Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/healingcurrentsfOOdevo V i ':gr> "*»"> ^^.i*' V 9O0TON OOLLEGK LIBRARY tSUUTTNUT HILL, MASS. ., i warn HEALING CURRENTS FROM THE BATTERY OF LIFE Teaching the doctrines of the Positive and Negative Mind of Gad, and of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Mediator between the two states of Being; revealing how the Truth awakens the Soul to its natural inheritance as an immortal co- worker with God, giving it dominion over sin, sickness, poverty and death. W ULTER DE VOE BOSTON COLLEGE LIB! CUOSTNUT HILL, VITA PUBLISHING CO. PUBLISHERS 5226 GREENWOOD AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. Copyright, 1904, by Walter De Voe Revised and Enlarged Copyright, 1905, by Walter De Voe Price $2.00, Postpaid 4th Thousand ENGLISH AGENTS L. N. FOWLER & CO. 7 Imperial Arcade Ludgate Circus, London, S. C. England POWER BOOK CO. Wimbledon, London, S. W. England THE PICTURE OF CHRIST. THE reproduction of Hofmann's beautiful painting of The Christ has won all hearts. The eyes ex- press a world of tenderness, sympathy and love. The artist has vividly portrayed the purity and spiritual- ity, the strength and the nobility of the character. An ideal picture of the Divine Man is of great aid to concentration of thought, if the devotee looks upon the picture as he would upon a vision of the Christ, using it as a means to bring about a more perfect sense of his presence. The picture remains imprinted upon the memory and recurs at frequent intervals, recalling the mind to the living Spirit that is always near. When this picture is contemplated in the right spirit of devotion to the Christ it becomes a very effective and uplifting means to concentration, holding all the thoughts at attention to the Spirit in its perfect form. Through this means Jesus, the ideal of the race, the image of divine love, wisdom and perfection — God personified — becomes the Way through which the human mind realizes that which otherwise would remain beyond comprehension. My experience has been that pupils and patients make more rapid progress in their realization of the Spirit of Truth and its healing love when they use this simple means to concentration. They grow like that which they study or contemplate. The beauty of the image appeals to the imagination, and in the education of this creative or image-making faculty lies the way to won- derful attainment. Concrete images of health or disease have much more effect than abstract thoughts upon the imagination, and therefore upon the body. The mind cannot contemplate or think of anything that has not form; even an idea of the formless is a formed conception which is not the formless, but a mental symbol of it. No one can think of the absolute Spirit without creating his idea of that Spirit. In Jesus, the God-man, we have the most perfect image of Love, or God, expressed, and in the radiating influence of his sun-like Soul we have the only true idea of omnipresence. And this mental image of the soul's ideal draws to itself the spiritual particles of divine essence and be- comes a center of celestial healing power, radiating light and love to every realm of mortal thought in the body- being. The soul in each individual, being a seed of the same Divinity, sees in his expanded powers the possibilities of its own being. Love for an ideal is the very secret of concentration. Without a living, breathing ideal the mind is un- centered. The lover learns without effort to keep his mind concentrated on his ideal. He cannot forget the face of his beloved. Heaven and earth become glorified with her beauty. Christ is the ideal Beloved of the soul. When the beauty of this ideal is conceived, love is born, and hard, cold intellectuality is mellowed and melted under the benign influence that radiates from Jesus Christ, the Sun of Righteousness. FOREWORD. IT is the purpose of this book to heal those who read and study its pages. The Lessons are gathered together with that object in view. Each Lesson was written under the inspiration of a definite purpose — to heal, encourage and enlighten whomsoever should read it — and the multitude of letters which have been re- ceived shows that the purpose has borne fruit and causes me to rejoice in the knowledge that written truth may bear the balm of healing to suffering humanity. These Lessons are the fruit of spiritual realization. The varying forms of expression were adapted to the various states of mind I desired to arouse. The energies of Omnipotence are latent within human minds, and there is no nobler task than speaking or writing words that shall stir those energies and arouse them into activity for the healing of God's beloved. As all forces at the last analysis are of the nature of mind, developed or undeveloped, then the forces of mind — thoughts — are the proper things wherewith to direct the living healing dynamics within the nature of man. * Mystical words of mighty healing power have been revealed to me, and I have woven many of them into these Lessons and affirmations. Where a truth is repeated more than once in different Lessons I have purposely allowed the repetition to stand, and I trust that this will cause the reader to remember that "Repetition is the mother of learning." *!*■ Remember that your ability to gain dominion over your physical body will develop as you cultivate thought power. By constant study of these Lessons, and persistent use of the thoughts given in them, you will gain an ability to heal yourself and others, according to the degree of thought power you generate. I have known a pupil to take one single sentence and hold to it so persistently that in the space of one year she had transformed a gross abnormal growth in the interior of the body into normal, healthy substance. She had faith in the power of thought to transform the body and did not allow laziness of mind to stand in the way of its accomplishment. "There is no excellence without labor." It is not how much you read, or how much you know about mental processes that gives you mental power, but how much you incorporate of the positive thought of truth into your mind and body. If you desire to progress in spiritual power you will be obliged to build a thought body out of positive thoughts of truth. These Lessons will furnish you with the ma- terial for building your spiritual temple, through which the healing power will become manifest in your flesh, and as you put the thought of these Lessons into practice day after day and year after year, like the writer, you will find all negative limitations vanishing and a positiveness of soul power developing which will repay you most wonderfully for all your efforts toward the attainment of spiritual and physical dominion. Awake and understand your divine possibilities as a soul evolved in the image and character of the Almighty, and create into a power- ful thought or mind body all the divine attributes that lie latent within your soul awaiting your recognition and expression, and you will attain a consciousness of power that will grow and increase throughout all eternity. WALTER DeVOE. Woodlawn, Chicago, 111. CONTENTS, PAGE Foreword 3 /Knowledge Is Power 9 Thought, the Supreme Remedy 12 Healing Peace , 20 We Grow Like That Which We Study 22 Healing Treatment for the Eyes 26 Man's Relation to the Universal Mind 28 You Are Power 32 Positive and Negative Mind 33 How to Practice Mental Healing 38 The True Way 47 A General Healing Treatment 48 How to Concentrate 51 Wonderful Possibilities 52 Depression 57 I Am All Mind 58 Indigestion 61 Teach Your Body to Think ! 63 The Healing Power of Jesus Jehovah 67 The Subconscious Mind and Soul Consciousness 69 Becoming Attuned to the Spirit 74 A Powerful Statement 80 Obsession 84 Treatment for Obsession 85 The Mystery of Omnipotence 87 Cultivate Your Will 92 Building the Temple of Faith 93 Trust in God 96 The Word of Power 97 Nervous Debility 105 Deny the Imperfect : Affirm the Perfect 106 Denial of Fear , 109 Deny Mortal Heredity no Deny Mortal Weakness in Deny the Cause of Disease in Treatment for Catarrh 112 7 8 CONTENTS. PAGE Insomnia n^ Let Your Soul Express n$ Ye Are Slumbering Gods ! I & Awake, My Soul, Awake ! X2 \ Soul Development 12 a The Globe of Glory I2 8 How to Realize God !34 Realization I ^ I Organization 142 Pray Without Ceasing I4 8 A Healing Prayer ! 56 Prayer to Increase Love 156 Prayer for Wisdom 157 Our Father 158 The God- Man 159 A Conception of God 163 Treatment for the Vital Center 170 Protection 170 Thus Speaks the Living Soul 171 Constipation 171 Swellings 172 Do Unto Others as You Would Be Done By 173 Affirmations 175 Addenda 177 Spirit Hypnotism Seen Clairvoyantly 178 A Weird Case 186 ^Suggestions Regarding Psychic Phenomena 188 Science and Immortality . 192 A Spirit Message 198 Concentration of Mind 201 Thought Force in Muscular Development 202 Thought Affects Blood Currents 203 Does Thought Attract Success? 204 Telepathy in Insect Life 204 A Remarkable Cure by Suggestion 207 Sight Restored After Being Blind 14 Years 212 Mrs. M. B. Carse Healed by Prayer 219 Health Restored by Bath of Fire 221 Many Helpless from Infirmities Restored 223 yOccuLT Phenomena Among Hindoos 227 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. THE great prayer that is arising from souls in- carnate is the prayer for more vitality. It is the speechless prayer of the whole world; the unut- tered longing and desire of every heart for that which will enable it to overcome its limitations and find satis- faction. Scientists of to-day are searching as tirelessly for a life-renewing elixir as did Ponce de Leon for the foun- tain of youth, but while their sodium and potassium in- jected into the blood may be beneficial as a food for the system, or as a stimulant, it will not start into activity the creative impulse of vitality which produced the organ- ism and which lies latent within, always ready to revital- ize, renew and heal every part of the physical nature. It is not medication that will save the sick and suf- fering, but the awakening of the human nature to this divine influx, which is health compelling and harmony producing to every nature that finds it. People are becoming conscious that a heavenly healing vitality awaits them, and nothing can hinder their search for the im- mortal vigor that shall save their flesh from disease and pain and evolve a new type of humanity, which shall be fearless and dauntless, healthy and happy in the con- scious possession and understanding of the vital princi- ple within them, which is the manifestation of the God- life in humanity. Matter and flesh cannot create because they are effects. They can only manifest the energy infused into them by 9 10 HEALING CURRENTS. their cause. Vitality is not a material but a spiritual force. Vitality is cause. Vitality is the creative energy of the love and intelligence of the God-mind, which holds in its embrace every atom of sentient substance. It is the vitality of the Divine Mind that we see mani- festing in beast, bird, tree and flower, and this same vitality is at this moment giving you all the life that you manifest, and the Divine Mind can give you as much as you can individualize and express. Your lack of knowledge of the possibilities of your own nature is the only thing that keeps you from growing out of your weak or sickly condition. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. All nature is enlivened by the omnipotent vitality of the Divine Mind, and as this is Cause, the human mind must seek its vitality from this source, for vitality is a mental energy which can be appropriated to an unlimited degree, and according as it is recognized will it over- come all diseased and depleted conditions of the body. New ideas entering the mind bring with them an influx of vitality. These thoughts are overflowing with vitality- and health, and the more you study them the closer your mind will get to the Fountain of Life, which will renew your body as your mind is renewed with living thoughts from the Divine Mind. Patients are often healed while studying writings which are filled with the healing inspi- ration. If you want to live and be healthy you must not think or talk about disease or death. ) Jesus thought and talked about life so much that he demonstrated the power to overcome death. There is a Source of unlimited vitality, strength and energy which has been little looked to since the Great Physician walked this plane of earth, and from lack of knowledge of this vital impulse the race has suffered HEALING CURRENTS. 11 much, for this knowledge was crucified, or denied out of mortal understanding, but is again being resurrected in the mind of the race. The souls of mortals "cannot live by bread alone," but must be fed on the manna of heaven, the thoughts that flow out from the Mind of God, before there can be such a harmonious union of the human and the divine in man as will guarantee his health and happiness and prosperity while on the earth. You, no matter how poor or sick or miserable you may be, are living in the midst of Divine Forces which can generate a new health and strength in your body, weave prosperity and success into your destiny and make your whole life divine and harmonious. The forces that make for success are within reach of every mind waiting to be polarized and individualized. Intelligent and powerful thought forces interpenetrate space as magnetic and electric currents flow through space, and these potent forces control intelligently all the operations of natural law, and, wonderful to know, these divine forces are obedient to the mind of man, ready and powerful to operate everything for his good, if he will but recognize his God-given dominion, thinking the thoughts and speaking the words which embody his faith in the Almighty Presence and cause it to manifest for his benefit. Jesus spent much of his time in the wilderness on the bosom of God, polarizing by prayer and affirmation the power of the Father, that enabled him to overcome mighty difficulties. Miracles have always followed those who have made their life a song of praise to the living God. We may have a wonderful mental power, and preach the highest truth, but the power that harmonizes and heals is ours only when our mind has entered the 12 HEALING CURRENTS. pure ocean of bliss, and been magnetized by contact with the positive pole of Divinity. Then are we endowed for the time being with the power of the Cause of causes, and all causes obey the one who realizes this dominion. Again and again must one retire from the world and unite himself with the source of power, for in overcom- ing the conflicting vibrations of the world-mind the soul is constantly in need of the omnipotent Power that abides with the Father. ^» £fr *t?& THOUGHT, THE SUPREME REMEDY. Mental Science has been scorned and ridiculed by pul- pit and press for many years, but it has pushed on in a victorious march against the solid mass of the world's ignorance, gaining adherents by demonstrating the power of thought to cure disease, until to-day we are accorded a place and a power in the land as a healing agency with even the seal of approval of the United States Su- preme Court. The hundreds of thousands of "incurables" who have been cured by the application of the principles of Mental Science have had no weight as evidence witlj the scientific world, but the same Spirit of truth that has inspired so many minds with the knowledge of the healing power of thought has been active in leading scientific investiga- tors to the same conclusions from experimental evidence as were attained through intuitive perception by the teachers of Mental Science. Here are a few words from Prof. Elmer Gates of the Smithsonian Institution : "I have discovered that bad and unpleasant feelings create harmful products in the body which are physically injurious. Good, pleasant, benevolent and cheerful feel- HEALING CURRENTS. 13 ing^s create beneficial chemical products which are physic- ally healthful. These products may be detected by chemical analysis in the perspiration and secretions of the individual. I have more than forty of the bad and as many of the good. It is found that for each bad emo- tion, there is a corresponding chemical change in the tissues of the body, which is life-depressing and poison- ous. Contrarywise, every good emotion makes a life- promoting change. A noble and generous action blesses the doer as well as the beneficiary. Every thought which enters the mind is registered in the brain by a change in the structure of its cells. The change is a physical change more or less permanent." The following article brings out another proof of the power of thought over the digestive tract. It gives new weight to the words of Solomon : "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there- with." Some experiments on a dog concerning the effects of personal liking for various kinds of food on the diges- tion were recently made by a well-known scientist. The results are curious and interesting. It was found that the articles of diet which the animal was particularly fond of met with a great flow of the gastric juices and were according digested better and more quickly. For purposes of observation the gullet of the dog was cut in sections and fixed to the neck so that the food it ate fell through. The stomach of the animal was also divided into two portions, into one of which no food was allowed to enter, the other being sup- plied only with the food necessary to life. If some tempting dainty was held before the dog and he evinced the usual signs of pleasure in the expected treat, it was noticed that at once the stomach juices sprang into play, although the food when swallowed did not reach the stomach at all. On the other hand, if he was fed with something which he evidently did not have 14 HEALING CURRENTS. any preference for there was no action of the gastric fluid. Also, more curious still, when food was introduced unknown to the animal into the working half of his stomach, it lay there absolutely dry and untouched by the digestive juices for several hours, even though the food were of the most digestible sort. All of which proved conclusively that mere thought or favorable brain action of any sort concerning the food eaten not only assisted the digestion, but partly caused it. Professor Pawlow, who made the experiments, thinks this partly at least explains why men of letters are often dyspeptic. There minds are busy with things far re- moved from their dinners when they are eating. The connection between the nerve which sends the important message down to the digestive machinery below for more oil and the patient engineer of nutrition is cut off. So when unexpected orders for deglutition come piling in upon them they are not ready and the work is bungled. —New York Herald. When you stop and give the matter a little thought you cannot doubt the power of thought to cause or cure disease. Sorrowful thoughts will cause tears to flow from the eyes. The thought of eating will start the saliva to flowing. Lustful thoughts affect the vital organs in the same way, and when they are habitually prevalent in the mind they undermine the very foundation of health and happiness. All the investigations of the world's wisest physicians have not brought to light any truth of greater import to the race or of any greater physiological value than contained in these words of Paul: "To be carnally minded is death ; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." The race is in bondage to lustful thoughts and pas- sions, and the feverish fires of false desires burn so HEALING CURRENTS. 15 fiercely in the natures of so many that the spring of he- redity is polluted: at its source, and children are born into the world with the carnal propensities predominant, un- fitted for a healthy moral manhood by a mental and phys- ical nature predisposed to all diseases which spring from the scrofulous taint. Lust is the root cause of dis- ease and pain in the world, but anger, hatred, revenge, cruelty, jealousy and others may be named as doing very much to create a hell for humanity while they are in the flesh. Any healing science that does not strive to eliminate these forces from the human nature, or to transform them into divine forces, is incomplete and unsuccessful as a healing agent, because these are the causes of pain and disease, and unless the cause be eradi- cated the disease cannot be entirely dissolved from the system. There is a power that is ever ready to save human kind from the sins and sufferings of ignorance. Divine" Thought is the power which will heal and harmonize; every mind and body that comes entirely under its sway^ and dominion. We teach of the Thought of God which is bringing so much happiness and health to the sinful and suffering at the present time, and it is our constant experience that pure, loving thoughts are charged with the healing, invigorating potency of the Spirit of God, and everyone who will educate his mind to conform to divine purity and truth will find the power of God which makes for health and happiness. Those who have not seen some wonderful demonstra- tion in their own lives or in the life of someone very close to them are liable to become discouraged if im- mediate results do not manifest. Remember that all the force of your past thought is against your new faith, and that you are just beginning to tear down a mental 16 HEALING CURRENTS. force running back through heredity for ages, and al- though the Thought of God is all powerful, your under- standing and exercise of it are to be compared to those of the little child just learning to walk; the obstacles seem as insurmountable to the child as they do to you, but with the same persistent effort you will gain control of the powers that are latent in your will and thought, and will walk upright in dominion as a conquering Soul of God. The body is a mental organism for the production of thought force, and a certain amount of thought is neces- sary to insure the proper action of its organs. The ex- periment of Professor Pawlow proves that thoughtful attention will aid nature in her processes. If you have been in the habit of eating your meals with your whole thought concentrated on business schemes, you will understand the cause of your indigestion. The strenuous mental life of the modern business or profes- sional person tends to project all the mental forces out- side of the body, consequently the physical forces go on a strike, and some part of the physical organism is closed down until the manager of the body is compelled to give his helpers more thought and attention. The same con- dition is apparent in Nostalgia or homesickness, which was a frequent cause of death among the American sol- diers in the war with Spain. Young men became sick with longings for home, until their thoughts seemed to live back in their distant home among their friends, and in consequence all their organ- izing power of thought was projected away from the body, until there remained not enough force to keep the body alive. The persistent use of the mind in connection with ex- ternal things must be followed daily by just as persistent concentration of the thought into the body, or else de- HEALING CURRENTS. 17 generation of the flesh and inaction of the physical func- tions will result. Appendicitis is one of the results of lack of thought- force in the flesh. Thought infused into the flesh makes it positively healthy and resistant to disease. There is absolutely no need for anyone to have appendicitis if he keep his liver active and his bowels open and free with energetic thoughts focused into the body daily. When one feels the first symptoms of appendicitis he is apt to become hypnotized by that terrible fear which is everywhere prevalent in regard to this disease, and this thought alone is capable of paralyzing all the heal- ing activity of the bowels. The bowels should first be purged. If your thought has not gained dominion in this respect, do not hesitate to aid nature with any means knowledge has placed at your disposal. All is mind, and an emergency may re- quire that your negative body-mind receive a stimulus from some of the more tangible expressions of the uni- versal Mind. Use your thought with all its intensity to- ward infusing the spot affected with intelligent active energy. Do not let fear enter your mind. Have faith in the healing power of your own life, and know that your positive faith is intensifying the healing intelligence in your body and making you a magnet for all the heal- ing life pervading the universal Mind of God. Know that the Spirit of the Almighty Mind is flowing into your positive thoughts of faith and making them alive with , healing energy. Repeat over and over to the latent in- f telligence in the bowels : "You are the Spirit of Al- J mighty life in action. The Mind of God is powerful to restore harmony to all these parts."|| As an aid to cen- tering the thoughts, place the hands on the part you are 18 HEALING CURRENTS. treating, or better still, rub the hands in opposite direc- tions across the front and back part of the body. This will electrify all the flesh with a more positive energy. I was, a few years ago, saved a trip to the hospital by the persistent practice of the above method. It was a well-defined case of appendicitis, and it did seem at times that I had met my Waterloo, but I knew that I must conquer or die under the knife. It took me several days and nights, but I conquered, and live to teach the chil- dren of the Father that within their nature slumbers a soul power from God, capable, when awakened and expressed through thought, of recreating and restoring perfect action in every part of the body. We are mental creatures, and our life is in our mind. Our happiness depends on our state of mind. Our phys- ical conditions exhibit our frame of mind, and we can only progress in life and create a proper destiny as we cultivate the thinking which is common to the Mind of God. Mind is positive and negative. Mortal mind is nega- tive — undeveloped. The God Mind is positive — devel- oped in wisdom. Whatever thoughts we listen to or speak or whatever thoughts we allow to remain in our mind will bear fruit. Condemnation, envy, prejudice and all the thoughts and words of mortal mind are negative. They are noth- ing and lead to nothing, which is dissolution. The words of truth will gain the mastery over all the beliefs and ex- pressions of error, for these are negative conditions which the positive thoughts of truth overcome. Beliefs of sin, sickness and death are also negative, and we can free ourselves from these thoughts by denial of them, and we can place our mind in unity with the posi- tive pole of life and peace by the affirmation of truth. HEALING CURRENTS. 19 We are one with the almighty goodness of God now. Every mind lives in and draws its life from the Mind of God, and all can and will grow out of their negative be- liefs and conditions by the recognition that they are man- ifestations of the God life, and all can think the thoughts of God, thus growing into a conscious knowledge and realization of His presence and power. While we are thinking the thoughts of the world, we are living in mental and spiritual darkness, and in this state of mind we cannot hope to enjoy life or peace or prosperity from God, for all real enjoyment is in the light of truth. An abiding satisfaction flows into our mind as we charge it with the thoughts based on the truth of Infinite goodness and love. We have no power or substance or intelligence but God the Good, and this is true of all beings and all things. This is the saving truth that frees and heals. All life is good and full of healing power. All intelligence is good, and can manifest perfection. All substances are good, and will reveal more and more that they are intelligent as the truth about them is recog- nized. Energize these thoughts in your mind by repetition: I am living the life of eternal peace, for my life is one with the life of God, which is peace. I desire to think only the thoughts that tend to life and peace, thus uniting myself with the divine source of all wisdom and love. I know that I am the mind of truth expressing, and I think and feel that Almighty Goodness now dominates all my world. The Spirit of Goodness is omnipresent. It is all that I need or want. I do not place any thoughts or conditions between my- self and God. 20 HEALING CURRENTS. Every claim that I make that is opposite to the Spirit of Goodness is a negation of my eternal life with God, and hides God from me. God can do all things for me if I am true to His thoughts and have His faith, which is the affirmation of the Power of the All-Good. I am life. I am health. I am joy. I am prosperity, j My love is of God and for the truth, and I constantly fill my mind with positive thoughts of truth, which create good and harmonious conditions for me. There is only One Mind, the Mind of God, full of divine life and intelligence for all, overflowing with heal- ing love and uplifting light. I raise my mind from all appearances of limitation to the consciousness of the one Omnipotent Power and affirm that I am the recipient of all its goodness and love. I negate from my being all the feelings and thoughts of the world, and individualize the thoughts based on my unity with God the Good, for I am the spoken word of Almighty God, and I manifest His intelligent goodness now and forever. %&b t&& %&& HEALING PEACE. This treatment will place you in touch with the healing streams that flow from the Celestial Presence of Jehovah Jehovah. The name Jehovah — twice repeated — relates the mind to the holiest states of the Divine Mind. The mind be- comes united through this name with the state of in- finite peace wherein abide the holiest and wisest angels of God, and through this telepathic sympathy there vi- brate to the receptive mind holy, peaceful, healing ema- nations, which harmonize all mental disturbances and HEALING CURRENTS. 21 bring the peace that passeth mortal understanding. This name may be used effectively whenever and wherever peace is desired, for self or for others. Retire from the world when you can — after your daily duties are over — and contemplate the healing power con- tained in this holiest of names. When you desire to in- breathe the emanations that come from the use of this celestial name, put all mortal thought aside, and in the utmost meekness and humility of mind bow down before the Majesty of that Mysterious Power that resides in the angelic spheres, and also within the inmost recesses of your soul, and your spiritual poverty will be filled from the illimitable fullness and boundless love of the Father. Praise His Holy Name. From a meek and lowly chamber of your soul there bubbles forth the ethereal waters of peace. There is a region within you akin to that essential realm of Jehovah Jehovah, where the crystal sea of Truth is stirred by the vital breath of the Infinite One and the murmuring waves whisper words of peace and everlasting serenity. You now listen to the voice of omnipotent peace, and the ethereal peace of the Spirit infuses your whole nature with the harmony of heaven. The crystal Sea at the root of your soul finds your mind meek and lowly and receptive to its waters of peace that gently flow into your mind and harmonize your thoughts with heavenly rest. The ethereal potency of the peaceful presence of Je- hovah Jehovah is now permeating your whole being, and all the atoms of your throat and lungs obey this one law of peace and harmony. Healing, soothing peace is the only presence and the only power in your bronchial tubes. You are saturated with the healing glory of Jehovah Jehovah, and there is 22 HEALING CURRENTS. no cause for mental or physical friction in this Holy Presence. You are in the peaceful glory of the Infinite One, and there cannot be anything in you or around you but bound- less peace and love and harmony. There are no mortal minds at war. All is infinite peace. There is no bondage to lust or love. All is eternal har- mony. There is no vanity or pride, for the essential Meekness reigns supreme in all. All the cells of your nature rejoice in the free light of boundless peace, and inbreathe the peaceful vitality of Eternity. Glory to Jehovah Jehovah for the healing peace from the exalted spheres of heavenly, harmonious Love. All is Peace. 4?* (5* d?* WE GROW LIKE THAT WHICH WE STUDY. Noted throat specialists have died of ailments of the throat, insanity experts have become as mad as their pa- tients, and tuberculosis students have often succumbed to the tiny germ of consumption. He who studies the power of disease will find disease and death creeping over his whole organism, and he who gives his attention to the power of life will find the power that transforms him into health and perfection. We are all mind. We live in an ocean of mind, and we are each a polarizing center capable of drawing into our being any quality of mind we may desire to incor- porate. Looking at the universe from the physical standpoint, it is a vast ocean of matter or negative mind. This ocean HEALING CURRENTS. 23 of living force is constantly in flux, like the water that is part of one whirlpool one minute and the next has gone to form a gigantic wave. So the atoms of negative mind are building up one body to-day, and to-morrow that body has disintegrated and those same atoms have gone to form another body. The planet is one center of force, and the trees and animals and our bodies are still other centers organized for the time being from the substance of the universe. But if all this force is constantly in flux, and not bound by any ties other than the attraction of the moment, what is it that holds our bodies and the bodies of all things in the form in which they appear? It is here that we see the power of the invisible cause, the at- tractiveness of that positive center of mind that draws around itself a body of physical atoms. We see that the positive invisible pole of being has power over the world of visible effects. The organized form of positive mind is the positive pole of attraction. The positive mind of the plant has learned to polarize atoms into the beautiful form of ver- dure. The mind of the plant is organized from the in- finite Spirit of life, and it has dominion over the atoms of negative substance, and it is developing a still stronger power by this process of organizing forms, so that after it has accomplished all that it can with one form, it will have gained the wisdom to organize a still higher and more complex form of life. We are polarizing as much of life as we understand, and as we understand more we will use our powers of mind to organize into form the deeper realities of the Spirit of truth. The complexity of the form will depend upon the power of the mind back of the form which is holding it in organization. Its quality will also be determined by the quality of the mind that does the polarizing. This 24 HEALING CURRENTS. is illustrated by the fact that no two people get the same benefit from like foods. What is nourishment for one man is poison for another. You may feed two persons the same quantity of meat per meal; one will grow fat while the other remains as thin as a greyhound. One has attributes of mind which find and attract to them- selves corresponding chemicals in the meat, and the other, not having the mental qualities that are nourished by a meat diet, will not build up on that substance. It has been noted that those who study the heavens live to a goodly age. The mind of the astronomer opens up to the unfolding spaces of infinitude, with their teeming world systems, and in searching out the meaning of it all he imbreathes some of the Spirit of truth. Minds centered upon the cares of the world, and busy with the small duties of life, need to be opened by study and contemplation to the grandeur of the great God whose marvelous presence is manifest in all the laws and forms of the universe. Students should seek that instruction which opens the mind to the mighty spirit of life. This is necessary, that the mind may receive new life and the power to manifest life in endless abun j dance. Says the voice of truth: "I am come that ye might have life, and have it more abundantly." The truth re- veals the life which was always here but which we did not recognize. And our recognition opens up our mind to receive of its blessing. Recognition grows into faith, and faith builds up the mental forces that polarize life. As we walk through the park or in the woods we should know that the contact of our feet with the ground is giving us of the magnetic vitality of Mother Nature. The air is filled with invigorating vitality, the sun is pouring its mighty life into our being, and the beauty and HEALING CURRENTS. 