than Blackstone, ex-
tracts from the Rights of Man. "And I give you power
over all things that nothing shall by any means harm
you." "Let us make man in our image, and let him
have dominion over all the earth." "Whoso believeth
in me shall not see death," etc.; proving the witness,
Nerves, a perjurer, and instead of a governor of the state,
(body), wherein man was falsely reported to reside, an
insubordinate subject, prefering false claims to office,
and bearing false witness against Man. Then turning
suddenly to Personal Sense, (by this time silent) Sci-
ence continued,
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I order your arrest in the name of Al-
I order your arrest in the name of Al-
mighty God, on three separate charges: perjury, treason,
and conspiracy against the rights and existence of God's
image and likeness. Another testimony, equally unim-
portant, said that a garment of foul fur was spread over
this witness, by Morbid Secretions, on the night of the
liver-complaint, while the facts in the case proved