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 CONTENTS OF MARCH NUMBER.
G EN ERA L ARTICLES.
Practical Hints, or Eight into Two Won
Magnetism and Mind-Cure.................... t Go.
What is Lamb?..................................... ... 97
Is Health Catching?............................... ... 99
...1 0 0
The Mind-Cure Theory..........................
. .. 102
About the Premiums.............................
Mind-Cure Drops................................... ... 103
.. 105
TERMS O P SUBSCRIPTION, ADVERTISING, .. 105
EDITORIAL. ETC. .. 106
Explanation to Questioners....................
Mind and Spirit....................................... .. 106
Christian Science or Mammon?............... . 108
SCIEN TIFIC DEPARTM ENT.
. 109
Nature of the Existence of Matter...........
The Morning of Eclecticism .......................... . 110
To My Spiritualistic Friends..................... . Ill
Explanation of the Diagrams.................... . 113
How it Is..............................................
. 113
A Lecture Tour by the Editor.................... 114
Book Reviews................
114
115

Wc do not expect to voice anv <« f hum anity rt(j m . .

and Science of L ife
, Wo admit the truth and t h .Wnb ” but to renr J t8 ® 1M»on is special,
the loaders in the philosonl.v le .utlIitT of the sni.it ^ ativanced thought and reform.
, much pleasure l P yf- 1,U refmses to l T ^ m I P^nomena, but" we see a ripeness among
talent found in the fore We Present tn
. O u r s p a c e isZ ZZZTZV ^
u ^ h o n o r e d n a m e s , a n d the array of
w m ers to grace our staiT.’ atW nters "<*d to condens .
We advocate cure, only thro, i se somewhat. We expect other good lady
1lie Mind-Cure and S e iJ .J .gh tbo highest ■ .
become a light to all, even as ° I ^ fe to P resent'va'-*' forces and Truth, hence it is in order for
oo cramped, but to follow their r, y V104 is set U p o /lT m th °me* of admnce thought, that it may
that a publisher is not responsTb,P ° ViCtions in d e l b lU " We wish our contributors not to feel
iG f o r ‘he sentimenta l W ith ' “ “ t t e r s o f r e fo r m . It is u n d e r s to o d
P u t f o r t h b y w r i t e r s f o r h i s j o u r n a l .—E d it o r .

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For The Mind-Cure and Science or Life. where. A re they not notorious for fast
-^ P ractical Hints , <&- living, sanitary defiance, and reckless dis
regard of consequences? Some day per
OK EIGHT INTO TWO WON’T GO. haps, you find one careful of diet and habit,
but then he has dyspepsia. N ature is flog
C H A R I .E S D A W B A R N .
ging her pupil with the lash of consequen
THIRD ARTICLE. ces. T hat is always her way. Has socio
In our last we noticed th at reform ers logy a better plan? W hat of instruction
are hoping to change the selfishness of versus human nature now?
human nature by a system of instruction. Take a glance at the clergy, thundering
Yet a m om ent’s th o ught should show the instruction on moral health from 30,000
fallacy of any* such idea. Christian pulpits every seventh day. Do
Is there a class in the wide world so you not know th at their class offers its
thoroughly in structed in the physiologic full proportion to the quota of shame and
laws of health, as the corps of educated disgrace? And why should it not? Every
physicians of to-day? Y et do we find any black coat hides a man, and every man is
larger proportion of them refusing to eat embodied human nature.
th at which they crave, though it be un W hat, then, is the instruction to which
healthy food, than among other men? Are the enthusiast can appeal? Is there vir
they m ore m oderate in their enjoym ent at tue in tlie multiplication table, or salvation
the table than others? I knew a brave, in the grammer? The letters of the al
noble-hearted D octor of grand physique, phabet will spell “ devil” as readily as
who told me he was digging his grave “angel” ; “thief” as easily as “honestm an.”
with his teeth, and should tell any patient Ju st notice the different kinds of in
so who lived as he did. T h at Doctor re struction th at will be needed by different
pressed an in h erited appetite for liquor nationalities. Can you reach the excitable
because th a t m eant disgrace, but his love Irishm an who loves a fight, by the same
of good eating involved no loss of caste. instruction as the phlegm atic German
A t last, with system choked and clogged, whose idea of enjoyment is to take his
he died a cruel death by gangrene, agon fam ily to a beer garden and listen sleepily
izing into etern ity an inch at a time. to good music? N ature’s m ethod of in
Look at young Doctors, medical stu struction is by experience, and experience
dents, instructed every day by qualified develops into instinct. But instinct teaches
instructors, ju st as our fair enthusiast adaptation to circumstances ju s t as they
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W h en first th ey stretch ed teleg rap h ic was an ex cellen t m ech an ic of the drivin

