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 Mind-Healing Condensed: 
 
 INSTRUCTION BOOK AND FORMULA. 
 
 By Db. A. J. SWARTS, 
 
 President of Spiritual Science University. 
 
 This Book is a Succinct and Logical Statement of the Mind- 
 Healing Science from the Standpoint of 
 Intuition and Keason. 
 
 CHICAGO : 
 
 Published by the Author, 
 1443 Michigan Ave. 
 
 Revised and Re-Issued, 
 

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 Entered according to Act of Congress in the years 1887 and 1889, by 
 
 A. J. SWARTS, 
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 in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 THIS condensed statement of Metaphysical Sci- 
 ence, with a Formula for Silent Healing, is 
 issued in response to many calls throughout the 
 land. 
 
 Believing that Reform demands a concise and 
 comprehensible statement of this Science, and that an 
 intelligent Formula is needed as a guide to the in- 
 terested, we issue this summary of the Science in 
 full confidence that its principles will be concurred 
 in by all who have received the true understanding. 
 While the Spiritual Science University claims im- 
 portant discoveries, and successful methods of its 
 own, it is in accord with the fundamental teachings 
 of the most prominent authors of Mental Science or 
 Metaphysics. 
 
 The following rules can be successfully used by 
 any physician, by Mental and Magnetic Healers, or 
 by the afflicted for self-cure, provided that they are 
 able to accept the scientific statement of Being, as 
 held by the leading writers in this exacting Science 
 which refuses to be classed with any other system 
 of cure. If the reader would know the ethics and 
 claims of this Science in order to decide whether he 
 may attempt its demonstration in the cure of dis- 
 ease, we will first state the essential doctrines of the 
 system, and then let the application, or Formula for 
 
cure, immediately follow the foundation on which 
 w T e profess to stand, as Mental or Spiritual Scien- 
 tists. 
 
 This Text Book is a true exposition of the Science 
 variously called Mental or Mind Cure, Metaphysics, 
 Christian Science, Mind-Healing, or Spiritual Sci- 
 ence. It has been earnestly desired that some one 
 might condense the scope of authors early in the 
 Science to a succinct statement. This work pro- 
 fesses to do this, and to establish through logical 
 reasoning and by mathematical exactness, the Truth 
 or the value of the best discoveries. The author is 
 willing to allow the candid, unprejudiced student of 
 the Metaphysical system, to say, after a careful 
 reading, whether it accords with the leading claims 
 of the Science, and to point out any material varia- 
 tions from the first authorities in the system. Its 
 aim is to harmonize, to unify, to establish and to 
 defend all who have espoused the Cause, rather than 
 to discriminate or give precedence to any author. 
 It is not meant that this work consists of quotations, 
 nor of borrowed sentences from anyone, for such 
 is not the case. As a statement of the Science and 
 as a Formula or guide in healing, it is designed 
 chiefly for students, teachers and healers, and to 
 such it is offered in the hope that it may prove a 
 
 friend in the time of need. 
 
 The Author. 
 
MIND-HEALING CONDENSED. 
 
 THE uni instructed mind does not readily accept 
 the ethics of this Science as Truth, hence it is 
 generally necessary for those who are willing to 
 enter this useful field in reform, to receive from a 
 good teacher of the Science a course of lessons. 
 After having read standard works, and taken a 
 course of instruction, those truly interested can and 
 will arrive at a practical understanding of the sys- 
 tem. If the reader should not be able to accept our 
 statements, we still have the satisfaction of know- 
 ing that the application of this system has cured 
 multitudes of helpless worthy people, and that to-day 
 it is doing more to rid humanity of disease than all 
 the drugs on earth can do. We have the further 
 satisfaction of knowing that it is accepted and sup- 
 ported by the best thinkers, by the educated and the 
 refined people of the world, and knowing that God 
 
or Truth honors this Science, we will now epitomize 
 its 
 
 DOCTRINES OR ETHICS. 
 
 Christian or Spiritual Science holds that God is 
 in no sense a visible, formulated personality; that God 
 is not and cannot be local, nor be an expression ever 
 to be seen, or comprehended. 
 
 It declares that God is the Supreme and Universal 
 Good; Omnipresent, Invisible, Unchangeable; to be 
 understood, not as anthropomorphic, not assuming 
 any mortal function or shape. It claims that the 
 essence or Being of Deity is the Sea of Invisible 
 Spirit, as Omnipresent or all-extended as Nature 
 entire or the Universe itself. 
 
 It is neither Agnosticism nor Pantheism, for, while 
 it denies that God can be visible, it certainly does 
 not hold that visible things are God. 
 
 Our Science holds that this universal Sea of Spirit 
 is essential Substance or Intelligence, that it is the 
 cause or Source of all visible things, hence is saved 
 from the unscientific assertion that visible objects are 
 "nothing." 
 
 Spirit, the universal and essential Substance, pro- 
 jects itself as thoughts or ideas, even as worlds and 
 visible objects. All visible things derive existence 
 from this great Sea of Deity; they all exist in it and 
 it pervades them all, or, as the Bible has it, is the 
 " All in All." 
 
No consideration is independent of Spirit, nor 
 can anything possess externeity, outness, or even 
 think where it is not, for there is no separate 
 Life. No absolute entity belongs to man as a spirit, 
 a life, a mind or a soul. The only absolute or Life 
 in the universe, is the Infinite Spirit, the fathomless 
 wholes the unknowable, or God. 
 
 Neither so-called u matter, 1 ' flesh, blood, bones, nor 
 visibility, constitute God or Spiritual Man in 
 Science, for God and Spiritual Man are only inter- 
 changeable terms for Being, and one is as real, as 
 immortal and as extended as the other ; and strictly, 
 there is no "other," in the sense of separate entity, 
 because all is One. 
 
 Visible or sense objects were first the ideas or 
 thoughts of Creative Intelligence, and as ideas they 
 are real and eternal. These millions of varying 
 ideas could only come out to existence, i. e. to phys- 
 ical sight, by reflected phenomena, for everything 
 visible is phenomenal. Writers and teachers in our 
 Science have not noted sufficiently the distinction 
 between Existence and Being, but like theology and 
 common thought have treated these as one. Being 
 is the real, and always applies to the invisible, either 
 to the invisible universal Spirit as God, or to ideas, 
 thoughts, etc. Existence should be applied to phys- 
 ical or visible objects, hence it is proper to think 
 of ideas as being, and of their essence as for ever 
 
invisible yet immortal or eternal in idea. When to 
 these ideas or conceptions Nature gives visible or 
 reflected expression, then it is proper to refer to 
 such as Existence, or to say that they exist. 
 
 The Latin meaning of the word exist, is to 
 emerge, to appear. It is from ex, meaning from 
 or out of, and sistere which means to stand ; hence 
 to stand out or become visible means to exist. This 
 certainly cannot apply to God, nor can it apply to 
 Immortal Man, but it does apply to mortal body, 
 the earthly, the evolved or manifested man. Those 
 who define immortality to mean existence or visible 
 expression, have not come up to Spiritual Science 
 where true conceptions of the real, of immortality 
 or being are found. Existence is the transitory 5 
 temporal state, while being is entity, even eternal 
 and immortal. Re-birth, or reincarnation, is the 
 only method by which personal existence can be 
 claimed as our immortality. We may, if we choose, 
 take again a body of flesh, and have another, even 
 many earth experiences. The Theosophical claims 
 for reincarnation, are biblical, scientific, and the 
 establishing conceptions of ripest thought. Many 
 re-births are occurring in the present period. 
 
 Once in the understanding of the Science of Life, 
 you will have solved the problem and will know that 
 Immortal Invisible Man is God. Do not confound 
 our conception of God in Science with the theolog- 
 
ical belief of God as consisting of form and visible 
 expression like the existing temporal man, for we 
 turn from such narrow, yielding beliefs forever. 
 
 It is not scientific to say God's spirit, God's love, 
 God's entity, God's life, etc., for God is Spirit, is 
 Life, is Love, is Entity. Xo more is it proper 
 while speaking of visible man, to sa}~ man's spirit, 
 man's entity, or man's life, for mortal phenomenal 
 man does not own Spirit, but Spirit possesses the 
 earthly man, which is but temporal itself, while these 
 are the real, or stronger still, these are God. 
 
 As this Science teaches that flesh, bones and blood 
 are not Man; as it teaches that visible body or exist- 
 ence is not like Deity, so it rejects all belief in the 
 reality of so-called " matter." That which common 
 thought names ' ' matter " has no entity, no life, no 
 intelligence, and at best all objects beheld by sense 
 are siniply reflections, and are no more the real than 
 the picture reflected on the canvas is the real. 
 
 A reflection is thrown from the human face or 
 form by focalized power upon the sensitized plate 
 in the camera, and a negative, or an inverted repre- 
 sentation of the face, is obtained by chemical pro- 
 cesses. The face has its picture taken, but the pic- 
 ture is not the face after all. As the photograph is 
 void of sensation, having progressed outward from 
 its once invisible sensitive state, so the body and all 
 
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 visible objects are void of sensation, and are only 
 reflections or negative expressions of the real. 
 
 Standing before a mirror an optical illusion pre- 
 sents itself; you claim to see in it a reflection of that 
 which you call your face, your hand, yourself, but 
 this is not true, for you are not looking at anything 
 in the glass, nor at an image on the chemical pre- 
 paration adhering to the other side of the glass. 
 You are the omnipresent eye of Spirit looking every 
 way, and the reflection you claim to see in the 
 mirror is simply the so-called u matter" or the re- 
 flection which we call the body. That which is 
 claimed by sense to be in the mirror, is just as much 
 the real man as the flesh is; neither is the entity, the 
 real, for both are reflections; and now having said 
 both, we say there are not two, but only one. My 
 point is, that while you claim to see your reflection 
 in the mirror, it is simply the invisible you between 
 the physical you and the mirror, and it is beholding 
 your literal body which is the only reflection of the 
 original idea. 
 
 That which you seem to behold in the mirror and 
 which you call a reflection of yourself, is absolutely 
 your own face, and you are looking by deflected 
 vision at it only. You are looking from the mirror 
 and toward yourself. We mean just what we are 
 saying here, and we are now correcting a long 
 standing belief or delusion. When you seem to be 
 
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 looking toward the mirror and think that you are 
 looking at a reflection of yourself in it, it is a great 
 mistake, for you are looking not toward the 
 mirror, but from it, and the reflection you behold 
 is your fleshly body only. This is absolutely true, 
 and to anyone unfolded sufficiently in Spirit, we 
 can demonstrate it. 
 
 While you read this think on the optical illusion 
 that we are correcting. Please stand before a mir- 
 ror. Now touch your right ear. Looking, as you 
 believe, toward the mirror, you claim that your right 
 ear is opposite the right edge of the glass, but 
 such is not true. Holding your finger on your right 
 ear as } r ou claim, your error or delusion is corrected 
 before the mirror, for you see that it is your left ear 
 you are touching. We write this seated before a 
 large mirror and the revelation of this essential point 
 is rendered certain. James says : " Deceiving your 
 own selves like unto a man beholding his natural 
 face in a glass, for he beholdeth himself, etc." This 
 is oar point, that he is not beholding a reflection of 
 himself, but he is actually seeing "himself" There 
 is a deception or an illusion here, as in all phenome- 
 nal appearances. The vision of sense is crossed and 
 inverted, and you " straighticay forget what manner 
 of man you are." 
 