25 grace of God manifest in it all are giving us a mag- netic, mental and soul treatment that ought to tune our mind to infinite life and health. We are healed because it is the presence of God that we recog- nize. Let us contemplate the beauty and power of the God-presence that is all and in all, and we will be har- monized by its mighty harmonies and feel the thrill of the divine consciousness pervading our being. We will grow like that which we study. It has been discovered that the perfume and color of roses will soothe the nerves and often cure a headache. To conoentrate the mind upon one of these forms of na- ture's beauty and grace brings our nature into unity with the Spirit of universal nature, which is the Presence of God. Each one of nature's forms is a key to the king- dom of life, of beauty and of endless wisdom. All forms are but the physical manifestation of spiritual entities, and these spiritual entities or minds are drawing their in- telligence and power from the infinite source. They are the One infinite intelligence made manifest, so we can say that nature as a whole is 1 a form of God. If we will ex- amine any of the forms of life we will come in touch with a wisdom and skill so profound that our deepest thinking cannot compass it. And we as organized beings stand at the head of all nature's manifesta- tions. We already have dominion over the negative mind of nature. The fact that our spiritual nature has organized this form and has the power to hold it in life and to give activity to all its functions proves that we are endowed with dominion. Now we are coming to the con- sciousness that our thought has built the character that is the invisible pattern upon which our flesh is woven, and that our thought, rightly cultivated, can increase our organizing power. Our thought can make for us a body 26 HEALING CURRENTS. of health or a body of pain. Let us study the mighty life within and all about us, that our thoughts may be filled with the breath of the divine Spirit, and our bodies re- newed and reformed into living images of health and perfection. Thousands of chronic ailments have been healed in those who desired health and knew that they could get it through study of the New Thought literature. The desire for healing and the constant study of the heal- ing words opened their nature to the omnipotent life that is always seeking to image forth its own likeness of in- finite health and perfection. The Holy Spirit of God never ceases its healing ministrations. If we do not know of its goodness and mercy, we cannot have faith in its operation, and without knowledge of the transform- ing power we cannot be receptive to its influx, because it flows through our knowledge into our body. The more knowledge we have of spiritual realities, the more vibrant our mind becomes with the living Breath of heaven, and joyous vitality from the streams of eternal life bubbles up within us and fills us with the conscious- ness of unity with the Father, so that we rejoice per- petually in the knowledge of the Presence and Power of our God. Jt £ £ HEALING TREATMENT FOR THE EYES. I know the seeing power resident within my eyes can overcome every limitation of my flesh. I have faith in the perfect intelligence which sees through my eyes. My vision is corrected by the living presence of Jesus Christ. HEALING CURRENTS. 27 The presence of Jesus Jehovah within my soul is my purity and perfection. My vision is not limited by any lustful thoughts and feelings. I am cleansed and purified of all hereditary and race lusts by the Holy Spirit. Every atom of my eyes and optic nerves is intelligent and obedient to the law of perfect formation, manifest- ing the beauty and grace of divine perfection. I will that my eyes shall manifest the perfect seeing power of the Spirit. I am the clear, unlimited sight of God. I will manifest my perfect sight. I know that the almighty power of perfection is pres- ent within my soul and my soul infuses every atom of my body. I will make every atom so positive with my words of faith that only perfection can come into expression. I, as a soul of God, have unlimited seeing ability. I have faith that my awakening soul will reorganize the structure of my eyes. My soul has the intelligent ability which enables it to refocus the lens in my eyes so that I see all objects distinctly and clearly. My soul is NOW readjusting the focus of my eyes. I patiently and trustingly wait upon the Spirit within my soul, and give it the strength of my faith while it is readjusting the lens and creating perfect vision. FATHER! I thank Thee that my prayer of faith is heard, that my thoughts of perfect faith are sown in the substance of my eyes, and shall bear fruit in perfect sight, to the glory of Thy indwelling Spirit. The experience of many who have demonstrated over near and far sightedness and other defects of the eyes has proved conclusively that in the mind is the organizing power which shapes the structure of the eyes. All that remains to be done, then, is the persistent concentration of 28 HEALING CURRENTS. this thought power long enough to bring the desired re- sult. Failure is due to lack of faith in this power, or lack of sufficient desire to inspire the continued practice of the method until results are manifest. This is the law. Results will prove when it has been fulfilled. (,5* ^5* ^?* MAN'S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSAL MIND. The universe is one vast Mind, expressing itself in all the manifold forms of vitality and intelligence. There are two poles to this great Mind — positive and negative — for it is a mighty magnet of living, attractive force. And if we gain a comprehension of the law of attraction that radiates out from the positive pole of life, holding suns and systems of suns as well as man and every atom of created life in obedience to its one law ; if we understand this law of life, we shall know how to fulfill the law in order to progress to the highest attain- ments ; how to overcome every obstacle to the success of our endeavors. The sun of our solar system is the positive pole of at- traction, which holds the negative planetary spheres sub- ject to its controlling influence, and radiates to all planets the vibrations which we sense as light and heat. The sun in turn is negative and obedient to the influence of some more positive sun of magnetic force, a mightier center which regulates the movement of solar systems. And yet this vast physical universe of created worlds and suns is, as a whole, but the negative pole of the Mind of God. It is the lowest degree of expression of that Great Mind. It is the most inert or negative condition of mind possible. The name matter should not be applied HEALING CURRENTS. 29 to this universal physical substance, because the word is used to express the idea of deadness or absence of life, and there is not an atom in all the universe utterly devoid of vitality or intelligence. All is Mind, an intelligent Mind evolving and expressing more and more of its dormant energy in all substance. Progression is natural to all life. We have grown to our present state of positive intel- ligence through long, hard experience, so that it is well for us now to acquaint ourselves with the aspect of the positive pole of Mind, the source of all happiness, health and prosperity. Therefore we turn our attention from the plane of forgetfulness to the plane of endless con- sciousness. The positive pole of Mind is the individualization and revelation of all the qualities and attributes of the Eter- nal Being. It is the Great I Am, the unceasing affirma- tion and expression of all the love, wisdom and power of the Infinite Unknown. It is the Great Sun of God, forever radiating intelligence and life to all planes of Mind, to all worlds and all beings. These radiations of mental energy from the Sun of God fill the objective heavenly realms with the glory of divine love and wisdom, flowing out through all states of the universal mind until they reach the limit of the orbit cf evolution, when they commence to individualize, evolve and progress back to their source through crystal, veg- etable, animal and human forms, until the human mind and the Divine Mind, blend in conscious unity, and the mortal realizes the immortality of the Sons of God. So we see that the origin of all is God, and that all forms and minds are manifestations of God, evolving slowly but surely the latent possibilities of vitality and intelligence within them, until they become gods, with the conscious 30 HEALING CURRENTS. ability to mold their life and destiny as they will, thus manifesting the will of God. Now for the practical application of these thoughts. We are compelled to progress from negative to positive continually through the experience we gain in the bat- tle for existence, but if we are willing to learn the laws of mind and apply them constantly in working life's problems, we shall develop more rapidly in intelligence, and we shall realize the happiness and success that come from fulfilling the divine laws. The positive pole of the thinking individual is that controlling power of the mind which affirms, I am, I will. This is the magnetic core to which everything of the nature responds. Man is a magnet, an epitome of the Great Magnet, and through his positive pole he can appropriate and indi- vidualize somewhat of all the qualities and powers of the whole, for this power of affirmation unites him to the positive pole of the Divine Mind and enables him to draw from this Radiant Center everything that he may need for the expansion and growth of his own nature. There is no limit to the supply. It is equal to the de- mand, and manifests for man's use when he understands how to appropriate through the exercise of the magnetic power of his mind. He must know that the positive pole of all Being is the real center of his own being, the Im- age into whose Likeness he is gradually growing. By identifying himself with the qualities which radiate from this mighty center, and affirming them for his own being, as the qualities that belong to all intelligence, latent or de- veloped, he will build up the positive forces of mind that will overcome every negative condition of body or affairs. Failure, sickness and misery are not real forces ; they are not positive elements, but the lack of such ; they are HEALING CURRENTS. 31 the result of negative conditions of the mind, and are in- dications of a lack of vitality or knowledge. The intelligence in the nature strives of itself to over- come diseased conditions, to remove irritating obstruc- tions, and to eliminate poisons from the system. This is recognized by physicians, who give remedies merely to aid nature in her work. If the intelligence of the nature can produce health, then if this bodily intelligence is intensified, greater heal- ing powers will result. The mind can polarize the needed vitality and intelligence and draw it into bodily expression from the radiations that fill the mind of the world, by the mental affirmation, I am Life, I am Intel- ligence, I am filled with the Healing Power of the Mind of God. The clouds of misery, fear and discouragement can likewise be dissolved from the mind by lifting it from these negative thought currents into the positive cur- rents of joyous life, strength and unfaltering courage through affirming, I am, I know I am, and there is noth- ing greater than I am. My mind is filled with the light and happiness of true thinking, and I inspire faith and courage with every breath I breathe. The mind may in this way be educated to a strong and substantial faith in its own powers ; it will realize that success is a positive attribute of intelligence, and it should work and study unceasingly to individualize intelligence by this mental culture until the whole character is changed. Then it will feel the strength and power to carry all its designs into successful execution. Prosperity will attend the mind that realizes that all material things are subject to its influence when it lives up to this truth. This will be demonstrated as the mind casts out all beliefs of lack or want, and is trained to 32 HEALING CURRENTS. know that I am success. I am prosperity. I am a mighty magnet for money. I draw to myself every- thing that I desire to make my life comfortable and complete. I will manifest the vitality and intelligence of God, and enjoy health, happiness and prosperity in all my ways, sjw &3* Jw YOU ARE POWER! Tremendous energy and power are stored in your soul, more than enough for every physical need. By con- tinuous affirmation you can bring this power into mani- festation. The patient affirmation of truth continued with persistence — with conviction that all you desire will be accomplished — is the power of faith to bring about all good. Here are some rousing statements : I am a soul organized of the potencies of the living, eternal God. I call all my soul power into action to quicken all my organs, and reorganize my body into an image of health and perfection. God is the power that works through my soul to quicken and purify and spiritualize my flesh. My soul is the power that polarizes the atoms and holds my body in form according to the mental pattern. I am not bound by any mortal or spiritual limitations. I do not condemn myself to grossness. The race beliefs of the deadness and grossness of matter and flesh are dissolved from my mind. There is no deadness or sluggishness in my flesh. It is alive throughout every organ and atom with mental energy and intelligence. I will arouse the dormant powers of my soul and so infuse my body with new life and in- telligence that every particle will tingle and thrill with the vitality and health of Almighty God. I am all mind. My body will respond to everv thought and feeling cen- HEALING CURRENTS. 33 tered in it. I will cultivate the force and negative intelli- gence in my flesh until it becomes responsive and active, until it becomes living thought energy, and obeys the will of my soul. I will infuse all the life and power of my immortal soul into my flesh. I MUST be quickened and spiritualized. I MUST vibrate with life. The intelli- gence latent in every organ must be aroused to operate in divine harmony for the health of the whole body. I bless every internal organ with the cleansing activity of the Spirit of God, which pours through my soul into my mind and fills the blood with the cleansing waters of life. Read these statements over a number of times daily, and pick out someone for special emphasis. The mighty power of God is in and all around you awaiting your word of appropriation. You can speak words of truth until verily your whole nature will be the vibrating Word of power manifesting. t»7* «5* !(?• POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MIND. The mental healer works upon the theory that All is Mind; that every object in existence is an individualized form of the Universal Mind in one degree or another of development or evolution ; that the human mind is the highest type of evolved intelligence, and that it can ex- press more and more of health and perfection through appropriation of the qualities of the Divine Mind, of which it is a self-conscious expression. Consistent with this premise the body is viewed as mind also, negative mind to be sure, but a substance potential with vitality and intelligence, every cell of which is capable of manifesting perfection and of acting in har- mony with every other cell toward the health and per- fection of the whole. 34 HEALING CURRENTS. This places the human being in the aspect of a living battery of mental energy, the thought power being the positive pole and the flesh the negative pole ; and through the constant action of the thought power the individual is polarizing the thought substance from the universal Mind, and the body responds to the thought power and organizes the cells to conform to the characteristics of the mental qualities individualized. In other words, the character of the individual is expressed in every cell of his nature, because the character of mind polarizes and qualifies the bodily cells. It is the constant action of the mental forces of the human magnet that produces all the involuntary actions of digestion, breathing, heart-pumping, etc., and holds the nature in active organization. When either pole of the battery is injured the whole being suffers in con- sequence. The mental healer understands that diseased conditions of the patient are often visible expressions of discordant mental action, the embodied effect of some of the pa- tient's thoughts; and through his thought power — which is transferable from one human battery to another, as electric impulses are sent through space without wires — the healer seeks to inspire the patient's mind with thoughts that will counteract the effect already produced and cause a new physical effect of a more perfect character. It is seen that the germ theory of disease does not con- tradict this teaching of mental causation, when it is remembered that the basic principle of this Science is: All is Mind, and all thoughts seek embodiment in organ- ized form. For instance, the parasite of cancer is a certain quality of thought individualized ; the thought is the positive pole and the germ form the negative pole of that particular type, as of all types of mental energy, and HEALING CURRENTS. 35 the quality of mind productive of cancerous conditions may be handed down from parent to child, passive in one generation and active in the next. These germs are at most but negative forms of uncon- scious or undeveloped mind, and they can be entirely overcome by the positive thought of the mind that rec- ognizes its own power. All so-called matter is a storehouse of potential life and energy; it is the intelligence and power of the uni- versal Mind crystallized and at rest: it is the embodi- ment of the mighty forces and energies of the God Mind ; it is the negative pole of the battery of life, and every power and quality of the divine Mind will be found ex- pressed in the visible nature of God. All the remedies used by the physicians are forms of mental energy, and their quality and power are more positive than the diseased conditions they counteract and overcome. The mental healer applies a positive thought force to the mind of the patient, and through the mind it acts on the mind's organization, while the physician applies a negative form of thought to the body, from which it re- acts on the mind. One works on the positive pole and the other on the negative pole of the individual, and both get results equal to their intelligent efforts. Both methods are good and serviceable according to the development of the individual. The best results will not be accomplished by flying to the one extreme of look- ing to the Spirit and ignoring the needs of the body en- tirely, nor by going to the other of applying the physical elements needful toward the healing, but not recogniz- ing the mind which organizes these elements and pro- duces the perfect result. Man is a composite entity, having a body, soul and spirit that relate him to the Body, Soul and Spirit of 36 HEALING CURRENTS. God, or the Grand Universe, and he must use discrimi- native knowledge if he would keep himself adjusted and in harmony with the Whole. When the human mind is consciously in unity with the Mind of God, and illumined by the principles of di- vine knowledge, every fact that has ever been discovered will glorify God and reveal the action of the Mind of God in every sphere of existence, and in every atom of so- called matter. When viewed from the exalted standpoint of the One Great Mind, all the facts which the scientific investigators have discovered will coincide and agree with all the revelations that have dawned upon the intuitive perceptions of man. Man will evolve to that condition of mastery over his physical nature where he will escape all the ills of the flesh and many other ills beside, when he gains the knowledge of his unity with the divine Mind, and realizes that he can individualize those potent qualities of mind which image forth the likeness of the divine Being; that he can have perfect health and perfect happiness only by having a perfect divine character. Man must understand that the currents of his thinking qualify the blood and nerve currents, which control and feed every organ, muscle and fiber of his complex phys- ical organism, and that there lies within his mental grasp the power to control every action of his nature. Through the wonderful action and reaction of his posi- tive and negative mind, backed up by the Universal In- telligence, the processes of life have been going on un- consciously, and the human mind has not realized that it was the cause of all its discordant conditions, and could just as easily cause harmonious conditions. The body, the negative pole of the human battery, is responding every instant to the thoughts that are gen- HEALING CURRENTS. 37 erated by the positive pole, and as the mind becomes more intelligent and more conscious of its power, it will grow more positive and infuse the flesh with its positive intelligence, giving it vitality and strength to overcome every diseased condition. Man is not only ignorant of his unity with the uni- versal Mind, but he is also busily engaged in thinking thoughts that do not conform to divine ideas, nor ex- press the qualities which characterize the thoughts that emanate from the positive pole of the divine Mind ; he is generating thoughts of lust, hatred, condemnation, fear, malice, selfishness, revenge, cruelty, jealousy and envy, which come into physical expression as a host of abnor- mal bodily conditions. All such thoughts are mortal and tend toward disease and the disintegration of the hu- man magnet. They produce currents which cross with the currents of life and health and destroy the electro- magnetic machine, while the thoughts of the divine Mind — purity, love, praise, courage, power, joy, freedom, suc- cess, and good will — are immortal and filled with the life eternal; they are most positive and have the power to convert, transform and reorganize all the mortal and neg- ative thoughts and resultant conditions into health, har- mony and happiness. As all space is filled with the electric fluid, which only becomes manifest though the dynamo which generates it, so in like manner the whole of Immensity is irradiant with the beneficent healing Thought of the Divine Mind — the Holy Spirit — which will come into action by being polarized to the positive pole of the human magnet. This mighty Mind of God is manifesting its love, wis- dom and power throughout the whole of its vast crea- tion ; it is individualizing its thought wherever there is form or life, and inspiring all creatures with the great 38 HEALING CURRENTS. vital impulse which causes them to progress in the on- ward and upward movement of evolution, from the pole of negative or undeveloped mind to the positive pole of conscious life and intelligence. (£• tt?* *?• HOW TO PRACTICE MENTAL HEALING. The central attraction of the New Thought has been the great fact of its healing power. There has come a mighty wave of New Thought into the mind of the race which has brought with it a merciful vitality for the strengthening of the weak, the healing of the sick and the soothing of all pain. The Angel of Goodness is stirring the pool of life and all who will may have health and peace in overflowing abundance. If you are seeking health, physical, mental or spiritual, it is essential first of all that you thoroughly grasp this fact, that you are all mind through and through from soul to physical atoms. You believe that you are part mind and part matter; that part of your nature is intel- ligent and the rest is inert and unresponsive, except to powerful drugs and stimulants. But the fact of the mat- ter is, every nerve and muscle and atom is responsive to the action of your mind. You are organized intelligence. You are all mind. You have been in the habit of think- ing that all the" mind you had was situated in your brain. To be sure, your brain is the most positive center of men- tal action, and from its substance you generate the con- scious thought that inspires and affects every negative center in your body. If you but stop to think, you will ac- knowledge that there is an instinctive intelligence oper- HEALING CURRENTS. 39 ative in the involuntary action of your heart and lungs, and even in every organ of your body. There is wisdom expressed in the adaptation of every bone and muscle and organ to its proper uses. And this wisdom is a creative intelligence constantly operative in your physical organi- zation. You know your will has dominion over matter, for your will, operating through your arm, can move an inert object. Now that same mental force which acts through your will to lift a heavy weight into the air, or to walk your one or two hundred pounds of flesh the dis- tance of a mile or more, is the same mind that is organ- izing and reorganizing every part of your body, and it is this mental force that can be educated to heal your body and keep you in health. You have misdirected this won- derful force and it has caused you sickness and pain. If you have been fearful of God or man or the devil, you have congealed the secretions and by your fearful thoughts retarded the action of some physical function. You should learn of the love that overcomes all fear. Heavy charges of electricity will burn out the wires and connections in an electric battery, and if you consider that your organization is a mental battery, you will not be sur- prised that heavy charges of anger paralyze the delicate nerve wires and burn out brain cells in such abundance that mental action is no longer possible. Passion will poison the blood and destroy digestion. Fright has been known to turn the hair white in a single night, and ex- cessive joy has so affected the whole organization as to cause sudden death. Woven into your mind are all the false beliefs and feelings of the race, which are the real causes for all men- tal and physical tribulations. The true philosophy of life will correct these and unite you to the fountain of ever- 40 HEALING CURRENTS. lasting life and love from which will bubble forth a joy- ous life and strength sufficient for every need. The second point of importance for you to understand is the marvelous fact that thoughts are forces endowed with an intelligence which enables them to be directed to accomplish what you will, in your body or in the body of a friend. As angels of mercy and love are sent out from the Almighty Presence to carry blessings to human- ity, so from your mind are sent out thoughts endowed with your quality of intelligence, which go forth to cause peace or pain wherever they may be sent. You have probably not realized the importance of that truth which says that God gave man dominion over everything less positive than himself. "Ye are gods," said David and Jesus. You have been endowed by the Almighty with dominion over every negative state of your body-mind. The will power which you have received from your Father is creative in potency, and you can create health and happiness by working in unity with the love and wisdom of God. Disease and pain are the results of a lack of strength Lor intelligence in the inharmonious organ. You can con- sciously increase the force and intelligence in every organ of your body by thinking of the organ as an intelligent thing and blessing it with your mental power of thought. Take the heart for instance. You know that mental ex- citement or fear will increase or disturb the heart's action. If the heart is weak in action, speak strength to it in this way : "I am strong and courageous, and I fill you with my strength and courage. (It is not necessary to repeat the words aloud.) You are organized life and intelli- gence. You are active with the life of God, and there is nothing to limit your strength and power." Repeating HEALING CURRENTS. 41 such words constantly will develop strength in the weak- est heart and cause it to do its duty without a murmur. The bodily organs are like children or animals ; they ap- preciate love and attention. We are thinking so much of external things that all our thought force is spent outside of the body, and when we do think of any particular or- gan it is with a fear or condemnation that it will not do its duty. Such thoughts go into the organ thought of and work to limit its action. Every time we think or speak of our weakness or limit in thought the action of any bodily function, we are actually tearing down the strength and power of our organization. We must un- derstand that as children of the Almighty we are en- dowed with all power and intelligence, and that we limit or expand our powers by the action of our own mind. If we build a mind of faith in the Presence and Power of God in our midst, our faith lays hold of and brings His divine life and intelligence into operation. And likewise, if we place any limit upon our own abilities, whether in the ability to manifest health or success in any department of life, just in that degree do we limit the action of the Almighty in our behalf. God is glorified in glorifying His children ; in making of them gods in his own image and likeness of health, perfection and success. "Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect," is the command. The mind can construct or destroy. Good, harmonious thoughts full of love and praise are constructive. Vin- dictive, pessimistic, angry and critical thoughts are de- structive. Prof. Elmer Gates of the Washington Smithsonian Institution has constructed a breath-con- denser which will reveal poison in the exhalations from the lungs of an angry person. It is known to the medical 42 HEALING CURRENTS. profession that mothers have poisoned their babies and caused them to die in convulsions by nursing them after a fit of anger. This destructive power of the mind can be used con- sciously to dissolve abnormal growths from the body. I defy any false growth to withstand the dissolving thought focused upon it by a persistent mind. Say to any such growth as often as possible, "my body is the temple of the living God, and you have no right to destroy this temple or to create imperfection. I dissolve you by the potency of my concentrated will." An organ in pain can be soothed as you would comfort and harmonize a child. Do not forget that the organ is as intelligent as any animal, and as responsive to a harsh or pleasant word. "I bless you with the love of my soul, which harmonizes all your nerves and atoms." Such blessings will create harmonious conditions. If your blood is impure, think in this manner: "I am a pure spring flowing from the Fountain of Divine Life. My blood is cleansed and purified by the Holy Spirit that glorifies all my life. My heart is cleansed of all impure thoughts and feelings, and I am at peace." Dormant activities can be aroused by persistently thinking toward the organ or organs : "You are the Spirit of Life in action. You are filled with joyous active life, and you love to fulfill the will of my soul in making life manifest." Many have overcome indigestion of long standing by repeating over and over: "I have within me the power from God which is able to digest and assimilate anything that I may choose to put into my stomach. My stomach is a living dynamo of life and energy capable of doing its HEALING CURRENTS. 43 perfect duty. My stomach enjoys its work and loves to assimilate the good life in all things." These are but a few of the many processes that may be used. Each case requires thoughtful attention and much confidence upon the part of the one using the heal- ing thought. If confidence is not aroused after a few trials, you should not lose faith in the methods, but should seek a teacher who can help you to that state of confi- dence in your own powers which is but latent and inactive from lack of recognition and exercise. That part of the New Thought healing which seems to border on the realm of the miraculous is the operation of one mind over another mind and body situated at a dis- tance. It is based upon the knowledge that minds are not distinct or separate, but are surrounded and united in One Universal Mind, of which each one is an organized part. We are all living in an invisible ocean of Mind, and through this ocean our thought waves proceed to the one to whom they are directed, just as the waves of elec- tricity vibrate out from the transmitter o>f a Marconi in- strument to the receiver situated at a distance of thou- sands of miles. As it is possible to send electric messages through space without wires, so may we send the more highly refined electricity of thought from one human bat- tery to another, no matter how far apart they may be. In treating patients living at a distance, the same process may be used as in treating oneself, except that the name of the patient should be repeated mentally about seven times previous to talking to the part of the body to be healed. It should be remembered that the physical body is or- ganized by an invisible power which is composed of thought substance. Our invisible character is a real form 44 HEALING CURRENTS. and force independent of its physical envelope. The char- acter is the positive organizing mind and the body is the negative mind obedient and responsive to the action of the more positive entity. It is through your character that all life and action express in your physical body, and your character determines its quantity, quality, also how successful your life will be. Character forms or limits life. So the real basis of all true mental or physical healing is character building. Now this invisible charac- ter — this invisible part of you — which is so potent in weaving physical substance into grotesque or beautiful physical forms, into diseased or healthy forms of life, is a bundle of thoughts and feelings crystallized. As you have organized your character by your constant thinking, and thus created the cause for your present physical con- dition, so by your thinking you can recreate and trans- form your character and change all the expressions of your body into new and more beautiful texture. If you have piled false thoughts and impure desires one upon the other to cause an unhealthy mind and body, you can begin now to use your thoughts to dissolve the mental building of the past, and work your mind just as per- sistently in forming a character that will be composed of pure emotions and true, generous thoughts. A mind that is in the consciousness of the Almighty Goodness and Love of the Father, having naught but blessings for every soul of God, feeling only kindness and good will toward even the meanest criminal, will glorify its earthly temple with the very Spirit of God, and be transfigured into the image of the divine Perfection, as was Jesus the God- Man. And we all, with perception open to the living truth, beholding the divine Love, may be transformed into the HEALING CURRENTS. 45 same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. We must open our eyes to see that the physical uni- verse is the body of the infinite and eternal God, and if we comprehend how our mind pervades and affects every part of our body, we will grasp the truth that the omnip- otent mind of God is present in every part of His Grand Body. We are surrounded and pervaded by His loving Pres- ence, which is eternal life to all who awake to this fact. We cannot escape from God. We are organized from His Mind and Substance, and as quickly as we recog- nize that we can have all of the Good we can accept and make manifest, we will begin to draw upon the inexhaust- ible Source for all the life, health, prosperity and satisfac- tion we need. We should build our faith strong in the truth that the Almighty is for us, and nothing of evil can overcome us or make us forget that there is only omnip- otent Goodness in us and all about us. It is in those who are apparently evil, but they have not been taught of the divine Presence, and the condemnations of mortals help to keep hidden the germ of divinity that slumbers within them. They are misdirecting the good life and energy with which the Father so bountifully supplies them, be- cause they lack knowledge of how to use and apply their forces, and nothing will save them from their ignorance and sin but the knowledge of the truth of their own unity with the Father. It is very important for us to know that we grow like that which we study. If we keep before our mind the beauty and perfection of the character of Jesus Christ, we will find our souls attracted more and more to that divine ideal, until the same love which he had and has 46 HEALING CURRENTS. at the present time for humanity will be kindled within us, and we shall know that we all are of one kindred and have but one Father, even God. The most perfect and permanent healing is only attained by the perception of this grand truth and the awakening of the soul to the realization of the mighty love of God. This Christ-love must endow us with a feeling of universal fellowship with all souls as children of the one Father ; we must feel to- ward all just as Christ felt, if we would be healed by His transforming love. The Christ Spirit yearns to heal and prosper all souls, but unless it can find entrance and ex- pression through our souls as love, its purpose is limited so far as we are concerned. I have studied all the modern theories promulgated for the healing of the sick, and for ten years I have done nothing else but practice the teachings of the New Thought, and I wish to give as a word of guidance to all who may be seeking for the healing power, either for self-benefit or for the healing of others, that the living personal Christ is the repository of all wisdom and all healing love, and the one who will look to Him con- stantly and draw upon Him continually for the healing influx will find an exaltation of the spiritual nature and an indwelling, heavenly bliss which will bring a culmina- tion of all desires and satisfy the mind with the con- sciousness of an immortal heritage that even death can- not overcome. Study the New Thought and expand your mind with its healing, freeing truth, for it will free you from many misconceptions about God and man ; it will bring you up to date in your thought, for when rightly taught it unites the latest revelations of religion and the latest discoveries of science into one glorious truth. But while you are edu- HEALING CURRENTS. 