Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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and fishes multiplied without meal or monad? Miracles
and fishes multiplied without meal or monad? Miracles
are impossible; they are phenomena not understood,
but which their Principle explains, and we should reach
this explanation and understand it as did our Master,
who demonstrated it controlling man and matter. The
decaying flower, withering grass, blighted bud, gnarled
oak, or ferocious beast, together with all discords in-
cluding sick,' sinning and mortal man, were not created
by supreme Wisdom; these are the falsities of matter,
things of sense instead of Soul, the changing images of
mortal mind, not in reality substance, or Life, but only
a belief of these. The mind of Soul embraces immortal
ideas only, but the so-called mind of body illusion, and
not the Truth of being. Personal sense declares matter
substance, but what is this sense but a belief of Life and
Intelligence in matter.
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Eloquence is inspiration, not contingent on erudition,
Eloquence is inspiration, not contingent on erudition,
but a scientific phenomenon, showing that all things are
possible to Intelligence; sometimes it is supposed to
arise from knowledge obtained from books, and again
from mediumship. When eloquence proceeds from the
belief a departed "spirit" is speaking, and can say what
the so-called medium is incapable of uttering, or even
knowing alone, the fetters of mind are unclasped, and
forgetting her ignorance, by believing others are speak-
ing for her, she becomes eloquent beyond her usual
self, and because she thinks some individual, and not
the one Spirit, is. helping her. Now destroy this belief
of aid, and the eloquence disappears, and the old limits
personal sense assigns are resumed, and she says I am
incapable of "words that glow," being uneducated,
proving the fact, "as a man thinketh, so is he." Be-
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lieving she cannot be eloquent without book-learning,
lieving she cannot be eloquent without book-learning,
her body responds to this thought, and the tongue
grows mute that before was eloquent, loosened on the
scientific basis that mind is not confined to the devel-
opment of educational processes, but possesses primarily
all beauty and poetry, together with the power to ex-
press them; harmony is caught and not understood by
the medium; caught through a belief, and dependent
on it; but Soul gives utterance to itself when sense is
silent, hence the improvement; she was always capable
of this, and a "spirit," or person, had nothing to do
with it.
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The beliefs of personal sense, of Soul in body, etc.,
The beliefs of personal sense, of Soul in body, etc.,
limit mind; Soul sets man free, which explains the phe-
nomena of impromptu poets and uneducated orators;
witnessing this in moments falsely called mediumship,
'tis construed supernaturally, which circumscribes the
phenomenon by an 'ism. Matter is moved because of
mind, through the volition of belief, or the understand-
ing; all harmonious phenomena are produced by the
latter, and the inharmonious by the former. Science
removes phenomena from mysticism into the hands of
interpretation; in which it is no greater mystery that
mind moves a table without a hand than that it prima-
rily moves the hand, and secondarily the table, in obe-
dience to the belief that the only method of doing this
is by seizing hold of it with the hand. Mind causes
all action in the case, through a belief that "spirits" did
it, or that electricity caused it, or the more common
belief of voluntary muscular power; in other words,
matter moving matter. Likenesses of individuals, land-
scape views, fac-similes of penmanship, certain forms of