 We say that you do not see anything in the glass 
 nor on the quicksilver, and is not this statement cor- 
 
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 roct ? Hold your face or hand twelve inches from 
 the mirror and the apparition or that which you see, 
 seems to be twelve inches beyond the glass. Hold 
 a pencil or the end of a cane against the glass and 
 that which you call the reflection is the exact dis- 
 tance from the glass. Now hold your pencil or a 
 book flatwise against or near the glass, and you see 
 the space or distance is the same. Step backward 
 from the mirror ten feet ; now you see that the 
 reflection as you have called it, is not in the mirror 
 but has seemed to recede the same distance which 
 you have. A little thought will show you that you 
 are not looking at a reflection ten feet, nor even one 
 foot back of the mirror. If you are beholding an 
 apparition beyond the mirror, then you are looking 
 through the quicksilver, and through the brick wall 
 back of the mirror. The object you see is simply 
 yourself. Again, moving your hand from and to- 
 ward the mirror, you observe the velocity of the two 
 is exactly the same. This is all owing to the fact 
 that you are seeing whatever you are as a visible 
 expression ; you are not seeing in the mirror a 
 reflection of a reflection. You are the invisible idea 
 of being reflected or turned outward through evolu- 
 tion to existence, and when' you die, as sense or 
 mortal mind says, the reflection or existence ceases 
 or turns in, disappears from mortal sight through 
 involution. It is drawn back to essential Substance 
 
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 or Spirit, hence of course lost to sensuous vision. 
 The invisible idea, the thought, the pattern— or as 
 theology and philosophy would express it — the spirit 
 or spiritual idea is immortal, and forever beyond 
 the reach of dissolution. But remember, in the im- 
 mortal state it is absolutely invisible to mortal sight, 
 yet it may again manifest, and again clothe itself 
 with the illusion called flesh, but in its own order, 
 viz. , through the procreative or generative principle 
 on the physical plane. If this is a fair solution of 
 reincarnation, embodiment, or what Jesus meant 
 about Elijah and John, you have the benefit but 
 may not see the Truth of it unless sufficiently spir- 
 itual. 
 
 As the being or ideal entity of the spirit of man 
 comes out to identity, to existence, so all fruits, 
 flowers, cereals and vegetation come forth from the 
 invisible, from Spirit which is the true seed. The 
 grass, fruit and leaves to spring next year, are now 
 hidden in the invisible realm of causation, the uni- 
 versal Sea, Spirit— God. The conceptions, births, 
 animal and human, and the evolutions to be, a year 
 hence, are delayed now for the involutions or turn- 
 ing back of the bodies that will disappear, for action 
 and reaction, demand and supply are equal. To 
 decay or pass from sight, and then to re-clothe the 
 idea with flesh and live another existence on earth, is 
 what Jesus meant by, "If I go I will come again." 
 
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 There is then no more reality in the ghost, the 
 illusion called flesh, than there is in the mirror re- 
 flection, for the flesh is the only reflection. With- 
 draw from the mirror and there is no reflection ex- 
 cept your body, so when Spirit suspends vitalizing 
 activities in the flesh, the reflection, i. e. , the body 
 or ghost will soon disappear, but the mental, invis- 
 ible or spiritual idea which threw out the reflected 
 expression of existence, will remain in entity, in 
 immortality or being, and will continue as unending 
 as God or the eternal NOW. 
 
 If by the term Spiritual Man, you think of the 
 earthly physical body with which physiology chiefly 
 deals, you certainly fail to comprehend the higher 
 understanding of the term. We neither mean the 
 aggregated expression called flesh, nor the carnal 
 mind exercising its brief illusions in every part of 
 the flesh, for both the flesh and its animal mind 
 must cease. It is as improper to hold that intelli- 
 gence or Spiritual Man is this reflected expression, 
 as it is to hold that God is this expression. Our 
 clear Scientists have the key to immortality, while 
 no one who believes this reflection, this physical 
 illusion, this seeming to be Man, has a good under- 
 standing of immortality. 
 
 From the above reasoning in Science the reader 
 sees that we deny the being of "matter" so-called. 
 Materialism denies that there is Spirit, but holds that 
 
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 " matter" is the basic principle, the one and only 
 substance. Spiritual Science holds that there is but 
 one substance, yet claims that it is Spirit. Common 
 thought holds that there is Spirit and " matter," but 
 this position of the past is rapidly yielding to Science 
 or better thought. 
 
 The common belief is that God or Spirit was prior 
 to "matter," and that ' ' matter " or all visible things 
 were produced later, but the difficulty is to tell us 
 what "matter" was made of, when Spirit was be- 
 fore it or first, and was the only intelligent some 
 thing. If it was first, there was then no second ; if 
 that which was first was Spirit then it was not 
 "matter." Facing the common claim that intelli- 
 gence or Spirit was first, will some one who says 
 " matter" came forth afterward, tell us what it came 
 from when there was not anything but Spirit ? To 
 surmount the barrier on which they are stranding, 
 they will tell a Scientist that something was made 
 from " nothing " ! 
 
 Xo solution of this problem comes up to correct 
 understanding but Christian or Spiritual Science. 
 It holds as above argued, that thoughts or ideas are 
 the real and that these, being products of Spirit and 
 in the Infinitude of Being, reflect their shape outward 
 to sense sight. None of these visible or sense ob- 
 jects are the real, nor are they another substance. 
 The real are always the spiritual or invisible ideas. 
 
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 To illustrate: an artist sees, i. e., he thinks into 
 idea beautiful statuary before he chisels out the visi- 
 ble expressions. The latter can be spoiled, even 
 reduced to invisibility, but the spiritual conception 
 will never be destroyed. Every visible object that 
 exists, first had being in spiritual conception or 
 thought. The existence of every visible expression 
 is temporary and will cease or disappear, but the 
 ideal or spiritual form is eternal and beyond decay. 
 
 Teachers of all ages have used visible objects to 
 represent Truth. In more elaborate works we use 
 various comparisons; perhaps one here may aid the 
 reader toward comprehending the fact that Spirit is 
 omnipresent : Think of a large sponge filled with 
 water. Let the sponge represent the entire uni- 
 verse, and let the water filling it represent the uni- 
 versal Sea of Spirit. No atom of the sponge is 
 hidden or separate from the water. As you cannot 
 separate the water even by thought from any atom 
 of the sponge, no more can Spirit be separate from 
 any place, not even from the minutest thought or 
 invisible atom in all Nature or the universal realm. 
 
 As water fills the interstices between the fine shot 
 in a cup, and as light comes through the coarser 
 atoms of glass, so Spirit fills the finer, even the in- 
 visible spaces of thought or mind. When by the 
 law of aggregation these invisible atoms of Spirit 
 coalesce into the cruder state, assuming expression, 
 
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 it will do to call such mind, but not " matter." The 
 invisible atoms, have simply been focalized or 
 cemented by cohesion. It is logical to say that any- 
 thing is, in quality, that of which it is formed, and 
 as all sense objects are the outer expression of Spirit, 
 they are Spirit, *. <?., all the substance that they 
 possess is Spirit. 
 
 It is folly for materialists to assert that these in- 
 visible atoms, ideas and thoughts are "matter," and 
 doubly weak when they define "matter" to be 
 u dead, lifeless, inert," for all atoms of Spirit remain 
 Spirit even after they manifest, or assume a natural 
 form. If visible or sense objects are produced of 
 atoms, and the atoms are Spirit, then the forma- 
 tions are Spirit and not " matter." 
 
 God being Wisdom and everywhere, no reasoning 
 is able to resist the logic or Truth of Science when 
 it holds that every atom in the universe is Intelli- 
 gence. Spiritual Science now meets Spencer, Tin- 
 dall, Huxley, Mill or any other thinker who argues 
 that bioplasm and visible formations result from in~ 
 visible atoms, yet still denies universal Intelligence 
 or Spirit. Spiritual Science challenges opposition 
 to explain how matter and nonintelligent atoms 
 form themselves in the leaf, the tree, the mineral, 
 the flower, the animal, etc. We shall follow and 
 press closely while the opposer confronts Truth. 
 Will he say that atoms void of intelligence or Spirit 
 
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 place themselves in the myriad symmetrical forms of 
 Nature? Or, will thinkers agreeing with this 
 Science, see that the sum total of atoms constituting 
 universal infinity, the All, are the omnific and all- 
 extended Soul, Deity or Sea ? 
 
 To deny that atoms form thoughts, ideas, etc., 
 and to deny that they place themselves in forma- 
 tions, and then to admit the presence of intelligence 
 and order directing and placing the atoms into visi- 
 ble manifestations, is virtually to accept our position 
 in Science, hence, with one logical conclusion, free 
 from chance or error, Spiritual Science makes no 
 compromise but asserts with higher claims: "All 
 is Spirit, there is no matter." No one, however, in 
 this Science needs to say that these reflections are 
 " nothing;" we know that Intelligence can not intel- 
 ligently use the term " nothing." Some who pro- 
 fess to teach the " Science of Being " call these sense 
 expressions " nothing," but we think they will see 
 better in time. 
 
 While materialism and its allies, such as physiol- 
 ogy, materia medica, and believers in a personal 
 Deity of limitations and visible shape, are unable to 
 maintain their beliefs and theories, which are weighed 
 and found wanting before progressive spiritual 
 Truth, and while the solution of Being on a material 
 plane utterly fails, it is not necessary to amplify this 
 
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 thesis, for these fundamental doctrines in Mental 
 Science are established. 
 
 We hold that universal Good is God, and that 
 God is universal Good, hence while God is omni- 
 present and is Good, we deny the reality of so-called 
 evil. There can be no evil anywhere because of the 
 omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of 
 Good. As phenomenal objects are not the real but 
 are the manifestations of the real, of ideas, so all 
 chemicalizing mental forces called sin, disease, pain, 
 etc. , are illusions and mental states. All affliction, 
 pain and sorrow are actual blessings, and no one 
 should call them " curses." This deflected state of 
 mind is the believer, and it, together with its beliefs, 
 is mortal and transitory. When this mortal or 
 reflected mind pleads the verity of its claims, it must 
 not be accepted as Truth or as reality. 
 
 While we learn from these discoveries that sense 
 or mortal sight is illusory, so all students of this 
 Science will see, after proper growth, that painful 
 or pleasurable emotions are illusions of the sense of 
 feeling. While Spiritual Science exposes the illu- 
 sion, the ghost called " matter," and proves it to be 
 only an idea reflected, so it makes clear the fact that 
 the claims of sense touching disease are illusions or 
 deceptions, for such are blessings disguised. 
 