47 eating your head in this religious truth, keep your heart very close to the loving Heart of God, the personified Presence of the Father from whom streams the healing love and life, without which you are never any more than a mortal, but living and expressing which you are a radiant, healthy Soul of God. t^* t^* (^* THE TRUE WAY. There is but one manner of life on this plane that will bring satisfaction to the soul and enable it to express its powers in an ever-ascending degree through its physical temple, and that is the devotional life. The life that is entirely consecrated and devoted to the God of love and truth keeps the door open for the entrance of His inspir- ing Presence, and fulfills all the divine laws, attaining while incarnate a greater growth and expression of its powers, carrying away from its earthly embodiment a power and wisdom that make it a Godlike being in the realms of eternal life and bliss. You need to keep your mind open toward the God of heaven by speaking the word of exalted truth to all parts of your mind and body with intensity and devotion. It is the intense devotion and love of the whole nature turned in one direction that polarize the Presence and Power of eternal truth. Rouse up your spiritual powers by using these statements daily. My soul is awakened and illuminated by the presence and power of Jesus Jehovah. My soul is glorified by the light and glory that transfigured the living Christ. My soul is radiant with the everlasting power of God and I am satisfied to express this power from day to day. 4S HEALING CURRENTS. My soul is regenerating harmoniously, peacefully and satisfactorily. His mighty Glory folds me round and holds me in eternal peace. The eternal power is with me. The eternal Presence is guiding me in the path of wisdom and peace. The illuminating life of the Christ is born within my soul and all my nature rejoices with glad praise and thanksgiving that the Lord of heaven and earth has taken up His abode within His holy temple. The Lord IS IN His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence be- fore Him. Glory to God in the Highest, Peace on earth, Good will toward men. «5* ^* c5* A GENERAL HEALING TREATMENT. Retire by yourself and study and meditate upon these thoughts. When the mind is filled with them, lie down and relax the body and mind, that the healing power may operate freely. Practice daily an hour or more. Thou omnipresent Master of all forms called life, I am one with Thee; I am Thee embodied and expressed, and Thee I praise for my life and all of life's blessings. My soul is a living, radiant form of Life; a glorious, intelligent individualization of the universal life and spirit of God. My soul, my real everlasting self, is alive in God, and every cell and organ and function of my body is infused with the living, intelligent power of my soul. I am alive with the life of God. 1 am filled with the invigorating vitality of everlasting life. I am an expression of the most positive healing po- tency in existence, and my recognition that I am life HEALING CURRENTS. 49 itself thrills my whole nature with the divine healing energy. I am invigorated and healed by the everlasting pres- ence of the living God. Pain cannot exist in any part of my nature, because the merciful soothing power of life is now satisfying every cell with the oil of joy. The joyous sunshine of life penetrates into every part of my being, and with glad understanding I affirm : I am life, joyous life ; I am peaceful, perfect life. I feel that I am united to the universal life and power of God, and all His joyous strength is focused in my nature, making me so positive with His perfect energy that all disease and pain are overcome and transformed into harmony and perfection. I am in tune with infinite life and peace. My brain polarizes the intelligence and wisdom of life. All the faculties of my soul find free expression through the sensitive substance of my brain. My sex nature is pure, holy life, free from all condem- nations of sin or impurity. These organs generate un- limited vitality and strength, sufficient for all my needs. They generate the fluids which build me a strong posi- tive brain and vital nervous system. I am divine crea- tive energy. My heart is filled with the peace and love of the Christ life, and I am satisfied. My heart cannot be overcome by fear or any oppressive feeling, for it is strong with' the love of life, and my blood is enriched and vitalized with the goodness and purity of life. All Is Life. There is no lack of happy healing life. I inspire life with every breath, and my lungs appropri- ate the ozone and oxygen of life, which feed my blood 50 HEALING CURRENTS. with the exhilarating manna of the sun-blessed atmos- phere. My stomach is a battery of digestive force and energy, constantly assimilating food; it rejoices in the task, for it is an intelligent digestive magnet for all the elements that the body requires. I am the digestive energy of almighty Life. I recognize that all my organs are infused with my soul intelligence, and all are conscious of their duty and work together for the health and harmony of my or- ganism. The free, cleansing Spirit of life flows freely through my bowels, and their operations are not hindered by any conservative thoughts, for I do not withhold the free mercy of God from any creature. My liver is the activity of life ; energized with positive, active intelligence. I recognize that every atom of my spleen is intelligent, living substance, obeying the soul's purpose in my phys- ical economy. I praise the power of endless life and activity in my kidneys, and know that they are the peaceful, perfect substance of life, ever active in cleansing my nature from all impurities. I can outgrow and overcome every weakness, for I am a magnet for the vitality that fills all space. I am con- stantly drawing in the vitality from the all-pervading life of God in nature; and I praise Thee, O Thou all-wise and all-loving presence, that Thou art imparting to me the power of Thy mighty life which enables me to out- grow every defective and inharmonious condition, and I realize the dominion and happiness imparted from Thy indwelling presence in the soul. Glory to God for the healing, perfecting power of life. All Is Life. HEALING CURRENTS. 51 These words may not seem true when they are first read, but by constant repetition they will create a strong faith in the power and presence of life, which will allow the Spirit of life to come into expression. "My words are spirit and they are life," says the Spirit of life in Christ, and, "if a man keep my words he shall never see death." Faith can be created by the wonderful power of the word of truth, and through faith the healing power of God can come into manifestation. c5* v* <5* HOW TO CONCENTRATE. The way to overcome outside thoughts is to cultivate your own thinking power by systematic effort. Have some special studies that are interesting to you, and carry them with you, and use them as a means of con- centration; that is, read them over and over whenever you wish to build your mental power. You must build up a spiritual body of thought for yourself, by thinking truths over and over until they become part of your mind. And you will become so posi- tive in truth that you will feel only the vibration of truth, and nothing else. But this is a practice that must be made the work of a lifetime. The fruitage from it will be a spiritual body that shall grow and develop in power and dominion throughout all the progressions of spiritual life. The Spirit flows into the body only through the chan- nels of one's thinking. In the Thought or Spirit of God there is unlimited healing and transforming power, and as the mind is exalted to feel and think as God thinks 52 HEALING CURRENTS. and feels, the thought power which creates perfection be- comes the inspiration of the body, and the negative mind of the body evolves into an image of its peace and perfec- tion, making visible the God-idea. The mind lives in and senses through every nerve of the body. The will of the mind is done, consciously or unconsciously, in every particle of physical substance; thus you see your body is responsive to mental force. And as your mind is attuned to the Mind which prevails in the order and harmony of the universe, the atoms of your nature will obey the infinite law which planets and suns obey, and will manifest the harmony and health which is the natural expression of God's perfect life. There is life in unlimited abundance. There is in- telligence and power sufficient for every need, and you are given the free will to use and organize all the potencies of the Divine Mind in the building of a temple of health that shall fulfill your ideal and make your understanding of the goodness and power of the Father visible to mortals. t£w c$* &» WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES. The transcendent force called thought links the human organism to the inmost source of power, and endows man with the ability to overcome the limitations of matter. And where does this wonderful force of thought origi- nate? It originates in matter. We gain a new conception of the latent God power crystallized in matter when we realize the fact that mat- ter is the mother of thought. In the history of the evolution of the world we read that the nebulous fire-mist crystallized into a planet of HEALING CURRENTS. 53 solid rock. Through the aeons of time the solid rock evolved from its substance all the forms of life and all the forms of intelligence with which the planet is graced at the present time. Think of it, from the rock man has come. All the glory and beauty and intelligence in the world were stored as a possibility in that ancient granite sphere. Does it not awaken within us a new sense of the presence of power — of Omnipotence — to think of the vast possibilities of life and intelligence stored within the simplest lump of clay ? We call it dirt. We tread under foot with the feeling of repugnance the mother of all our forces and faculties, and do not recognize her unlim- ited possibilities as the very nature of omnipotence, of God. Truly we are awaking to a wonderful vision of the presence of God, as all and in all. Even material science has begun to recognize that what was believed to be dead, inert matter, crystal or metal, has the attribute of sensation. So the truth long promulgated by Mental Science that All is Mind is now being demonstrated as fact by the conservative science of material phenomena. Thought is matter in motion. Thought is the most re- fined, the most potent activity of matter. The organism of man is the product of the progressive evolution of mat- ter; from this most complex organization is born the sublime product called thought, that imponderable spir- itual power which transcends the laws of negative ex- istence. In man matter becomes self-conscious and intelligent. Omnipotence has evolved itself to self-conscious man- hood. The utmost capacity of mortal understanding cannot comprehend what the deific principle, omniactive, has already accomplished. How shall we grasp the wonders that lie before us in the unfolding future? We 54 HEALING CURRENTS. now know that matter is undeveloped mind ; that the at- tributes and potencies of Deity slumber in matter. Through the ages of evolution every type of animal has added a little more development to the brain sub- stance; we are gradually increasing our thought-pro- ducing capacity. The brain is of finer texture and the nervous system is more complex in the human than in the animal form. The force generated in the brain and present in all the nerves is the thinker and the doer — the personality. Every active creature is a demonstration of the power of mind over matter. The lifting of the hand is the rev- elation of the power of thought over matter. We have been exercising dominion over our flesh without being conscious of the fact and without realizing the possibili- ties of conscious control in that very dominion. The body is a chemical battery for the generation of mental energy. The seminal fluid is the essence of all the chemical elements in the food. From it develop brain and nerve cells ; from it is also generated by the mysterious alchemy of life the most spiritual and re- fined powers of mind. Animals and men have progressed with the development of the brain, and the brain has de- veloped from the conserved vital fluid, which has served as a basis for new mental structure and a greater capac- ity for thought. Having come to the recognition of the truth that I am all mind, that every cell of the body has the capacity for intelligent action and is responsive to the will, I desire to cultivate this latent mind of the flesh, so that my will shall be done throughout my whole men- tal organization. How shall I proceed? It is essential, first of all, that there be no waste of the seminal fluid, for this is the matter from which thought force is generated. A man or woman lacking vital force HEALING CURRENTS. 55 cannot be strong- in mind. As his inheritance from the lower animal species man has received strong sexual propensities. With animals preying upon each other, and man warring against man, nature expended her force in the perpetuation of species and developed the sexual instinct to that end. Now, with the highest type evolved and an era of universal peace at hand, the force heretofore expended in the generation of children, or for mere sensual gratification, can be conserved for the higher development of individuality. The animal is an undeveloped and transitional form of man. Now that we have attained to manhood, with self- conscious understanding of our possibilities as mental creatures, let us lay aside the propensities and the car- nivorous habits of animals for the full enjoyment and ex- pansion of our mental powers. Until man has gained conscious dominion over the animal propensities and turned all the sexual force into mental power obedient to his will, he has not become initiated into the real enjoy- ment of life nor made conditions for the permanent health of his body. Perfect health of body, as well as the con- tinual regeneration of the tissues, to the elimination of old age, is possible for all by the application of this prin- ciple of the conservation of vital energy along with the conscious control of the organs by the will. The brain is not limited to the cavity in the skull. It extends the ramifications of its structure through the whole organism. Wherever there is need of more intel- ligent action in the body the nerves have formed into small brain centers. The blind grow brain cells in the tips of the fingers, and through these new centers of sen- sation are able to distinguish colors. The various plex- uses are at about the stage of development of the animal brain — subconscious or instinctively conscious. As the 56 HEALING CURRENTS. mind of an animal may be developed in intelligence, so may these centers of mental energy within the body be developed to a degree of intelligence equal to the main center in the head. We can direct the intelligent force of our thought to any organ in the body and co-operate with the intelligence in the organ to its renewal in strength and restoration to health. A little personal ex- perience may help to make this clearer. I was awakened during the night by an intense neural- gic pain in the nerves of my teeth. It called for im- mediate relief. Just as soon as I became fully conscious I felt that I had dominion over those nerves and could re- lieve them by thought alone. They were merely demand- ing their proper nourishment. I turned the full intensity of my thought to supplying the nerves with healing sub- stance and in a few minutes they were satisfied and at peace. I have found in treating patients, whether present or absent, that many diseased and disturbed conditions had their cause in a depleted condition of one of the sub- brains in the body. It was enough to focus the thought power upon the weakened center, infusing it with new life and strength, to heal and harmonize the diseased condition. We have the directing of an intelligent force which is capable of reorganizing the substance and structure of the flesh ; we can so infuse the body with thought force that its latent intelligence will be developed, and with the awakening of new intelligence in our flesh will come new vitality and new power, until the will shall have the my- riads of its cells so responsively obedient that it will be almighty in its organism, and discord and disease can no longer enter. HEALING CURRENTS. 57 Every center will become sensitive to thought, and will generate sufficient thought to carry on the work of its department perfectly. All the senses will become attuned to a new octave of vibration, giving birth to clairvoyance, clairaudience, and psychometry; and so spiritual will the whole mind become that all the wisdom stored in the omniscient Mind will be open to the intuition of man. s&& ^» t&& FOR A DISTURBED OR DEPRESSED CONDI- TION OF MIND. By the power of my mental word I dissolve all dis- turbing elements from my atmosphere. All the mortal thoughts of the day are dissolved. All the mental dis- cords of the day are dissolved. My aura is cleansed of all dark and limiting mortal thoughts. All thoughts and memories of the day's affairs are dissolved from my mind. The weight of mortal responsibility is thrown off my mind. My mind is freed from all dark and depressing elements of thought. My mind rises into the positive state of joyous freedom and brightness. My mind is filled with the peace and harmony of the Eternal Mind. My mind rises above the negative thought currents into the peaceful glory of the Mind that is always harmonious. Above the discordant vibrations of the mind of the world there is the Mind of God, radiant with the joy-giving ef- fulgence of the infinite Spirit. My mind and soul are lifted up to the contemplation of the realms on high where the angels of God dwell in the serene enjoyment of the grace and glory of the living God. Above the tribulations of the world-mind dwells the glorified soul 58 HEALING CURRENTS. of Jesus Jehovah, radiant with the peace of eternity. "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." I praise Thee, O visible form of God, for the spiritual grace and strength that now enliven and renew my soul. Contemplate in your imagination His glorified soul presence; your mind will be uplifted above all mortal cares and worries, and He will give you of His peace and power. Your soul will partake of His joyous life and strength and rise into the realization of its inmost power as an image of Divinity. »J* (5* t(5* I AM ALL MIND. Consider This Truth, for It Is the Key to Dominion. The body is held in active organization by the mind. The thinking mind is the positive pole and the body is the negative pole of the human battery. The food ele- ments taken into the body are from the negative mind of the Whole, the substance of the negative pole of the God-mind, and the individual mind assimilates from the food taken into the body and from the atmosphere ele- ments like unto itself, which it organizes into the visible expression of itself. The negative pole of the human battery is just as important as the positive pole, and must be cared for and supplied with the proper elements in order to form a perfect battery for the production of thought power, just as the battery which produces electric force must be fed with the proper chemical elements to insure a current. It must be borne in mind that the positive mind is the organizing power, and every cell in the body is a particle HEALING CURRENTS. 59 of mind substance, held in obedience to the polarizing power of the positive thinking mind. The cells of flesh are the bodies of thoughts. Every cell of the body is thought incarnated, and the organs, which are made up of great multitudes of cells, can be educated by the posi- tive mind of the individual ; they can be infused with pos- itive thoughts, so that the cells and organs will progress in the degrees of intelligence and manifest more of life, health and perfection, as the mind becomes more and more conscious of its wonderful organizing power. The progress of the individual toward dominion is only real to the degree that he brings his negative mind into his higher realization of consciousness, and causes each particle of his physical cosmos to evolve and show forth the divine intelligence which he has appropriated and in- dividualized around his positive I AM center. Lustful thoughts and desires fill the nature with a con- suming fire, which poisons the blood and burns out the nerve centers, causing disease and pain in the body and weakness and discouragement to the mind, hindering the human being from enjoying the peaceful, vitalizing in- flux which flows in from the soul life. Joy and satis- faction are attributes of the God-mind, and the soul as an individualized expression of the Over Soul contains all the essentials of happiness within itself, and can im- part the only true happiness to its human mind and body in the degree that it can gain full and free expression through the positive and negative pole of mind which it has organized. Through pure and righteous thinking, or knowledge of the all-Good, the mind becomes the conscious thinking instrument of the soul, the thoughts are filled with the positive light and joy of the soul, and in this way the soul, through education, gains dominion over the various 60 HEALING CURRENTS. faculties of the mind and inspires the will to hold the lower realms of the body consciousness in subjection until all thoughts and desires are educated and trans- muted into positive pure intelligence, like unto the wis- dom of God. When the soul has gained the balance of power over the instincts and desires of the lower consciousness, then its love and wisdom create in the physical nature a per- fect equipoise of the magnetic and electric energies, which is health and happiness to the whole being. Through lack of knowledge of this wonderful power of soul adjustment and expression as the secret of physical and mental peace, mortals place themselves on the plane of animal experience, and seek for happiness through sexual indulgence. The magnetic man seeks satisfaction from the electric woman, and vice versa, but there is no lasting happiness attained thereby, only a momentary gratification, which depletes their systems and weakens their minds, in that carnal desires grow stronger by being gratified and gain dominion over the will and rea- son. The negative pole of the human battery is exerting its power over the positive pole, so that there is a reversal of all the currents in the nature. Individuality is weakened also, because, when the character of the male is the most positive, the female will gradually lose her positiveness, and begin to feel that she is an inferior creature to the male. If the female is the positive element, the male will lose self-respect and power to express his own individuality. Even the cells of the body will become polarized to the will of the one who has the strongest mind. So it is evident that sexual inter- course is neither conducive to real health nor happiness. The electric and magnetic forces are not balanced and conserved for the generation of the inner body of spiritual HEALING CURRENTS. 61 power, but are expended to no purpose. All physical and mental forces find their balance and adjustment in the individual soul in the same way that the magnetic and electric forces, as well as the mental powers of the uni- verse, are controlled and balanced by the Christ of God, the Soul of the Whole. 5^* ^* ^* USE YOUR WILL TO OVERCOME INDIGES- TION. If your food distresses you, hold the following in mind very positively : I know what I have eaten will not upset or distress my stomach. I know that food is an exceedingly negative thing in comparison with my will ; thus I deny that it has any power to disturb me. My will is one with the will of God, whose mighty will focused in my will gives me the power to overcome. I am stronger than the strongest , food, and food must and does serve me. I will not, and hence do not, serve it. I am the master of all things, and I will demonstrate this fact, and prove my true position amidst my surroundings. I will rise against any dis- tressing symptoms with all the assertive power of my in- dividuality, and I resolve not to have pain or distress in head or stomach. Nothing can compel me, the master, to submit to such a negative cause. God has given me dominion over all things. I know this. I will be free. My understanding and my will power now combine to bring this result. The understanding and the will power must work to- gether; neither can get the result alone, for understand- ing is the implement with which the will works. The will 62 HEALING CURRENTS. is the master; both are essential to complete execution. First the understanding of the goodness and power of God in everything, and second the constantly increasing will and determination to make His goodness and power manifest in all ways. Understanding will avail nothing if you have not the will to execute. All should apply themselves to the study of getting understanding of truth, as it is needed for mental building material. As you get understanding, cultivate a strong positive determination to use this wonderful material in building a strong foundation on which you can erect a grand and beautiful life structure for yourself. Keep on trying in the face of every obstacle, and never let anything stand in your way; let nothing make you yield. With such determination as this, as you keep on adding to your un- derstanding, not anything will stand as an obstacle. You can face it, and every force in your world — it matters not how powerful it is — will, in the proper time and place, be- come subservient to your mastership. You are a divine organization of intelligence and love and will combined, and as you keep on striving and aggregating strength to the strength you have by this time acquired through the force of your determination, ALL things, by a God-given law, will give way. But remember, subservient things only acknowledge you in proportion as you assert your- self. Then all things are bound through this positive as- sertion to acknowledge your mastership. You can do all you will to do; this is dominion. Bless all the sick and ailing ones, for each one is a very striking proof that he does not understand the power vested in him. We tell them all that they need not lack health, for health and strength are organized in them ; such is the law of life, the one law. These beliefs HEALING CURRENTS. 63 that they manifest are not absolute truth; they are neg- ative beliefs. They can be overcome by positive beliefs, founded on living truth. Life and health are living truth; two great realities that have always existed and will continue to exist forever. t^% i^* ( from which streams the light of eternal consciousness, seem closed, and you seek for pleasure and peace where none are to be found. Turn you to the light that never fails, to the love that is longing to infold you in conscious bliss; turn from your idols of flesh, which intoxicate the mind and destroy the body; turn to the Lord your God; and if you will worship Him with the same untiring zeal with which you sought for transient things, He will reward you with His unchanging love, and your soul will awaken to immortal life, and then with your help it will purify and glorify the 120 HEALING CURRENTS. sacred centers in your body and teach you the secret of spiritual alchemy, whereby the conserved forces of your body pass through a transmutation that refines them into a substance necessary to the soul in the expression of the Word of Power. And this knowledge will be useless to you unless you have proven your sincerity by overcoming the lusts of the flesh and conquering all attractions that would draw you from your devotion to your divine purpose of making God manifest. For without absolute purity of life, the soul, which has its birth from the immaculate purity of the divine nature, cannot correspond with the flesh, be- cause of the partition of impure thoughts and feelings. But when your will, coupled with the awakened will of your soul, has gained complete dominion over the desires of the flesh, your soul will express through your pure, true thought, and flood the six sacred centers in your body with the soul consciousness, and then will you be conscious of the immortality of the Sons of God even to the most negative degree of your nature. These six sacred centers may be called, because of their inner and outer functions, the twelve doors of re- generation, for it is through these doors that the victorious soul — in the consciousness of Christ, and one with Him in the work of the Father — enters into conscious expres- sion as the son of man. Oh, that all children of the Father might learn of the holy path of regeneration — this straight and narrow path — which leads to the highest mastery, and gives the greatest joy and peace to the devotee. When once you see this path of immortality, its purity, its grace and its bliss, you will be filled with a divine en- thusiasm to travel it to the supreme goal, and you will HEALING CURRENTS. 121 see the uselessness of all mortal aims that do not tend to allow you to fulfill the object of your soul's incarnation, the manifestation in form and power of the Word of God. And once you place your feet on this path you will go for- ward steadily in the progressive way, allowing no ob- stacle to hinder your determination, nor any idea of time to disturb your faith, for you will be filled with the convic- tion that you are in the path of life, and only by system- atic effort for days, months and years can you fulfill the object of your being. And when all thought and desire of your nature are polarized toward the realization of the highest ideal, even the loss of the physical counterpart of the mind will not stop the upward progression through the aeons of eternity, because your soul will continue to inhabit its pure mind- body or spirit form and, like the resurrected Jesus, it will continue the development and regeneration of its mental forces and express its wisdom and power through its spiritual body, in all its future progressions in the objective realms of the universal heavens. v5* ^* $5* AWAKE, MY SOUL, AWAKE, AND CHRIST SHALL GIVE THEE LIGHT. "And now, O Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was." — John xvii:5- Your divine soul nature as a son of God lived in the heavens with the Father previous to taking up a physical form — "before the world was." Just as you would go to Europe or to any part of the 122 HEALING CURRENTS. world for the sake of gaining knowledge ; just as pioneers have braved the dangers of a savage and undeveloped country; just as missionaries sacrifice home for the sake of doing good to an unknown people, so your soul of its own free will and choice left its heavenly home, where all was light and joy, for the experiences to be gained in this world of ignorance, for the development of its latent powers, for the good it might do others, and in due time it will return to its mansion in the skies and rejoice in a fuller and mightier realization of God from having sensed and conquered the more negative conditions of time and space. You, as a personality, do not recall the past be- cause your personality did not then exist; your limited personal memory is the result of present experience; your personality is from below, your individuality is from above. Your personality is the image and likeness of mortal parents; your soul individuality is the image and likeness of God. "The first man is of the earth earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven/' Your divine soul slumbers because of the darkness and materiality of mortal mind. But you, like Jesus, may awaken your soul to its former realization of power and dominion. "If the Spirit of God dwell in you. ... If Christ be in you. ... If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you" — Romans viii:9, 10, II. Recognize and talk to your soul in the following man- ner and its latent powers will respond to your recogni- tion and love. There is an exalted power in these state- ments which you will feel as you repeat them over and over. HEALING CURRENTS. 123 "Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve And press with vigor on. A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown." Awake, my soul, and feel the power of heaven that slumbers in thee. Awake, and realize that thou art one with the power of God. Awake, and realize that thou art the angel of His presence. Thou, my soul, art a magnet for the healing power of the angels. Thou art a conscious power able to draw on the protecting power of heaven. Together we draw on the mighty Spirit of Jesus Je- hovah to be our shield and buckler, our strength and protection. My soul, thou art able to call to our aid the triumph- ant Master of heaven. Thou art able to pray for the mystic protection of heaven. My soul, I praise the mighty Spirit of God within thee. Recall thy power of the divine past, and rouse up thy power to dissolve from me all dark spirits of earth. We are strong with the strength of almighty God. We speak the word of power that dissolves away all disturb- ing mental elements. We are strong with the strength of eternal life, and we can conquer even death. We now realize our victory over every negative condition. We now realize physical, mental and soul strength in the name of Jesus Jehovah. "Father, glorify Thy son, that Thy son also may glorify Thee/' 124 HEALING CURRENTS. SOUL DEVELOPMENT. Soul development is accomplished through furnishing the soul with a mind of spiritual thought power ; through building for the soul, which is a globule of radiant life and intelligence, a perfect mental battery, with a positive and negative pole sufficiently strong and intelligent to allow the powers of the soul to come into manifestation. This cannot be accomplished in a day, or fully even in a year, but is a progressive development through educa- tional growth. If a strong soul should suddenly awaken to anything like the state of consciousness that it realized prior to in- carnation, the quick transformation could not be borne by the mind and body, and there would be such a dis- turbance of equilibrium as to cause a separation between the soul and body. Therefore, each soul awakening must be followed by such soul expression as will tune the mind and body to a more intense vibration of spiritual force, before the human nature is prepared for another endow- ment of power from on high. The first step toward soul expression is along the line of dissolving the erroneous beliefs of the race from the mind; the beliefs of mortal mind in an evil power or presence, which keep the mind in a negative and power- less condition ; and the establishment of a body of faith, through understanding the powerful presence of truth and intelligence. The negative conditions of individuals result from lack of mental development in the right direction ; from lack HEALING CURRENTS. 