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GLEANINGS FROM "THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS."

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

The book from which I have culled the following extracts is entitled "THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS," and was written in 1853-4 by the hand of a young man of limited education, a blacksmith by trade. He disclaims all the credit of authorship, and says: "When about to write, I felt descending upon me an influence whose holy sweetness words can never express. My whole being entered a calm and tranquil state which was expressed **** in a devout prayer, **** I never planned anything ahead in writing, for beside the power dictating I felt truly as a little child, and can now thank God that I was permitted to have a child's trustfulness. Having been asked, 'Why do you reject the credit of composing the work?-I answer, Common honesty bids me do it. I have desired, humbly and sincerely, to glorify a loving Father and benefit man."

I think the young writer must have been on the true spiritual or Christ plane, and at one with the Infinite, as Dr. Dewey so ably explains in that truly valuable work, "The Way, the Truth, and the Life" which I have lately read with profound interest. The Healing of the Nations abounds in truth.

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"" "THE PHYSICIAN.'

W. A. ENGLISH, M. D.

"Physician, thou art unworthy the name, if ignorant of the intimate connection of spirit with the mind, and through this, the body.

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Inspiration is not confined unto a few of God's children, but hath an avenue leading into every spirit on earth, and through the spirit it can af fect all the regulations of man. This governing power thou canst never reach without knowledge from above.

"If thou knowest no more than unaided intellect can teach of man, thou canst never appreciate the power of the spirit, of which thy intellectual power is but a result.

"A result can not understand its cause. This should be thy first great lesson in Physic.

"To understand the causes of disease, it is necessary to understand, first, the cause of the body, and its connection with spirit. No man, unaided by Inspiration, can see or understand this connection."

"First, and greatest, and most difficult, the spirit must be understood; not only in relation to the body in which it exists, but in its immediate connection with God, its creator.

“Thou must in humility seek God; for, remember, all the spirits of his children are connected with him, and for thee to thrust thyself between them rudely, is certainly presuming. Ask of Him help. If thou hast obtained this aid, disease must fly before thee, as chaff before the wind. "Disease is simply inharmonious action or passion. To remove this, thou must, of necessity, be in harmony with God and, through him, with the elements surrounding thee and the sick.

"Thou must be also in an harmonious state with the spirit of the sufferer. This can only be obtained by a sympathizing spirit. Thy spiritual vision must be opened by God, the great physician, and all things in connection with the diseased body will be plain. Body cannot see spirit, neither can mind; but spirit can see the mind, and also make the body clear and trans

* In answer to letters of inquiry I would state that doubtless THE ESOTERIC PUBLISHING COMPANY could procure this excellent work, unless out of print. If it is, they might do good by republishing it. W. A. E.

We read this work some twenty years since and were very favorably impressed with the same, and therefore regret that it is not now in print. (Ed.)

parent. It is very necessary that thou shouldst have an harmonious. spirit, for without it thou art thyself diseased in thy most vital part; and if, by accident, thou didst cure, the cure would be little, if any, better than the disease.

For perfect health, the spirit must be harmoniously connected with God, and in his sweet communion receive nourishing food, sending down through the mind the joys of perfect peace and revealing itself in form of vigorous manhood in the outer body.

"With those enjoying this peace, yet having, in the outer body, an inheritance which obstructs the spiritual power, all disease can be by the inspired physician removed by the simple touch.

"He, with his powerful harmony removes the disease or obstruction by simply stimulating the spiritual power of the sick.

"Where the flesh predominates, the mind sways to the animal passions. With such, disease must not only be more common, but harder to cure or remove. More common, because this very preponderance of flesh is a disease, in affinity with all diseases. It being intended by God, that spirit should rule in the body, any deviation from this intention must in reality be returning from him to earth, from life to death. Until the abundant weight of flesh be removed, or rendered perfectly passive, the spirit within the body cannot act, to cure.

"This fact hath builded a systematized druggery, which drugs not only the animal into passiveness, but upon the spiritually minded heaps loads, that indeed it requires a strong spirit to overcome.

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Through passiveness of the animal nature, all cures must be made. Where disease hath produced the desired passiveness, all medicines are an injury, for they are only a load for spirit to overcome.

"Earthly food cannot nourish spirit, neither can drugs composed of the earth help the spirit in operation, save, as hath been stated, in those cases where the animal organization greatly predominates; and here they in reality break down the living powers of the flesh by giving it an overload of death contained in the drugs, to be scattered over the system already diseased.