 A Mental Healer would respect the honest views 
 and feelings of his patient, and for this reason often 
 
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 refuses to converse orally. The student in this 
 Science knows the delusive nature of grief or pain, 
 and knows it all to be the natural and divine order 
 for spiritual growth; that such is actual blessing, 
 but to the patient's senses it seems so real and so 
 out of order, that he cannot, under these conditions, 
 impart Truth by conversation. He should now be- 
 gin a mental conversation with the patient's fears 
 and feelings. If fully in the Science the healer will 
 be able from the first to allay the patient's fears. 
 His or her mental poise which always governs phys 
 ical deportment, will rule the mind of the patient 
 or of attendants without a single verbal request. If 
 the healer is calm, confident, and worthy the name 
 of a Scientist, he will do all his work by the ' ' sci- 
 ence of silence," or rather he will be the passive in- 
 strument through which Truth, Spirit will act, and 
 while he is quiet, God impresses the fearful ones who 
 called him and soon the calm trusting mind of all 
 present expects good results. This insures success 
 and in this moment of the healer's quiet, scientific 
 thought, he secures the benefits of the hope, the faith 
 or trust of all present. Right here an equilibrium 
 or harmony between Divine energy and human fear 
 is obtained. 
 
 Prudence and decorum go far toward effecting 
 cure; these are necessary to command respect and 
 hope, but it must be remembered that it is 
 
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 SPIRIT OR TRUTH THAT HEALS. 
 
 "Not by might, nor by power, but by Spirit, 
 saith the Lord." "The Spirit is Truth." "The 
 Truth shall make you free." When the healer is 
 silent, the work is removed from person, from in- 
 tellect, from words which often harm, and then 
 Wisdom, Spirit, Truth does the work. 
 
 The truly spiritual are not ruled by intellect; they 
 are neither "giddy, heady nor high-minded," but 
 they are meek and trusting. They have overcome 
 so that Divine Life or Spirit rules all their ways and 
 thoughts. They are not disturbed by intellectual 
 freaks, nor by any mortal attacks hurled at them. 
 The intellect is the dominant or masculine element; 
 it is the "Prince of this world." It comes to the 
 meek, but it finds naught in them to stir or make 
 war upon. These persons are full of the Spirit of 
 Love and harmony, and they are the best healers. 
 When great cures are wrought of God through 
 
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 them they take no glory to self, in fact they do not 
 feel that they have done the work. Healers, here 
 is your power; work on quietly, do not fear lest 
 others should obtain greater praise, but be glad 
 when you hear of their good works. ' 'Forbid them 
 not," 
 
 Go in meekness of spirit to the couch of the afflict- 
 ed. Do not allow the mortal boaster — the pride of 
 mind — to come up in weakness; do not permit the 
 
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 thought, "now those opposers will hear of a great 
 cure by me and the people of wealth will come flock- 
 ing to me." They will not,, and if you are by the 
 couch of pain with such weakness and pride, you 
 will soon meet rebuke of God, and the report will 
 go out that you utterly failed, and that your visit 
 harmed instead of helped the patient. Thus, you 
 sought your own glory — you sowed to the flesh, not 
 to the Spirit. 
 
 O teachers and healers in this great work! are you 
 true ? Are you honest ? Are you feeding the hungry 
 temporally and spiritually? or in your boasted se- 
 clusion, do you shut up your compassion? How 
 then dwelleth Good in you ? Show us the works, 
 and we know the worker; the fruit, and we know 
 the tree. 
 
 As all healing comes from Spirit through good- 
 ness and understanding, so true diagnosis is through 
 intuition or spiritual perception. When the mortal 
 hides, the spiritual shines; when you are quiet, 
 working only mentally and trusting, God is known, 
 and then Truth is praised. 
 
 Healer, never tell your patients they have this or 
 that disease. Never while visiting patients inquire 
 what their disease is, for then you weaken confi- 
 dence, for those who hear, conclude that you do not 
 understand much, if anything, about it. Their con- 
 
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 ditions, which they call diseases, should be spiritu- 
 ally discerned. 
 
 Successful treatments are very simple. It is said 
 that it is impossible to lay down any form to be 
 followed in this system, and this is almost true. 
 One who attempts it needs to be willing to become 
 as the Bible expresses it, a " fool ,? for Christ's, i. e. , 
 for Truth's sake. It is so unlike any other system, 
 that it is ridiculous in the mind of the world. How- 
 ever, while early Christianity was to the " Greeks 
 foolishness, and to the Jews a stumbling block," 
 we hope and work on. 
 
 And now we would impart one example, not for 
 others to imitate, but to do homage to the simplicity 
 of Truth. "We are called to visit a patient or one in 
 pain through any cause whatever. We are now 
 seated by the sufferer, and he or another for him is 
 telling us the symptoms or the troubles as he sees 
 them. This is human nature, and when healers are 
 wise they will themselves modestly listen. In this 
 way the Spiritual Healer who knows that disease is 
 only a mental state of agitated or discordant mind, 
 quietly learns all their fears and their beliefs. Hav- 
 ing told all, they will expect good results in some 
 way, and hence they will be receptive. The healer 
 in true understanding:, is mentally treating the case 
 while hearing about it, and right here the successful 
 work is done at the moment in which they expect, for 
 
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 here is the benefit of their hope and faith. Now 
 without verbal reply, the healer may bow to what 
 they have said and continue the treatment in the 
 simple yet wise principles of the Science. 
 
 "but what is HE SAYING?" 
 
 He knows that it is impossible for the manifested 
 flesh to feel, and hence that it is the sensitive mind 
 of the patient and friends, and not the flesh that 
 feels the pain, therefore he talks to mind. He 
 speaks mentally to fear and that is mind, he speaks 
 to doubt or grief, and these also are modes of mind. 
 He thinks, i. e., he communicates with diseased 
 minds as follows, or in a similar manner : " Peace be 
 with you," you will soon feel much better. The dis- 
 quieting fears and the pains you feel are in the sen- 
 suous mind. These are the chemicalizing forces or 
 agitations resulting from the conflict between you 
 and Spirit, for the Divine Principle is everywhere 
 and it is working in you for good. I know you feel 
 bad, but it is no curse visited upon you, for actual 
 good is to result from this distress. Now you are 
 trusting and this is bringing rest. God or Truth is 
 working in you as " a consuming fire." Be hopeful 
 and trust ; say to your spirit — which is just so much 
 of Deity or the Sea of Spirit — "if my will and 
 ways cross thine, show me and I will yield my will 
 to thee, for thou art right and Good." 
 
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 Your being is that portion of the great Sea which 
 we may call your spirit, or so much of God, and this 
 oneness can not be broken. It is not the immortal, 
 the real, or spirit that feels pain, for this is never 
 affected by sin or any harm. Trusting one, see the 
 improved disposition, the usefulness, the better and 
 kinder life before you because of patience in suffer- 
 ing. " Count it all joy," for you shall receive great 
 benefit, and will have strength for all your trials. 
 
 While now I am treating you in Divine Science, 
 in understanding, even in the silence of thought, I 
 see that you have not been understood by your 
 friends, and you do not understand yourself. Like 
 all others you are full of beliefs; you are the mind 
 of sense, and such is not real, but always illusory; 
 it is not subject to the ways of God, neither indeed 
 ean it be. As it never submits, it is to be over- 
 come, and now I am helping you. Spirit shows me 
 all your trouble, but your trouble is not }^ou. Truth 
 reveals the reflections of mesmeric forces from others 
 and they affect you; you are a sensitive identity, 
 and, like the sensitized plate, so images or fears are 
 east upon you, i. e. , in you as mortal mind. They 
 are not images visible to physical sight on your 
 flesh, but they are mind-forces in the flesh. Their 
 name is legion, and they are of all varieties. Some 
 of them, which you remember so keenly, are the 
 fears and regrets in your sensitive mind, caused by 
 
the relations you have been drawn into with others. 
 Fear is frightening and tormenting that part of your 
 mind which is guilty; this is one of the images or 
 rather imaginations. Again, other images, i. e., 
 recollections or mental forces, mentagrams, from 
 others are invisibly working and annoying your 
 sensitive mind; not your spirit, but the mental aura, 
 the active mind which seems to be you. In all these 
 strange workings and fears I see no disturbance of 
 the real, i. <?., of entity, being, or spirit, for these 
 are hid with Christ, i. e. , with Life in God. These 
 are immortal, invisible and eternal, no harm can 
 come to such realities for they are only many words 
 which mean but one great thought, viz., Immortal- 
 ity, and you are this. You are not your body; you 
 are not your fears, not your pain, your doubts, your 
 griefs, your disease, no more than you are the 
 clothes around your body. These modes or states 
 of carnal, i. e., mortal mind are not real, they are 
 simply temporary illusions. These would be eternal 
 if real; these will end; they are neither entity, in- 
 telligence, nor Life; they are not Spirit, but they 
 are mortal mind's beliefs, and this mortal mind calls 
 itself "matter." It has mortal eyes and they see 
 incorrectly, or as through a smoked glass darkly. 
 They see the mortal or manifested mind, and the 
 illusion in this mind calls flesh the real man, but 
 this is not true. 
 
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 And now while my physical eyes are still closed, 
 and have been since I began this treatment, and 
 while I have not spoken an audible word to your 
 fears, I am receiving a full understanding of your 
 mentally agitated condition. I am not acting as a 
 mortal now, but as Spirit. I do not see even my 
 own personality, nor do I see the personal identity 
 which belief or error calls you. I need not allow 
 my hands to come in contact with your personality, 
 nor need my intellectual words address themselves 
 to your mortal ear of sense. If I would thus come 
 in contact it would be physical dependence, it would 
 be error trying to destroy error with itself, and this 
 would be the influence of animal mind over animal 
 mind, and such is mesmeric and psychologic. 
 
 Now, dear patient, while I am, during this treat- 
 ment and spiritual diagnosis, discovering all your 
 internal conditions, and understanding that disease 
 is not caused by the physical or by an}- visible thing, 
 but by the mental forces in every atom of your body 
 and by the same kind of forces or mind waves from 
 others, while their mind is mingling in your mind, 
 I must simply be the instrument, the occasion. My 
 spirit, which is Diety, is now curing you and this is 
 spiritual healing ; it must not be interrupted by giv- 
 ing either your body or your mind one atom of 
 drugs, for God is sufficient. 
 
 Your doctor who believes "matter" is the real, 
 
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 takes hold of your pulse and examines your tongue 
 and person, and then gives your body, or puts upon 
 it dead lifeless things. If he, like the mind healer, 
 as Jesus was, could see that your entire trouble is 
 troubled mind, he would not pursue his present 
 methods which the purity and spirituality of child- 
 hood detests so much ; but he would cease all contact 
 and material ministration, and would allay your 
 fears by his mental power, and tell you there is no 
 harm to befall you. His practice injures by telling 
 your mortal ears that you have this disease or that, 
 and that you "are threatened with a severe fever." 
 All this is human mind talking, not to you but to 
 your mind ; and now mesmerized, or psychologized 
 into terrible beliefs, your fears rapidly increase and 
 true enough, the "fever," which is simply the fric- 
 tion or agitation of mind, begins and will continue 
 until the belief, the fear or the psychologic delusion 
 is broken by his change of mind, or by the power of 
 another in better understanding. 
 
 You are now treated in this simple, yet wise 
 method of Science Healing. Your mind has been 
 soothed and rested ; your pain is therefore abated. 
 I am communing spiritually with that which was 
 your troubled mortal fear, and now its disordered 
 and fretted states are ceasing. In the beauty and 
 wisdom of this spiritual or Christ-method of healing, 
 and in the name of Truth, I say to you : "Awake! 
 
