Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Homoeopathic attenuations
153:1
is frequently attenuated to such a degree that not a ves-
is frequently attenuated to such a degree that not a ves-
tige of it remains. Thus we learn that it is not the drug
which expels the disease or changes one of the symptoms
of disease.
Only salt and water
153:5
The author has attenuated Natrum muriaticum (com-
The author has attenuated Natrum muriaticum (com-
mon table-salt) until there was not a single saline property
left. The salt had "lost his savour;" and yet,
with one drop of that attenuation in a goblet of
water, and a teaspoonful of the water administered at in-
tervals of three hours, she has cured a patient sinking in
the last stage of typhoid fever. The highest attenuation
of homoeopathy and the most potent rises above matter into
mind. This discovery leads to more light. From it may
be learned that either human faith or the divine Mind is
the healer and that there is no efficacy in a drug.
Origin of pain
153:16
You say a boil is painful; but that is impossible, for
You say a boil is painful; but that is impossible, for
matter without mind is not painful. The boil simply
manifests, through inflammation and swell-
ing, a belief in pain, and this belief is called a
boil. Now administer mentally to your patient a high
attenuation of truth, and it will soon cure the boil. The
fact that pain cannot exist where there is no mortal mind
to feel it is a proof that this so-called mind makes its
own pain – that is, its own belief in pain.
Source of contagion
153:25
We weep because others weep, we yawn because they
We weep because others weep, we yawn because they
yawn, and we have smallpox because others have it; but
mortal mind, not matter, contains and carries
the infection. When this mental contagion is
understood, we shall be more careful of our mental con-
ditions and we shall avoid loquacious tattling about
disease, as we would avoid advocating crime. Neither
sympathy nor society should ever tempt us to cherish