METAPHYSICS BY EMMA CURTIS HOPKINS

  Have I any theory, or do I undertake to explain, how it is that the mind of one person affects the body of another so as to drive our disease?

            No, only in the fact.  Here is the truth of the matter.  You remember that Emerson says, ‘The man who convinces you is not the man who is eloquent of speech, but he who is inwardly drunk with conviction, so overpowered with his own idea as to overpower you, that you have to believe as he does.’  Well, now in the healing of bodily sickness we take it for granted that disease is the external manifestation of some wrong way of thinking.  Now then to set aside the bodily condition, address the thinking faculty.

            How shall you address it?  By carrying to it, instead of the idea of disease and sickness so often encouraged by physicians with pill, powders and droughts, the counter idea of health, wresting from him by certain mental arguments that the science teaches, his own idea of sickness, until it fades away from his mind.  When the thought of sickness disappears from his mind the outward picture of his thought disappears from his body.  How this comes to pass I cannot tell you, for I do not know.  Nobody knows as yet.  But stubborn facts innumerable prove that it does —prove that the mental action of a good and pure man or woman, who is properly skilled in the science, on the mind of a person who is ill with any manner of disease whatever will cure that disease by causing it to vanish into nothingness.

            Is it my theory that all disease is of the mind?  Yes, purely mental —everything.  It is the result of fear — conscious or unconscious.  There are two kinds of fear — fear that expresses itself in fever and fear that expresses itself in paralysis or negation.  The properly trained scientists can discover the hidden fear that it expresses by the outward disease, and addresses himself to the cause which by counteracting, the result or sickness is also counteracted.  Why, see!

            When you say you are sick, you make a great mistake about yourself.  And why a mistake?  Because God made you, and He never makes anything ill or wrong.   But it is only your own error in fancying that He could do so.  If you have said anything evil about that creation of God, it is here you have made a blunder, and the blunder has pictured itself out.  Now then, to recognize your blunder with respect to yourself and acknowledge it as such will set you free from that blunder.  Truth shall set you free.

            It will set you free from that wrong idea that has pictured itself upon what is known as a physical body, just as the figure in a magic lantern camera throws the shadow picture of itself upon the screen.  If the screen shadow is not in proper position, or is indistinctly portrayed, the operator does not attempt to pull the screen down, nor to push the shadow away, or to right it by working on the screen — he just attends to that little image in the camera, to get that in proper position and in   correct relation with the screen on which it is to be reflected.  Precisely so the scientist  confines  his attention to the  mind  of  the  patient  whose body sensitively reflects every feature of the hidden thought.  This law of reflection is mysterious one, I admit — too marvelous for our present comprehension — but not more so than is the law of gravitation.

Mental Healing Monthly Vol. 1 #3 Oct 1886
Produced by
Mental Science and Christian Healing Association
Editor Miss M. B. Gage

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