125 of true faith. There is a positiveness above the strength of mortal mind, in the faith generated from the Mind of God. True faith is formulated from true thinking, and is a positive intelligent mental force capable of cultivation to that degree of power where it will overcome every negative condition of mind, subjective or objective. The soul is Holy Spirit individualized. Thought is the vehicle of Spirit. Thoughts of truth and love are spiritual vibrations embodying the intelligence and power of the soul. The soul can only find conscious expression through thoughts akin to its own nature, therefore such time as is spent in meditation on the I Am, affirming truths of the soul, is spent wisely, and develops a mental body of such positive intelligence as will allow the soul consciousness to come into objective expression. This spiritual study and affirmation develop a positive pole for the soul battery, and through this positive pole the soul will gradually overcome its negative pole of mind — the body — and bring every negative tendency of the sense mind into subjection to its wise dominion. Everything is God in higher or lower aspect or de- grees of expression. Everywhere is the potential Pres- ence full of illumination and healing mercy. All is Good. Take away the names which make all things seem com- monplace and we lose our mortal concept of them and are face to face with an indefinable intelligent force, the visibility of the All-Substance, in which are latent unlim- ited possibilities ready to yield obedience to any idea that the man of God chooses to formulate. The great consciousness that All is Good is in our souls awaiting realization. The constant affirmation All is Good is one method of polarizing mind and brain cells from their weak and negative condition to 126 HEALING CURRENTS. that state where they can become the body of that mighty spiritual idea — the soul. God is an inconceivable Power right with us, in our thoughts and in our bodies, ready to formulate in our faith in any way that we may THINK. We are sur- rounded by the omnipotent power day and night, and we have only to use our thought and will to bring this miraculous power into expression. Our thoughts are living cups which, when rightly formed, become receptacles for the wine of the Spirit. When the thoughts are pure and good they are filled with divine intelligence and unite us with the omniscience of the God-Mind, giving us to know without effort the mysteries of Godliness. Thought is the current that circulates between the positive Mind of God and the negative mind of human- ity. By thought the positive mind acts upon the negative mind, for the thought of God is the Holy Spirit. Only through thought can God be made known to man. Man can express as much of God as he can generate by think- ing, for unless a man thinks positive thoughts of truth there is no direct connection between his mind and the Mind of God. God is within the soul, and the soul is a form of God that has grown to its present strength and wisdom through thinking and expressing the God power latent within. And it is only by constant, devoted thought that the soul will build itself a temple of thought within the flesh and express what it knows of God for the benefit of fellow souls. Souls are hindered in their growth and development by being plunged into the darkness of material life. But the soul contains an individualized power of dominion gained from experiences of past lives on earth and in HEALING CURRENTS. 127 heaven, and the spell of materiality can be put away, al- lowing the powers of the spiritual nature to express in even higher degree than ever before. It is necessary for students to set aside part of the time, when they shall be free from all interference, either in a room apart or close to nature and nature's God. Then material work and plans and all thought of ma- terial things should be put aside, and the whole mind given to deep study — not in extended reading, but in ap- plication to the lessons and thoughts that are conducive to development of spiritual character and dominion. Then the angelic visitants from the immortal spheres will be attracted to the devotee, and* they will touch the magical springs of the soul life as only awakened souls can, and bring the emanations from the Holy One that will satisfy the mind with the peace of eternity, and quicken the soul to a new consciousness of its power as an expression of the heavenly Father. The manifestors of the Almighty Good will come to those who will make and keep them- selves positive with faith in the power of Jesus Jehovah — omnipresent and omnipotent love — and weave the ethereal potency of His Holy Presence into their whole life. Praise His Holy Name. 128 HEALING CURRENTS. THE GLOBE OF GLORY. The Egyptians had a true conception of the soul, for their symbol of the soul was a winged globe. A true conception of the soul and of the triune nature of man is necessary as a foundation for divine growth and un- foldment. Man has a soul that relates him to the soul nature of God, a mind related to the mind of God, and a body through which he expresses in the external body of God; thus he is a perfect copy of the divine nature of God. Imagine a globe of glory, a living sphere of intel- ligent light, organized from the omniscience of God, and you have an idea of your soul. This soul globule is intelligent with the wisdom of God, alive with the vitality of God, and nothing less than a radiant form of His pure glory. God is the Mother and Father of the soul. Each soul is a son of God — a Christ. Your soul is God manifesting — your lord and redeemer. "The Lord said unto my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool" — Psalms 110:1. This scriptural passage mentions the Father speaking to the individual soul, or lord of the body, telling it to sit on the right side, the true side, the positive side, and it will realize the power to overcome all things. Your soul is a stranger to you and you have no realiza- tion of its godlike powers and attributes. When great emotions have been quickened in you by beautiful music, HEALING CURRENTS. 129 or you have been overwhelmed by a great joy, then your soul has been stirred a little and you have sensed its presence. Those who know their soul and obey its will live in an ecstasy of divine realization; heaven lives in them now. It is a common idea that the mind is only in the brain, but the truth is that the mind is a body of mental force, just as the physical organism is a body of physical force, and as such the mind-body is the residence of all life, sensation and memory, for it is the essence and cause of the physical body. At the dissolution of the body, the spiritual or mind-body which has held the flesh in form floats free from the physical body, and as this mind body is the sum of all the knowledge, memory and volition of the individual, it can be readily seen that a person feels, sees and acts just the same in the spiritual body as in the physical, with this difference, that he is not limited by the weight and grossness of the physical form. Imagine your body so light that it could float through space and be propelled in any direction by the action of your will, and you will have a perfect idea of your mind-body or spir- itual form in which you will find yourself when you lay aside your cumberous but useful physical instrument. You are in this spirit form now, and this spirit form is your personal self, but you are so strongly identified with your flesh, being infused into it, that you think your fleshly body is you. You will be surprised to find how complete you are when you enter the spiritual world to begin a larger experience, as the butterfly emerges from the cocoon. I can tell you these things because under the direction of the Masters from the celestial sphere I have gained the power of laying my body down and taking it up at will, that I might be free to enter the heavenly 130 HEALING CURRENTS. worlds and return with a knowledge of truth which would be of great benefit to humanity. The physical body, the spiritual body and the soul body are each on a different plane of being. To illustrate: A person in the flesh, a decarnate spirit and a celestial be- ing may all be in the same room, and the mortal may not see the spirit or the celestial soul, and the spirit may not see the being from a higher or more interior state of existence; but the highest evolved being of the three may see both the unawakened spirit and the unawakened mortal. Thus each person can be a spiritual entity, and have potential within him the soul of a god, and yet not be cognizant of it. True knowledge uncovers the mys- teries that have veiled the divine constitution of man, and enables man to know that there is One within him who is the resurrection and the life everlasting. Jesus was awake to his soul being, and realized as everyone must realize sometime, somewhere, that he was one with the Father, and a manifestation of the Presence of the Father. Your soul, if it were awake, could say of itself with equal truth all that Jesus said of himself. The soul is the life of both the physical and spiritual bodies. Under present conditions the soul does not get a chance to express much more than life through the body, but the education is being spread broadcast which will awaken the souls of humanity, and cause them to express more and more of heavenly grace. True spiritual knowledge is imparted to spirits as they rise free from earthly impediments, with the result that in time the soul awakens to the memories of past lives, and the experience of its last incarnation is blended with all the knowledge gained from an endless past. When the glorious state is reached where the soul re- HEALING CURRENTS. 131 alizes itself one with God, and awake to the delights of ages of experience and effort, where it can review all its manifestations and see the reason for all things, it will no longer need to appear in any particular form like those of earth, unless it wishes to manifest in the lower spir- itual worlds in a form recognizable to someone who knew its personality. The soul in its own estate needs not hands to feel with nor eyes to see with, for it is all sensation and all sight — an omniscient form of the God-Mind — and soul with soul may commune by a blending of spheres, which conveys with the rapidity of thought all that one wishes to im- part to another. In the God-Mind the soul may blend with the spheres of angels and archangels, and the bliss- ful wisdom of the angels and gods existing in the Sea of Divinity vibrates through all spheres out into the boundless expanse of immortal worlds. Even while we are living in the body our soul may be awakened to the joys of the past through divine in- struction, and we may sense the thrill of the divine vibra- tions as the emanations of holy souls come to us laden with celestial inspiration. When the soul desires to incarnate, this globe of light and love descends, and by identifying itself with the fetus, the infant form is quickened with individual life. The soul becomes a potential power within the tiny in- fant form, and gradually develops for itself a new brain and new faculties for physical expression. At about the age of twelve it may begin to express somewhat of its own individuality, but it is a spiritual entity and can only express itself through a mind edu- cated in spiritual truths. In the majority of cases the mind is developed and expanded with earthly knowl- 132 HEALING CURRENTS. edge, but the things that pertain to the soul are not con- sidered of practical use; so instead of being stimulated with love and blessings, the soul more often is covered over with condemnation and false beliefs, that close up all the mental avenues through which its power and beauty might shine forth. Thus the living Christ of each one is crucified by the ignorance of the world. "Though Christ a thousand times and more In Bethlehem's stall be born, If He's not born within thyself, Thy soul is still forlorn." You can fill your mind 1 with heavenly knowledge, and the memories of heaven and its joys will awaken within your soul, so that you will be a radiant center of living joy. You can bless everyone and everything with the love that springs up within your soul from God as you begin to realize that you are the love of God expressing ; and the rainbow tints of light will illuminate your soul, and your mind will grow more luminous day by day, until your presence will dissolve all fear and pain and fill with celestial gladness the sleeping souls of mortals, so that they will be quickened and after a time awakened to the full glory in which you live. And as the divine germ of omnipotence in you develops and expands, you will feel more godlike and your whole life will be a song of praise to the indwelling glory of Jehovah-Nissi, your self-existent Victory. Glorious, most glorious to the eye of the soul are those transcendent beings who inhabit the celestial sphere of the Christ. Each one is a globe of Glory, radiant as a living sun with the light and heat of God's eternal love and wisdom; but loveliest of all is the transcendent HEALING CURRENTS. 133 grace of that mightiest monarch of souls, the Sun of Righteousness, Jesus Christ. The combination of all the mighty souls who have evolved through ages of time to that sublime degree of unfoldment forms the central nu- cleus in the universal soul of God, and from this glorious sphere of light and love the angels and archangels send out the emanations of the God power to the farthest extremes of God's universe, to quicken and awaken the mighty germ that lies slumbering in the being of each individual. Think of Jesus on the mount being transfigured by the glory of his own awakened soul : "The awful glory of that day When all the Father's brightness shone Through manhood's veil of clay." Then bring to yourself the realization of the same quickening power by thinking of the globe of glory within you which is your own individualized soul power, and inbreathe into your own soul the glory of the Master soul, as you sit in the silence communing with Him, at the same time holding the words : Glory, Glory, Glory, and after a little practice you will sense the emanations of His Holy Presence that are imparted by the angelic hosts to every soul who will place itself in the proper attitude to receive the Holy Spirit. "We all with open interior, beholding as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 134 HEALING CURRENTS. HOW TO REALIZE GOD. O blessedness all bliss above, When Thy pure fires prevail ! Love only teaches what is love ; All other lessons fail. We learn its name, but not its powers; Experience only makes it ours. — Guyotni". Philosophy is very interesting to the intellect, but it does not satisfy the heart. Science reveals the working of the laws of God's nature, but the secret of His Presence is not discerned. Music is the most uplifting and inspir- ing of the arts; it moves our soul, and often makes us feel what science and philosophy cannot explain. Music attunes us to the Spirit, and causes us to feel the deep pulsations of the soul nature. God is love, the great emotion of life, the supreme motion that imparts life and activity to all things. To know this is to understand the essential truth of Being, but the mere intellectual comprehension of this truth will not satisfy the heart, nor fill the life with the bliss of the Divine Being; nor will mental acceptance of the truth that God is love impart the divine motion, His transforming emotion to the feelings, so that one is for- ever after a new being, filled with the joyous health and happiness of the Spirit of Love. God is love, and love does not flow into the intellect; love enters the feelings and affections and inspires all the emotions of the heart. The intellect has its use in the HEALING CURRENTS. 135 development of a rational faith, the intellect sees the light of God's presence, but the heart feels the ecstasy of divine realization. The true way to realization is so sim- ple that many, after hearing of it, consider it of so little importance that they continue to search among the com- plex fabrications of philosophy for the joy which only comes through the awakened emotions of the heart. The difference between mortal love and the love of God is that mortal love is personal and thus limited in its pleas- ure, while immortal love transcends all personal limita- tions; it is impersonal and unlimited in its joy-giving power. Personal love feels for a few; the love of God feels for all. If you would realize God, love! If you can awaken your love nature, and, without thought of recompense, pour yourself out as a blessing for others, you will for- get the petty vexations that spring from the limitations of your personality; you will forget yourself in the su- preme joy of loving; you will realize the love for others which is God. Behold, an angel stands before you ! He is all radiant with the glory of the Father's Presence. His face shines with the realization of the beauty of holiness ; every fea- ture expresses the purity, the tenderness and the nobility of Divine Love personified. His presence breathes out the music of love, the harmony of heaven. His whole being vibrates with the light of God. Even his garments are luminous with the joyous radiance that proceeds from his soul. You see the image of God's likeness — of love — and your soul is enraptured with the vision of divine loveliness, as it feels the benediction of love streaming from the angelic character. That angel in all his beauty, in all his power, is the 136 HEALING CURRENTS. realization of the Spirit of Divinity, is the visibility of God — love expressing through an individual form. And that angel is your real self, your soul, the image and likeness of God. Within your soul are all the attributes of Divinity, all the powers and possibilities of the might- iest archangel. Let your soul express and you will realize that you are the angel of His Presence. When you walk the streets and mingle with the people keep this truth in mind, that you are that beautiful angel radiant with joy- ous love to all creatures, and you will find a new joy in life; you will feel that the kingdom of heaven is now a divine verity, and you will allow the truth which makes the kingdom harmonious and perfect — the truth of love — to manifest through your character. I became thoroughly convinced of the utility of this way by reading of a number of nuns, who, living in re- tirement from the world, passed their whole time praying for and blessing humanity. Those who had caught a glimpse of them said it was evident to the sight that they lived in the joy of heaven, for their faces were trans- formed with the wonderful beauty of expressing souls. Not by breathing exercises, not by mental gymnastics, but by expressing love will you realize God. I have walked among people in the realization that I existed but to impart the joyous light of love to igno- rance-darkened souls, and while radiating a blessing to these souls in need, I have felt my soul thrilled with the Holy Spirit; I have felt the love of God for humanity, and to feel that is to feel what Christ felt, the Spirit of Mercy, which endowed him with wisdom and healing power. I have held myself in this attitude of mind while listening to music — "I am Thy love to all souls. I am HEALING CURRENTS. 137 the angel of Thy presence illuminating all souls with the wisdom of love" — and so great became the ecstasy of my soul that I felt like crying out for joy. The wonderful Breath of the Spirit became so mighty in its deep, mys- terious movements through my being that I could scarcely contain myself. Those who are unawakened conceive of God as a pro- found stillness; their idea of peace is a state of in- activity. There is no stillness anywhere ; only in the realm of matter is there any degree of inactivity, and matter is only relatively inactive in comparison with the more re- fined activities of mind. As we enter the deeper nature of man the activity as well as the complexity of active forces increases, and culminates in the Spirit of the soul, which is the breath or motion of Omnipotence, the emo- tion which is love. There are two movements of the love nature, love for God, and love for the neighbor. All religious systems have developed God lovers — devotees who became in- fatuated with the divine ideal as manifested through an individual — and many of these spent their lives in an ecstasy of devotion; they wedded themselves to the teacher or savior, who to them was God personified, and poured out their thoughts in the extravagant language of the lover to his beloved, Jesus revealed the harmonious balance; he realized the love of God through intense de- votion, and then poured it out in sympathy and com- passion for the alleviation of the suffering; expressing the way, the truth and the very life of the Father in his own personality. God becomes real in the character of the Christ. We see how God feels and acts toward us. Many cannot get a realization of the Father's love ex- cept through looking to the Christ as an example. Oh, 138 HEALING CURRENTS. how few realize the wonder of His Presence, the merciful act of his soul in sacrificing the bliss of highest heaven, for the sake of revealing the way to the Father's love, that human souls might be saved from walking in the path of pain and defeat. Only a God could be so forgetful of self; only love in its purity and power could will to ac- complish so great a mercy. The mightiest archangel visited this planet on a mis- sion of mercy! The Spirit of Infinite Love was able to speak to humanity through the highly developed and fully awakened soul of Jesus. God talked to the souls walking in the valley of ignorance, and tried to tell them the healing truth, the saving truth, the inspiring truth; that they were immortal. sons of God; that within their being slumbered the possibilities and powers of Gods ; that they were the immortal seeds of God's love sown in the earth, and from this sowing God would reap a har- vest of living conscious souls. If mortals could but see the beauty of this truth, the goodness of all that exists in the infinite nature, they would live to love and praise; they would rejoice in their power of love and become a radiant blessing of love to each other. You have no idea of the spiritual power that you may realize by the exercise of the spirit of love toward others. You must begin sometime if you wish ever to enter the kingdom of love. Death will not translate you into the kingdom of loveliness, if you are unlovely in character. Neither would death plunge you into any greater misery than you now realize. It would tend to free you from many false beliefs and set you to searching for the way which you should have found while in the flesh, but if you had not cultivated the expression of soul love, neither God nor angel could transform your feelings so that you HEALING CURRENTS. 139 could appreciate an atmosphere of beauty and refine- ment in the society of immortal souls of love and wisdom. But why wait for death? Embrace the opportunities that present themselves in the eternal Now. Now shed that love and compassion which covers and conquers all things, for you will never walk the same path twice, and an opportunity neglected is lost forever. Begin with the lowliest creatures of earth. Think of the tiny forms of life inhabiting the blades of grass, liv- ing under the stones, swimming through the water, and filling the woods with a murmuring music that chants the praises of universal life. Every one of these tiny creatures is an organization of mental energy individual- izing the universal Mind and Substance. The little minds within these beings do not die when the body de- cays ; they continue to exist in the universal Mind and re- inhabit other forms, growing step by step from lower to higher forms, gaining intelligence and power through their endless evolution. Now you can help on the evolution of these small minds. Think of the great length of time that must elapse before these little forms of mind shall have evolved to the place where they will be self-conscious as you and I are self-conscious. Do you not feel a sympathy with their active endeavors to gain and grow in intelligence? Well, you can help them by blessing them with your love and intelligence. When you bless a butterfly, for in- stance, the whole race of butterflies feels the waves of force which proceed from your mind, and their minds are strengthened with the influx. So you can aid, from your more highly developed powers of soul and mind, every creature in existence. God loves, and embraces all creatures in his love. If you would realize God you must 140 HEALING CURRENTS. enlarge your love to feel as God feels. There cannot be any condemnation for anything in universal love. Love has no enemies. Bless all things in the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms; then you will feel more inspired with love for humankind. Think of the myriads who are suffering physical pain and mental anguish for lack of the love which shall quicken the healing power within their souls and give them peace. Believe, when you send out your blessing of love to them, that your love will set their souls to vibrating, and they will feel the blessing and lift up their hearts in praise to the Father, who has inspired your thought and feeling with his healing peace. Do this in His name, for Love's sake, and you will be warmed and healed by the love you shed abroad. You will learn from this practice how to start the mighty stream of love to flowing, and when you have it started you can direct it into any part of your own organism in need of its life- giving and transforming power. It will start as a little trickling rivulet, and as you encourage its expression it will wash from your mind the obstacles to its progress as it flows outward through your nature; it will wash away the mud and melt away the granite in your mind, it will become a rushing torrent of spiritual energy that will convert all the streams of your mental thought and feeling into one mighty motive of divine purpose, which will link your will and all the forces of your nature to the omnipotent purpose of God, and allow his love power to manifest through you. This is the goal toward which evolution is pushing you. This is the supreme attainment of spiritual unity with the Father. This is the way to realize and manifest the love which is God. HEALING CURRENTS. U\ REALIZATION. These affirmations, when made in the proper spirit, will awaken the feeling of divine love and develop the pres- ence of God within. I desire that the Spirit of Christ shall radiate through my soul, mind and body for the inspiration of humanity. I am a radiant center of soul life to all my world. I am an impersonal lover of humanity. From my soul pours the fountain of impartial and impersonal love to all the children of the Father. With true understanding I behold the immortal soul of each individual as the quenchless spark of Divinity, and to these immortals, clothed in the deceptive garb of mortal personality, I give my spirit of living love. I am a soul sun of love and wisdom to all human kind. I bless the good and the bad, knowing that all are chil- dren of the Father, in process of evolution. My soul loves to feel that it is a strength and comfort to all souls. My soul loves to feel that it is fulfilling the work of the Christ in strengthening the poor in spirit. Now I am one with the Father and with all exalted souls in heaven, and now in the silence the radiations of my love and light reach out to all souls incarnate, up- lifting and inspiring all within my sphere of influence. I am a link uniting Divinity with the lowest states of life, and through my love for all life I have an omni- present influence for good. I praise and bless the evolving life in the mineral and 142 HEALING CURRENTS. vegetable kingdoms of nature, and in response to my recognition and blessing there comes flowing back a wave of omnipresent vitality. I recognize and bless the intelligence of God that is striving to manifest throughout the animal kingdom. I bless the lowly ones in human form who have not yet realized the omnipresence of God. I bless them with the quickening light of eternal life. My words and thoughts of blessing clothe the spir- itual light in vibrant substantial form, enabling the light of God to reach the lowest depths of mortal mind. My thoughts of truth shall be living, quickening seeds of immortal life sown in mortal minds, and in God's good time they shall bear fruit and lead minds to the Sun of Righteousness. I am a mighty magnet radiant with the attractive power of the Christ love and compassion, that con- tinually draws souls to the immortal Christ. My life and mind and soul shall serve and praise the immortal Jesus Jehovah whose Spirit has led me into the path of everlasting bliss. %&& 10* ^* ORGANIZATION. Much has been said and written against forming or- ganizations for the promulgation of truth. Those who condemn the organization of individuals for the accom- plishment of any purpose are answered by the logic of nature, which is the voice of God. Only through the process of organization does the life of God manifest in his universal nature. Without the law and process of or- ganization there could be no form of any kind. HEALING CURRENTS. 143 Whenever the Spirit of God has anything to accom- plish, there is evolved an organization of atoms, of forces, of individuals or of souls for its accomplishment. Even the atom is held by modern science to be an organization composed of a central ion surrounded by a large or small number of electrons. Thus the atom is composed of a central spark of force with a number of smaller par- ticles of force surrounding it. And atoms are aggregated together to build every variety of form in existence. The solar system is but an atom greatly magnified. Every force, material or spiritual, evolves a suitable organiza- tion for its expression and manifestation. If, in the early history of the planet, atoms had not begun to organize and build forms the human form would never have been produced; for the human body is the most perfect organization that nature has yet evolved. Organization does not cease with this material world. It continues into the spiritual worlds. We see an intel- ligent power working to organize atoms into forms for the expression of various elements, and we see the same law working through human intelligence to draw minds together of like motive and thought for the fulfilling of ideals. What we see nature doing apparently in a blind way, and what we see human folks doing lamely, we may be sure nature more spiritualized and more spiritual beings are doing according to the greater wisdom and freer expression of power that pertains to such states and beings. Around and above us there is a mighty organization of souls, of living eternal beings, invisible to physical sight but nevertheless of great influence in the mind of the race. There is a supreme head to this vast organiza- 144 HEALING CURRENTS. tion of souls, a central soul of majesty and power whose being is the keynote to the whole. The triumphant soul of Jesus of Nazareth is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. He is the true Master of souls, whether free or incarnate. He is the supreme organizer of souls. As the planets are held by the attraction of the sun, or the little particles of electric energy are held by the central spark in the atom, so the sons of God, the souls of just men made perfect, are attracted to that soul who is the Sun of Righteousness, and with him form the mightiest organization in existence. All souls who have awakened to the consciousness of the Christ power, all who have realized God as the soul power of their being, and have gained dominion over material things and forces by the exercise of that power have, in the spiritual worlds, risen to the soul es- tate of gods, and live and work with Christ for the edu- cation and upliftment of humanity, both incarnate and decarnate. They have realized in their own souls the mercy of God. They realize divine compassion for souls bound by the limitations of ignorance, and they work and pray un- ceasingly that the light may penetrate the darkness of mortal ignorance and dispel the gloom and sorrow which hang over humanity. Under the mechanical law of reaping what we sow, we might never hope for freedom from the unceasing fruitage of evil thoughts and acts. We should be bound forever to reap all the evil thoughts that we had sowed into the Mind of the world'. The seeds of past evil thoughts would continually come to fruitage in discord- ant conditions of mind and body. The Hindus taught that souls were bound to the wheel of the law of cause HEALING CURRENTS. 145 and effect, bound by what is termed Karma. They dei- fied Karma and gave it unlimited power, as the unen- lightened Christians deified the Devil and made him al- most equal with God ; and both were bound in slavish fear to their own ignorant beliefs. But we now have caught the gleam of heavenly truth. We now know that sin and sickness have no right to limit the soul's expression. We know that by faith in the goodness of truth, by ex- ercise of our positive thoughts of truth, we may dissolve the evil seeds of past sowing and consume all their rank mental growths. By the grace of divine truth, by the grace of Jesus Christ and his ministering host of angels, we are saved from the sins of ignorance, and our souls realize their inherent, God-given dominion over all Kar- mic laws, over all mental causation, and our souls are enthroned with Christ at the right hand of Power, in the realization of the omnipotence of the Cause of causes, the glorious truth of divine love. The beneficent light of heaven is poured into our souls by the ministering hosts of the Christ, and the slum- bering soul spark within us is quickened ; new aspirations are born ; we desire to know and feel higher ideals ; and the quenchless flame of love is kindled within our souls and our bodies become filled with and healed by the living glory of our immortal nature. To the age-long work of the Christ and his redeemed souls must all credit be given for the golden glory that now illuminates the Mind of the world, which is now as never before saving humanity from the dominion of sin, sickness and death. The work that the Father gave him to do, and which was started by him during his earthly incarnation, has grown in grace and power through the ages, more so in the spiritual realms than on the earth plane, until now the hosts of 148 JIEALING CURRENTS. heaven of every race and creed and color are marshalled for the glorious consummation of making the kingdom of love and peace, health and prosperity, manifest on earth as it is in heaven. With wondrous rapidity minds are awaking to the light of truth that is shed all about them. Souls are being kindled all over the world, and many voices in many tongues are telling of the healing, saving Spirit of Truth, and whenever the full conditions are made the Spirit heals. Some have tried to gain a monopoly of the truth and claim all rights to its promulgation. Organizations cannot bind or limit the great light that is flooding the earth. We need not fear that anything but good can come from any organization. Organization has been espe- cially useful in overcoming the prejudice and ignorance of old creeds and superstitions, and as a protection for the pioneers of truth in the wilderness of ignorance against the savage resistance to truth. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they become the Sons of God" radiant with the divine glory of love and wisdom individualized within the soul. They are led by the Spirit of peace and purity. They are fed con- stantly on supernal love and wisdom. Their souls glow with the substance divine, and they know their kingship as sons of Jehovah God. They know the companionship even while incarnate of the immortal sons of God, old in wisdom and power. They love His name and keep His precepts, and the Christ Spirit of mercy and Grace abides within and expresses from their souls, radiating from them to quicken and strengthen other souls. They are ministered unto by the holy angels, and in turn minister unto souls in need. In the name and love of our Lord and Master — the HEALING CURRENTS. 