The Two Words of Salvation

 

“The capacity of thought-reading is the common extent of mesmerism. Clairvoyance is very rare, and can be easily tested by blindfolding the subject and giving him a book to read. If he can read without seeing, that is conclusive evidence that he has independent sight. This state is of very short duration. They then come into that state where they are governed by surrounding minds.” ~ PP Quimby
Health and the Inner Life   Horatio W. Dresser

To be told in one’s youth about “the Christ within,” to be taught to seek the guidances of the inner world in every moment of need, is an inestimable privilege in more senses than one. One then grows up not only with the thought of health rather than the fear of disease, the thought of life in place of the dread of death, but with an empirical religious basis free from the encumbrances of dogmatic theology. Horatio W. Dresser

“I am often asked what I call my cures. I answer: The effect of a science, because I know how I do them. If I did not know, they would be a mystery to the world and myself.” Thus, confidently expressing his faith in his discoveries, Mr. Quimby strikes the key-note of all his teaching. Aside from the desire to do immediate good to humanity, his underlying interest was in the development of “the science of life and happiness,” as he usually called it._[A] In other passages in his writings, he speaks of his theory as “the science of health,” for he maintained that the principles implied in his method of mental treatment were reducible to a science. Science is, of course, universal. It is not dependent on revelations, books, or persons; nor can it be established in the face of facts. Mr. Quimby founded his own “science” on the study of facts, and had he been scientifically trained, in the modern sense of the term, he would have brought to bear the tests of the scientific method. But amidst much that is crude and of the nature of pioneer work one detects the same spirit which inspires the inductive scientist. The genuine ideal was before him, and he made such headway as time and his own facilities permitted.
[A]. In two instances he uses the term “Christian Science,” meaning by this expression an actual, verifiable, disinterested science founded on the principles which Jesus’ cures exemplified, not a doctrine founded on negations
Health and the Inner Life
Horatio W. Dresser

In one of his articles written to show the effect of these false interpretations and beliefs, Mr. Quimby uses the following illustration:

“When sitting by a sick person who had a pain in the left side, which I felt and described, I said, ‘You think you have consumption.’ The patient acknowledged it, saying that her physician had examined her lungs, and found the left one very much affected. This she believed; and when I told her that her disease was in her mind it was as much as to say that she imagined what was not the case. I told her she did not understand what I meant by the mind.

“Then, taking up a glass of water, I said: ‘Suppose you should be told that this water contained a poisonous substance that works in the system and sometimes produces consumption. If you really believe it, every time you drink the idea of poison enters your mind. Presently you begin to hack and cough a little. Would your fears then grow less that the water was poison? I think not.

“‘Finally, you are given over by your doctor and friends, and call on me. I sit down by you, and tell you that you are nervous, and have been deceived by your doctor and friends. You ask, How? You have been told what is false; that the water you drink contains a slow poison, and now your cure hangs on the testimony in the case. If I show that there is no poison in the water, then the water did not poison you. What did? It was the doctor’s opinion put in the water by your mind. As the mind is [spiritual] matter, or something that can receive an impression, it can be changed. This change was wrought by the doctor’s opinion.’”
Health and the Inner Life
Horatio W. Dresser

The Two Words of Salvation—are “without exception” or “no exception.”
We have to forgive everyone without exception.