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 thou that sleepest," rouse from the dream in which 
 you have long been held, for your dream or belief of 
 sickness is not real. Your great error is your belief 
 in " matter," and this belief is the prevailing curse, 
 and has ever been. It is the delusion of sense. 
 Now you are turning from error ; you are turning 
 from anger, hate, jealousy, strife, revenge and all 
 these disturbing influences wich affect and disease 
 the mind and body internally and externally, and 
 you are to be entirely cured morally, because spirit- 
 ually, or by Truth. Now I leave you in the com- 
 forting, saving influence or power of Truth, of Spirit, 
 or God, in whose Invisible Being your real entity 
 is, and from which it will never be lost. 
 
 AUDIBLY TO THE PATIENT 
 
 the Healer now says : " That is sufficient, perhaps 
 for this time." Patients right here often mention 
 the experiences felt during treatment, remarking 
 variously. Sometimes they say : " While you were 
 treating me I felt uncommon forces throughout my 
 system : at times a tingling, or a cooling and then a 
 warming sensation was vividly experienced." Some 
 remark that during treatment all their fears left 
 them, and that they ' ' decided to give up all harsh- 
 ness toward certain persons and desired to see them 
 to apologize for the past." Another will say : "All 
 the pain and discomfort have left me. I distinctly 
 
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 realized that the tumor grew less, and the trouble in 
 my stomach and joints has all subsided. I feel a 
 wonderful improvement, "even the strength and vigor 
 of youth. Will this continue, or will I relapse to 
 my old troubles?" Another remarks: " While 
 being treated, I drew near to God, for my heart par- 
 took of the same peace that I experienced when he 
 forgave my sins and made me his child. I felt sacred 
 communion with the Divine Spirit and I resolved to 
 live a better and truer life. I want to go and begin 
 work anew in my church and specially to visit and 
 comfort the poor. O ! how much of true rest and 
 joy of soul fill me this hour. Why really ! I believe 
 I am made every whit whole, for I am cured and 
 happy." 
 
 All true healers in Science hear these and a multi- 
 tude of trusting, joyous and pleasing remarks, and 
 they partake of the common joy. Not only in the 
 church, the prayer circle, but in the work of charity 
 for humanity, and in the healing-room of a true 
 Scientist, these noble ones are blessed at times so 
 their " cup runneth over." They look at the healer 
 and ask : " Is this the system you use to cure every- 
 body? Don't you give any drugs at all?" And 
 now the Science Healer with the same peace and 
 calmness of mind, and with healing assurance, reply- 
 ing as God leads, and with respect toward physicians 
 says : " You do not feel the need of drugs now, do 
 
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 you ( Would you take drugs now for any one of 
 the troubles or diseases you claimed when you called 
 on rue ? " The reader may imagine the reply by one 
 saved of God, or born anew of the Spirit. This is 
 the new religion establishing in human hearts, even 
 the religion of Science, saving soul and body, hence 
 much superior to poor, lame creeds, and the failing 
 theology of to-day. Turn' from it, for it is full of 
 error. 
 
 The healer, after treatment and after the various 
 remarks and inquiries usually made, explains a few 
 thoughts, if time permit, if not, he or she tells the 
 patient to cheer up, to trust and call again if he de-< 
 sire to. 
 
 Wlien the healer is not pressed to attend upon 
 others in waiting, he takes pleasure in answering 
 questions and imparting light, and then some facts 
 in the Science are given, such as : " The forces you 
 felt in the system were the power of scientific 
 thought accompanied by the Spirit of Truth. 
 Thoughts are things and they are the real forces ; 
 also }~ou were communing with Spirit, with Life in- 
 visible, with Truth or with God and this power was 
 saving, i. e. curing you." 
 
 This healing is the work of Science and hence is 
 permanent if you " continue in well doing," but if 
 fear, anger, pride, selfishness, jealousy, revenge, 
 avarice, malice or any of these modes of mind are 
 
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 continuously indulged, they will, together with the 
 mesmeric influences of others mingling in your 
 mind, prove the cause of continued trouble, or even 
 the development of various conditions called disease. 
 
 The healer after one or two successful treatments 
 will find the patient willing to turn from all external 
 appliances and from every drug, for no success will 
 be obtained while the patient is undecided, and while 
 his mind is holding to such. The patient's mind can 
 be so treated that he will have no desire for material 
 remedies, and the result secured in this way is bet- 
 ter than to ask the patient to abandon them. 
 
 " But, 1 ' says one, "some claim that the experi- 
 ences of patients during treatment as above related, 
 prove that they are not treated in Science but mes- 
 merically." No healer will condemn his own work, 
 and whoever he may be, he will approve such ex- 
 periences and forces of Truth when experienced by 
 his own patient. These sensations are common and 
 we seriously doubt the utility of treatments that 
 never stir the patients consciousness. It is after all 
 a fact that some are cured who do not experience 
 these emotional vibrations, nor the chemicalizing 
 effects that many others feel. 
 
 If the trouble be a broken limb we claim that our 
 practitioners who are not surgeons, should first call 
 a surgeon to put the bone in place, but mental treat- 
 ment can after all prevent the limb from swelling, 
 
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 and will facilitate the work of natural healing. The 
 reader must understand that a dislocated or broken 
 limb is not classed with disease proper ; at the same 
 time such conditions can be handled so unskillf uily 
 that they may progress to a diseased state, and, be- 
 cause of this trouble, fear may cause development of 
 disease elsewhere in the system. 
 
 From the above remarks it will be seen that we 
 claim enough reality in the mortal to possess flesh, 
 blood and bones, yet as previously stated, these are 
 not the real, nor is this visible fleshly appearance 
 admitted to be real Man in Spiritual Science. Al- 
 though it is man in belief, in anatomy, and to the 
 judgment of the senses, this Science takes issue with 
 the generally accepted conclusions and does not pro- 
 pose to be subject to these failing beliefs, but to 
 maintain its higher understanding in Spiritual 
 Science. Our claim that God is invisible Spirit, and 
 everywhere, not only admits the presence of Divine- 
 Life — usually called our spirit — in the space of the- 
 mortal body, but we also affirm it, yet deny that 
 the real or Spirit consists of any visible shape, for 
 every visible sense object is but effect, secondary 
 and temporal. The form or shape of these visible 
 reflections is not eternal or immortal, but their sub- 
 stance, which is Spirit, is eternal and of course 
 invisible. 
 
 It is probable that we are not understood here by 
 
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 all, because we refuse to employ the common re- 
 marks, viz., " God's Spirit," " man's spirit," "a 
 human spirit," etc. Again the terms " our soul," 
 " our life," are misleading. We are correcting the 
 belief, the error of ancient thought, that physical 
 man has a spirit, a soul or a life. While we respect 
 a Theologian, a Spiritualist, and a Theosophist, and 
 admit that each are equally noble and represent 
 much of Truth, still we hold that no one is in Science 
 or understanding, on the point at issue, who argues 
 separateness or independent entity. No one has a 
 life, a spirit, nor a soul independent of the Absolute 
 One. By the Absolute One, we mean Nature or the 
 Universe entire with special reference to its invisible 
 portion ; which invisible portion means the one un- 
 broken or Universal Sea of airy expanse. This lat- 
 ter is All-extended Spirit ; it is the only God we 
 confess. We acknowledge no God as a masculine 
 or a feminine person entitled to the appellations He, 
 Him, nor She, as applied to gender. As we call the 
 Sun He and His, and the moon her because of ex- 
 tension and power, without claiming the Sun to be 
 a man, a personality, or the moon to be a woman, so 
 it is proper enough to say He, Thou, Father, She, 
 etc., when addressing the Sea of Invisibility, the 
 vast expanse of Spirit. It is God solely because it 
 is the invisible side of Nature. It is God, and God 
 is it because it is Intelligence, Omnipresence, Power, 
 
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 Source, Principle, Protoplasm, Substance or Spirit. 
 It is Infinite or Supreme ; it is Cause or Creator. 
 
 That we now describe is no man; neither Gautama 
 Buddha, Jesus, nor the Invisible Christ which means 
 not a man, but the Christian Religion. That we 
 now describe is the sum total of Invisibility, it is the 
 air, ether, gasses or the opposite of cosmos ; it is the 
 night and the light of Nature, or if you prefer, it is 
 God, but not a God for such would be a limitation. 
 God is not a spirit, a life nor anything less than the 
 Universe. God is not "three" ; neither Jesus nor 
 Christ is God, but that Bible saying, "God is one," 
 is true. 
 
 SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE.* 
 
 Thou Great, Eternal, Infinite, the great unbounded Whole, 
 Thv body is the Universe, Thy Spirit is its Soul. 
 If Thou dost./i# Immensity, if Thou art "All in All," 
 If Thou wast here before I was, I am not here at all. 
 
 How could I live outside of Thee? dost Thou fill earth and air? 
 There surely is no place for me outside of Everywhere ! 
 If Thou art God, and thou dost fill Immensity of space, 
 Then I am God, think as you will, or else I have no plaee. 
 
 And if I have no place at all, or if I am not here, 
 
 " Banished" I surely cannot be, for then I'd be somewhere. 
 
 I surely am a part of God, no matter if I'm small, 
 
 And if I am not part of Him, there's no such God at all. 
 
 Agreeing with the science of this inspiration, 
 whose author we do not know, we must be honest 
 and admit that our highest solution of Being is, that 
 no separate spirit is given to any mortal. The One 
 
 *Re-arranged by A. J. Swarts, Ph.D. 
 
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 Spirit or Principle, as extended as the Universe en- 
 tire, is the Life or Spirit in everything; the grass, 
 the trees, the animal or angel, and hence the spirit 
 we call our spirit, is simply the portion of Infinity 
 within, not disunited from Spirit the Whole, yet 
 outlined by the limitations of our body. Our body 
 is the ghost, sent or called forth from Substance or 
 the Sea of Spirit. This ghost or seeming reality we 
 will give up, and then it will, through involution, 
 return to air, to the Invisible or God. Jesus giving 
 up the ghost simply meant that the flesh was given 
 up. Neither man, disease nor death could take 
 Spirit or Life from him, nor from you ; but the 
 physical body can be taken back into the invisible 
 Sea and lost to sense. At this event you will not go 
 away, but will continue what you now are, viz., so 
 much of the one Whole or God. You will never be 
 limited and you are not now. Your being is now 
 the Infinite and is Omnipresence, for you are God ; 
 you are immortal and invisible. I do not say that 
 your body or your ghost is God, but I say that you 
 are. I and my Father are One, but. my body and 
 the Father are not One. When my body of flesh 
 disintegrates or resolves to invisibility, then it and 
 the Father will be One. It will be lost to sense, but 
 consciousness will never cease. Consciousness, mem- 
 ory, intelligence, or that you call your spirit, will 
 remain invisible and enjoy the bliss, the rest from 
 
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 mortal strife; and further, it will be very active. It 
 will not depart but will remain to mingle in the mind 
 of others here, for, c ' I will never leave nor forsake 
 you," but will be with you. After you have had 
 rest enough and you cease to dread the experiences 
 of your former earth life, you "will come again," 
 i. e. , you will come out from the protoplasmic atoms 
 which will be floating like invisible air. The gener- 
 ative principle of Spirit is dual or polar, i. e. , it is 
 masculine and feminine. When this principle de- 
 cides to come out to existence, it is the begetting in 
 Spirit, and now it assumes bioplasm in the highest 
 expression of existence, and that is in human bodies. 
 In these it progresses to the generative plane of 
 physical or animated life, and this conception or 
 begetting by the flesh is simply the continuation or 
 consummation of that which was begun in Spirit. 
 Through this process of evolution, not from animals 
 quadrumanous, but from Spirit through physical 
 media, you will reincarnate again or make a new 
 body, which body will be but a ghost full of aches, 
 pains and sensations. Spirit will know that the 
 fleshly ghost is not the real, but the flesh, or plane 
 of sense, will judge it to be the real. To die then 
 is not to die, for there is no death. We will keep 
 the body which we have made as long as we can, 
 then we will let it go back for an indefinite period 
 into Being, but after a time we will take another 
 
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 body and make it finer and better, for we will have 
 learned much more. Heaven, or spirit world, at 
 a distance, is too misleading; it implies separate- 
 ness. To conjecture about a God, either absent, 
 distinct or separate from your own Life or spirit, 
 is speculation, for you are the Highest, and it is im- 
 peachable idolatry to worship a limitation when you 
 are the Whole. 
 