147 Lord of hosts — we find the fulfillment of all the desires of our souls. In His name comes the comforter — the Holy Spirit — through the ministering power of the holy angels, filling the soul with love, the mind with wisdom and the body with life and health ; even bringing into the life of the one who fulfills the divine law a prosperity which is unfailing. Your souls are composed of the glory of God, of His radiant, divine substance, sparkling with conscious reali- zation of endless love and life. Take this affirmation of praise into your mind and heart: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, The whole earth is full of His Glory." Know that your soul is full of the glory of God. Strive to realize that your earth (your body) is filled with His Glory — the glory that radiates from the immaculate soul of Jesus Jehovah. He is the visibility of the Absolute God to your soul. He is the Door to the eternal life, now. Draw His glory into your soul, for He is the resurrection and the life everlasting within your soul. His essence and substance are within your soul. The Christ child slum- bers within your virgin soul. Let His Spirit bring forth the immortal conception within you, and His presence will fill your soul with immortal bliss, undying love. His glorious consciousness will grow so great within your soul that you will transcend the limitations of mortal knowing and feel and know as the angels feel and know, with the full intuition of the omniscient Mind of God. You will partake of the manna of heaven. Your soul will be so thrilled and satisfied with the grand passion of its Lord — of love in the sublime degree — that there will be 148 HEALING CURRENTS. no craving for mortal affection. You will be a radiant love power always giving love to souls, but never seeking it in return. The inexhaustible riches of Christ's love will be your satisfaction and eternal peace. "Ye are complete in Him." V& l£* %£* PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. The foregoing article seems too good to be true, but I can testify that it is the record of conscious revealment. I have seen with soul sight that which I teach, and my record is the same as given by John. (I. Epistle, Chapter i and 2. Read "blood" as the symbol of wisdom.) How is it to be realized? By unceasing devotion to God through daily study of divine truth, daily prayer for more of the Spirit in heart and mind, united to mental affirmation of the love and wisdom and perfection in the soul. You are on this plane of manifestation for no other purpose than soul development and expansion. Through fulfilling this necessity of your being you will find endur- ing rest and satisfaction, and in no other way. If you do not develop you immortal soul, but instead turn all your attention to earthly things, when you lose your body you will not find enjoyment in the realms of light. As a spirit you will feel no attraction toward the realms where con- gregate the artists, musicians, scientists or wise men of heaven. Unless you develop a love for divine wisdom and express love in helping others while here the social life of the heavenly spheres will prove monotonous to you, because there is no happiness there any more than here except in the activity of the higher faculties of the mind HEALING CURRENTS. 149 and soul. So if your love is for earthly things and affairs entirely ; if your treasure is in this world, your heart will be here, and you will remain in the atmosphere of earth as an earthbound spirit, hovering about the marts of trade, in the bank or in the saloon — according to your quality — in an unsettled state of weary search for the peace which earth-life cannot give you. You may so strongly desire to be back in the ways of the world that you will be will- ing to lose your memory for a time and become incarnate again in human form — just because you have no affinity for the spiritual life. Neither God nor spirit would deter you from incarnating in a baby form and again going through this grade of Life's school, if you desired to do so. And you might incarnate a number of times if you chose until you tired of earthly experiences or had ac- complished the full measure of your desire through rein- carnating. Each one is a law unto himself in this respect. God leaves our will free, and we are always free to choose any path of progression that suits us best. There is no com- pulsion but that of uneducated desire. I must say right here while on this subject that I know from authority that is divine that no soul or spiritual be- ing is compelled to reincarnate against its will or desire. People in the world live and talk on the nothing side of life. The frivolity and attractiveness of mortal life is not endowed with eternal life and joy. It is all transient and as far as we are concerned must come to an end. And when minds live in the contemplation of material things apart from spiritual realities, they lose hold of their soul life and come to nothing — they die sooner than would be necessary if they kept hold of the life of God, within and above the soul. 150 HEALING CURRENTS. We need to magnetize our minds by contact with the central dynamo of Life in order to partake of His vitality to enable us to overcome the dying habit which is natural to physical forms. Forms die when they can no longer be made to serve the purpose of Life. Those who keep their conversation and their thoughts in the eternal light of heaven become immortalized while here ; they live in heaven while here, and when they tire of physical activities they lay aside their physical form as they would lay aside a garment no longer of use. The physical and spiritual worlds have become blended in one great reality in which they live eternally whether here or there as to visible presence. New Thought students, in the discovery of the power of mental affirmation, are apt to underestimate the value of prayer. This comes from a belief that the soul is all- sufficient in itself, and from a lack of understanding of the great fact that the individual soul is as dependent upon the invisible inhabitants of the spiritual realms all about and above us for its sustenance and strength and proper development as the personality is dependent upon mortal teachers and parents for its care and education, as well as upon the farmer and store-keeper for its supplies. Some have a sort of a vague idea of God as a prin- ciple, capable of thinking without a mind, of acting with- out the use of form; a formless energy that is watching about everywhere ready to do every one a good turn with- out the asking. Remember that the law of cause and ef- fect operates with the same undeviating exactitude in the spiritual realms as in this world. If you want to gain any effect, to heal a disease, to overcome a habit, you must start into activity a cause equal to that effect. HEALING CURRENTS. 151 The exalted consciousness of Divinity — God — does not come into contact with material things, or with mortal minds, except through the mediation of souls. God has evolved souls for that purpose. Souls are the individ- ualized activities of God. Souls are the eyes, ears and hands of God. Souls that have awakened to the inner consciousness of God feel the movement of His Spirit, and through the working of that inner Will of wisdom and mercy they work from the spiritual side of life to ful- fill the prayers of humanity. We are co-workers with God in the manifestation of His Will and wisdom. God needs us ! He is as dependent upon us to act for Him as we are dependent upon Him for the power to act. And we, incarnate, are dependent upon our elder brothers and sisters in spirit life for much of the goodness, health and prosperity that we experience in this life. And by prayer to the Father or to the Christ we set in motion an intel- ligent power which communicates our desire to the proper department of the divine Mind, and when the desire has grown to sufficient strength through continual prayer or through even one very intense prayer, it furnishes a basis of mental energy through which divine intelligence may operate to bring results. If we do not pray to the Divine for what we need we do not make our desires known in heaven. All desires are prayers, and all desires bring results equal to their strength and intelligence. If we have a desire, that desire will go out from our mind and work on other minds to bring results. It will not rise above the plane of thought in which it is generated. It will grow stronger as it is held daily; its force and ability is increased by added desire. But it works singlehanded. A desire uttered in prayer to God gains the co-operation of angelic beings. 152 HEALING CURRENTS. Prayer sets in motion the Providence of God, which is an organized power composed of multitudes of mighty spir- itual beings. Every prayer creates a thought-form which becomes visible before the angels of God, and His Spirit of wis- dom works through them to try to bring about condi- tions for the answering of the prayer. The many limita- tions to the answering of a prayer cannot always be over- come immediately, and so the prayer must be persisted in until the forces of heaven and earth are able to combine to bring its fulfillment. If through lack of faith or dis- couragement the prayer ceases, co-operation from the heavenly realms will soon cease, because the angels are dependent upon human minds for the thought force nec- essary to them if they would operate in the Mind of the world. Jesus, understanding this, gave the parables in the eleventh and eighteenth chapters of Luke, showing his disciples how, by unceasing prayer, they should keep knocking at the heavenly gates of supply. During the war the prisoners in Andersonville prison were dependent upon the filthy and unwholesome water of a little creek that passed within the stockades. They prayed to God for water to drink, and from under a tree stump there gushed a spring of fresh water. The prayers of many minds generated a mental power which was used by the powers of heaven to help that hidden spring of water to burst forth from the bowels of the earth. The powers of God have no conscious activity on this plane except through the mental organization of persons on this plane. They require our faith and co-operation. In the seventies, Minnesota was overrun by locusts. After every other means had failed the Governor called for the prayers of the whole state that divine aid be in- HEALING CURRENTS. 153 voked for the saving of the crops. The little pests became extinct on the day following the prayers. In England a large institution for boys was kept sup- plied with food and funds by the prayers of its founder, George Muller. He did not even ask for what he needed, and his expenses were very large, there being several hundred mouths to feed. A quarterly report was sent out to those interested, and from all over the world money and supplies kept pouring in according to the need. His prayers brought the aid of heaven, and those who had means in abundance were influenced to give by the in- visible agencies which his prayers invoked. The world is again waking up to the realization of the power of the prayer-answering God. Even the most conservative orthodox journals are giving space to those who write about the health, the prosperity and the gen- eral spiritual good that has come in answer to prayer. Prayer serves a purpose that simple desire, affirmation or suggestion cannot serve, although these methods are of great value in the proper development of the soul and mind. Up to a few years ago, my life seemed a downright failure. I could not make a success of anything. I was sick in body and morbid in mind. I lacked individuality. But I learned of the Way, the Truth and the Life. I learned how to commune with God. Through learning how to pray I found the power in God that gave me in- dividuality. Through prayer I drew into myself that es- sence of the Spirit which made me a conquering man. Through prayer my soul reached out to its Father and received its daily bread from His living Word of ever- lasting life. My soul drew on the Spirit and became 154 HEALING CURRENTS. aflame with the divine glory. It was born again of the water of truth and of the Holy Spirit. A material illustration may make more clear the value of prayer to a human soul. There hangs from the ceiling a live wire charged with the positive electric current from a mighty dynamo. In my hands I hold the negative wire. I reach up and touch this negative wire to the positive wire, when immediately there is a blinding flash of elec- tric light. Thus it is that man is glorified. God is the positive Mind, the positive Spirit. Man is the negative mind, the negative spirit. During prayer the mind of man reaches out (and within) toward the positive Mind of God, toward the Mind that is full of the realized power generated in the dynamo of omnipotent Love, and when the prayer becomes sincere and intense with love and de- votion there occurs that wondrous meeting of the human and the Divine, the negative and the positive, and the flash of immortal glory fills the negative mind with quick- ening power that makes it a source of life and power forever after. Many have felt in greater or less degree this touch of the Divine ; it was a time of conversion with them, and they look back to it with tender recollection, and look forward to the future state of bliss in heaven as a continuous feast of spiritual communion like that one glorious experience of the past. But why wait for heaven when heaven waits for you ? That communion may be a daily fact of your experience, and its realization should be sought for daily. Let it become the dominant pur- pose of your life to grow spiritual, to manifest God. Gradually turn all your desires in that direction and com- pel all your destiny to work to that end. Do not let any apparent limiting condition thwart your purpose. By prayer you may have the co-operation of God, and work- HEALING CURRENTS. 155 ing with God as your faith and strength all things are possible; you can become invincible. All power wills your permanent success. Pray to God and His Christ and your prayer will reach the most exalted plane of power, drawing to you the blessings of the highest and holiest souls in heaven. In the following the prayerful attitude is united with the affirmation of truth, making together a very powerful combination. Oh Mother-Father God ! I am a soul child born from the blending of Thy divine attributes. Satisfy me with Thy love. In my soul are cradled the masculine and fem- inine potencies of Divinity. My soul is an organization of Thy love, wisdom and power; an image of all Thy qualities; a Seed of Divinity. Through living in the glorious sunshine of Thy Love, all these wonderful soul potencies are becoming quickened. Glorify me with the illumination of Thy loving presence, that I also may glorify Thee. I am a perfect soul born from Thy perfect nature, but I need to live in the sunshine of Thy Spirit, that the power within may grow and develop as a seed of God sown in an earthly body. I need to commune with Thee consciously, thinking the thoughts of Thy Mind and feeling the emotions of Thy great Heart of love in order that this negative earth-mind and body may become fertilized with Thy life, making a perfect soil for the expansion of the soul seed of power within. My soul is illuminating and healing this mind and body as I commune with Thy Spirit. My soul becomes more glorious as I exercise Thy love and wisdom. I am Thy soul-son. The glory that transfigured the mortal flesh 156 HEALING CURRENTS. of Jesus is in my soul and will now transform my charac- ter and transfigure my flesh as I inbreathe Thy Holy Spirit by high desires and holy aspirations. I am com- plete and satisfied in Thee. I am Thy immortal son. Thine is the power and glory forever. Amen. a healing prayer. Living Father! I recognize that my life is one with Thy unlimited life and power. Thy constructive Mind is within me, build- ing my mind and body in strength and perfection. I open my mind to the influx of Thy mighty Presence of health and peace. Thou art within me a fountain of vitality flowing into every faculty and organ of my being. Thou art God within my nature, and thy life and health have all power to regenerate and heal my body. I am organiz- ing Thy life and strength into a mind and body of health and perfection. Thy substance is feeding and restoring every part of my body to positive health. I praise Thy healing life and intelligence in every organ, in every nerve, in every atom of my flesh. I praise Thy glorious wisdom which is illuminating my soul and purifying my mind of every limiting thought. I praise Thy tender, healing Love which invigorates and upholds me, and dis- solves away all fear. Oh, Living Father, this is Thy holy temple, make it a perfect dwelling place from which shall radiate Thy healing love and wisdom to all Thy chil- dren. Father, glorify me with Thy healing power, that I also may glorify Thee. Read this prayer over a few times, trying to realize every word within your being, and then sit in the silence while the Spirit of the Father flows through your nature, fulfilling your desire. HEALING CURRENTS. 157 to increase love. Loving Father! Bless her mind with Thy wonderful love which dis- solves away all vindictive feelings. Hold her personality in the glowing presence of Thy harmonizing love until all her antagonistic feelings are melted down. O Father, melt from her heart all hateful thoughts and feelings. I bless her with Thy love which overcomes all her feelings against me. I feel so great a love flowing from Thy pres- ence within my soul that when she thinks of me she is disarmed and cannot feel aught but love. I bless all my world, visible and invisible, with Thy harmonizing love. All is love. I bless all the intelligent centers in my body with Thy healing love. From my awakening soul I pour healing love into every part of my body. Thy love streams out from the presence of Jesus Jehovah filled with the power to heal all my flesh and it holds me in eternal peace. Thy love is my mighty protection. I praise Thy Spirit of love. O THOU ETERNAL SPIRIT OF WISDOM ! Awaken and inspire my soul with Thy Divine Breath. Let my mind become illumined with Thy glory. In- spire all my thoughts with the pure light of Thy Om- niscient Mind. I pray with all the sincerity of my mind for the Spirit which shall quicken my intuition and lead me into the highest, holiest understanding of the mys- teries of Thy Divine Life. Guide me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah, in the path of light and love. With all the fer- vor of my emotional nature I desire Thy wisdom. In- spire my judgment and increase my power of discrimina- tion. Help me to live like Jesus Christ under the inspira- 158 HEALING CURRENTS. tion of Thy Holy Wisdom Power, that the power of Thy Spirit may become manifest through my mind and body, for the increase of Thy Glory in the souls of humanity. Thine be the honor and glory through time and eternity. Amen. Our Father ! Father of all souls, who art in the pure, heavenly state within all souls, who art the Soul of souls — hallowed be Thy Name of ever-living, ever-potent love. May Thy kingdom of love and justice become manifest to all beings in human and animal forms; may Thy al- mighty Will, which bringeth peace and plenty, be done on earth as it is done in the heavenly realm of souls. Thy wisdom and love are revealed in the peaceful purity, and in the grace and perfection of our souls. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in mind and body as it is done in our souls. Give us this day our daily bread ; fill all our necessities and satisfy all our desires from the goodness of Thy om- nipresent Mind, and feed us spiritually with the bread of life, that we may grow strong in the wisdom and dominion of Thy Spirit. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who tres- pass against us. Dissolve from us all condemnation and teach us to see the angel of Thy Presence in all; inspire us with Thy feeling of love and compassion for all souls, that we may quicken and resurrect the latent goodness and power in souls incarnate. Lead us in victory over all temptations, and deliver us from even the appearance of evil. Let us feel the attraction of Thy Spirit leading us to freedom from all mortal at- tractions, that we may fulfill the laws of the soul-life as HEALING CURRENTS. 159 sons of God — joint heirs with Christ in the purity and power of God. We abide with Thee now in the bliss of Being, for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for- ever and ever. Amen. %?• ^* <^* THE GOD-MAN. Man is the highest expression of God, and he can evolve to a higher type of being through the understand- ing and recognition of the truth that he is the Mind of God through and through, from soul to physical atoms. Man is making visible as much of God as he realizes ; manifesting the life and intelligence that he has ap- propriated from the universal source. The God-Man is conscious that his substance and life is God. His mind and body have been educated to that de- gree of consciousness that he can truly realize and affirm : "I and my Father are one." He has polarized so much of the Infinite Intelligence into his brain, and educated the cells of the body to express so much of life and intel- ligence, that every part of his being is positive God-Mind, developed from negative mind into a consciousness of power and dominion that commands the respect and obedience of all negative and undeveloped forms of mind. He is the temple of the living God, and God lives in and glorifies his whole nature. The negative conditions of disease and death find no place within his organism, for each atom has become positive with conscious life ; and the latent healing power resident within each living cell of tissue, which is a cer- 160 HEALING CURRENTS. tain manifestation of life and spirit, has evolved until the whole body expresses the healing Spirit of God. There is no craving for the gratification of the senses or longing for the companionship of any being or beings, for the soul has awakened to conscious unity with the bliss of eternal Being, and realizes that it is an organized expression of the masculine and feminine principles of the Divine Mind, a complete whole within itself; and having educated the sense mind up to its own plane, it is able to hold in equilibrium the magnetic and electric forces of the human battery, which satisfies the nature with divine peace and harmony. The Christ Mind is the mighty key to this spiritualized nature, the vital tone to which every atom of the body is tuned, and his life is radiant with celestial melody as it vibrates throughout the tiny spheres filled with universal life and love. This is the joyful sound, so free from fear or care, It springeth forth with joyous bound all through the etheric air. He lives in the opulence of omnipresent love and is permeated with its supreme glory, which transfigures him — when he retires from the world for divine communion — and holds him in the ecstasy of immortality. He is that love individualized, and is filled with the eternal energy of giving and receiving. He is a perpetual spring, for from his heart and soul life there emanates the blessing of universal love to all ; from his mind flow the illum- inated thoughts of truth, filled with freeing, healing grace for humanity; his lips speak forth the words of everlasting life and joy ; and his hands are active in im- parting the healing touch. HEALING CURRENTS. 161 Through his intuition and acquired knowledge, he fur- nishes to his associates valuable and useful information; the tone of his voice interests and impresses those with whom he comes in contact; and through the truth which dwells in his own life he is able to give to others the pearl of great price. He is constantly giving and receiving. His friends for whom and with whom he is working are receiving with him from the one living invisible Source, whose center is everywhere. Knowing truly how to give and receive, how to at- tract and express, he is living in opulence, for he is com- plying with the law of divine circulation that fills his emptiness from a limitless store. He is living in the understanding of his union with the inexhaustible Source of all ; the inexhaustible productive- ness ; the supreme love which is all-sufficient in all places. Having but one great desire, the healing, awakening and freeing of God's beloved, he is in tune with the mighty purpose of God, which gives him a power and wisdom that penetrate to the root cause of all manifesta- tions ; and all forces in the universe conspire to carry out his will; and success crowns his efforts with perfect ac- complishment. The limitations of matter have disappeared from the consciousness of the God-Man, for his pure penetration into the essence of things has resolved all the different and varied forms of manifestation into the one responsive Substance, which obeys his will because he has entered the plane of consciousness that is the essential element of all substances, and from this plane of causation he can move the interior springs of all lives, and as an em- bodiment of God he causes all things to conform to his mighty purpose. 162 HEALING CURRENTS. This spiritual man, standing in the consciousness of the real and true, sees all things as they are and not as they seem to the eye of uneducated sense, and to his vision the universe is spread out as a limitless sea of in- telligent mental forces, a vibrating ocean of light and life, glistening in every atom with the effulgence of a mighty intelligence, and comprehending in its boundless love all the beings who have evolved from and who forever dwell in the breadth, depth and height of its immense activity. Seeing that All is Mind, All is Good, All is God, the God-Man is one with all of God and God's expressions ; there is no limitation to his vision or to his knowledge, for he is God in every faculty, and can hear all the vibra- tive whisperings of the Good in all the universe, and en- joy the blending of his mind with the Mind that fills in- finity, partaking of Divine Omniscience. Realizing that he is all spirit, and that there is no law but the Will of God, and he is himself that will, what- ever he wills will be effected through his nature. He can become positive to the light vibrations of space so that mortal eye cannot see his form, and he can make himself so positive to the attraction of earth that water will seem a solid substance to his feet. He will also exert a powerful and beneficial sway over other natures who are willing to be dominated by his positive will of good- ness and peace, which quickens them with the vitality of Eternity, and satisfies their whole being with the living bread of life. Glory to the perfected God-Man, for he is the per- sonality' of the Absolute God. HEALING CURRENTS. 163 A CONCEPTION OF GOD. The basis of all systems of thought is God, Every new philosophy is founded on a new conception of this one primal power. The many seekers after God are like the blind men who tried by groping to get a concep- tion of an elephant. One got hold of the tail, and to him the elephant was like a rope. To the one who found the trunk the elephant was like a snake. Running against his broad side, another was certain that the elephant was like a walk And from the shape of a leg the fourth was sure the elephant was like a tree. So all the limited conceptions of God are but partial and one-sided views of the Infinite and Eternal One. We might as well accept the fact to start with that from the very meaning of the words infinite and eternal, which are used as descriptive of Deity, God is nothing less than the whole. We must see that God is at least as great as the vast universe ; and, if we concede that all is a manifestation of one power, there will be room in our idea of Divinity for all the expansion that will come to our mind through growth in knowledge. The Hindu Vedantists postulated an abstract, imper- sonal Being, that was beyond all ideas of consciousness, neither conscious nor unconscious, so immutable that it was incapable of generating a universe, and so absolutely quiescent and peaceful that in it there was no thought or desire or activity of any kind. After formulating this en- tirely incomprehensible idea of Divinity, they were led to think that this absolute Being was the only reality and the only truth; that all else was nothing — unreal and il- 164 HEALING CURRENTS. lusive ; that all created things were the "figments of a fic- titious illusion ;" that both the internal and external order of things, the earths and earthy beings and the heavenly states with their countless hosts were all a vast hyp- notism; an endless succession of dreams that were to be escaped by absorption into the abstract state of the Eter- nal. To escape the joys of life as well as the sorrows was the aim of every true aspirant for emancipation from the bondage of existence, and all effort was to the end of sublimizing the mind to the degree that the individ- uality should lose itself into the one great essence of existence. But the pendulum has now swung to the opposite ex- treme, and humanity at present is not seeking to lose its individuality, but to build it stronger ; not desiring to es- cape existence, but to enter more deeply into it. There was truth in the Hindu ideas of Divinity and in their methods of spiritual worship, but it was not the whole truth ; just as there is partial truth in the ideas of God prevalent in the orthodox world, and the conquering and overcoming activities of the Western race are the expres- sion of a divine method, in that they are conducive to the development of great individualities. The Hindu sys- tem of thought vividly grasped the soul of the universe as the supreme reality, but denied that there was any use for the mind and body of the universe, so all effort was toward the reduction of the human mind and body to a state of pure resistless quiescence. The occidental mind is infatuated with the material side of existence, and it is only beginning to comprehend or allow that the phys- ical universe has a subjective or mental side. Hence not much attention is given to the development of aught but the faculties or qualities that deal with manifested forces. HEALING CURRENTS. 165 The soul is not considered worthy of any attention, nor is it thought by many to be anything more than a name, and, in fact, so strong is the materialistic spirit of the age that even among certain metaphysicians who have formulated the laws of the invisible but omniactive Mind, there is a strong repugnance to the idea of the Soul of the Whole as the spirit of man. Some think that, so far as the laws of mind will serve the personal ego in con- quering the forces that have to be contended with in ful- filling the needs of mortal existence, just so far are they good, but beyond that there is no use delving. But the pendulum of racial development will find its poise be- tween these two extremes, and the philosophy of the East and of the West will be united, for the production of a race of beings who, while powerful in individuality and ability to surmount every limitation of negative existence, will nevertheless realize their full power and wisdom through the acknowledgment and expression of the higher potencies, qualities and attributes of the Soul life of God. We are rapidly outgrowing the belief in evil that shrouded the mind of the world- for so many ages. To the oriental mind all existence was a form of evil, even to the highest states of manifested life in the heavenly spheres. All was looked upon as limitation and bondage, and only in the Absolute was there enduring rest from the bondage to everlasting transmigration and change. To be sure, there was the greater evil of the deluded souls sunk in sin and misery, with no aspiration for eman- cipation, and the lesser evil of living for the welfare of others; but at its best life was criticised and condemned as evil, and escape from life was the only good. With all their wisdom, the dark shadows of evil covered their 166 HEALING CURRENTS. mind and limited expression. Later religionists placed humanity in the midst of two great contending forces of Good and Evil, but the good was much closer and more easily and quickly realized than in the most ancient philosophy, for it was not considered necessary to go through a number of incarnations before the ties of at- tachment could be cut and the good attained, as in the Hindu system of thought, but one only had to wage the fierce fight against evil in the present to find a pleasant future secure in the arms of paradise for all eternity. And now, so close are we growing to the vision of the One who is too pure to behold iniquity, that we no longer look upon existence as evil even in greater or less de- grees, nor do we see in the universe of God the opposing forces of Good and Evil. But we rejoice in the knowl- edge that it is all good; it is lesser good and greater good; good undeveloped and good developed; but from its worst to its best aspect, from the lowest to the high- est degree and form of manifestation, it is all good. We now comprehend the great truth that we stand in the midst of a growing, evolving universe, and in and behind it all are manifesting the purpose and the will of the om- nipotent Soul, and whether we stand on a planet whose humanity is young in the expression of the divinity latent within it, or on a planet older and wiser and more fully rounded out in the individualization and expression of the omniscient intelligence of God, it is all good. The young planet with its warring, savage humanity, and the older planet with its humanity of peaceful, godlike be- ings, are alike formed from the universal substance of God, and the love of the Infinite One is shed as graciously upon the warring tribes of cannibals filled with hatred and cruelty, as upon the angelic beings radiant with the HEALING CURRENTS. 167 consciousness of Divinity, for the patient love of the Eternal is wise with the knowing that ALL is its own evolving substance, pregnant with the infinite life that shall awaken, during the endless evolutions of time, the intelligence of each atom, as of each mind, to the fullest realization of the intelligence and purpose of the ALL. We may look upon the cosmos as the manifestation of an almighty battery of energy, a divine conscious bat- tery, so that the duality of "matter and energy" created by materialistic science will be resolved into the concep- tion of one omnipotent Intelligence, expressing itself through the positive and negative poles of universal sub- stance. The objective universe of so-called matter is the negative aspect of the one universal Substance, the negative pole of the great mental battery, for all sub- stance is capable of endless expansion in the development cf intelligence, and the subjective realms and states of existence are this same Substance in a more refined de- gree of expression, in a more positive and intelligent state of manifestation. In and around the negative realms and worlds are the individualizations of the one Substance less developed in intelligence, while farther up in the states and conditions of sublimated and spiritual- ized existence are the beings who have grown positive with the positiveness that inheres in the inmost and all- comprehending sphere of omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent Consciousness, the Soul of the vast whole — God. Our mind expands and thrills with the sublime con- ception of the magnitude and mightiness of the God of the universe, an individualized and forever individualizing expression of the eternal and unmanifest, whose negative body — [the physical universe] — is infused and sustained 168 HEALING CURRENTS. by His positive mind-body — [the spiritual universe] — and the whole forever developing in intelligence and per- fection as its great Soul comes more and more into ex- pression, infusing the positive and negative poles of His body with more of life, love and wisdom, and manifesting in each succeeding cycle of progression more of the per- fect power and grace that reside in His Soul. Our hope enlarges and our faith grows sure of the possibilities in our own unfoldment, for we see that God has individualized Himself as the Whole, and the Whole is forever developing its power of expressing divinity, so that as the positive Mind of God grows more positive, it infuses its positive intelligence into the negative body of existence, so that negative substances grow more intel- ligent. And through this unceasing process of individ- ualization each being, as an epitome of the whole, is polarizing the intelligence and power and substance of God toward the development and expression of a more positive and enduring individuality. We are each one an individualized soul, being polarized and organized from the love and wisdom and power of the soul of God, and this individual soul has organized a positive and negative pole of mental and physical energies that are polarizing constantly from the positive and negative poles of the mind and body of God. So it is evident that as individ- ualization is a law of all life, subjective as well as ob- jective, all beings that ever evolved from the bosom of Divinity still continue and will ever continue to progress in Divinity through the various stages of human, angelic and archangelic being. And it does not take much imagination to fill the supernatural universe with the myriads of beings that have lived in human form, and to see perpetuated in sublimer form the trees and flowers HEALING CURRENTS. 