Chapter VII - Physiology
Mind cures hip-disease
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confined to his bed six months with hip-disease, caused by
confined to his bed six months with hip-disease, caused by
a fall upon a wooden spike when quite a boy. On enter-
ing the house I met his physician, who said that
the patient was dying. The physician had just
probed the ulcer on the hip, and said the bone was carious
for several inches. He even showed me the probe, which
had on it the evidence of this condition of the bone. The
doctor went out. Mr. Clark lay with his eyes fixed and
sightless. The dew of death was on his brow. I went to
his bedside. In a few moments his face changed; its
death-pallor gave place to a natural hue. The eyelids
closed gently and the breathing became natural; he was
asleep. In about ten minutes he opened his eyes and
said: "I feel like a new man. My suffering is all gone."
It was between three and four o'clock in the afternoon
when this took place.
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I told him to rise, dress himself, and take supper with
I told him to rise, dress himself, and take supper with
his family. He did so. The next day I saw him in the
yard. Since then I have not seen him, but am informed
that he went to work in two weeks. The discharge from
the sore stopped, and the sore was healed. The diseased
condition had continued there ever since the injury was
received in boyhood.
Since his recovery I have been informed that his physi-
cian claims to have cured him, and that his mother has
been threatened with incarceration in an insane asylum
for saying: "It was none other than God and that woman
who healed him." I cannot attest the truth of that
report, but what I saw and did for that man, and what
his physician said of the case, occurred just as I have
narrated.
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It has been demonstrated to me that Life is God
It has been demonstrated to me that Life is God
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and that the might of omnipotent Spirit shares not its
and that the might of omnipotent Spirit shares not its
strength with matter or with human will. Review-
ing this brief experience, I cannot fail to discern the
coincidence of the spiritual idea of man with the divine
Mind.
Change of belief
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A change in human belief changes all the physical symp-
A change in human belief changes all the physical symp-
toms, and determines a case for better or for
worse. When one's false belief is corrected
Truth sends a report of health over the body.
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Destruction of the auditory nerve and paralysis of the
Destruction of the auditory nerve and paralysis of the
optic nerve are not necessary to ensure deafness and blind-
ness; for if mortal mind says, "I am deaf and blind," it
will be so without an injured nerve. Every theory op-
posed to this fact (as I learned in metaphysics) would
presuppose man, who is immortal in spiritual under-
standing, a mortal in material belief.
Power of habit
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The authentic history of Kaspar Hauser is a useful hint
The authentic history of Kaspar Hauser is a useful hint
as to the frailty and inadequacy of mortal mind. It
proves beyond a doubt that education consti-
tutes this so-called mind, and that, in turn,
mortal mind manifests itself in the body by the false
sense it imparts. Incarcerated in a dungeon, where
neither sight nor sound could reach him, at the age of
seventeen Kaspar was still a mental infant, crying and
chattering with no more intelligence than a babe, and
realizing Tennyson's description:
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An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry.
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His case proves material sense to be but a belief formed
His case proves material sense to be but a belief formed
by education alone. The light which affords us joy gave