 THE AVERAGE TIME FOR TREATMENT 
 PROPER, 
 
 i. e. , for the silent part of the work is about fifteen 
 minutes. It is very evident, however, that the best 
 work of the treatment may occur during the first 
 two or three minutes of this time. 
 
 Although an idea may be obtained from the above 
 formula, neither the healer nor any other should 
 conclude that we follow it as a rule, neither is it 
 necessary for healers to commit and follow any 
 form. One clearly inducted into the Science will 
 always be able to conduct a treatment properly. 
 We vary more or less in each case. It would not 
 seem wise to use the same words at each treatment 
 of the same person. We are governed by the case 
 in hand, and so every healer must be. 
 
 Our formula herein gives a fair idea, however, 
 for the treatment of every disease known, i. e., a 
 Mental Healer treats all kinds of disease with the 
 
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 same general methods, merely adapting his thoughts 
 to the case. 
 
 It is not necessary to argue orally nor mentally 
 with the patient in an attempt to convince him that 
 he feels no pain, for to the plane of sense the pain 
 is real, although to Truth or understanding it is not 
 real. Nor is it attended with the best results to 
 deny his claims when he tells you he has this or 
 that disease. It is true that the healer knows the 
 delusive and the unreal nature of all the claims of 
 earthly mind, but we are now on a question of ex- 
 pediency— "He that winneth souls is wise." Jesus 
 was accustomed to treat the beliefs and fears of his 
 patients with kindly consideration, and he usually 
 undertook their cure. There is no evidence that 
 he cured all, nor a fourth of those whose cure he 
 undertook. It was ruiable then, and is now, to re- 
 port the cures but not the failures. 
 
 The Science healer never needs to admit the reali- 
 ty of disease, and it is unwise for him ever to make 
 physical examination. If a patient comes with any 
 external affliction it hinders the work if the healer 
 examines it. Simply proceed with the understand- 
 ing of Science and know that it is only a mental 
 condition you have to deal with. Find the mental 
 cause, the sin, the deed, or the fear that produced 
 it; remove this by mental treatment only, then you 
 permanently cure your patient. Proceed in the same 
 
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 wa}', even when the mind has distorted the physical. 
 
 Remember, student, that your teacher, and all the 
 authors in the Metaphysical system, ignore every 
 form of physical treatment, and claim that we do 
 not treat the physical, the body of the patient, for 
 certainly we neither use an atom of drugs nor any 
 appliance whatever. Science healing never operates 
 on a patient in any material manner. It forbids 
 literal contact, and from first to last our system 
 teaches that God, Truth, the one and only Spirit or 
 omnipresent Life does the work of Spiritual Heal- 
 ing. Spirits, influences, etc., are simply the active 
 workings of the Absolute One, or God. It can be 
 strongly proven in any court, East or West, that 
 our healers do not profess to do the work of curing, 
 but that Truth the Supreme and Invisible does the 
 work. 
 
 This work of introducing new views of religious 
 or spiritual Truth is our religion, even our most 
 sacred right, and guaranteed to every citizen by the 
 Constitution of the United States. No law has yet 
 been enacted by any state that can, before a proper 
 court, prevent the work of healing in the manner it 
 is wrought through this Science. 
 
 Our federal Constitution says that no state shall 
 enact laws that will abridge the rights or immunities 
 of the citizens. Under the religious freedom of our 
 land we shall obey God and conscience by teaching 
 
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 Truth and the purer ways of living, and thereby we 
 shall continue to treat disease mentally, or to be the 
 instruments through whom God may cure any 
 afflicted person. If you employ the term ' ' magnet- 
 ism" in healing, they can now compel such healers in 
 one or two states to procure license. 
 
 Usually the healer should sit two or three feet 
 from the patient. Some direct the healer to sit with 
 his back to the patient, but no good reason can be 
 given justifying this. It is more natural to sit so 
 that you can see your patient's facial expression 
 when you speak to him. Why turn your back on 
 anyone ? 
 
 Neither the patient nor the healer should, during 
 treatment, sit with indifferent manner gazing around, 
 but both should be earnestly attentive. The patient 
 should be in a passive, impressible and receptive 
 state, with eyes closed to shut from his mind exter- 
 nal things. Also, an earnest healer will sit with eyes 
 closed during the silent treatment and will thus do 
 better work. 
 
 The first visit usually requires the most time, for 
 the healer is hearing the case or instructing the 
 patient or friends. Some patients are cured by 
 hearing the Science, and they insist upon being told 
 all about it. Such should be kindly enlightened. 
 Others do not care to hear about the system, but 
 simply wish treatment. Cures are more permanent 
 
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 where the patients receive some of the principles. 
 
 If the healer can have the confidence of the family 
 he will succeed much better. If he is in the clear 
 rules of the Science he will usually be able to com- 
 mand the confidence and respect of all. 
 
 Neither the patient nor healer should talk much 
 about the diseases, nor should either mention the 
 names of the diseases after the first visit. If the 
 patient or any afflicted person would get well, they 
 must cease to talk about their troubles or disease. 
 
 Afflicted one, teach yourself to forget disease by 
 cultivating indifference toward it. Do not look 
 upon it as real or as having any entity or power of 
 its own. Dictate terms to disease and assume that 
 you are its master. 
 
 Think kindly of all people, and dwell much upon 
 pleasant, cheering themes. Forgive all unkindness. 
 Overcome evil with good. Resolve upon patience. 
 Affirm often every day, "I will not hold to disease; 
 I will get well, not to escape pain, but to share the 
 burdens of others." Do not talk of disease to any- 
 one. When you tell your healer, or any other 
 friend, of your worse conditions, you lead him to 
 increase them through the fixed law of reflex action. 
 In this you receive harmful results by compelling 
 his psychologic thoughts, charged with your own 
 disclosures and fears, to act injuriously upon every 
 part of your system. When his thoughts return 
 
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 your own words, " worse," "terrible," "cannot get 
 well," etc., back into your disordered mind, every 
 member of your body shares the harm. This is a 
 mental law understood by Scientists. You put our 
 system on trial before the public, therefore, we 
 must insist upon your faithful efforts to keep the 
 rules. Truth or Science saves only through obedi- 
 ence, while fear, error, disregard or ignorance are 
 the mind-forces that slay you. Your understanding 
 of Science as Divine Truth, destroys these evils, 
 devils. 
 
 Often, when three or four remark on the same 
 day to a sensitive person, "You look badly, pale, 
 and sick," it causes severe sickness, and even greater 
 harm. All physicians know this. But when as 
 many chance in a day to remark to an afflicted per- 
 son, "You look so much better! you will surely get 
 well!" it often causes a speedy cure. These re- 
 marks act upon the mind of the patient; their minds 
 react upon their bodies, and their system, which is 
 both mental and physical, fails or improves, as the 
 result of what was said. Spiritual Science is the 
 understanding of these mental laws, and is much 
 more of untold worth. Abstain from drugs, and 
 from conversing with those who oppose Mind-Heal- 
 ing. While the patient does as above, the Healer 
 holds him in the further understanding of Science, 
 
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 while Truth unclasps his fears, his beliefs or diseases, 
 and brings the desired result. 
 
 It is a fact well established that persons contract 
 disease simply by hearing about it. Erroneous be- 
 lief has often caused the state called death, and per- 
 sons have died under the delusion of fear. It is 
 quite easy to bleed a person to death without draw- 
 ing a drop of blood. A little ingenuity will do the 
 fatal work if the subject is blinded, for slightly 
 touching the skin with a common toothpick will do 
 the work, if warm water is dripped upon the place 
 and is heard running into a vessel beneath. Many 
 pointed cases can be cited, but the reader has often 
 heard these facts. 
 
 It is well known that when some sudden fright or 
 danger threatens, invalids, disabled for years, forget 
 all pain, rise and walk, or even run. This fact of 
 diverting the mind variously and calling the afflicted 
 one's attention to other and interesting objects, so 
 that for some time he is unconscious of any suffer- 
 ing, goes far toward establishing the claims of Sci- 
 ence that pain is neither a curse nor a reality, but 
 that its evil seeming is imaginary. Real to sense, 
 but not to Wisdom. 
 
 As the toothache is often checked mentally while 
 on the way to the dentist, simply by assuring one's 
 self that the tooth is soon to be out and pain will 
 cease; and as the attention of an afflicted or crying 
 
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 child can be diverted until it forgets its grief, so the 
 Mental Healer is able to call the mind of the patient 
 from his troubles, and can so enable him to hold in 
 mind the image of perfect health that disease yields 
 to the greater force brought against it. These treat- 
 ments continued a reasonable time, the cure is cer- 
 tain. As doctors are required to continue their 
 drugs and visits, it is reasonable to suppose that the 
 mental process needs some time. 
 
 This is the only system with which to treat, suc- 
 cessfully, the insane. Insanity is an unbalanced con- 
 dition of mind. It, like other kinds of disease, is of 
 mental origin, for if caused by loss of friends or 
 property, by religious interest, by disappointment 
 in love or other things, it is simply a disturbed state 
 of mind; the effect of a greater shock than the 
 mental strength of the subject can endure. No one 
 should attend such persons who believes them to be 
 hopelessly insane. Our method of treatment is 
 most successfully adapted to these cases. 
 
 The reason that we have not enumerated the kinds 
 of disease cured by Mental Science, is that we all 
 claim there is no limit to the kinds or classes of 
 disease it cures, but every kind known to the medical 
 schools is constantly being cured under this method. 
 Every case, however, is not cured, but a far greater 
 per cent, of patients are cured by this system than 
 by drugs. Drugs are entirely foreign to the first 
 
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 principles of cure. When benefit or cure comes 
 through using them, it is all owing to the Divine or 
 spiritual forces operating upon the mind of the 
 physician, the patient, and the attendants. 
 
 Taking the drug stimulates and encourages the 
 mind, and when relief is obtained through the use of 
 these material agencies, it is because the treatment 
 is in the line of all the mental force of the commu- 
 nity, pharmacy, the medical schools, the patient and 
 friends. Every claim for drugs, and every skillful 
 move is the action of mind, of intelligence, and 
 there is a sense in which every drug given is a men- 
 tal ministration. They are directed by Mind and 
 the doctor cannot deny that Mind directs his work. 
 Now we are ready to say that the mind of no phar- 
 macist or physician can prepare a remedy superior 
 to mind when rightly directed. 
 