169 and all the beauties of earthly scenery on a grander and more varied scale. And we can imagine the older, wiser and more powerful souls in the position of Gods and God- desses, as radiant suns of spiritual life and love to the less developed souls attracted to them and their kingdoms for the wisdom and love, the appropriation of which will give them greater growth and stronger powers for spir- itual expression. With what exalted emotions we contemplate the idea of these spheres of spiritual beings, all working in har- mony and obedient to the law of love and life, and seek- ing to make their realizations of benefit to those less developed ; so that each planet is surrounded by its men- tal and spiritual worlds of living beings, who appropriate from higher states of Mind and bring into the lower states the light from above, all working as a constant blessing and upliftment to incarnate humanity. In this idea we have the solution for the teaching in regard to all the lords and saviors and gods and angels and spir- itual entities of the past. There has been truth in all teachings that have been wafted to earth from the heavens above for the spiritualization and education of humanity, and our system of thought must be large enough to embrace all the gods and deities of the past as well as the discoveries of modern scientific research, for in the Whole there is that which will satisfy every human emotion and desire. Those who long for absorption in the Absolute, as well as those who wish to enter Nirvana with Buddha, may work out their desire to their own satisfaction, without limiting the good of any. Those who pray to any gods will find the gods they pray to and plenty more, and those who worship as their Savior, Jesus Christ, will find Him Lord of lords, and King of kings 170 HEALING CURRENTS. in this solar system ; and all who delight in the expansion and development of their individuality will find bound- less possibilities for growth and progression throughout eternity. ^3* %3* *3* MY VITAL ORGANS ARE GENERATING HEAL- ING, HARMONIZING VITALITY. This thought should be memorized and allowed to run through the mind as much as possible. It should be re- peated just before falling asleep and the first thing in the morning. Also deny all mortal condemnation from the sexual nature, and affirm the truth that it is pure and holy in its office and function. PROTECTION. I AM, I KNOW I AM. I am centered in the protect- ing power of almighty God. I am protected by His almighty Spirit of truth and jus- tice. I stand on the eternal rock of truth and decree that jus- tice shall manifest in all my affairs. The Lord God Al- mighty is my Defense. My enemies and persecutors cannot stand against me. All injustice is dissolved from my life. He that is for me is mightier than they who stand against me. I am sheltered and protected under the wings of love HEALING CURRENTS. 171 and mercy, and only good shall manifest in my life and affairs. The angels of the Lord are encamped around about me, and the hosts of wisdom and love shall be my protection day and night. I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me. Thou givest Thine angels charge concerning me, to keep me in all my ways. Thy goodness and Thy mercy shall hold me in perfect peace, and all the evil intentions of those who are working against me shall be dissolved by Thy Spirit, and justice shall conquer for the glory of the living God. t5* t9* t9* THUS SPEAKS THE LIVING SOUL. I am the immortal Son of God. I live in endless Splendor. I breathe the Spirit of Eternity. I see with the Omniscient Eye. I know that All is Good. I am radiant with Omnipotent Love. I am the Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting. I and my Father are One. c5* t^* ^5* CONSTIPATION. Place both hands on the abdomen so as to increase the magnetic force in the abdomen while using these af- firmations. This treatment should be used at least three times a day. Great benefit may be realized by massaging the body both front and back with the hands, at the same time repeating the thought: You are active, active life. This thought should be held especially for the liver. 172 HEALING CURRENTS. I will that the intelligent force in each one of these or- gans shall be active in keeping my bowels open and free from any torpid or diseased condition. My stomach is peaceful digestive power. My liver is active intelligence. My spleen is spiritual life. My kidneys are purifying substance. My generative organs are creative vitality. My bowels are energized mind. All these organs work together to produce health and harmony in my body. I AM SPIRIT IN ACTION. (£• ^w (^* FOR PAINFUL SWELLINGS. Use these thoughts toward painful swellings: You have no pride; you are going down into the in- finite depths of meekness and peace. You are so meek that you cannot organize a painful swelling. You are so peaceful that you cannot polarize poison. You have no ambition to be anything or do anything. You are peace. You cannot resist the healing peace that lives in all your substance. The cleansing waters of truth purify you of all poisonous elements. All is peace and harmony. The power of omnipotence is your peace and satisfaction. HEALING CURRENTS. 173 DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY. This truth is starting a new revival of the Christ heal- ing. It is alive with healing energy. The same mighty Spirit of Love that healed through Jesus is willing and able to heal the sick now, if the mental conditions of faith and expectancy are aroused. Every morning and evening pour out your blessings of healing love upon those who are reading truth in expectation of healing. Even though you are sick, do this in His Love, and you will become one with the healing currents from the spiritual worlds, and you will feel uplifted and inspired and healed by the Spirit of Love which is uniting all blessings into a great bat- tery of healing power. It will grow stronger as greater numbers co-operate in sending out the healing thought. Wonderful will be the results ! Almost miraculous have been some of the results al- ready. The angel worlds stand ready to pour down their blessing and power upon us. They are but waiting for us to open the door of our hearts and start the current to flowing. The Holy Spirit will enter the current of our loving thoughts and inspire us with its healing power. Remember that the Immortal Christ, mightier than ever in His individual healing power, is waiting at the door of your heart, desiring to express His love, through the me- dium of your affections, to souls living in the mind of the world. With His glorified presence of love in mind, pour out thoughts and feelings toward others who, like your- 174 HEALING CURRENTS. self, are looking for healing-. You do not need a fixed thought, as your feelings will form thoughts of blessing, but this thought will help you to understand how to be- gin. "I bless all who are sick with the healing love of Jesus Jehovah, whose Spirit is the life of my soul." You will become all aglow with healing love. You will de- velop the capacity to realize heavenly feelings. Joy, such as you have never before realized, will gladden your heart and enlighten your soul. God will become real to you. What a transforming power this practice, long con- tinued by many devoted souls, will bring into the cur- rents of the world mind. God is almighty in His own state of love. But only as mortals in touch with negative states of life realize the love of God does the power of love gain entrance into the lower strata of mortal existence and influence human society. Therefore every heart that pours out the love of God toward humanity helps to increase the power of God with mortals, and becomes a fulcrum upon which God can rest His lever in lifting mankind out of their state of ignorance and misery. I know you will get wonderful realizations from this practice because I have my own experience, and rmnv letters from those who are allowing their soul-love to ex- press in this way, which confirm what I say. HEALING CURRENTS. 175 AFFIRMATIONS. I am poised in the Majestic Will of the Almighty. « His mighty will is cleansing me of mortal attachments and setting me free. All darkness of the past is entirely dissolved from my mind and I dwell in the pure peace of eternity. My soul is wedded to Jesus Jehovah and I care for no one except as I see in them His immortal Presence. I am living in eternity for eternity, and the things of time do not affect me or disturb me. It makes no difference to me what people think of me, for I am centered in the love of the Lord God Almighty. Only what he desires for me shall come to me. I am surrounded by his mighty protecting love, which dissolves from me all mortal mentalities. No evil can come nigh my dwelling-place because I place my trust in Him. All affections and desires of the past that were not for the truth are cast into the ocean of oblivion. My soul is attuned to the merciful love of Jesus Jehovah, and all my nature is harmonized and healed by His mighty Presence. He is the God of my life, and I allow Him to rule and regulate all things in my nature and affairs. I recognize His majestic Will as all-powerful and all- sufficient. My faith is strong in the power of His Will and the wisdom of His Mind, and by faith I am partaking of His 176 HEALING CURRENTS. wisdom and power, and all things are NOW working for the manifestation of His goodness and truth. I am a strong and powerful expresser of His love, which creates health and harmony in all my life. From my soul flows the Fountain of His joyous life and strength. His omnipotent Will is working for my good and for the good of all whom I love, and no mortal power can hinder His invincible power. I am a mighty magnet of love to draw souls to Jesus Christ. All my affairs are dominated by the Spirit of love, which brings to me abundant prosperity. I have faith in the prospering power of God. I am strong in the magnetic power of God and draw my own to me with unceasing regularity. Oh, living Spirit of eternity dwelling within my soul. I praise Thy Holy Presence. I rest in Thy eternal peace and harmony. I trust to Thy unceasing love and power to bring all good to pass in my life. I am one with Thee, my Father, and am drawing closer and closer to the con- scious realization of Thy Presence, which shall dissolve all my fears and hold my mind unwavering and steady in eternal peace. I praise Thee for the life and strength that I now mani- fest, and I know that I will gain new dominion and power day by day as I walk hand in hand with Thee, until all mortal limitations are overcome. I praise and glorify Thy Holy Spirit, and rest in con- scious unity with Thee through time and eternity. Praise His Holv Name ! HEALING CURRENTS. 177 I affirm my perfect freedom in all lines and on all planes. My soul is the power of God and has been given the power to heal all the ills of my flesh and all the breaks in my environments. Jesus Christ will fill in all the broken places in my life's path with his love and wisdom and power. My soul life accepts and knows this power, and from henceforth I rest in this power in safety. All my sur- roundings are peaceful. The light of heaven shall yet dawn in my life, and I shall share in its glory. MY SOUL SHALL GAIN THE VICTORY. ALL IS GOOD! AN EXPLANATION of the statement on page 52, "Matter is the mother of thought," may be necessary. The forces of Mind become involved in matter before matter evolves thought. Matter is the mother, Spirit is the father of thought. Mother Nature gives birth to intelligence the seed of which is from God. Read the third paragraph on page 35. 178 HEALING CURRENTS. ADDENDA. Prof. Hyslop, Prof. James and other noted members of the Psychical Research Society have been investigating the facts of telepathy, spirit messages and other psychic phenomena. Mrs. Piper, a trance medium, has been their instrument of communication through which messages have been received from the spirit world for a number of years. According to reports, she is not a psychic me- dium ; that is, she has not the clairvoyant faculty ; she does not see the spirits with whom the professors con- verse. While in the trance states she is a sensorium, ca- pable of transmitting thoughts from those in the spiritual world to those on the physical plane. In the face of the fact that in the communications themselves it was defi- nitely stated over and over that they were written and expressed by disembodied spirits, the learned men, cast- ing aside as valueless this simplest explanation of the source of the communications, formulated a hypothesis crediting the phenomenon to the activity of the subcon- scious intelligence in man, in the effort to form a theory that would satisfy their own ideas and eliminate the neces- sity for the belief that spirits continue to exist after phys- ical dissolution and communicate with mortals. It is as if a few men, blind and deaf, should refuse to believe in the existence of people around them who were visible to the sight of others, and even should refuse to accept communications from those around them at face value, choosing to believe that the activities they knew to exist around them were caused, not by people like themselves, but by blind, irrational and deceptive forces. Thousands have the psychic or soul faculties of seeing, hearing, feeling, etc., developed to that degree that these intelligent forces that the learned professors have tried to HEALING CURRENTS. 179 explain by their hypothesis of the "subliminal conscious- ness" are visible as spirit personalities of various natures and characteristics. They appear in form as they ap- peared on earth, dressing according to their taste, ming- ling in social pleasures, conversing among themselves and with those on the earth plane who can hear them. Now whose evidence is of the most value, the evidence of the man or woman who sees, or the word of the one who, blindly groping in the dark, invents names for things he does not see? The following article, clipped from a Spiritualist paper, relates the common experience of one who is psychic. I can vouch for the truth of such psychic experience from many like experiences in my own life through the devel- opment of the spiritual faculties. To one who sees and knows by conscious intercourse with the spirit world that spirits do return to the earth plane after death, the the- ories of the members of the Psychical Research Society are utterly absurd and they are entirely worthless to those who desire truth. SPIRIT HYPNOTISM SEEN CLAIRVOYANTLY. In many of the recent articles of our spiritual writers I note the claim that mediumship, psychology or hyp- notism are either wholly beneficent or entirely injurious. The spirit editor, James M. Finck, of the Reformer and Humanitarian Magazine, Galveston, Texas, having been in the spirit realms the infinite number of twenty years, is declaring through its pages that evil spirits are re- turned as nonentities to the great ocean of universal life and that there is no Obsession. May I advise this spirit editor to become acquainted with spirits Samuel Bowles, Aaron Knight, Prof, von Marx, and the author of "A Wanderer in Spirit Lands," and thousands of others who have been investigating for many decades through spirit realms and inform us of ex- isting evil-minded spirits and their abodes. Yes, let him interview the spirit guardians of Dr. J. M. Peebles, of 180 HEALING CURRENTS. San Diego, Cal. ; of Dr. G. Lester Lane, of 872 Hunting- ton avenue, Boston, and others who have proven beyond a doubt the fact of Obsession, and have relieved many, many persons hypnotized by injurious spirits. I can travel twenty-three miles in Chicago and not see a. drunken man nor hear an oath, and yet there are thou- sands swearing, drinking, drunk. I simply have not in- vestigated existing conditions, but my lack of investiga- tion does not give me the right to declare that no such conditions exist. I have been clairvoyant but ten years, but have learned that Nature does not snuff out individual existence, either good or evil, nor did I have to go to the haunts of sin or the holy of holies to see them, but in church and hall, on the streets and in homes I have seen both classes. What a blessing are the true and the good, robed in ethereal white, beaming with love and spirituality, radiant with that higher intelligence, Orientals and Occidentals, bearing peace and harmony, soothing the sorrowing, heal- ing the afflicted, teaching through the various phases of mediumship the truths of a higher spiritual, happier life, guiding and guarding those of earth life, ever a blessing and a truth, some as companions, talking and suggesting to their sensitives, others working independently, only re- quiring the more material magnetism of a mortal person as an aid, others psychologizing to full control, while others control from within the brain, using the vocal organs in- dependently, the sensitive being fully conscious. Yes, I have seen the true and loving spirits striving with will power and philosophic wisdom against those of evil de- sign in the presence of a sensitive of sincere spiritual as- pirations. I have assisted the higher forces in breaking the hyp- notic power of injurious spirits. In one instance I seemed impelled to go to the home of a friend on Lake avenue, this city. On arriving I found the daughter, a fine sensi- tive, suffering from nervous prostration and great depres- sion. I described to the family the spirit of a relative HEALING CURRENTS. 181 who in life had attempted their financial ruin. There he was hovering near the daughter, and projecting the most injurious vibrations that he could command. I was told to walk back and forth through the rooms and break his vibrations by sweeping the atmosphere with my hands. In a short time the daughter was as well and joyous as ever, and there is not a purer, nobler young lady any- where than she. The cause lay not in her mediumship, or her character, but in the malicious nature of the obses- sing spirit, and without assistance her case would have been most serious. The wife of an acquaintance who knew nothing of con- trol became clairaudient, and thinking that only the good could communicate, she gave heed to their advice, and within two days it became necessary to call in a physician and a Healer. While in the home of a friend I met a noble, virtuous young man. I saw a monk control him to repeat poetry, and to give the name of Edgar Allan Poe as his name. Having read a description of Poe and some of his writ- ings, there was no comparing the two. Then another claiming to be Tennyson spoke through him. Finally he passed into a trance condition, becoming cold and white as in death, and an ordinary spirit claiming to be Christ spoke to us, not as the Christ would, but as an impostor, not knowing we were clairvoyant. I once saw an investigator stretch out his arm so that his form represented a cross, then he remarked, "As this is emblematic of the cross, so was I crucified. I am the Christ." In looking back of this person I saw two very dark spirits psychologizing him to do and say what he had. Another party was hypnotized to believe himself greater than the President and was impelled by unseen forces to go to the station to purchase a ticket to Wash- ington, D. C. The public would have called these per- sons insane, not seeing the spirit psychologizers. I would like to mention one other too trustful a sensi- tive ; spirits claiming to be her loved ones through decep- 182 HEALING CURRENTS. tion gained control, and only through the removing and restoring powers of spirit physicians and healers was she saved from paralysis and insanity, and is now serving the spirit world as a medium for human progress. While traveling on a railway train I glanced down the aisle, and coming from the farther end was a most de- bauched spirit; he was met by higher forces and ejected from the car. Another time on entering a car I was at- tracted to a person I felt sure was a sensitive, and at the same time a spirit force seemed hurled across my fore- head like an electric shock and my brain felt grasped, as it were. Conscious of the source, I sent out all the resist- ive will power I possessed, and the loving voice of my guardians assured me that they would take charge of the offending spirit, while a prayer went out from my soul that the sensitive stranger be also protected. It was a spirit earthbound, desperate, without a sense of justice or feeling. Again when traveling I have seen beautiful spirit children in the laps of their parents, with clinging arms about their necks, and spirit loved ones sitting beside the living, and to me it seems as natural to see both as to see only those the world calls living. These are truths that an eternity of discussion cannot change, but may stimulate to deeper thought and investigation. Mediumship is a glorious blessing and not the source or cause of injury to the medium. Individualized spirit possessed of the evil principles of mankind and the knowl- edge of hypnotism, asserting those principles and hypnotic power to the injury of mortals, is the one great cause of much of human suffering and crime. The responsibility rests upon every individual knowing these truths. Let us then see to it that every developing young sensitive, as far as possible, be protected against disorderly spirits, and taught to maintain psychical and mental equilibrium. Then only can we be blameless. Barton Stewart, in The Banner of Light. HEALING CURRENTS. 183 ADDITIONS TO SECOND EDITION. The only adverse criticism received since the publica- tion of Healing Currents has been directed toward the Addenda. When a truth is criticised either it is not properly expressed or there is not sufficient knowledge of the subject in the minds of those who find fault. One student writes: "I am sorry you added the last part to the book. If people could only investigate Spiritualism and keep their poise there would be no harm, but so many do not that I feel like cutting it out everywhere." The knowledge contained in the Addenda is just what is necessary to heal many souls that know so little of the ways of undeveloped spirits that they remain in mental and physical bondage through spirit hypnotism. We need to know ALL truth about the invisible as well as visible world, if we would be saved from ig- norance and deception. There is a bright as well as a dark side to Spiritualism. The truth that every student of the occult should have drilled into his mind first, last and at all times is this : There is but One Power in the universe and this One Power is Good. Men, spirits and angels, on their sev- eral planes of life, are manifestations of the One Power, and all the good they do should be credited to the Source of all Goodness — God. Students are often overawed by their first experiences with spirit power. But a larger view of truth shows them that God contains all these lesser spirit powers in His universal power, and that spirits of themselves are powerless and very limited in their intelligence when compared with the all-embracing Love that uses them for its mighty ends. Those who look to decarnate intelligence for guidance 184 HEALING CURRENTS. and help soon become magnets for a host of spirits that are drawn from the surrounding mental atmosphere. These are not of a highly developed nature, have not yet outgrown the carnal mind, and often obsess and devitalize those with whom they come in contact. But those who recognize that God's love and wisdom are the source of all good, and by the various spiritual ex- ercises keep their minds in communion with His Spirit, become refined in character and repel by their soul power all undeveloped spirits. They trust in God and they know that whether their prayers are answered through the agency of mortals, spirits or angels, the Mind of God is doing the work and to Him is the glory. We can study the laws of "spirit return" and learn of the mysterious ways through which life and intelligence grows toward spiritual perfection without becoming subject to spirits. The following letter shows the value of denial and affirmation in freeing the mind from mental disturbances. "I do not believe in bad spirits or influences. If we keep our minds on the positive Good no bad spirit can influence us. I am surprised that you had that article printed in the back of that Jewel of a book of yours. That Addenda will be apt to frighten the ones who are not well-balanced — centered in Christ. I read the Ad- denda just before I went to bed, thinking at first it was the summing up of all the good, and in the night I had very unpleasant visions. But I aroused myself and claimed the all-powerful protection of the Father, and commanded the hideous faces to get behind me as Satan, for there was no reality in anything but omni- present Good, and I soon got rid of the unpleasant ex- perience which was new to me. I expect what I read had a stronger influence on my mind than I suspected, coming from such a source as your book. That is wiry HEALING CURRENTS. 185 I tell you of the way it affected me. No good has ever been gained by me in reading or investigating Spiritual- ism, yet many can only see a glimpse of truth in that way." Letters of criticism are as valuable as those of com- mendation to a teacher who is trying to aid souls to the realization of truth. The former show him the limita- tions of the human mind with which he has to deal and the latter encourage him with the knowledge of the good that becomes manifest from the light of truth. The following will serve as a sample of a large num- ber of letters of commendation for which I am grateful. "I want to tell you what a blessing and inspiration your book has been to me and to my friends, especially in helping one of our truth students here who has been going through a long psychic experience, and had it not been for your explanation of and treatment for one who seems to be obsessed I would not have known how to deal with her. Now, thank God, she is free, and that special treatment proved very strong and powerful every time. "Your words about Jesus are very beautiful. I feel that you have given Him back to us and put Him in His right place. Surely, many of the New Thought fol- lowers lose a great deal when they ignore Him so com- pletely. "I would like very much to know if He has not the power of imparting His resurrection life to those who love Him and long to rise into the full consciousness of the Christ life, and is He not able still to help those souls who are facing deep problems and going through deep waters of experience? "May God make your book a blessing to thousands." In answer to the foregoing I would say: To those wlio keep in close soul union with Him Jesus is all that He was to His disciples in the past. 186 HEALING CURRENTS. The following newspaper account of a "Weird Case" of obsession by undeveloped spirits cannot be accounted for by any theory of the medical men. The organism of the medium had been made very negative by disease and the personality had been sub- jected to the will of spirit personalities who desired to gain mortal experience through her brain. With the knowledge given in this book, by persistent effort, a de- termined soul could cast out those spirits and develop the personality to a normal state. The "Suggestions" by the Rev. Isaac K. Funk, the noted editor of the Standard Dictionary, and the "Plea" of Prof. Jas. H. Hyslop, are valuable as showing the interest that occult subjects are arousing among, the authorities in the scientific and religious worlds of thought. As an illustration of the beautiful side of "spirit re- turn" and in contrast to the examples of obsession, I will add a "Message" from the spirit of a young man who passed out from consumption. This spirit was seen by a cultured lady who heard clairaudiently the words that he desired should reach his mother and sisters. GIRL'S WEIRD CASE PUZZLE TO DOCTORS. London, April 8, 1905. — An astonishing case of a girl possessing ten separate and distinct personalities within twenty months is being much discussed in medi- cal circles. The girl was the patient of Dr. Albert Wilson, and so remarkable was the case that Dr. Wilson laid it before the committee of the Medico Psychological Association. Many members of the body were skeptical at first, agree- ing that the manifestations undoubtedly were genuine, but they were unable to offer any explanation of the occurrence. Dr. Wilson also reported the case to the Psychical Research Society, which now has published the details in its proceedings. HEALING CURRENTS. 187 In April, 1895, the girl, who was then under 13 years of age and indifferently educated, had an attack of in- fluenza. After remaining in bed for ten days she went out into the cold air and suffered a relapse. Within the next two days she was on the point of death, but gradually recovered strength. Then there began to appear in succession the ten personalities, the last one of which occurred a year and eight months after the first and took the form of blind- ness and imbecility. Now at the age of 22 she is in good health, the best of her personalities that showed itself having been educated and developed. The personalities manifested themselves as follows : First personality, April, 1895, acute mania, intense fear, with blindness and illusions as to the presence of snakes, and craving for oranges and lemonade. Second personality about a month later, a simple child with reversed ideas as to writing and speaking. She repudiated her name, but would respond on being referred to as "thing." Third personality, July, 1895, physical health improved. She now became very passionate, attempting to eat her clothes. She could read and write, though unable to do so when possessed of personality No. 2. Fourth personality. In August, 1895, she became a deaf-mute and failed to hear loud noises close to her ears, but could speak in deaf and dumb language. In her fifth personality, December, 1895, she again reversed things, called black white and thin people fat. She spelled backward, but wrote forward. She be- lieved she was 3 days old, but understood everything- that was going on around her. She was paralyzed in the legs at this stage, but her condition changed. In an instant she leaped from her bed, ran upstairs, where she threw herself upon the floor and revolved on her back and shoulders. She also rested on her head and attempted to walk up walls. A few days later she was normal again. The sixth personality was in May, 1896, when she appeared as a sweet child, but totally ignorant of spell- 188 HEALING CURRENTS. ing, reading and writing. This is the personality that is now being developed satisfactorily. In the seventh personality, that of June, 1896, she re- membered clearly her early childhood, but not her illness and subsequent period. This stage lasted a fortnight. The eighth personality, in June, 1896, came with her complete loss of memory. The patient believed she had been born the day before. She called her father Tom and her mother Mary. It lasted three days. In the ninth personality, October, 1896, the transition came gradually. Fits of temper were noticed, she talked like a young infant, and could not walk, but she could speak a little French, of which language she was quite ignorant in the normal periods. The tenth person- ality, December, 1896, was a blind and imbecile stage. SUGGESTIONS REGARDING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA. By the Rev. Isaac K. Funk, LL.D., New York City. As the anti-psychic storm has now subsided, though the sea here and there still runs high, will not the press permit me a few suggestions as to the methods of in- vestigation which, in my judgment, will prove helpful in separating the true from the false phenomena and in determining the laws that govern them, and as to how the press and the public may render essential service in helping to right conclusions? My meaning will be more easily understood through several concrete illustra- tions : First Class of Phenomena: A few weeks ago in Chi- cago Dr. Carl A. Wickland, an intelligent and respect- able physician of that city, residing at 616 North Wells street, gave me a number of personal experiences which have convinced him that obsession by evil discarnate intelligences is the cause of a large per cent of insanity — over one-half, he thinks. Through his wife, who is a non-professional "sensitive" or "medium," he has made hundreds of investigations, and has applied many in- genious tests to prove the identity of these so-called HEALING CURRENTS. 189 foreign intelligences. He claims to have cured many cases of insanity by working along this theory — some who were pronounced hopelessly insane. We may laugh at this, but is there solid ground for an a priori dog- matic conclusion that hypnotism may not be a fact be- tween a spirit out of the flesh and one in the flesh as it is a fact between two persons in the flesh? A few years ago we nearly all ridiculed hypnotism as wholly charlatanism or illusion. Obsession was common enough in Christ's time. Many an insane one Christ and His disciples cured by "casting out devils." There are other practitioners throughout the world who believe and prac- tice as does Dr. Wickland. Will not the press gather carefully facts bearing on this class of cases and publish them, giving names and addresses and verified facts, es- pecially the facts that would seem to establish the iden- tity of the so-called obsessing spirit? Is it not worth while? Let us remember, a single scientifically dem- onstrated fact of the existence of even an evil discarnate spirit will do more to prove the continuance of life after death than all the sermons on immortality that have been preached in the last ten years. That single dem- onstration would be the death knell of materialism. Second Class of Phenomena : By an arrangement with Dr. M. A. Vreeder, of Lyons, N. Y., a medical scientist of wide repute, I in Brooklyn drew the figure of a fish and then pointed to the zenith. Sensi- tives whom Dr. Vreeder had at his office told him at that moment that I drew a fish and pointed to the zenith. No one but myself, 400 miles distant, could have known either - fact by any scientifically recognized method of communication. This seems to point to long distance telepathy. Similar facts are occurring in many places. Will not the press be hospitable to them and closely ver- ify and report them minutely ? Nature in this way may be whispering to our dull senses of forces and laws, more subtle and vastly more important than those that gave us wireless telegraphy. 190 HEALING CURRENTS. Third Class of Phenomena: G. L. Seabury, 1414 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, whose respectability and truthfulness can be easily tested, has given me the facts to the least detail of a test experiment he made through Mrs. Pepper. She answered for him an important per- sonal question in a letter which he kept in his pocket throughout the whole sitting. The evidential value of such a test depends upon the honesty of the sitter, his secrecy as to his intention, and his avoidance of giving any information to the medium during the sitting. A large per cent of sitters are "easy victims, giving them- selves away" in their much talk. I have cross-examined Mr. Seabury, and think this case typical of a large num- ber of cases worth careful investigation. On pages 217- 235 of "Widow's Mite" many experiments of this class are given which I made through Mrs. Pepper ("Mrs. A.") and through Margaret Gaule ("Miss B.") under test conditions at private sittings. These cases indicate at least near-by mind reading of a high order. But what is the explanation of them if they are taken in connec- tion with the case vouched for by Professor Hyslop of a message sent in English from Boston through Mrs. Piper, and received almost simultaneously by another medium in England in Greek, neither medium under- standing Greek? If the press and public will give a sufficient number of verified facts of this class, the scien- tists quite likely will in due time solve for us also this puzzling riddle. Fourth Class of Phenomena : A short time since I gave to the press the case of a man finding his father who had left home in London 29 years before, and had never thereafter been heard of by the family. Since then I have got all the facts, examined all the letters between father, son and executors, cross-examined the man and have found him well-to-do and deemed by friends and neighbors to be of unimpeachable veracity. The case, from every point that I have approached it, seems criticism proof. No recognized theory of telep- athy explains it. What is the explanation? Coinci- dence? Yes, as says one, if we may suppose that an HEALING CURRENTS. 