Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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only to fasten, through false testimony, an offence on the
only to fasten, through false testimony, an offence on the
prisoner of which he is innocent; aiding and abetting
that for which you would sacrifice man, declaring your
executioner, Disease, to be God's servant and the exe-
cutor of His laws, when our statute decides your wit-
nesses, jurors, and judges condemned, by higher law,
and only awaiting the executioner, Progress. We send
our very best detectives to whatever locality you report
your Disease, but visiting the spot, they learn it was
never there, or it could not elude their discovery. Your
Mental Court of Errors, at which you condemn or
acquit man on the ground of disease, is the oleaginous
machinations of your counsel, Belief, that Science
arraigns before the supreme bar of Soul, to answer
for his blood-shed. You taught Morbid Secretions to
make sleep befool his reason, before sacrificing man to
your gods; your jurors, Mortal Minds, were mesmer-
ized by your attorney, Belief, and compelled to deliver
man to his open-jawed packs. You would transform
good deeds into crimes, to which you attach penalties;
but no warping of justice renders disobedience to Laws
of Matter, disobedience to God, or an act of homicide;
for matter cannot kill what Spirit has made.
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Even penal law construes homicide under stress of
Even penal law construes homicide under stress of
circumstances justifiable, and what greater justification
hath a deed than that it did good to our neighbor,
wherefore, then, we ask in the name of outraged jus-
tice, do you sentence Man for ministering to the wants
of his fellow man, in obedience to higher law? You
cannot walk over the supreme bench; Man is amenable
only to God, who sentences for sin only. The false
and unjust beliefs of your Mental Court of Errors enact
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a law of sickness, then render obedience to this law
a law of sickness, then render obedience to this law
punishable as crime; such are the spurious enactments
of "knowledge." In the presence of the supreme law‑
giver, standing at the bar of Truth and in accordance
with its statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of
Personal Sense, forbid his entering more suits against
man to be tried at the bar of matter, and appeal to the
just and equitable decisions of Spirit to restore the
prohibited rights of the body.
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Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief
Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court with benign and imposing
presence, appropriating, comprehending, and defining
all law and evidence explained from His statute, the
Bible, how
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law punishing aught but sin is null and void.
law punishing aught but sin is null and void.
Also that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, is not permitted
to enter suits at the bar of Soul, but required to keep
perpetual silence, and in case of temptation, to give
heavy bonds for good behavior. The plea of Belief we
deem unworthy a hearing upon all occasions; therefore,
let the things it has uttered, now and forever, fall into
oblivion, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. Ac-
cording to our statute, Laws of Matter cannot bear
witness against man, neither can Fear arrest him, nor
Disease cast him into prison; our law refuses to recog-
nize man sick or dying, but holds him the image and
likeness of immortal Soul; reversing the testimony of
Personal Sense, and the decrees of the Court of Error
in favor of matter versus man, we decide in favor of
man and against matter; therefore, we recommend that
Materia Medica, Physiology, Laws of Health, Mesmer-
ism and Mediumship be given a public execution at the
hands of our Sheriff, Progress. The supreme bench