 On the same ground that certain drugs accompan- 
 ied as above with the volume of mind force, with 
 belief and expectation, will cure because Mind 
 claims it, so other drugs called poisons will kill 
 through the same reasons, viz., the volume of mind 
 all along the line claims it, and mind does the deed. 
 When a doctor tells us that a person taking poison 
 accidentally, will die, even though he did not know 
 what it was, and concludes that he has vanquished 
 the Mind Healer, we say to him: Nay, sir, you have 
 simply inclined us to ask you: Does the patient al- 
 
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 ways know the nature or kind of drugs you give to 
 cure t While then he does not know the drugs de- 
 signed to cure, but still they cure him, as belief or 
 mind says, so he may not know the poison drug and 
 yet it may kill him, but the cause of both results we 
 have stated above. The cause of either the curing 
 or the poisoning with drugs is mental and not 
 physical. 
 
 The chief cause of any result is mental, spiritual, 
 or invisible. While effect is not always visible, it is 
 found only in the visible. This rule is a fixed law, 
 and, being true, it should settle at once the meta- 
 physical claim that cause is mental or spiritual, and 
 being thus, it is not physical. Drugs have no curative 
 property in them ; they stimulate mind and thus a 
 mental force accompanies them, and this force is the 
 cause of whatever result is experienced, whether 
 good or bad. The difference then between the drug 
 physician and the Mind physician is, that the former 
 reaches results indirectly, while the latter reaches 
 them directly ; this proves that the Principle of cure 
 in Science is the invisible, and it shows that medical 
 doctors are not dealing with first principles, but are 
 using the secondary, viz. , drugs, or effect with which 
 to remove effect. 
 
 Another reason why the drug doctor is not lessen- 
 ing mortality is owing to his unwise practice of 
 naming the diseases. He will continue to do so 
 
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 until he is able to see more correctly, and to learn 
 both the cause and cure of disease as understood by 
 the clear Metaphysical Scientist. 
 
 The chemicalizing state of the patient is an im- 
 portant part of the ethics of this Science, and needs 
 to be understood by the healer and the patient. 
 This condition is a fermentation or effervescence 
 working in the system caused by the friction of in- 
 ternal forces. Agitated modes of mind are often 
 stirred by the vital or spiritual forces in contact. 
 For physical and mental development, and for con- 
 stant restoration of the body, there are in every 
 human organism many vitalizing invisible forces, 
 and these seem to be in conflict. In other words, 
 the power of Spirit is working in us to will and to 
 do. This omnipresent positive principle is op- 
 posed by mortal carnal mind, which is not subject 
 to the Good. This is all readily understood when 
 one comprehends the fact that God means the in- 
 visible Spirit in everything. Being in all things 
 and everywhere, it is working in the human mind 
 throughout the entire body. "Know ye not that 
 your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is 
 in you?" This is the true doctrine that God even 
 now is our only life. The Holy Spirit within 
 simply means a portion of the Universal Spirit ; it 
 is the Life within the flesh, and we may call it our 
 spirit or the Holy Spirit, but only one is meant. 
 
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 Presence of the Divine and the seemingly present 
 evil is the working or law Paul named : "I find then 
 a law that when I would do good, evil is present 
 with me." If God were a visible personality, as 
 many theologians and a few professed scientists 
 hold, he could neither be in us nor be our Life. 
 
 The order of this apparent conflict is misunder- 
 stood and it is called disease, sin, pain, etc. During 
 treatment this fermentation is increased by the 
 power of Truth destroying belief or error. Alkalies 
 mixed with acids cause fermentation or a chemical- 
 izing which brings'sweetness or harmony, so Truth, 
 Spirit, is working in the modes of mind called sin, 
 sickness, error, and is changing, saving, i. e. , curing, 
 begetting by the power of Spirit unto harmony. 
 When the patient seems to be worse or to have in- 
 creasing distress, the healer in this system knows it 
 is all in order, and that cure is progressing. In this 
 experience the healer treats the fears of the patient, 
 and soon quiet and rest are realized. Chemicaliza- 
 tion often proves the surest evidence that old con- 
 ditions are breaking up, and that the patient is 
 progressing toward perfect health. 
 
 The Mental or true Spiritual Healer will never 
 enter into agreement with disease and death and 
 thus be " sold under sin." He acts with higher un- 
 derstanding and holds in his mental or spiritual 
 grasp the "keys of death and hell." He it is who 
 
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 "leads captivity captive," and gives good to men. 
 The chains that bound the race were their beliefs in 
 "matter," but these chains are breaking, light is 
 dispersing darkness, and soon mankind will be 
 emancipated, made free from the laws of sin and 
 death. 
 
 Idolatry, or belief in a personal God sitting some- 
 where and waiting till human bodies or even spirits 
 fly away from this world to visit him, is retiring to 
 the shades, soon to be forgotten by all except those 
 who have discovered that the only personal God, or 
 personal Satan, is simply the physical man. This 
 earthly man is the only personality. 
 
 Christian theologians, failing to understand the 
 meaning of their Master about going to the Father, 
 and accepting the traditional claim that he ascended 
 bodily and left this world, have for eighteen hun- 
 dred years taught that the departed are spirits and 
 constantly going to a distant material place. They 
 have taught happiness, recognition, spirit-commun- 
 ion, playing on harps, etc., way yonder! The 
 ecstatic fruition of this imagery and hope has been 
 the Christian's joy for centuries. God has raised up 
 an innumerable host, who realize in spiritual philos- 
 ophy the fulfillment of all the above and much more 
 of rapture. The difference is, theology promises 
 yet never fulfills, but philosophy garners the harvest. 
 It was all right while theology had the recognitions 
 
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 in its mind, and to occur in another world; but 
 reaction, descent or discovery finds the fulfillment 
 here where mortals need encouragement. The sealed 
 book, Revelation, promised the descent of the entire 
 retinue, even God, here. Science crowns us by 
 finding us in God and God in us ; such light out- 
 shines the Sun. God in the body, i. e., in the 
 temple, is the spiritual light that needs no candle. 
 
 As certainly as mankind are learning that the 
 visible is not Man, so surely are they deserting 
 belief in or about a personal God or a personal 
 devil other than physical man. And as certainly as 
 these worn-out theological beliefs are failing, going, 
 dying, so certain it is that the idolatry of drug 
 worship must go. As that which was thought to 
 have virtue or bottom is proving to be bottomless — 
 not able even to amount to a " bottomless pit" — so 
 /Science, which is Truth, the u second coming," the 
 Highest, is binding hand and foot this deceiver, this 
 ■" strong man armed," this error or " matter" and 
 is casting it into disfavor or " outer darkness." Are 
 not the "gnashings of teeth" heard to-day? Can 
 any be so blind as not to see the fulfillment of all 
 that wonderful inspiration? 
 
 The bottom, or the supposed virtue of drugs, is 
 falling out and the profession feels the sands on 
 which it has built slipping rapidly away. The 
 x 'tooth of time" gnawing at the props supporting 
 
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 ultra medical error, is spreading alarm because of 
 trembling from base to dome of the turreted struc- 
 ture rising heavenward on crumbling base and soon 
 to fall before the Spartan chivalry of the Sons and 
 Daughters of God, for Truth, Reform, bears aloft 
 the watch-words, the insignia on every Spiritual 
 Science banner, "ALL IS SPIRIT;" "ALL IS 
 GOOD." 
 
 On this foundation the spiritual temple, forming 
 without hands, is being constructed, and long after 
 opposing voices are silent, the Truth which first 
 spoke through mortals the great rallying cry, "All. 
 is Spirit," will be praised and honored as Science, 
 as the Word or Divine Logos. 
 
 Guns are playing, and the lion or masculine power 
 — intellect and matter — are now demanding the 
 defeat, the fall of Mind-Healing insignia. A United 
 States citizen was bound to a stake in Cuba, while 
 before him stood the death-men with flashing guns, 
 when another American rushed in, wound the 
 United States flag around and around the threatened 
 one, from head to foot, and then feeling the chivalry 
 of his mighty nation afar, held his hand aloft and 
 said: "Shoot that man through that flag if you 
 dare!" As those gunners were soon removed, so 
 palsied will grow the arm of vengeance raised 
 against these banners of spiritual liberty, while be- 
 hind them we hear the voice of God, and while all 
 
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 around the spiritual and heavenly artillery covers 
 them and their bearers with authority, with power, 
 before which "matter" and the idolatrous drug-king 
 will fall) while Truth, Peace. Reform, Science, will 
 wrest the kingdom from error and then bind the 
 wounds with its own conquering Love. 
 
 We demand, during the many attempts by Allo- 
 pathy in legislative halls, the inherent rights secured 
 to all citizens of our land, to use the system of cure 
 they wish when sickness invades their homes. Re- 
 form will meet usurpers at every turn, for it main- 
 tains that "All modes of healing the sick shall be 
 free and on a standing of equality before the law. 
 subject alike to the same rewards and penalties." 
 "When the "old school" practitioners assume to over- 
 throw this Heaven-commissioned system of Mind- 
 Healing Science, they may not meet the success 
 they seek, for our appeal is to the people, to Justice, 
 and we will win under the flashing artillery of the 
 skies. 
 
 There are fine and skillful physicians in the Allo- 
 pathic ranks, but this school in its orthodox assump- 
 tion has grown so careless, that the people over the 
 civilized world fear it because of its heavy and dan- 
 gerous drugs in the hands of so many thousand 
 quacks, who. after all, know but little of the laws 
 of cure. Their blunders when experimenting with 
 
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 human life, owing to their ignorance, are culpable in 
 the highest degree. 
 
 The best authorities in the Allopathic ranks con- 
 demn their own system and its blunderers in stronger 
 language than we employ. From their own leading 
 journals in Europe and America, and by their chief 
 lights in medical literature Ave gather facts Avhich 
 challenge caution. Dr. Forbes, of the British and 
 Foreign Medical Quarterly, and Dr. James John- 
 son, of the British Medical Chirurgical Review — 
 the most eminent medical reviews in the world — 
 strongly denounce the carelessness of their own 
 school. Dr. Johnson, of the latter named journal r 
 says: U I declare as my conscientious conviction, 
 founded on long experience and reflection, that if 
 there was not a single physician, surgeon, chemist, 
 apothecary, druggist, nor drug on the face of the 
 earth, there would be less sickness and less mortal- 
 ity than now prevails." 
 
 Sir Astley Cooper, the leading surgeon of the 
 age, Magendie, the greatest physiologist of France, 
 Mott and Parker, the two most eminent physicians 
 of New York, Prof. Bigelow and Prof. John Ware, 
 of Boston, the illustrious Benjamin Rush, John 
 Mason Good, Abernathy, of London, and many 
 others of the most eminent physicians of the world, 
 are on record against the reckless practice in Allo- 
 pathic ranks. 
 
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 Dr. Jamison, of Edinburgh, says: "Nine times 
 out of ten our miscalled remedies are absolutely in- 
 jurious to our patients suffering under diseases of 
 whose real character and cause we are most culpably 
 ignorant." 
 
 Dr. Kamage, member of the Royal College of 
 Physicians, London, said: "It cannot be denied 
 that the present s}^stem of medicine is a burning re- 
 proach to its professors. How rarely do our medi- 
 cines do good! How often do they make our patients 
 really worse! I fearlessly assert that in most cases 
 the sufferer would be safer without a physician than 
 with one. I have seen enough of the malpractice 
 of my professional brethren to warrant the strong 
 language I employ." 
 