191 explosion of a type foundry would somewhere in the universe and some time in eternity produce the "Iliad." Genuine cases of the above and other classes, wher- ever occurring, should be searched for by the press more than if they were lumps of gold and should be verified if possible to the minutest incident, and given, not jocosely, but seriously, to the world. My time is so occupied that I can give but a few minutes now and then to this work — a few minutes of my recreation hours. Why will not the press soberly take up this matter? Rightly handled, there is sensation in it worthy of the most royal purple journalism. Believe me, there is more than fraud and coincidence in these experiences. Gladstone was right, when in his membership letter to the Society for Psychical Research, he said that this work of investigation "is the most important work which is being done in the world — by far the most im- portant." No hypothesis of explanation is as yet given that matches all around ; no theory has as yet passed beyond the speculative stage. Permit me an additional point or two. In these investigations, it is not wise to assume that a "sensitive" you deem worth testing is dishonest. If you do, the chances are you will get nothing. Be wise as serpents, but harmless as doves. Remember, Christ could do no wonders in His own country because of "their unbelief." Learn what that means, you who "know it all" and are so "cock sure." A prestidigitator is good at detecting tricks, but may not be worth his salt in the investigation of genuine psychic phenomena. Psychic things are psychically discerned as musical things are musically discerned. A Darwin whose fac- ulty for music is atrophied, is no judge as to whether it is a Paderewski at the piano in the other room ; the judgment of the child musically developed is far better. All things carry their own proof to a faculty up to the level of the faculties' development. Also, predisposition is a sword that cuts both ways; deception invites de- ception ; like draws like. These things are true, whether 192 HEALING CURRENTS. the psychic phenomena which are being investigated are from the subjective mind of the medium or from foreign intelligence. "Words, words, and nothing more," is all this to nine out of ten of even cultured readers ; but if they will study it out they will find these words the hardest kind of sense. Do not be afraid that the universal order of things will be upset if some new truth is discovered — natural truth, not supernatural ; there is nothing supernatural but God, and He most probably is infinitely natural. Never forget God has made the universe fireproof, and has thought it altogether safe to trust us with the match- box to experiment with. And will not the press permit me to suggest that the instruction be reversed that seems in some newspaper offices to be given to reporters : "Young men, first be interesting; second, be interesting; third, fourth and fifth, be interesting; and then incidentally, if convenient, be truthful." New York, March 27, 1905. (^6 C7* «5* SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY— A PLEA FOR MORE EXTENDED INQUIRY AS TO THE SURVIVAL OF CONSCIOUS- NESS AFTER DEATH. BY JAMES H. HYSL0P, VICE-PRESIDENT AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. Science for a long time set its judgment against the possibility of sustaining any belief in the future life, and many still will assert confidently that it never can give any substantial support for it. This may be true in fact; but there is a mass of phenomena within the reach of scientific consideration that certainly justifies a scientific investigation looking to the merits of the claim that human consciousness survives death, and it is indeed the scandal of science itself that the phe- nomena which put forward such strong evidence of HEALING CURRENTS. 193 their importance have not received the attention which they deserve, even though they turn out to be different from what their superficial appearance suggests that they are. Why the human race would so enthusiastically organ- ize all other fields of inquiry, and neglect this one — nay, despise it — and reduce every wayfarer in it to a candidate for the madhouse, is all but inexplicable. Of course the follies of those who have prosecuted inquiry in it so long, and the vulgar frauds that blazed the path- way into it, have been the real reason for this contempt, and certainly excuse the suspicion and wariness of the sane man, though this assumption of intelligence ought to have made it secure for his investigations. But it has not, and the way is still open to the man who will insist upon the need of distinguishing between the wheat and the chaff in this product of human development. That it may be done is the object of the American In- stitute for Scientific Research, which has been founded recently, though it has the wide field of abnormal psy- chology for its province at the same time. The material which makes it unnecessary as well as foolish to talk glibly about fraud and delusion as the ex- planation of all that lays claim to being supernormal now is so large in quantity and so good in quality that only unintelligent men can afford longer to sneer. The eighteen volumes of "Proceedings," published by the English Society for Psychical Research, are a monu- ment to its work, as well as a library of facts that de- mand some explanation of their meaning and sooner or later must receive it. They contain information on every imaginable phase of the inquiries associated with the real and the alleged supernormal, including fraud, illusion, hallucination, coincidence, telepathy, clairvoy- ance, apparitions and mediumistic phenomena. In addi- tion to these are the two large volumes on "Phantasms of the Living," which are a treasure-house of material on spontaneous and experimental telepathy, at least al- leged, on coincidental dreams, and apparitions of the living and the dying. They seem to be supported eviden- 194 HEALING CURRENTS. tially in most cases to such a degree that no ordinary- explanation is conceivable, though one may not require to go beyond telepathy between living minds to account for them. But telepathy alone is the most revolutionary hy- pothesis imaginable within the field of psychology, and is not yet admitted by the scientific world. Only a few people interested in psychic research and determined to entertain any supposition but spiritistic agency can be induced to defend openly telepathy of any kind, and no scientific man of any high standing will advocate that kind of telepathy which would be necessary to account for such cases as that of Mrs. Piper, and similar instances, such as that of Stainton Moses, Hensleigh Wedgewood, the brother-in-law of Charles Darwin, Mrs. Verall, Miss X, Mrs. A, Lurancy Vennum, and per- haps a host of minor lights. It is not necessary to claim that anything else will explain them; but telepathy cer- tainly does not and will not until some experimental evidence of its nature be found that will qualify it for the duty imposed upon it by the public. There also are the two volumes by Frank Podmore, namely, "Apparitions and Thought Transference," and "Aspects of Psychic Research," and also the same au- thor's "History of Spiritualism," which, though it rig- idly excludes from intelligent favor the largest part of the traditional mass of testimony to extramundane agency, yet recognizes that the existence of supernormal intelligence is a proved fact. Then last comes that great work of Frederick W. H. Myers, "Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death," a collection of scien- tific data and speculation that has hardly any rival in history for interest and significance. The capacity which human personality reveals in such phenomena as this and related collections of trustworthy phenomena represent, suggests strongly the possibility of its sur- vival after death. This view has many supporters whose opinion will carry weight wherever intelligence exists. Sir Oliver Lodge, one of the leading physicists in England, says: "If anyone cares to hear what sort of HEALING CURRENTS. 195 conviction has been borne in upon my mind, as a scientific man, by twenty years' familiarity with these questions which concern us, I am willing to reply as frankly as I can. I am, for all personal purposes, convinced of the persistence of human existence beyond bodily death, and though I am unable to justify that belief in full and complete manner, yet it is a belief which has been pro- duced by scientific evidence that is based upon facts and experience." Professor Muirhead, lecturer on Mental and Moral Science, Hallo way College, England, says: "As a part of a wider philosophy, the results of psychical research seem to me to be of the greatest theoretic interest, and may even turn out to be of the greatest practical im- portance." Andrew Lang, than whom the English language hardly has an abler critic and skeptic, in reviewing Mr. Myers' "Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death," says: "I myself, regarding the word 'matter' and 'spirit' as mere metaphysical counters with which we pay ourselves, think (religious faith apart) that hu- man faculty lends a fairly strong presumption in favor of the survival of human consciousness. "To myself, after reading the evidence, it appears that a fairly strong presumption is raised in favor of a 'phantasmogenetic agency' set at work, in a vague, un- conscious way, by the deceased, and I say this after considering the adverse arguments of Mr. Podmore, for example, in favor of telepathy from living minds, and all hypotheses of hoaxing, exaggerative memory, mal- observation, and so forth — not to mention the popular nonsense about 'What is the use of it?' 'Why is it per- mitted ?' and the rest of it. 'What is the use of argon ?' 'Why are cockroaches permitted ?' "To end with a confession of opinion: I entirely agree with Mr. Myers and Hegel that we, or many of us, are in something, or that something is in us, which 'does not know the bonds of time, or feel the manacles of space.' " 196 HEALING CURRENTS. Sir "William Crookes, the discoverer of Crookes' tubes, one of the ablest physicists in England, also says : "No incident in my scientific career is more widely known than the part I took many years ago in certain psychical researches. Thirty years have passed since I published an account of experiments tending to show that outside our scientific knowledge there exists a force exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring re- proach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper of reason: to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.' " Dr. Cesare Lombroso, the physiologist and criminolo- gist, says : "There is a great probability now given us through psychical and spiritistic researches, that there is a continued existence of the soul after death, pre- serving a weak identity, to which the persistent soul can add new life and growth from the surrounding media." Mr. Huxley, whose skeptical tendency no one will deny, says : "In my judgment, the actuality of this spiritual world — the value of the evidence for its ob- jective existence and its influence upon the course of things — are matters which lie as much within the prov- ince of science as any other question about the existence and powers of the various forms of living and conscious activity." Mr. Gladstone spoke of the work as the most impor- tant in the world, and Goldwin Smith, in an article in "The North American Review," spoke of the conclusion as affecting the whole social structure of society, as we can hardly expect man to live under the idea of human brotherhood without a belief in immortality. Of course no such conclusion can be forecast as as- suredly the result of inquiry; for science never can promise any particular outcome for its investigations. It must be satisfied with any result, secure in the con- HEALING CURRENTS. 197 viction that any truth that it reveals, affirmative or neg- ative, will be useful. On the question of a future life any verdict will be important, as we cannot afford to reject the fact if it is true, and neither can we afford to believe it if it is false. On any alternative we are bound to investigate. What astonishes one most is the readiness, of men to devote immense sums of money to the study of man's origin, and not a cent to that of his destiny. Why it can be so glorious to find his ancestry in the apes, and, after admitting that evolution stands for progress, to sneer at the inquiry for a future which might represent that progress in an ideal form, passes understanding. But men will spend millions in deep-sea dredging for some unknown fish or seaweed ; for North Pole expedi- tions with no outcome for science having any proportion to the amount expended ; for yacht races and the whole world of sports ; and even our universities will spend immense sums for athletics, but not a cent for investi- gations into the problem of immortality. Not long ago a serious metropolitan newspaper solemnly proposed the sum of twenty-five million dollars for the purpose of digging a well twelve miles deep into the earth just to satisfy the curiosity of the geologist in regard to the strata of the earth's crust. The people that do this without any sense of humor meet every proposal to satisfy the deepest religious and moral craving of mankind, itself fraught with the social destinies of civilization, with shouts of ridicule. Is it any wonder that some of us have so little respect for human nature when its apparently most respectable and intelligent forms are fit only for the madhouse? But it is this class that imposes the madness on the would-be investigator. The time has come, however, when those who are in- terested must have the courage to organize and see that the work can be done without the co-operation of Phil- istines, if they will not do the work which is so impera- tive, no matter what the outcome. It is with this in view, and also with the view of investigating the whole 198 HEALING CURRENTS. field of abnormal psychology, that the American Insti- tute of Scientific Research has been incorporated. There is no escape from the study of both super- normal and abnormal psychology, and the two also must be studied with reference to the light which they will throw upon each other. They usually have been kept separate; but although there are points in which they are radically distinct, there also are points in which they interpenetrate, and the whole wide field must be made to yield to scientific inquiry. The phenomena are comparatively sporadic, and hence require centralized effort to deal with them successfully and intelligently. & & sf A SPIRIT MESSAGE. "My love for all is stronger than ever before. I am not in a far-off or remote kingdom. I strive often to be near, although there are obstacles in my pathway. My love for all is strong and full of tenderness. I feel that if I could only clasp all in my arms it would bring me great joy. For what was to me quite a long time, I seemed to be living in the embrace of a con- suming heat. I was told it was caused from earthy conditions which I had brought with me to this clime. It is better now. Through the ministrations of those bright beings whose great kindness to me finally became a source of freedom, I learned to let my soul be still, that it might get a gleam of the glorious sunshine of His Presence. In many ways I have been greatly blessed, for the dear spiritual teachers have many times carried me to a lovely flowery dell where a murmuring brooklet sings its music to the soul. They have laid me down to rest in this beautiful place at those seasons when they knew that the time was ripe that I might receive from the rays of the beneficent Presence of the Christ, although He appeared some distance from the spot where I was resting. As His Presence passed by the wondrous rays of the magical healing power per- meated the bodies of all those who were resting there. HEALING CURRENTS. 199 It seemed to flow over us like streams of liquid light, and our souls grew stronger as we realized the adora- tion born within us, the great and wonderful love that springs into birth, and the reverence for this mighty, supreme power. Blessed be all souls in heaven, and blessed be all souls on earth. Blessed be all that are existing in spiritual or material form, be they great or small, be they high or low. That mighty magical love enfolds them all. Come, all ye that are weary and taste of the love of the Lamb of God ; come where streams of mercy without ceasing form for all a place of rest. To all that are bound to me by the ties of flesh, I give my dearest love. To the pure soul who was the monitor of each and every one of us, I give that love which is reverential. She, the dear one, through the ministration which has been given, praise God, is sur- rounded by the emanations of the Holy Spirit, that the pathway may be made clear and bright, that the peace of God shall restore her soul, that the love of Jesus Christ may find an abiding place within her heart. Love, love, love for you all, my blessed ones, until we meet again. We do not die ! It is only a breaking of the shell, and we rise to realms of glory. Perhaps for a time, while we are outgrowing our earthly conditions, we do not see the benefit of the change, but if we hold our souls in peace and strong desire, the love of God will come, which brings to us a glorious freedom. Dear, sweet ones all, remember me, but above all remember the Lord thy God." The words of Louis R. Miiller (page 202), whose picture shows him to have attained a splendid physical development, coupled with the statements of Eugene Sandow (p. 201), one of the strongest men in the world, are interesting confirmatory evidence of what I have written on the same subject. Diet is of great importance. Each temperament fur- nishes a different problem in regard to proper diet. Each 200 HEALING CURRENTS. one will learn by experiment the proper foods adapted to his temperament. It is a question of supplying the right chemical elements to rebuild the body. Or to put it in metaphysical terms, each one must discover what mental elements formed from the Mind of Nature will best serve as food for the mind in the body. That the quality of food affects the health and the state of mind and char- acter cannot be disputed. Too much food clogs the system and is the physical cause for colds and fevers. The mental cause I have given. It must not be forgot- ten that while the mind has a most powerful effect on the body, the state of the body also reacts upon and affects the mind. The most common error is too eat too much at meals and to drink too little between meals. Water that will coat the teakettle with lime and other mineral elements will, in like manner, coat the veins and stiffen the joints, causing the hardening of the tissues manifest in old age. Pure distilled water is the best blood purifier known. Copiously partaking of it will wash the impurities from the tissues and supply a perfect basis for every fluid element in the body. Those who have read "The Life of the Bee," by Mau- rice Maeterlinck, will agree with me in the belief that the Intelligence of God is expressing even in the tiny forms of life. There can hardly be a doubt that their little organisms are sensitive to thought impressions, as the example of telepathy between the female and male moth illustrates. In fact, every degree of life has its sensitives, psychics or mediums, from the particle of radium that acts as a door through which flows an un- ceasing stream of force to the soul-organism of the Christ that opens a Way through which the love of God radiates in a perpetual benediction to humanity. HEALING CURRENTS. 201 CONCENTRATION OF MIND. "So far as heredity is concerned I had nothing to be" especially thankful for, since while still a mere lad my father's friend advised him to direct my studies toward the ministry, as he explained, 'Your son will be hardly fit for any more strenuous occupation.' Later our family physician in Konigsberg, near the Russian frontier, told my father that if he would not take me to Italy for the winter I would never survive it, such a weakling I was as a child. Well, I went to Italy, and there my eyes were opened. The Greek and Roman statues I saw there inspired me to lift from myself the stigma of weakness, for I felt somehow that even in our time the weak man is despised. I went at the labor of revitalization with energy and persistence. You perceive I have somewhat succeeded, and let me tell you I am still at it. I maintain that it is possible for a man to emulate my example, even as I emulated that of the Greeks and Romans of old. "It is the mind — all a matter of the mind. The mus- cles really have a secondary place. If you lift a pair of dumb-bells a hundred times a day with your fixed attention on some ob j ect away over in Cambridge, it will do you very little good. If, however, you concentrate your mind upon a single muscle or set of muscles for three minutes each day, and say, 'Do thus and so,' and they respond, there will be immediate development. The more you waste the more you make. A man with strong concentration of mind will develop quicker in the quality of his muscles than he who cannot concentrate his mind upon the matter. The whole secret of my system lies in the knowledge of human anatomy — in knowing just where one is weak, and going straight to work bringing that part up to the standard of one's best feature — for there is a best feature in every man, as there is also a 202 HEALING CURRENTS. worst. The secret is to 'know thyself,' as Pope says, and, knowing one's weakness, to concentrate the mind and energies upon that weakness with a view to correct- ing it." Eugene Sandow. ^?* ^* c^* THOUGHT FORCE AS A FACTOR IN MUSCU- LAR DEVELOPMENT. In the development of a more perfect physique there are quite a number of things to take into consideration. A great many enthusiastic beginners think that the word "exercise" covers the whole field. So it does, but not bodily exercise. Exercise of the functions of the brain is equally if not more important. Concentrating the thought force along certain lines gives us a controlling power to overcome unhygienic habits that tend to retard the growth of muscular tissue. Mere bodily exercise, even if performed at haphazard, will in time produce some good results. Tissue-building is a natural conse- quence of following certain well-defined laws. In order to obtain the most rapid development we must make a scientific study of those laws. We must exercise the muscles, use proper diet at the proper time, be thoroughly hygienic in our habits — and when I say hygienic I mean it in a broad sense. One must abstain from tobacco and liquor in every form, and allow himself enough time for sleep. His moral habits must be above reproach. All these things tend to put the mind in condition, that we may gain the power of concentration, and concentration of the mind is the fun- damental law that governs the growth of tissue. It is no theory, but a well-defined law, that the more we concentrate, the better our results. We must know the muscles we wish to develop, and by concentrating all our thought force in their direction, the dead cells are more quickly removed, and new ones added in greater quantities, owing to the increased nervous activity of the parts. We must practice concentration of the mind HEALING CURRENTS. 203 in its highest degree, ' hand in hand with physical exer- cise, if we wish to obtain the most perfect results. Diet has a great deal to do with our power of concen- tration. Concentration in a greater or less degree is the cause of all muscular development. It is unconscious in some, but it can be developed in all. It is the most im- portant part in scientific physical culture. To be able to focus all one's energy on a certain muscle, and to accom- plish this with ease, is a faculty well worth developing. One can almost seem to see a muscle grow. I would ad- vise one who is ambitious to try this for awhile, to see how quickly he will notice the improvement. First, cultivate proper habits of diet, hygiene, and purity of thought ; then try exercising one muscle at a time, till it is thoroughly tired, concentrating all your thought on that one muscle. Let your mind be perfectly passive, and for the time being hold to the thought of the one muscle you wish to develop. Louis R. Muller. THOUGHT AFFECTS BLOOD CURRENT. A startling scientific confirmation of mental causation as primary has recently attracted much attention. In the Yale University gymnasium, under direction of Dr. W. G. Anderson, there is a very delicate machine called the "muscle-bed." When adjusted, a subject lying upon it may remain motionless so long as utter indifference and passivity of mind continues. But a serious problem causes a rush of blood to the head which tips the head in that direction. The mere imagination of an active exercise of the lower limbs causes the opposite inclina- tion. The utter responsiveness of the body is proved by numerous experiments. If such scientific accuracy shows that a little temporary thing can send a rush of warm nourishing blood to a definite organ or extremity, what should not be the logical possibilities of cultivated, systematic and concentrative thought power? Science 204 HEALING CURRENTS. and religion are really but differing sides of the great unit of truth. — Henry Wood. ^7* t£/* ^5* DOES THOUGHT ATTRACT SUCCESS? I say, YES. I have tried it successfully. First, I ex- amined myself to find my own lack of power, then firmly resolved to change my every thought, act, motive and efforts to accomplish a new task desired. I started new business more congenial to my tastes, and placed my own thoughts WHOLLY on the one purpose of my success. I cultivated strict adherence to truth, honest dealing, courage of convictions, evenness of tem- per, patience and perseverance ; never doubting final vic- tory, following always my inner consciousness created by thought, and fully impressed these things on those I desired to attract and bring to my way of thinking; then pressed them firmly, but kindly, into action. This became a business force that attracted people and brought me success. In short, I first convinced myself, by concentrated thought, of my fitness for a given calling. I held strictly to this thought and made it my "polar star," never en- tertaining a doubt as to the result. I never arouse antagonism in others, keep sweet, self- poised, act the part of master of my calling, always pos- itive in assertion of statements, disprove negatives of others, and victory has come to me. — Calvin E. Keach, Troy, N. Y. t^* 4?* d5* TELEPATHY IN INSECT LIFE. Not only the unworthy sluggard might observe the ant and other insects and profit thereby. Science each day adds to the wonders which these little creatures are capable of and puts human creatures to shame. HEALING CURRENTS. 205 This time it is a sixth sense which a noted scientist has discovered many insects to be fortunate enough to possess. At least they are able to communicate with one another at great distances. This professor had two ailanthus trees in his yard and these suggested the idea to him of obtaining from Japan some eggs of the ailanthus silk worm. He got a few, hatched the larvae and watched anxiously for the appearance of the first moths from the cocoons. He put one of the moths in a wicker cage and hung it on one of the ailanthus trees. This was a female moth. On the same evening he took a male moth to a ceme- tery, a mile and a half away, and let him loose, having previously marked him by tying a silken cord about his abdomen, so as to be able to identify him. The idea was to find out if the two moths would come together for the purpose of mating, these two being the only ones of their species within a distance of a hundred miles. In the morning the two moths were found to be in the same cage, the female having been able to attract her mate from a distance of a mile and a half. — Searchlight. The letter from Mrs. Washburn to Bishop Fallows contains a very valuable lesson in the use of suggestion. It opens to mothers a new field of influence, showing how children can be healed by suggestion during sleep. Suggestions tending to correct bad habits and strengthen the character may be made in the same way. Wonderful possibilities in child culture are contained in this method of suggestion. In the case of John Martin the faith of Miss Churchill was the medium through which the healing Spirit acted. A very important factor was the magnetic touch of the healer, through which the magnetic life of the same quality as her faith was imparted to supply the deficient nerve force in his eyes. She gave him magnetic as well 206 HEALING CURRENTS. as thought force. Many patients and healers would have become discouraged and discontinued treatments months before there could have been any results. So this case is a lesson in the value of time in the growth of new conditions. Some one of Mrs. Carse's many friends sounded the spiritual keynote that set her body vibrating to the tone of perfection. I have chosen these varied exam- ples of healing as representing the many ways through which spiritual healing may be brought about. The "bath of fire" was a spiritual sensation caused by the influx of the warm vitality from the spirit spheres. Cases of healing like that of Mrs. Reeves cannot be ex- plained by the law of suggestion. The ministering spirits of the Almighty bring to bear the life and sub- stance of a diviner state, an essence so powerful that it transforms physical substance subject to its perfect law and accomplishes results that could only be wrought in years by the slower process of physical growth. The Holy Spirit, which is the Love of God, acts through the agency and organism of spirit and human forms when- ever suffering mortals consciously or unconsciously fulfill the conditions. This is very wonderfully illustrated by the healing of Miss Cunnea. Her faith and devotion had moved the heart of God and drawn to her the invisible angelic power, but there was something lacking. A mediumistic organism properly attuned to that higher and more potent realm of force was needed and not until the sister who possessed such an organism touched her and completed the chain of magnetic and mental conditions was the law fulfilled and the power of heaven enabled to come into manifestation. God works through divinely natural laws. He shows His impartial love to every creed and race. Those who fulfill the magnetic, HEALING CURRENTS. 207 mental and soul laws of being - enter into the realization of His mercy. Let us be meek and open minded and receive without prejudice the knowledge of truth wherever it may be found, thereby great good will come to us and we shall find the wisdom of Love. fcT* t?* ^* A REMARKABLE CURE BY SUGGESTION. A NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT. Elkhart, Ind., November 26. — (Special) — A mother's devotion, supplemented by earnest prayer, has accom- plished in this city what all the learning of some of the most noted specialists of the country had failed to do, and a child, given up as incurable and apparently doomed to sink into imbecility, is now well and strong, mentally and physically. The woman who has performed the re- markable cure is Mrs. Marion Foster Washburn, the wife of a prominent Elkhart physician, a member of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and once the corres- ponding secretary and afterward the president of that organization. The child whom she has restored to men- tal and physical strength is her six-year-old son. Mrs. Washburn is not a Christian Scientist, though she is a firm believer in the efficacy of prayer. But in the case of her son she prayed not for his cure so much as for a way by which he could be treated successfully. When Chicago specialists, who examined the child, said that he was past medical aid and would degenerate into imbecility, she did not lose heart. She said that she believed there was a way to reach his trouble and she prayed to be directed to this way. Her husband's li- brary, one of the most complete in Elkhart, was resorted to every day, but all works on the subject ended with the same conclusion, and that was in accord with the verdict of the specialists who had been so freely con- sulted. The child had fallen down stairs several years ago and had received an injury to the skull at the base of the brain. An operation, she was told, would be cer- 208 HEALING CURRENTS. tain death, and life promised nothing but suffering and gradual degeneracy of mind and body. As a result of the fall the child became paralyzed on the left side and icould walk but a few steps without falling. LETTER FROM MRS. WASHBURN. Elkhart, Ind., December 5, 1904. Dear Sir : — The enclosed copy of a letter sent Bishop Fallows in regard to the treatment of our son by sugges- tions explains the case quite fully. Yours very truly, Marion Foster Washburn. statement by mrs. washburn. Elkhart, Ind., November 23, 1904. My Dear Bishop Fallows : — I hardly know how to tell you about John's cure, it is such a long story. The newspaper account was far from accurate. The whole thing took place over three years ago, but I suppose the fact that John has stayed well so long, and not only stayed well but got quite appallingly strong, is only added proof to the thoroughness of the cure. He was hurt by falling downstairs and striking the base of his brain when he was only three years old. He was paralyzed on one side — the left — so that he could only walk a few steps without falling. His left eye rolled in under his nose. His tongue and throat were paralyzed so that his speech was very thick, and swallowing so difficult that it often produced vomiting. We suppose that a blood clot was formed and pressed upon the pneu- mogastric center in the brain, because he had a terrible cough, like whooping cough, often protracted until he vomited blood or blood spurted from his nose. His breathing was bad at all times — that is, irregular and difficult, but very much worse at night when it was ster- torous, like that of a person in apoplexy. It could be heard down two flights of stairs. At night, also, his throat had a trick of contracting spasmodically after every third or fourth breath, and then he would struggle frightfully for air. HEALING CURRENTS. 209 As the newspaper account says, we called in the best counsel obtainable. We had Drs. Billings, Brower, Ly- man, King, Patrick and others, including oculists like Allport and Fuller. All of them — except Dr. Fuller, who saw him after he was on the road to recovery — said he could not live a year. Some called it tuberculosis of the brain ; others a brain tumor, but all said he must die. My own father prognosed a spread of the difficulty, brought about by the enlargement of the tumor or clot, which was evidently involving greater and greater areas. In that case I had to expect blindness, deafness and finally feeble-mindedness and death. One night, in utter despair, after helping the poor boy to fight for his breath hour after hour, I just prayed the Lord hard that John might die; the torture was too terrible. I suppose the dear Lord knew what I meant, that I wanted relief for the child so intensely that I was willing to give him up that he might find rest ; and so He answered what I meant instead of what I said. For immediately after praying I fell into a deep sleep — even John must have slept, for I was not roused, and his slightest stir always roused me. And when I awa- kened in the morning the whole plan of treatment was clear as crystal in my mind. The elements of the idea had been there all the time, because I had read with my husband, and had seen him do wonderful things with suggestion. But the notion of applying it to a case of mechanical injury to the brain, like John's, had never occurred to either of us. Now, however, I remember an article by Prof. Elmer Gates, who said that under suggestion he had known sound brain and nerve cells to move over and take the place of injured ones. I began with John's breathing, because that distressed him the most, and threatened many times a night to end his life by suffocation. So I made him look at a silver dollar, so held that it reflected the light of a candle straight into his eyes. Then I kept repeating: "Now you are going to sleep, but no matter how sound asleep you are, you will hear mamma and do as she tells you." 210 HEALING CURRENTS. This was when he went to sleep at night. During the day I had explained to him that he had two brains, an upper and a lower, but the lower one was sick, but the upper one was all right, and that I was going to teach the upper side to take care of the lower one while he was asleep just as I took care of him while he slept. He agreed heartily and was eager for the new perform- ance. Well, he soon went to sleep, of course, and then I put my mouth to his ear and ordered him to breathe just as I breathed. When he got out of time with me, I roused him by tapping him sharply on the shoulder. "You are forgetting," I said, sternly. "You are to mind mamma, no matter how sound asleep you are. Breathe now." He was not used to sharp speech, and sometimes he would murmur: "Are you speaking cross to me, mamma?" "No, dear," I would answer. "Not to you, just to your brain." Sometimes he would slip from my control and I have had to dash water in his face to rouse him, and then use my silver dollar and put him to sleep all over again. It seemed to be just natural sleep, sometimes very pro- found, but just sleep, with fixed attention. He was never cataleptic at these times, though once, in the day time, I induced this state. But I did not want it. My idea was to utilize natural sleep, to keep everything as near the normal as possible. As you see, I discontinued the treatment, simple as it was, as soon as I could with safety and comfort. Along the line of that attention I believed the nervous energy flowed, and where it went cell growth and proliferation were increased and new tissues built. From eight at night till two in the morning — at which hour he always grew quieter — I regulated his breathing like this, kneeling beside him, my mouth at his ear. I kept this up for two months. At the end of that time he was so far cured as to be perfectly comfortable, though his left side was still weaker than his right, his eyes HEALING CURRENTS. 