All dis-ease is in the mind.

I have said that all dis-ease is in the mind. I will try to explain it more clearly. I will separate the mind from the senses and the senses from the thing called dis-ease. Now to cure a trouble is to know how it is made. As men reason, they reason upon mathematical principles, but as they stand on a false basis, they will land sooner or later in trouble.

Dis-ease is the effect of one kind of reason.
The cure is the opposite kind of reason.
One is based on science and the other on belief or opinion.

To give the reader an idea of my manner, I will take the case of a lady that came to see me. I will show how I changed the mind and how the cure was affected. I sat down by the lady and she affected me in this way. I felt a heat in the back of my neck accompanied with pain. This affected my shoulders and the pit of my stomach. Now all this pain or heat of itself contained no wisdom, only the state of mind. This is mind and out of this everything grows or is made. This was the condition of the lady.

Now she had a belief that she had a cancerous tumor and in fact thought she had one coming. The belief was in this heat for the heat was the mind or soil to have the cancer. Now her beliefs contained the elements of a cancer to her, so she received the belief, and this made the disturbance in the mind. Now who was it that made the disturbance? Not wisdom but the devil or error. Now the sensation made her inquire what it was, and some error or ignorant physician gives his opinion that it is a cancer. So she believed this opinion, and went to work to make the phenomenon. So now I had to change her mind and destroy her belief. This set her senses free from the error and this was the cure. As my reasoning is from what I consider a false report taken for a truth, I have to make the change by illustrations. So I said, Your dis-ease is all in your mind. You think you have a cancerous tumor. This she said was a fact and not in the mind, so I went on to prove my theory and put it into practice.

So I began by a parable. Suppose I ask you if you ever saw a quince and you say, I don't think I have. I said, will you tell me how it looks, how it smells and how it tastes? This you cannot do so you admit your ignorance. Then I commence to explain how it grows on a tree like a small pear tree and I describe it to the best of my ability. You listen. Now all the time your mind is going through a chemical change and you really create a quince after my description. Now this quince is a spiritual one but it has a real name, so you start up excited to find a quince, and as fruit is known by names, you approach a fruit store and look at the various kinds of fruit. At last your eye strikes on the kind you think is a quince, so you buy one and come and show it to me and say, I have found a quince. I say are you sure? You say pretty sure. Have you not a doubt? Why, I cannot say certainly, but I am as sure as I can be without being certain. So I say to you, It is a quince. Now this is wisdom, but in the quince there was no life nor wisdom, and in the name, there was no life nor wisdom to you. But when I put your senses and the name to the thing called quince, then out of this came life or a truth. This is wisdom.

When you heard the name of tumor or felt the sensation of heat, of course being a little excited and your curiosity awakened, you went to find the cause of your trouble so your senses would enquire of everyone what it was. At last you got the idea of cancerous tumor. Now of course you would look for it the same as you looked for the quince, so your senses would look all over the body, and of course you would be very anxious to find where it generally located itself or stopped. At last you settle that you have found it by the direction you have had from me so you come to me and say, I have found it. I ask you where, you say in the stomach. I ask you when you got it and how it came there. This you can't tell, only that it came without your knowing it. So I say you have made it yourself by listening to the devil or error in the opinion of the medical faculty or public opinion. This you can't believe, so I then commence to explain the trinity of dis-ease.

Man's trinity is the word, the flesh and the opinion.
Science is the word,
the flesh is the thing, and
the theory is applying the thing to the thing named.
PPQ 1864

Belief affects the mind and a phenomenon is produced.

Mind, being subject to the will, is always being changed by every thought. Even our thoughts are not our own and in fact man is a combination of ideas that are constantly working out some problem and we are all a part and parcel of this great problem. To suppose that we act of ourselves is as absurd as to suppose that a clock keeps time by the weight. There is an intelligence that governs the world or man that is not known and this intelligence acts upon the belief, while the belief is not aware of the fact.

Now all man's trouble is in this element called belief or mind. The phenomenon that we see is a fact. That is not intelligence but the effect of intelligence. Here is where we fail in perceiving how the understanding makes the cure. The doctors always address themselves to the phenomenon; I, to the intelligence.

I will state a case.

I had a young officer who had his arm shot by a minie ball through the wrist. The hand became so painful and swollen that it was necessary to amputate the limb just below the elbow. But still the sensation of the hand remained, and it was so troublesome that he could not rest; his hand was in constant pain. The stump he did not feel but the hand that had been taken off was as real as the other. Now I suppose you would say this was all imagination, for the hand was gone. Now who is to decide this question, the person that felt the pain or the observers? He felt the hand and the doctor could not change his mind by telling him the hand was gone. This was false in the true sense, for his hand was a part of his senses and the phenomenon that could be seen was nothing to his senses; he had a hand, and it troubled him. Now was the trouble in his mind or in the phenomenon that the doctor had taken off? I say it was his mind and this was what he wished to get rid of. Although he, to his belief, had lost his hand, his senses had not lost it. And to cure or satisfy his senses, he wished to get rid of his hand, for it became a source of torment. So I took hold of the stump and by explaining the truth, I changed the mind and he cast the idea away and then felt of the stump and became quiet, satisfied that it was better to have one arm and be happy and well, than having two, and being in torment.

A belief is something and if it comes in contact with matter, it will make an impression. I might bring thousands of facts to show that disease is the effect of our belief, whether we know it or not. How many there are who do not think that they are influenced by others' beliefs, when it is as apparent as it is that the sun shines on a clear day, and yet they will take their oath that no person's belief affects them when in fact they are the mouthpiece of some belief. How often do we hear this remark. I have a belief of my own. Now if they have a belief, it cannot be a fact, so that their belief is in regard to something that they think exists. So if you can make a person believe a thing exists, then his belief to him is a fact, and this he considers as his own, although it is a belief.

This is the way disease comes. We are made to believe a lie and this belief creates a phenomenon. This is the proof that our belief was founded in wisdom, when we do not know that our belief is the very thing that changes the mind and creates. Make man know this and then he will see that what he needs is to know how to correct his mind in order to get rid of his trouble. This has to be done by another mode of reasoning and this is my mode of cure: to change the mind, believing that all our troubles are out of sight but the phenomenon is in sight.
Therefore never look into the effect for the cause. The cause can never be seen by the natural eye, for man never sees the idea he is afraid of; causes cannot be seen, only effects. The cause is the belief of what cannot be seen.

The belief affects the mind and a phenomenon is produced. This is called, for instance, cancer.

Now show how we get an idea into the mind of man and the process of discovery rids the mind of the belief. And then the person is as free from cancer as a person who once believed the eclipse was sent from God as a warning to man to repent is, when he understands astronomy. The fear or belief is gone and no phenomenon can take place. So it is with all diseases, for they are all lies and to discover the mode in which they were made is the destruction of error.



Sunday, Aug. 27, 1864