 To examine the reports of our National Medical 
 Association, in which the acme of perfection should 
 eclipse the brightest luminary of Europe or the 
 Orient, we find enough to make an angel blush with 
 shame, and to cause every legislative body to bar 
 its doors against the first reading of any bill whose 
 object is to throttle reform, and to forbid honest 
 attempts to improve upon the blundering system so 
 adjudged by its own lights. 
 
 Dr. Gihon, medical director of the United States 
 Navy, and President of the Naval Academy, made 
 a wonderfully honest report to the National Medical 
 Association, when it met at Cleveland. He says 
 
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 that of 1142 practicing graduates of regular medical 
 colleges, 700 were too ignorant to pass the Naval 
 Examining Board. He says: "Many of these have 
 doubtless learned something of the art they began 
 to practice in the dark, yet most of them have only 
 learned to see as the blind see, and at what a fearful 
 cost of human life!" 
 
 If the above, and a million other reproachful re- 
 marks by medical authorities, seem uncharitable, it 
 ma}^ be remembered that they are not uttered by 
 the Healers and writers in this highest understand- 
 ing of Bible or Spirit healing. 
 
 But Allopathy is against the Bible methods of 
 cure, for it would ignore and forever cut off as un- 
 lawful the system which Jesus and the apostles 
 practiced to cure the most malignant forms of dis- 
 ease, for their system was purely spiritual, or by 
 mind power, Avhich often consisted of audible word 
 and command only, for they never wrote prescrip- 
 tions nor administered drugs. Nor would this 
 iron-clad rule perpetuate or respect the command of 
 Jesus, which can only apply to spiritual advisers and 
 healers: u Go ye into all the world, heal the sick, 
 cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." 
 Not only would this spirit shut out the apostolic or 
 mental treatment, but if Jesus could come again 
 among us and treat disease by his former method, 
 he would be tried and convicted by such law, else 
 
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 he would be obliged to turn away from God's 
 method of cure to study and conform to the profes- 
 sion by obtaining a diploma from a medical college 
 as license to administer drugs for the relief and 
 cure of the afflicted. 
 
 NO OTHER SYSTEM 
 
 of cure educates the patient and makes him his own 
 physician. This system exposes the illusive char- 
 acter of disease, and teaches its friends to cure 
 themselves and their families. It is to be honored 
 then as an educator in the highest interests of life. 
 It is a fact that heads of families employing the 
 Mental Healer, are not called upon to meet the 
 usual large bills of physicians. It is also true that 
 Science Healers rarely ever lose a patient, and yet 
 they are called upon constantly to take the cases 
 given up by the doctors as ''incurable". 
 
 This is the most successful practice known for 
 children and they are easily cured by it. If an in- 
 fant is sick it can be treated directly and through 
 the mind of its mother. To allay the mother's fears 
 is often all that is necessary. 
 
 A Science Healer never requires a patient to diet 
 in any disease. He knows that if the flesh is lifeless 
 it cannot feel, and that food has no power to harm. 
 Whenever harm results after food is eaten, it is all 
 owing to mind, hence treat the mind only, and of 
 
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 course with mind. It is not difficult to cure the 
 worst cases of dyspepsia, so-called, while directing 
 the patient to eat whatever he choose. When the 
 science of "mind currents," "brain waves," thought- 
 transference, or, better still, Mentagraphing, is 
 understood, it will be known that mind, fear, men- 
 tal influences, etc., are the causes. 
 
 There is enough intelligence and refinement en- 
 gaged in this system to command highest respect. 
 Ministers, bishops, lawyers, doctors, congressmen, 
 editors, and all classes are being cured by it. 
 
 Reader, call upon any healer in this Science for 
 an}' affliction or trouble, remembering that it is 
 your mind only that can feel trouble or sickness. 
 Be assured, by one who cares for you, that you 
 will endorse your trial of this system of cure. 
 Will it not be wise to try before you condemn or 
 even judge it? 
 
 SPIRITUAL SCIENCE INVOCATION. 
 
 Infinite and Eternal One, immortal, invisible, im- 
 mutable; hence in Thy being hidden forever from 
 veiled or mortal sight, Thou art God. Omnific, 
 Omnipresent Creator, Source, the only Life or 
 Spirit, for in Thy character Thou art commensu- 
 rate with All-extended Being. As Thou art every- 
 where, no limit or place knows Thee, no world or 
 city of Heaven claims Thy presence or beholds Thy 
 
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 form, and yet Thou art never absent from the mi- 
 nutest point in all Thy universal realm, for Nature, 
 or the Universe in the unity of Being interchanges 
 its names only with Thee. No limit, no emanation, 
 no manifestation, no object or idea, ever shares any- 
 separate part of Thee, for Thou art absolutely One. 
 
 Supreme Wisdom, Supreme Power, Supreme and 
 only One, there is no evil, no disease, no death, no 
 Satan, or possible source for anything opposing or 
 contrary to Thee, because Thou art omnipresent, 
 and Good. 
 
 But wonderful and Infinite One, in the perfec- 
 tion and unity of Thy being, and for knowledge all 
 Thine own, there are in Thy reflected and finite 
 mind seeming evils and works which seem the oppo- 
 site of Good. To this mind which is not Thee and 
 yet is in Thy Being, this realm of apparent evil, 
 whilst thou art working in it to prove Thyself the 
 only reality of Life and power, there seems to be 
 unrest and pain, and this mind believes or dreams 
 on thus amid all the chemicalizing forces of Thy 
 workings in it while willing and doing Thy pleas- 
 ure, until in the dream it has called "death," so like 
 a vapor, a nonentity, it is swallowed up in Life, in 
 immortality. 
 
 While this agitated, carnal minji is being thus 
 renewed, and feels these sensible emotions, it names 
 them pleasures, sorrows, pain and sin. As fear, 
 
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 distrust or hiding mind we now turn, we now see 
 that all is Good. We accept the Worker and the 
 works, and becoming one with Thee we cease to be- 
 lieve in evil. Confessing the natural order of our 
 disordered state while Thou art working thus in 
 mortal sense, or in Thy reflected mind, which we 
 call ours, we see there is no disease, no pain, no 
 death to Life; and lost here to belief, we find union 
 with God, for in the realm of Life there is naught 
 but Infinity itself. 
 
 Here we renounce our early beliefs that we were 
 conceived in sin and born of an evil source, or that 
 the race ever fell to a depraved state. It so dishon- 
 ors Thy character to believe that evil, or the myth 
 called Satan ever did or could use influence or power 
 contrary to Thy wisdom, we turn from it as born of 
 superstition and as a belief in death. We now ac- 
 cept the blessings called "evil," such as grief, pain 
 and disease, for these are visitations of Thy goodness 
 toward us. We are neither sick nor alienated from 
 Thee as invisible Truth, the invisible God, but in 
 the understanding of our renewed nature and from 
 our exalted state we accept these ennobling visita- 
 tions, even as the means or transforming power by 
 which the carnal dies daily, and by which we lose 
 the "image of the earthy" and take on the "image 
 of the heavenly." 
 
 As clay, make and mould us to Thy liking. In 
 
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 Thy wisdom choose the surest methods to advance 
 us higher, and if these be loss of fame, loss of 
 friends, loss of home and support, loss of health, 
 society and pleasures of sense, we submit. TTe ac- 
 cept all these and more, for while we pass these 
 ordeals and drink these cups we see through the lens 
 of mortal woes, the hand, the smile, the spiritual 
 anointing, and now in blessings so divine ''our cup 
 runneth over." There is no sting, no sin, no death, 
 for the understanding of this inverted picture is the 
 richest blessing of all. 
 
 Thy invisible working in this reflected mind, is, 
 from henceforth to be regarded simply as the trans- 
 forming power, the ' 'consuming fire*' by which we 
 are "changed from glory to glory by the Spirit. 
 God." Included in Thy Being we can never be 
 banished, never punished by Thee. In Thy infinite 
 wisdom and goodness no anger will ever come from 
 Thee. In this Science or acquaintance with Thee, 
 that which we feared is turned to blessings so 
 divine, that all is health, joy, peace, tranquility and 
 calm, and for this rest, this crowning joy we confess 
 Thee, the Supreme. 
 
 In Thy Xame. 
 
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED 
 
 BY ABSENT STUDENTS WHO DESIRE 
 
 TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF 
 
 A LEGAL DIPLOMA. 
 
 After a thorough study of our Text Book, "Mind Healing 
 Condensed," the student of lawful age, who has remitted as 
 required, may write answers to the following questions and 
 send them to us. On receipt of satisfactory answers to one 
 hundred and twenty-five, or more, of the questions, we will 
 engross his name in the Diploma, and forward it to him at 
 our risk. 
 
 Use ink only, and write plainly. Put down each lesson 
 from I. to XII. Number your answers to correspond with 
 our questions. Give us brevity. We file and keep your 
 answers for reference. 
 
 Any person who studies this Text Book carefully can 
 answer all of these questions. Whoever conquers and gains 
 the understanding of this condensed work, will be a good 
 Mental or Christian Scientist, and will be qualified to heal 
 disease. 
 
 Do not neglect this opportunity of legal graduation. Re- 
 member that the Chautauqua University, of New York, and 
 &bout one dozen other institutions of learning are imparting 
 instructions at any distance and graduating students in their 
 lines. It is a saving of time and money; it is a legal, popular 
 and successful system. 
 
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 Lesson I. 
 
 1. Is God a local, visible personality ever to be seen by 
 mortal sight? 
 
 2. Name several of the terms introduced only by Christian 
 Science to represent God. 
 
 3. Does this Science endorse Pantheism? 
 
 4. Visible objects are to be regarded as what? 
 
 5. Does physical man possess any life absolutely his own? 
 
 6. Are there in this Science any lives, spirits or souls sepa- 
 rate from Spirit or Soul as Omnipresent Life? 
 
 7. Do flesh, blood and bones constitute Spiritual Man? 
 
 8. State the difference between being and existence 
 Should existence be applied to anything but visible objects?, 
 
 9. What is the Latin and scientific meaning of exist? 
 
 10. Can we say that God or Spiritual Man exists? Are 
 not such being, and invisible? 
 
 11. Should we say God's spirit, God's life, God's being, 
 etc? — if not, why? 
 
 12. Can physical man possess either a spirit, a soul, a life 
 or an entity separate from God? 
 
 Lesson II. 
 
 1. Do the manifestations, commonly called the real, pos- 
 sess Life or entity of themselves? 
 
 2. Can flesh, or any visible object, feel sensation? 
 
 3. In a mirror do >ou behold a reflection of your body, or 
 do you behold your body only ? 
 
 4. Which is first, the body or the idea after which the body 
 is formed? 
 
 5. After the mortal body has been disintegrated, does the 
 idea or entity remain immortal? 
 
 6. While in the state where neither flesh nor blood can 
 be, will there be any physical organism? 
 
 7. Will the Ego, the entity, again manifest itself, or come 
 forth to the mortal state of individualized identity? 
 
 8. When formations come forth through evolution, and 
 disappear through involution, do we not in this analogy find 
 the meaning of resurrection as Paul understood it in the XV 
 Chap, of I. Cor. ? 
 