211 were a little crossed, and he still had spells of terrible headache, relieved by a nose-bleed. From that on we just built up his general health with no more special treatments, and our moving here into the country finished up the cure. Now at ten years of age he is as strong as a young ox on both sides, and weighs 118 pounds. His eyes are perfectly straight, but he wears glasses for school-work, as the oculist says his eyes did not develop during the time he was so ill — nearly three years alto- gether — but that he will catch up by the time he is grown and have as good eyes as any one. As for his mind he is unusually bright and competent. But then he always had a superior brain. That is why I could man- age him so well. You say you are much interested in all forms of mental cure. Are you writing a book on the subject? Perhaps you would be interested in one or two papers of Dr. Washburne's in which he takes up these forms of treat- ment? If so, I am sure he would gladly lend them to you. He is on a case in a neighboring town just now, so I cannot ask him. My love to Mrs. Fallows, and believe me faithfully yours, Marion Foster Washburne. COMMENT BY THE EDITOR OF SUGGESTION MAGAZINE. It is hardly necessary to comment on the above. Un- questionably the cure was due to an intelligent use of suggestive therapeutics, and the account is remarkable because the most ardent advocates of psychic healing would not consider the case as one in which suggestion would be entirely efficacious. It will be noted that the husband of Mrs. Washburn, who is versed in the uses of suggestion, did not consider the case as one which could be reached by mental influences and incidentally the narrative also shows the value ( ?) of expert testi- mony. Truly, we little know the power of mind, or the far- reaching effects of suggestion when intelligently and persistently used. If you have a friend who is skeptical concerning the value of suggestion as a healing agent, 212 HEALING CURRENTS. let him read this account. In all the voluminous literature relating to mental therapeutics, there can be found no stronger testimony that that given in Mrs. Washburn's account. d5* t^* (£• SIGHT RESTORED AFTER BEING BLIND FOUR- TEEN YEARS. New York, January 26, 1905. — Sight has been restored to the blind eyes of John F. Martin, who for fourteen years could not even distinguish light from darkness. Martin says his sight was restored to him by a miracle through the agency of a woman, Miss L. A. Churchill, and Miss Churchill says it was the divine spirit working through her. This much is certain, that Martin can see so well that he is employed at difficult and dangerous work in a bookbinding and printing establishment, goes about the busiest sheets day and night unaided by companion or walking stick, and without the aid of glasses reads me- dium sized type, distinguishes and names correctly the colors in a many colored carpet, writes a letter rapidly and in a good hand, and can tell the time by a watch. Martin is the man who was hired as a substitute by the late Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind millionaire, to take all the treatments offered when he made his fa- mous offer of $1,000,000 to any one who should cure him of his blindness. In this capacity of substitute Martin went through ordeals sufficient in themselves to have killed an ordi- nary man, and in the hands of quacks and humbugs his poor sightless eyes were so maltreated as to make it marvelous that anything but empty sockets remain. And the irony of it is that Rouss, the millionaire who hired the poor, penniless Martin to> undergo the useless tortures he shrank from, died as blind as a bat, while Martin, his vision restored, still shudders when he recalls the fourteen years of darkness and suffering, but is so happy that at times he cannot express his joy in words. HEALING CURRENTS. 213 "I don't know, I can't understand," he said the other day. "I only know I am the happiest man in New York. I can see again; I am a man again, living, working, seeing after fourteen horrible years of darkness. Is it a miracle? I don't know. One of the specialists to whom I went said to me : 'Martin, only a miracle can restore your sight !' Then this must be a miracle." A reporter last night met Martin at the home of Miss Churchill by appointment. It was 7 :30 o'clock and quite dark, as no street lamp is near the house. As the re- porter waited after ringing the bell a quick, alert step was heard coming down the street, and the next moment a man bounded lightly up the brownstone steps without pause or hesitation. The man was John Martin, who for fourteen years was led around the streets or groped his way about by the aid of a cane. When they were introduced a few moments later by Miss Churchill and the reporter expressed some surprise at the wonderful activity of a supposed blind man, Mar- tin exclaimed : "Blind once, yes, but blind no longer, thank God !" Nobody to look at him would dream that he had ever been blind. His eyes are big and brown, and except for the right eye they are just like those of a person who had never known anything but the most perfect vision. In looking directly at you the right eye gives the impression of not being in perfect line of vision. To illustrate how good his eyesight is Martin cor- rectly told the time by a clock, the face of which is no larger than a silver dollar, named small objects in the room, read the headlines in a copy of the World, and wrote a letter with a precision of line and character that would have been creditable to an experienced penman. "There is no need for me to tell you what I was," he said. "The whole world knows through the news- papers of my condition — when I was a substitute for Mr. Rouss. Now I am employed in a big printing house and bookbindery downtown. It is in a busy part, too, and you have to be pretty lively in getting around. 214 HEALING CURRENTS. Why, I can jump aboard a moving trolley car as easily as you can. "I am now running what they call a 'masher' in the bookbinding department. This is a machine run by steam into which the books and magazines are placed after they have been sewn together. You know they have to be stamped good and hard to get them solid and compact. Well, you have to keep your eyes open and be pretty alert, for if you leave your hand in there a second too long down comes the smasher and smash go your fingers. "I can do anything that anybody else can except read fine print, and I can do that with glasses, but Miss Churchill won't let me wear them." "No," spoke up Miss Churchill, "I don't intend him to wear glasses. I don't consider him entirely cured, but I intend that he shall be. Mr. Martin is to have just as perfect eyesight as anybody else, so why should he wear glasses ? It would be like mistrusting the power that has done so much for him." When asked to tell of his sensations when he realized that his sight was being restored to him, Martin said : "I don't think I can do that. You see you have never been blind," he remarked with unconscious pathos. "No one who has never been blind can realize the condition of a blind man. You can't quite understand that he is in total darkness and all the misery of it. Now, strangely enough, about all I can think of is the happiness I feel at being able to see again. "When Miss Churchill took hold of me I was hope- less. Like Mr. Rouss, I expected to end my days in darkness. You know I had been pretty nearly killed by experiments. I had been in the hands of about 1,000 different people. Nikola Tesla had sent 100,000 volts of electricity into me, my eyeballs had been taken out and scraped, the muscles of my eyes had been cut, instru- ments containing scores of needles that had pierced to the bone had been used on me. Another man had forced me to take a dose of medicine every five minutes for days, and Christian Scientists by the hundreds had HEALING CURRENTS. 215 treated me. I guess there was nothing 1 that could be done to a man, except kill him outright, that had not been done to me." "Did you have any faith in Miss Churchill?" "How could I ? I had no faith in any power on earth. That's why the whole thing seems a miracle to me. I can't explain it. I had no particular sensation beyond a slight tickling of the eyes when she rubbed them and a general sleepy feeling. I guess I slept a good deal. "I commenced to get better and better. First I could see big moving objects and then got to see people pass- ing on the other side of the street. Then I could see smaller things. Why, I surprised Miss Churchill one day when I pointed out to her the figure of a man in that picture on the wall. She had never noticed it herself." "That's quite true," spoke up Miss Churchill. "I don't pretend to know where Miss Churchill gets her power," continued Martin. "I have studied it over a good deal, and I guess her idea is that the more she tries to make her life as Christ would have us live and the more she succeeds the greater power she gets. Is that anything like it, Miss Churchill?" "You have a very good idea of it, Martin," said Miss Churchill, gently. "It was in April, 1896, that I heard of Mr. Rouss' offer," continued Martin, "and I went to him and told him that I was suffering like him from atrophy of the optic nerve and was poor, and would be willing to try the cures brought out by his offer of $1,000,000 if he would pay the expenses. He took up my offer and then my suffering commenced. "I don't want to blame him now, but I don't think he treated me squarely after all I went through. I don't think all he gave me would average more than $3 or $4 a month. But I guess I've got the better of it. All his millions could not give him his sight, and he died absolutely blind. Look at me. I am only earning about $8 a week, but I can see. I am a man again, as good as anyone, and will soon be earning more money. 216 HEALING CURRENTS. "A lawyer began a suit for me some time ago for $100,000 against the Rouss estate, but I don't care if I never hear of it again. I've got my sight now." Miss Churchill is extremely opposed to notoriety. She is not a Mental Scientist nor a Christian Scientist, and belongs to no cult. At her earnest request her home address is withheld in order that she may be saved from annoyance. She is a woman of middle age, with a sweet, motherly face. She has her own ideas of the kind of life we should lead, and as nearly as possible she has lived up to her ideas. Great earnestness of purpose, combined with gentleness and simplicity, are marked characteristics. "I am in no sense a healer," she said. "I am a literary woman by profession and am dependent upon my literary work for a living. I have written several books which are widely circulated, and have been employed on various magazines. "That I am possessed of certain healing powers there can be no doubt, but I am merely the agent. It is the Divine Spirit that heals, and I am only the agent through which the Spirit works. I do not even like to discuss my doings in the newspapers, because people are so apt to misunderstand and so few really believe. I think that will best explain to you my theories of this life, and at the same time make clear to the public how I account for the restoration of John Martin's sight. "The world is full of Christians who go to church to worship God, and who profess to believe in the Bible. They believe in some of Christ's sayings and teachings. Then why should they not believe in them all? Christ healed the sick, the maimed, the halt, and the blind. And he said to his people : 'These things which I have done ye also shall do, and greater things, for I go to my Father.' "Is it not strange that we should believe Him in other things and not in this? I make no pretense of doing anything myself. Like Him, I say : Tt is my Father who doeth the work.' HEALING CURRENTS. 217 "Now, as regards Martin, it should be understood that I did not take up his case until after Mr. Rouss had publicly withdrawn his offer of $1,000,000 to anyone who could cure his blindness. Martin himself was pen- niless, so it cannot be said that I was after money. I don't think it is being uncharitable to say that a majority of those who experimented on and tortured Martin were themselves blinded by the million dollars held out by Mr. Rouss. "I sought out Martin because I was told to. I knew that I was to cure him. And let me say here that, al- though I have cured many desperate cases — one of consumption and one of appendicitis — his is the first case I ever sought. And as I tell you, it was not of my own volition. I knew that I was to restore him his sight, so I sought him out." "Will you explain just how you treated him?" she was asked. "As nearly as I can I will. When I first undertook to treat him he was a physical wreck from the drugs he had taken and the many experiments practiced upon him. His stomach was practically ruined, and the only things he could retain were crackers and milk. So, first of all, I had to build up his stomach. This required time and was done in a practical, simple manner, without the use of a single drug. "This accomplished, I began manipulating his eye- balls. I doubt if he felt any effects of this manipulation beyond a drowsiness. In fact, he used to sleep most of the time he was here. This and prayer is all that I have employed. I am not a member of the Christian Science Church, but I have given Martin as much absent as present treatment. In fact, I believe as much can be done by absent treatment as by the other. "One reason for my success is that I never undertake a case unless I know that I can do good. Such success as I have had is because I only undertake such cases as the Divine Spirit wants and urges me to. Some persons I have cured I have never seen." 218 HEALING CURRENTS. It must be understood that all this was said quietly and with deep earnestness and conviction. There was no claptrap about it, just the simple statement of a wo- man who thoroughly believes every word she says. Practically the whole world knows of John F. Martin and the strange bargain he made with Rouss, the blind millionaire, for his case has been discussed in daily news- papers and medical journals of almost every country. Famous oculists to whom the merchant applied when his eyesight began to leave him told him that nothing could be done. "It is merely a question of time when you will become totally blind," they said. His optic nerve was slowly wasting away. The thought that, despite all his wealth, he was doomed in a short time to utter darkness preyed on Rouss' mind so that he became desperate. He cried out in anguish against his fate. Then came this remarkable offer, made through the daily newspapers : $1,000,000 Reward — To Physicians, Surgeons, scientists, wise men, and all others whom it may con- cern: Be it known that I, Charles Broadway Rouss, who possess considerable wealth, hereby agree to pay the sum of $1,000,000 to any human being who restores to me my sight. There could be but one result from sucn an astound- ing offer. Yet the sum would have been a paltry one to pay for the boon he wanted. From every quarter of the habitable globe came quacks, fakirs and charlatans, each with a sure cure for blindness, and each one anxious to try for the million. Thousands upon thousands of letters and tons of "curatives" poured in on Rouss. So enormous did the volume of work become that he was forced to appoint a force of clerks under the supervision of an old friend, A. J. Smith, to attend to it. Then came young Martin with his offer, almost as remarkable as the million dollar offer of Mr. Rouss. "I am totally blind from atrophy of the optic nerve — the same disease that is steadily making you blind," he HEALING CURRENTS. 219 told Rouss. "What will cure me will cure you. You are worth millions and I am not worth a penny. You are a busy man and I have nothing to do. Let me take the treatments that are offered to you. If I am cured you are to pay the bill." "That's a fine idea," replied Rouss. "You shall be my substitute, and you can start in right away. Here's this man Nikola Tesla, who wants to shoot 100,000 volts of electricity into me. It's liable to kill me, I am told. Now, of course, I would rather he kill you than me, so you go ahead if you are satisfied." And poor Martin, grasping for light, was satisfied, and did go ahead. He withstood the shock of 100,000 volts of electricity without any particular harm to him- self, but without the slightest benefit. But this was only the beginning of months of the most awful suffering and torture that a human being ever was forced to undergo. He spent weeks in bed at his nome, sometimes taking as many as twenty different "cures" at one time. One man, a "friend," punctured his flesh to the bone with an instrument containing scores of steel needles until he had made 10,000 punctures. Then he rubbed the poor inflamed body with Croton oil. That it did not kill him is little short of marvelous. It must not be supposed that only quacks and charla- tans treated Martin. Some of the most famous oculists and physicians of the day have examined and treated him without result. Among them are Dr. Cyrus Edson, Dr. David Orr Edson, Dr. William F. Mittendorf, Dr. F. M. Michael. Professor Knapp, and many others. t£?* t^% £& MRS. M. B. CARSE IS HEALED BY PRAYER. "It is prayer that has cured me. I would be a crippie to-day instead of a perfectly well woman had it not been for divine power. Hundreds of prayers have gone up 220 HEALING CURRENTS. from my friends in every state from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and God has heard and answered. Faith is everything." In these words Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, president of the Woman's Temple board of Chicago, in answering the amazed friends and interested physicians who know of the accident which befell her last February, when she broke her hip by a severe fall on the icy street near her Sheridan Park home. Mrs. Carse returned two days ago from her brother's home at Riverdale on the Hudson, New York, where she went last May to recuperate from her injuries. She is entirely recovered and walks without the slightest limp. She left Chicago on crutches in May and had to be carried to and from her train. "My case is considered miraculous by physicians," said Mrs. Carse to-day. "Surgeons in New York and Chi- cago agree that my perfect restoration is marvelous. At the time I was injured the Chicago surgeons who treated me declared it would be impossible for me to ever walk without limping. When the broken hip was set I was told that there would be a shrinking of an inch — or at the very least half an inch — in the length of my limb. I told the surgeons that I would never have to submit to being lame, because God had a work for me to do. 'God will save me from such a fate,' I repeated day after day, 'because I have His great work to do.' " "What method of healing did you employ?" was asked. "Was it faith cure?" "It was prayer cure," she replied promptly. "I prayed and my friends prayed — all the W. C. T. U. women from coast to coast united in petitioning God to make me perfectly well, and He did. See, I can walk as straight as anyone." Mrs. Carse swept across the floor with shoulders erect, every step firm and elastic. She looked the pic- ture of health. "I feel that while I had a good surgeon it was prayer that made my exceptional recovery possible," she said. HEALING CURRENTS. 221 "While I was resting at my brother's home on the Hudson this summer I held the thought continually that God would cure me entirely — that there would never be the slightest limp in my walk. The prediction of sur- geons had no weight whatever beside the assurance that God would restore me to carry on the work he had de- signed for me." "When did you give up your crutches?" "In June — very soon after I went to New York. Since then I steadily grew better. My surgeon had told me that even if my limb did not show the difference in length at first it would surely do so later. But even this I refused to believe. And now I am completely well." Mrs. Carse's home at 1920 Magnolia avenue was filled with friends to-day who gave thanks for her recovery. — > Dated October 7, 1904. — Chicago American. ^* S0>T fgfr HEALTH RESTORED BY BATH OF FIRE. Des Moines, la., January 21, 1905. — Bathed in a flarr^ of fire, which she claims swept down from heaven and en- veloped her body, Mrs. H. J. Reeves of this city has been restored to youth and healthfulness from a woman of 62 years, who had been crippled in body and limb for years. The marvelous transformation came through the aid of no person claiming to have divine healing power, but in the midst of a religious meeting at a mission house in the poorer district of the city. At the time of the man- ifestation Mrs. Scott M. Ladd, wife of a member of the Iowa Supreme Bench, was speaking, having gone to the mission at the request of church workers to aid in the services. Mrs. Ladd is a Methodist and belongs to no society which teaches divine healing, but in an interview she admits the story and believes it was a re- markable demonstration of God's power to these poor people. 222 HEALING CURRENTS. "For years," said Mrs. Reeves, "I had suffered in- tensely. My legs have been so crippled that I could not arise alone from my bed and only with pain could I drag about the house. My fingers were crooked so I could neither open nor close them. The palms of my hands had not been touched for years. The flesh of my body was so sore that to touch it caused me to scream in pain. I have taken all kinds of medicine without securing relief and a few months ago I threw them all away. I have prayed night and day for deliv- erance from my suffering. "I felt a peculiar sensation all day. In the services at the mission I was intensely interested in the true words of the good woman who spoke. In the very midst of the services a thrill ran through my body. My eyes were blinded by a shaft of fire which seemed to shoot down from above and enveloped my body. The feeling was one of exultation and delight. I felt de- livered as though shackles had been shaken from my body. Forgetful of my infirmities I jumped to my feet in delight and cried aloud 'Hallelujah!' I clapped my hands and found the palms touched. My fingers had limbered and all pain gone from my body. To-day I am perfectly well and feel as though 20 years had been lifted from me." Mrs. Reeves lives in an humble little cottage. Her time-worn Bible shows that she has faith. Its leaves are black by constant turning, many torn from their binding. The woman is not a religious fanatic, but one with good judgment. She has the strongest faith in her Bible and believes the miracle which has cured her is as wonderful as that performed by Christ in His day. The mission was started some months ago by J. H. Brodie, a well-known wallpaper salesman in Des Moines. One of Mrs. Reeves' sons is a mail carrier. Great ex- citement has been caused in South Des Moines by the incident, and many there are who claim the miracle was sent as a rebuke to the aristocratic religious people of the city; that it was to prove God visits the poor and deserted people who worship in an humble but acceptable HEALING CURRENTS. 223 way in a little room without pipe organ, without rich furnishings and tall steeples. The mission congregation is composed principally of Christians, Methodists, Pres- byterians and Free Methodists. •&* i$* *7* MANY HELPLESS FROM INFIRMITIES RE- STORED AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH. That the days of miracles are not past and that even in this workaday world and generation there is an abundance of the faith that moves mountains have had abundant proof during the last few days in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Thirty-eighth street and California avenue. There, before the Grotto of St. Anne, in which a sa- cred relic of the mother of the Blessed Virgin was ex- posed for veneration on the feast day of St. Anne, the blind have been made to see, the lame to walk, the pal- sied and the ailing to feel the thrill of health and strength throughout their frames. More than a hundred thou- sand believers have bowed in prayer before the grotto during the week and the list of seemingly miraculous cures of bodily ailments reported to Father Poissant, the pastor, is a most remarkable one. Only at certain appointed hours was the sacred relic — a bit of bone from the forearm of the saint — exposed in its gold receptacle for the veneration of the faithful, the crippled and the ailing, who came many miles in the hope of being cured. But at all hours while the church was open hundreds of devout, kneeling figures filled the pews and the aisles, knelt at the altar rail, or made the "way of the cross" about the church. The shrine of St. Anne, the little grotto in which stood a statue of the saint, and in which the sacred relic was from time to time exposed, was the cynosure of every eye. Upon it hung crutches and canes discarded by the lame who had been cured. A small stream of 224 HEALING CURRENTS. water trickled down the grotto and splashed into a basin. Beside the receptacle were two cups, and they were in constant requisition by the crowds that packed the church. And amid the marvelous cures reported from the shrine within the last few days this water has its place. Mrs. M. Mrazeck, who lives at 15 Mautene court, has for many years been a sufferer from a severe cough. When the feast day of St. Anne approached it occurred to Mrs. Mrazeck that there she might find the relief which doctors and medicines had not given her. She had lost faith in physicians. Her faith in St. Anne was perfect and unquestioning. Several weeks ago she visited the church and, after kneeling in prayer for some time, drank some of the water. She felt its benefits immediately and, with the consent of Father Poissant, took some of it home. Every time she coughed she drank some of the water and in a month her cough was entirely cured. The trouble of years was gone. Even mere marvelous was the cure of Anna Boucher, the daughter of John Boucher, a wealthy grocer. From her birth the girl had been blind and for years her father has had her eyes treated by the most eminent oculists in this country and in Canada. They succeeded in only restoring enough of her eye- sight so that she was enabled with great difficulty and very strong glasses to see a little while every day. In Canada, while having her eyes treated, she heard of the wonder-working shrine of St. Anne, the fame of which spread far among the French people. Father Poissant, the pastor, is French, and most of his congre- gation are sprung from French-Canadian stock. Hither the young woman was brought by her father, to pray before the shrine for her sight. "I had faith. Oh, I had faith," says Miss Boucher, bubbling over with happiness in her new-found and beautiful world. "I came to St. Joseph's and made a novena. For nine days I prayed that I might get my HEALING CURRENTS. 225 sight— my precious eyesight, for which I had prayed so often. "And then on Tuesday night, when the feast was ended, came my great blessing. I felt the darkness pass- ing away from my eyes, and at last I saw the blessed light ! "After I had thanked God and the good St. Anne and the Blessed Virgin for all their goodness to me, I placed my glasses upon the shrine, beside the crutches of the lame that had been made to walk." Upon the side of the shrine, close to the statue of St. Anne, hang the crutches without which Des Nioges Emond, 3525 Rockwell street, has not been able to walk for five years. Stricken with paralysis, after a fall, the girl was helpless until her perfect faith made her whole at the shrine of St. Anne. "My sister fell when she was ten years old," said Mrs. Fred Lamarche, her sister, with whom she makes her home, "and injured her spine. She lay for a year in St. Joseph's Hospital in Joliet before she could leave her bed, and it was four years more before she could walk even with crutches. "She was making her second novena when the great blessing came to her, and she laid her crutches upon the shrine and walked home to me." The miraculous cure of Miss Matilda Cunnea, daughter of John Cunnea, the president of the Calumet National Bank, has attracted widespread attention, com- ing simultaneously with the many cures reported from the shrine in St. Joseph's Church. Miss Cunnea, who had been a sufferer from paralysis for several years and had been moved about in a wheel- chair for two years, was restored to health and strength in an instant at the shrine of St. Anne, in the little French village of St. Anne, 111., and has just returned to her home, 7120 Harvard avenue. "I heard of the cures at St. Anne's shrine while I was at De Beaupre, in Canada," said the happy girl, "and two weeks ago I decided to make a pilgrimage to St. Anne, make the novena and pray that my 226 HEALING CURRENTS. affliction might be removed. As I was entirely helpless, my father sent me to St. Anne with a wheel-chair and an attendant to roll it around that I might be near the church all the time. One of the sisters of the Hotel Dieu here in Englewood accompanied me and prayed with me every day. "I felt positive that I would be cured. My belief was unshaken even after I had attended the services on the feast day and had been touched with the sacred relic of St. Anne and still felt no beneficial effects. I sat in the church after nearly everyone was gone and made an act of faith and resignation. I had not despaired. My faith was still strong. "When I looked down at my feet I saw they had dropped in the same old lifeless way they always did and that I was still helpless, and I called the sister to straighten my feet and assist me to my chair. "As the sister touched them I felt the blood rush downward and I knew I was cured. " 'Sister,' I cried, 'I feel that I am cured. Help me up, quick.' "I stood on my feet firmly for the first time in two years. I can never describe to anyone the sensation I felt at that moment, when I realized that at last I was cured. "Every bit of strength seemed to have left all the rest of my body and for a few seconds I could not move a finger. "Then I dropped upon my knees and gave thanks for my great blessing. "I knelt before the shrine of St. Anne and stripped all my jewels off' and heaped them on the shrine. It seemed I could not do enough — I could not do anything that would show my gratitude to God and to St. Anne. "In a little while the villagers heard about it and crowded into the church and met me outside and I had quite an ovation. Then I walked back to the convent and sat down and cried." Another miraculous cure reported from St. Joseph's Church here is the restoration of speech to Miss Agnes HEALING CURRENTS. 227 T. Elwood, 1419 Thirty-fifth place, who had been dumb for years. After many hours spent in prayer her voice was suddenly restored to her. Mrs. Alma Dumais, nineteen years old, 2202 Thirty- eighth place, was cured of a severe case of asthma. Mrs. Gerwin Winkling, 5124 Bishop street, was cured of spinal trouble. John Farby, 4328 Armour avenue, was cured of deafness. — Dated July 30, 1904. — Chicago American. * * * This interesting explanation of the marvels performed by the Hindoo fakirs or wonder-workers is taken from the book, "Ghost-land," written by an Englishman: c?» c5* t?* OCCULT PHENOMENA AMONG HINDOOS. "Like most persons interested in the occult side of nature, I had no sooner returned to India, where, indeed, my earliest days of childhood had been passed, than I became fascinated with the extraordinary and preter- natural powers displayed by Oriental ecstatics. It may not be wholly uninteresting to touch upon the methods which I myself adopted to master the secret of their production. "My first step was to secure the services of two of the most accomplished as well as respectable members of the fakir fraternity, and, having taken all the avail- able means at command to attach them to my inter- est, not forgetting to separate them from each other, so as to avoid the possibility of collusion or a systematic attempt to deceive me, I had opportunity enough to observe many of the most astounding evidences of the power these men possessed, as well as to analyze at leisure their claims for its origin. In each case, as well as in numerous others, where incredible feats of preter- natural wonder were exhibited, the fakirs assured me the oitris, or ancestral spirits, were the invisible wonder- workers. "Again and again they protested they could do noth- ing without the aid of these spiritual allies. Their own 228 HEALING CURRENTS. agency in the work, they gave me to understand, con- sisted in preparing themselves for the service of the pitris. They alleged that the material body was. only. a. vehicle for the invisible soul, the spiritual or astral cloth- mg~pi which was an element evidently analagous to the 'spiritual body' of the Apostle Paul, the 'magnetic body' or 'life principle' of the Spiritists, the 'astral spirit' of the Rosicrucians, and the 'atmospheric spirit' of the Berlin Brotherhood. This element the Hindoo and Arabian ecstatics termed Agasa, Vitality, or the Hfe^ fluid. They said that in proportion to the quantity and potency of agasa in the system, so was the power to work marvels by the aid of spirits. Spirits, they added, used agasa as their means of coming in contact with matter, and when it was abundant and very powerful the invisibles could draw it from the bodies of the ecstatics and perform with it feats only possible to themselves and the gods. 'Mutilate the body, lop off the limbs, if you will,' said a Brahmin, whom I had also enlisted in my service as a teacher of occultism, 'and with a sufficient amount of agasa you can instanta- neously heal the wound. Agasa is the element which keeps the atoms of matter together ; the knife or sword severs it, the fire expels it from its lodgment in those atoms; put the agasa back to the severed or burned parts "before they have had time to fester or wither, and the parts must reunite and become whole as before.' "It is by virtue of agasa that the seed germinates in the ground and grows up to be a tree, with leaves, fruit and flowers. Pour streams of agasa on the seed, and you quicken in a minute what would else, with less of the life-fluid, occupy a month to grow. Charge stones or other inanimate objects with agasa drawn from a human body, and spirits can make such objects move, fly, swim, or travel hither and thither at will ; in short, it is through the power of agasa — by which I mean force, the life of things — that all the most intelligent Hindoos with whom I studied, insisted that preter- natural marvels could be wrought, always adding, how- ever, that spirit must assist in the operation, first, be- HEALING CURRENTS. 229 cause their spiritual bodies were all agasa, and next, be- cause they had a knowledge of this great living force and how to apply it, which they could not communicate to mortals. "The methods of initiation into these wonder-working powers were, I was assured, chastity, seasons of pro- found abstraction, a spirit exalted to the contemplation of deity, heaven and heavenly things, and a mind wholly sublimated from earth and earthly things. By these processes, it was claimed, the body would become sub- dued and the quantity of agasa communicated through the elements and by favor of the gods, would be im- mensely increased. It would also be more readily liberated, and under the control of spiritual agencies. " 'Behold me !' cried one of my instructors on a cer- tain occasion. 'I am all agasa. This thin film of mat- ter wherewith I am covered, these meshes of bone that form my framework of life, are they not fined away to the tenuity of the elements? They hinder not my flight through space, neither can they bind me to the earth I am casting off.' "He proved the truth of his boast by springing up- wards from the ground which he spurned with his foot, when lo ! he ascended into mid-air, and whilst his en- tranced eyes were rolled upwards, and his lean, rigid arms and thin hands were clasped in ecstasy above his head, he continued to soar away nearly to the roof of the vast temple in which we were." This very beautifully illustrates that we can overcome many of the limitations of the material body by devel- oping in our flesh a more positive degree of vitality. Affirm again and again: I am vitality. Think vital- ity, breathe vitality, eat vitality, and know that you are the unlimited vitality of God, thus you will become a magnet for Almighty Vitality. Think toward each or- gan of your body. You are vitality. You are so filled and thrilled with vitality that there is no place for disease or decay in you. All is vitality. Keep this up unceasingly and it will make you so positively vital that health and happiness will reign throughout your whole being. ystic Words of Mighty Power BY WALTER DE VOE This book contains one hundred articles of utmost practical value. Every page is filled with interesting instruction. The following are the names of a few of the articles : A Path to Power. The Whole Truth. What God has Sown. The Immaculate Conception. Truth is Mighty and will Prevail. 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