The truth is that God knows nothing about disease.
The Bible does not teach physical inheritances, although it seems to teach many things that could not be true of a God of Love. "
On the other hand we find there statements that declare us to be sons of God; that enjoin us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect; that assert perfect freedom for us through knowledge of Truth.
Nona
L. Brooks Short Lessons in Divine Science
Quimby only
used the term mind’s-eye once.
Nor was
the state called clairvoyance imaginary. Mr. Quimby described it in this period
of his thought as a "high degree of excitement which gives the mind
freedom of action, placing it in close contact with everything, including past,
present and future." If it were a merely fancied state the subject would
not be able to visit distant places, describing people and things correctly.
Nor would it be possible to see actual events in process and predict their
results, as in the case of a captain located on board a ship bound for New York
and then located in port later, the second time Lucius was asked to find that particular
man.
The high degree of excitement, called clairvoyant, gives the mind freedom of action, placing it in close contact with everything. There is nothing remote or distant, past or future; everything is present and discoverable. It only requires direction, and the subject is before it.
It is enabled to discover and describe countries and cities, mountains and plains, rivers and oceans, inhabitants and animals on distant parts of the globe. The mind will pass into the depths of the earth or rather looks through all matter, all space and all time, giving its character, its condition and its result. Call its attention to any subject however remote and it is present to the mind. These ideas, I have thrown out in relation to mind in its highest state of excitement, are not the result of a vivid imagination or the productions of a speculating mind, but the effect of experiments, repeated at different times and on various occasions. They are facts, which stand out beyond all contradiction–all cavil! And we are not to pass them as a freak of nature or as the result of contradictory laws. It must be the highest state of action to which the mind has arrived, giving testimony of the great powers with which it is created, yet controlled by its natural laws. We must not, therefore, account for this wonderful development upon the supposition of exceptions to general rules, but upon the continuation of great and undeviating principles.
There was every reason to accept these disclosures as real, for interested persons took pains to acquaint themselves with the facts. For instance, in the case of the ship above mentioned we have the evidence published in a newspaper at the time, reading in part as follows: "During Mr. Quimby's exhibition in this town on Wednesday evening, (14th inst.) his intelligent Clairvoyant was in communication with F. Clark, Esq., a respectable merchant of this place. The Clairvoyant described to the audience a Barque . . . called the Casilda then on her passage from Cuba to New York, minutely from `clew to carving,' as seamen say. He then informed the company how far said Barque was from her destined port, and gave the name of vessel and port the distance we think was about 70 miles.
"On the next evening, he visited (in his somnambulism) the same vessel and said she had arrived off the Hook at New York, where she then was. On the Tuesday following this exhibition the merchants received a letter informing them of the arrival of this Barque (see our Marine Report) at the precise time stated by the Clairvoyant, who it will be recollected is Lucius Bickford [Burkmar], a young man 19 years of age.
The New Truth ~ by Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby
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