"Take away the physician's confidence in his drugs, and they are perfectly useless in curing, and worse than useless unto the patient.

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There is but one true system of healing; this is, that in which love obtains passiveness, and through which passiveness, spirit assists spirit to throw off the inharmonious action of the being, either spiritual or physical.

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Sickness of flesh is not the commencement of disease. It is but an effect of transgression, which, of whatever form or character, makes at last its centre, by entering the transgression of God's law, through which pure love floweth unto the spirit.

"Change of disease is no cure, yet many great fames and great names have been builded upon such change. Faith in God would remove disease from the lot of man. He would then see, in the bounteous love of his Father, all that spirit could enjoy, and would nourish his earthly body. with the simplest, healthiest food he could find.

"The enjoyments of animal disease would be left behind, and he would only live to enjoy perfect health.

Physician, do thy duty. The removing of disease can only be accomplished by understanding correctly the cause of all diseases, and this under

standing can only be given by thy Creator, in whose very life thou dost exist.

"Thou must show the preventive of disease as he showeth it unto thee, else his showing will certainly cease. He is just, and giveth unto none more than others equally deserving of trust. Thy vision must, by His aid, be so refined as to pierce instantly all flesh.

"Thou must borrow, as it were, his unlimited vision, and as he does view his children.

"With him, in his unlimited vision, nothing is mysterious, and unto thee, there is more or less mystery, as thou dost approach or recede from him.

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"The human form should always be open unto thee and transparent as

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Is this impossible? If thou thinkest so, so long as thou thinkest thus, it is; but thou art measuring with thy own measure, and not with God's, or as thou wouldst with his aid. Dost thou desire this aid? Seek within thy spirit and thou shalt find it, for thy spirit is intimately connected with thy Creator's spirit, else it could not exist.

The deeply-schooled physician is often most ignorant of this connection. How very little man knoweth of himself.

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Is not spirit the controlling power? It is connected with every part of thee. It is the intelligent principle, through and by which man discerns that which he understands.

"Then cannot spirit in affinity with, and having the confidence of the suffering man, see instantly, through this intelligent controlling principle, the disease and the cause of it?

"It is not the outward eye that sees. The eye that is invisible, and which, the true and ever living organ of sight, is connected with, and seated in every human being, and the outer eye is but the machine which it uses. "The spiritual eye sees most clearly when the outer vision is perfectly under its control, yet it can see without the use of the outer eye at all.

"The controller of all is God. From Him branch off rays of intelligence, penetrating all space, pervading the spirit of man, and giving unto every creature all it knoweth, or can know.

"At the fountain, all the effects are visible. To open thy spiritual vision, oh physician, go thou to this fountain which hath its connecting bond within thee, and humbly ask permission to drink thereat. What is plainer than that God, the creator of all, must know all perfectly, and if he knoweth, will he not give unto thee, if deserving?

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'Oh, measure not God's bounty in thy own selfish measure.

"Books upon bones, muscles, blood, and nerves, are piled high upon the physicians shelves, but where are they which illustrate clearly the spiritual controlling power and those parts of the machine it controls.

"The beginning is entirely deserted, consequently the desired end is not attained.

"Let the first question in medical books be, what is spirit? the second, what is its proper connection with its creator? the third, what is its connection with the animal life of man?

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"Let these, answered correctly, be the foundation of the system, and disease will be removed form the inheritance of man. Think not, oh timid physician, that thy occupation would cease!

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"It is surely more noble to give health than to remove disease, prevent instead of cure, and this is the physician's greatest privilege, to tell unto man that which shall make him avoid disease, which through ignorance he might suffer. Man under thy inspired instructions would walk the earth as a God. In form perfect; in mind and spirit, the image of his Father in heaven.

"Reproduction would be understood. Thou wouldst unto the mothers of God's children reveal laws that would make their loved babes pure and perfect as angels in heaven. "O, what a noble mission! to bring back the halt, the lame, the erring, the sick, the suffering, to their Father's house, well, happy and rejoicing. Man hath been so preoccupied with the physical machine, that he forgets the motive-power, and can not fathom the cause of its motion. God never intended thee to be incomprehensible to thyself. Surely the Creator of wisdom can not take pleasure in listening to the hum of a machine, when that machine is only a distortion of a loved child that should be a comprehender of the supreme wisdom in which he was created.