 9. Through evolution and involution — or birth and death 
 — do we not have proof that our spirit form can never be 
 annihilated or become extinct? 
 
 10. After physical dissolution, does not a new body come 
 forth through the same natural laws that furnish decaying 
 grain with new bodies? 
 
 11. Does the term Spiritual Man mean the physical or- 
 ganism? 
 
 12. As Spiritual Man means neither flesh nor blood, but 
 means Immortal Mmd, Spirit or Deity, does not this system 
 have the true key to immortality? 
 
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 Lesson III. 
 
 1. In this Science, what doeS the term "Being" signify? 
 
 2. Spiritual Scientists hold that "All is Spirit;" Material- 
 ists hold that "All is Matter." Which is Correct? 
 
 3. As yisible objects cannot come from "nothing,'* from 
 what are' they prodiiceid? " 
 
 4. As Spirit is the intelligence that produces all objects; 
 what does it produce them Of? 
 
 5. Is it not logical to say that the primal substance of 
 every object is Spirit, since Spirit was first? 
 
 6. Is not every element known in Chemistry resolvable to 
 invisibility? 
 
 7. If all elements are formed of Spirit, and if all are re- 
 ducible to invisibility, what were they in substance when 
 visible? 
 
 8. When a sponge is filled with water, can any atom of it 
 be separate from the water? 
 
 9. Can any atom be separate from Spirit; if not, then is 
 not Spirit all there is in the universe? 
 
 10. As Spirit or God is everywhere, can anything else be 
 anywhere? 
 
 11. If Spirit is not everywhere, by what are atoms placed 
 in all formations? 
 
 12. When the Materialist admits order in all the natural 
 formations, does he not, in fact, admit our position that God 
 or Creative Energy is everywhere? 
 
 Lesson IV. 
 
 1. Does Science intend to compromise with theorists who 
 argue separateness of Spirit and matter? 
 
 2. Is it necessary to assert that sense objects are "nothing" ? 
 
 3. Can intelligence use the term "nothing" intelligently? 
 
 4. When physiologists teach that flesh and bones are the 
 real, do they not directly support materialism? 
 
 5. Can one be a supporter of materialism and be a con- 
 sistent advocate of Spirit in any case? 
 
 6. Does not the theory that God is a personality and vis- 
 ible contradict the fact that Deity is omnipresent Spirit? 
 
 7. Why do we deny the being of so called evil? 
 
 8. What are the mental states we call sin, disease, pain, 
 etc.? 
 
 9. Are afflictions blessings, or curses? 
 
 10. You regard the claims of mortal mind as what? 
 
 11. How should a Mental Healer begin? 
 
 12. How can a healer fully in the Science control disease 
 or mental states of the patient? 
 
 Lesson V. 
 
 1. Do prudence and decorum assist the Healer? 
 
 2. What is it that cures? 
 
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 3. State the best way to remove the work from person to 
 Spirit. 
 
 4. What rules a meek or spiritual person? 
 
 5. What modes of mind assist healers? 
 
 6. Name mental states that harm, and states that help the 
 patient. 
 
 7. How is the true healer best known? 
 
 8. True diagnosis is through what faculties? 
 
 9. Is it wise to tell patients they have this or that disease? 
 
 10. State how the work of healing is hindered if you ask 
 what the disease or symptoms are. 
 
 11. State the advantages of listening when the patient of 
 friends prefer to explain. 
 
 12. Through what mental states of the patient is healing 
 aided? 
 
 Lesson VI.— The Formula. 
 
 1. Which feels pain, the flesh or the sense mind? 
 
 2. While it is mind only that feels, should we address 
 it, or the body? 
 
 3. Does the healer, while treating, talk orally or commu- 
 nicate mentally with the patient? 
 
 4. Should the healer argue and contradict, or should he 
 affirm mentally to the mind of the patient? 
 
 5 State some of the ideas or thoughts you gather from the 
 formula given for silent treatment. 
 
 6. After the treatment, what naturally follows? 
 
 7. Do healers and patients usually exchange pleasing re- 
 marks over the treatments? 
 
 8. Does their work bring happiness to the healer as well 
 as to the patient? 
 
 9. Is not this relief of mind, this turning unto Truth, to 
 be regarded as the woik of Truth, saving the needy and 
 erring? 
 
 10. If the healer has time does he explain some of the 
 Science to the patients? 
 
 11. What does the healer claim the forces often felt in 
 the system during treatment to be? 
 
 12. Are thoughts things, and the real? 
 
 Lesson VII. 
 
 1. What is the further and chief help the patient receives? 
 
 2. On what condition is this healing permanent? 
 
 3. What may fear, anger, pride, selfishness, jealousy, re- 
 venge, avarice, malice, etc.. do, if continuously indulged? 
 
 4. Is the patient willing to turn from the use of drugs after 
 successful treatment? 
 
 5. While the patient holds to drugs, does this hinder cure? 
 
 6. Is it best to ask the patient to give up drugs, or to treat 
 his mind to do so? 
 
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 7. If a patient is conscious of the treatment, is such treat- 
 ment mesmeric, or of Truth? 
 
 8. If the patient is not conscious of improvement, is it not 
 probable that the healer lacks a proper understanding of the 
 Science? 
 
 9. Can correct mental treatment facilitate the cure of a 
 broken limb? 
 
 10. Is a broken limb to be regarded as disease proper? 
 
 11. Can a broken limb be treated by a physician so that it 
 may progress to a state of disease, or cause disease elsewhere 
 in the body? 
 
 12. Is the spirit, or the fleshly body to be regarded as the 
 ghost? 
 
 Lesson VIII. 
 
 1. What is the usual time occupied in the treatment 
 proper? 
 
 2. Although a formula is given in our Text Book, should we 
 use this form, or should we vary as conditions require? 
 
 3. Is it necessary for the healer to follow any set form? 
 
 4. Should we use the same mental words when treating 
 all patients? 
 
 5. Does this book profess to give a fair idea for the treat- 
 ment of every class of disease? 
 
 6. If an author or teacher were to lay down an exact form- 
 ula to be followed, would he not thereby seem to advocate a 
 material or intellectual rather than a spiritual method? 
 
 7. Does the Bible show that Jesus contradicted, or did He 
 usually affirm to the mind of the patient? 
 
 8. Should Mental Healers ever make physical examina- 
 tion? 
 
 9. Why does it hinder successful treatment for the healer 
 to make physical examination? 
 
 10. As the cause of disease is mental, is it wise to treat 
 physically ? 
 
 11. As we never use drugs or instruments, can it be said 
 that we treat physically ? 
 
 12. When we cure scrofula, cancers, flesh wounds, etc., 
 by mind only, can it be claimed that we treat with physics or 
 surgery ? 
 
 Lesson IX. 
 
 1. Does not this Science always teach that God or Truth is 
 the direct means of cure, and that the only part a Mental 
 Healer performs is to teach Truth or mentally talk disease 
 away? 
 
 2. What distance should the healer sit from the patient? 
 
 3. State why the healer should not sit with his back toward 
 the patient. 
 
 4. Should either patient or healer gaze around indfffer- 
 ently? 
 
5. State why healer and patient should sit with eyes closed, 
 and the benefits thus derived. 
 
 6. Why does the first visit usually require more time? 
 
 7. When a healer is fully in the Science, what does he 
 command? 
 
 8. What special directions should be observed by patient 
 and healer to insure success? 
 
 9. State how disease can be forgotten and mastered? 
 
 10. Is it wise or unwise to tell another that he looks 
 worse, pale or sick? 
 
 11. Can fear cause the state called death? 
 
 12. What is said about bleeding a person to death without 
 drawing a drop of blood? 
 
 Lesson X. 
 
 1. What is said about a patient when fright, anger, etc., 
 affect him? 
 
 2. Why does a tooth often cease to ache when on the way 
 to the dentist? 
 
 3. What is insanity, and what is said in our Text Book 
 about the success of this system with the insane? 
 
 4. Do we claim to cure every kind or class of disease, if 
 not every case? 
 
 5. If cure comes by those who use drugs, it is owing to 
 what scientific fact? 
 
 6. Every drug given is a mental ministration in what way? 
 
 7. Can the mind of a physician prescribe a remedy super- 
 ior to itself? 
 
 8. State the reason why death may result from poison. 
 What is it that poisons? 
 
 9. Is a prime cause always invisible? 
 
 10. Is effect found only in visible things? 
 
 11. Cause being invisible, what is said about seeking cure 
 through visible remedies? 
 
 12. Is not the invisible, the power that cures? 
 
 Lesson XL 
 
 1. Which lessens disease, to agree with it as physicians 
 do, or to ignore it as Christian Scientists do? 
 
 2. What is said about the chemical action of Spirit or 
 Truth in healing? 
 
 3. If God is a personality "about the size and shape of a 
 mortal man," as many claim, could fle then be in human 
 bodies as Jesus taught, or could we as mortals be in Him, as 
 Paul teaches? 
 
 4. Is it not idolatry to believe in drugs, or in a personal, 
 visible God? 
 
 5. Name one dozen leading allopathic physicians of Europe 
 and America, mentioned in our Text Book, who condemn 
 their own system. 
 
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 6. Of 1142 practicing graduates in allopathy, how many 
 were incompetent to pass the National Examining Board, as 
 per Dr. Gihon's report? 
 
 7. What is said about allopathy opposing Bible methods 
 of cure ? 
 
 8. If Jesus could appear, would not allopathic colleges re- 
 quire him to obtain a medical diploma in order to cure? 
 
 9. Does our system educate the patient to cure himself ? 
 
 10. Are not the heavy bills of physicians avoided by call- 
 ing a Mental Healer instead? 
 
 11. What is said about the treatment of children by our 
 method? 
 
 12. What is said against the belief that food causes dys- 
 pepsia? 
 
 Lesson XII —Special Questions. 
 
 1. Can you accept the science that Deity is the Life or in- 
 visible Spirit of the universe? 
 
 2. Do you see that unity with the Father means the insep- 
 arable blending with Omnipresent Spirit, and that no reference 
 is had to flesh when thinking of our "likeness" of Deity? 
 
 3. Do you see that all the work of reform and the new 
 systems of cure mean evidently the establishment of a system 
 of religion eminently above the theology of to day? 
 
 4. Can you with our Scientists hold that the "coming" or 
 "appearing of Christ" is invisible rather than visible? 
 
 5. Do you accept the scientific, or the theological interpre- 
 tation of God, Heaven, the Bible, sin, disease and cure? 
 
 6- In your life and practice are you willing, to avoid all 
 that harms? 
 
 7. Do you subscribe to the high moral claims of this 
 Science? 
 
 8. Are you willing to continue the study of Mental Chris- 
 tian Science works? 
 
 9. We hold it our duty to be charitable toward all, to care 
 for the needy, and to minister also to those not able to pay : 
 Are you in harmony with this? 
 
 10. Do you feel that you are led of Truth to enter this 
 Work; do you desire to alleviate human distress and to aid 
 mankind toward health and happiness ?- 
 
 11. Do you comprehend and accept the teachings of our 
 Text Book? 
 
 12. Is your faith, in this Science {Strengthening; arcy©^ 
 striving to become wiser and better, and may Reform find 
 yoa heartily working for mankind? 
 
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