"Profess to regulate man, and know not why he hath motion! Heal flesh at the expense of spirit! Trample heedlessly under foot God's greatest production!

"Physician, if thou art so ignorant, learn, ere thou dost attempt to stand between God and his child.

"There is little known of the true science of healing. Drugs are looked upon as necessary. If this be the case, why were they not allotted a separate apartment in thy individuality? Why not desire them as food and drink? Why not be tortured to death unless in health thou hast them?

"True knowledge will sweep drugs into the earth, whence they came. They are necessary unto the harmony of creation, but their being created does not impose upon man the duty to eat or drink them instead of food. Man, if a physician visits thee, ask him to tell thee what the life is, that he would save. If he know not, tell him to depart, and put thyself in God's hands.

“Oh, physician, seek higher, search within. There are purer and holier truths, to reward thee. In God's pure light there are no mysteries: all is clear and transparent, for none enter his presence, who wish to pervert the light. Oh, seek this pure and holy gift, and before thy astonished vision will open the book of life and love, and behold thou dost see before thee the cause and controlling power of all life!

"Oh, seek thy Father's aid, and think not that because He is seldom, if ever, mentioned in the books of the dead thou hast studied, that He is afar off, and only to be reached by a choice few on earth!

"God is near thee, around, and in thee, and knoweth thy every thought and action; oh, listen to His loving voice! Thou canst not know the forgiving kindness and sustaining help of an all-wise Parent, until thou dost in humility seek him within thyself. Therein He is always manifest. Listen and learn of His own holy voice the mysteries of thy being, and fearlessly impart thy knowledge unto man.'

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LOSE not thy time in denouncing the darkness with vain discourses; make the light shine, but let it not be the light of a consuming torch.

MAN, INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL.

A LECTURE BY JOHN LATHAM.

[Delivered before The Society Esoteric August 12, 1888.]

THE human brain is the most complex and wonderful structure known to Science; it is the citadel of sensation and the seat of conscious life ; — the organ of thought, memory, invention, and, lastly, of revelation itself.

The peculiar structure and arrangement of the brain with its white and grey matter, and millions of cells and fibres, taxes even the resources of the specialist to expound, and is beyond the scope of the present lecture. While a familiarity with its structural anatomy and functions are highly advantageous and serviceable, we shall leave these technical considerations of the brain to the anatomical specialists. We will, however, call attention to the five recognized avenues by which the brain holds communication with the outer world: i.e. through the senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Here again is presented an almost inexhaustible field of labor for the specialist to demonstrate how wonderfully man is allied to, and bodily sustained from, the material universe. We shall however content ourselves with a few simple statements as being sufficient for our present purpose.

By the sense of touch we are warned of the extremes of heat and cold, we protect our feet from ice, we snatch our hand from the flame; we adjust our garments to the requirements of the season and regulate our relations to outward nature in a thousand ways.

The necessary duty of nourishing the body is made inviting and pleasurable by the sense of taste, which also furnishes many delicate hints at combination and suitableness, while it offers emphatic protest against much that is unfit, detecting adulteration and proving in many matters a connoisseur of great delicacy of discrimination.

In the sense of smell we have an alert sentinel to warn us of the presence of many noxious and deadly gases, it also imparts pleasure to the mind by bringing it into relation with the fragrant and life-giving emanations of nature.

Through sight we have an avenue of education and enjoyment, as wonderful and far-reaching as light itself, which is the symbol of intelligence and progress, the flashing or irradiation of the Divine Thought.

Hearing is a sense, or manner of manifestation, intimately allied to the heart and emotional nature; through waves of sound we are cheered or annoyed, exalted or depressed. The brain is an instrument of many strings, and through the vibrations of sound we are moved to laughter or tears, to heroism or fear, to nobility or baseness; it is probably the sense having the widest range of possibilities for the transmission of joy or pain, for it is not alone the word we hear but the tone and quality of mind are communicated as well, which are often of vastly more significance than the words themselves. Through the ear a more substantial vibration is produced upon the brain, and hence the system is more profoundly and variously affected, as in oratory and music, feeling as well as thought being communicated and thus wide possibilities of future culture through the medium of this sense are suggested.

We have outlined thus briefly the methods by which the wonderful structure of the brain with its indwelling life is allied to the material universe, as a suitable preliminary thought.

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