w ires along th e country roads of E ngland, rough and tu m b le k in d . I f a barn, a ct
th e mime b ird s—so d ear to the h ea rt of riag e house, or a pig-sty w ere to be bui
Jo h n B ull—w ere o ften found dead; killed send fo r G eo rg e S m ith th e carpenter.
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generation ilew as safely as ever. I t was G eorge a n d h is b ro th e r six weeks, ai
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glorious v icto ry th a t secured safety. I t G eorge is no t t h a t k in d of a m echanic. 1
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lic ca p ita list an d th e feath ered w orker, te n days. S ince th e re w as only about
whose rig h ts had been in terfe red w ith . m uch w ork in t h a t ru ra l d is tric t, Geor
I t w as sim ply an acceptance of th e fa c t was th u s id le n e a rly o n e-tliird of his tin
th a t those w ires h ad come to stay. T h ey I t was sim ply b a d ju d g m e n t. B u t tl
w ere a fact, and therefo re i t was necessary is exactly th e p o in t. I t is b a d judgnu
to a d a p t one’s self to th a t fact. T hose th a t m akes th e w age-w orker, an d gc
w ho could n o t do so d ie d out. T h o se ju d g m e n t th a t m ak es th e ca p ita list.
who could, lived on practically ju s t as w ell So fa r all th a t I h av e w ritte n in th
off as before. artic le s is as p re fa c e , fo r I m u st now bei
W e are surrounded by facts, as w ires to b e very personal.
stre tc h in g across th e p ath w ay of man to H e re is a p ic tu re of a w age-w orker’s ho
day. T h e p o in t I m ake h ere is, we cannot in th e city of N e w Y o rk . T w o rooms
remove these wires. If we w an t to m ake an u n h e a lth y te n e m e n t house. R en t
a n d sell flannel jack ets and m oral pocket a m onth. F a m ily c o n s is ts of husba
h an d k e rch iefs to th e negro in A frica, we w ife, six c h ild re n a n d a cat. W a g e s
m u st m an ufacture as cheaply as an o th er $10 a w eek, a n d irre g u la r. Som eth
n atio n . T h a t is a w ire rig h t across our th a t; som etim es n o th in g . T h e man
road. If our ob ject be tra d e and com m erce couraged a n d d isc o n te n te d . The t
based upon hum an nature, as it is to-day, w o rk in g early and late, scru b b in g , cook
then we shall fa il u tte rly if we estim ate sew ing; no h o u r idle. H e r soul set u
hum an n a tu re a t its value in com ing cen p atch es to keep h e r c h ild re n inside
turies. lin e of decency, an d h e r h u sb a n d so '
W h a t are th e w ires w hich com m erce a nd h e m ay keep h is situ a tio n . E very
civ ilisatio n stretch across our p a th to-day, m e n t an a c h in g h e a rt. E v e ry d a y dis
w hich we m ust learn to av o id or to use, ten t. R ipe fo r strik e s a n d violence. '■
b u t w hich we cannot do aw ay w ith ? T h e m an an d w om an h a v e ru n a g a in st
v ery first is th e law of supply and dem and. w ire, w hich w e call th e law of supply
T h e w orld is now p ra ctically b u t one field dem and. F o o d fo r tw o to b e divi
of e a g e r co m p etitio n , an d u n d er this law am o n g st e ig h t. E i g h t i n t o t w o w o n ’'
th e w age of labor-seeking em ploym ent I now appeal to th e p h ilan th ro p is
rises and falls acco rd in g to dem and and look th is fa ct sq u are in th e face. L<
supply, n o t of one d is tric t or country, b u t drop dream s of u n iv e rsa l h ap p in e ss t
of th e civilized w orld, taken as a whole. achieved by tu rn in g m an in to an ai
I w a n t to b rin g th is law dow n to an in and look a t th e situ a tio n as it is, as iti
d iv id u al basis, and th en , perhaps, we m ay lie, so long as m an a n d th e w o rld rei
find som e of th e d a y lig h t we are seeking. th e tw in m achines th e y are to-day.
T h e re are h u n d re d s of occupations in th is [ t o h e c o n t i n u e d .]
good lan d of ours w here dem and for lab o r
[Y oung ladies and gentlem en, you w ill n
is local and im m ediate, b u t necessarily tre a t if you do n o t read b ro th e r D aw b arn ’s
lim ited . I knew a country ca rp en ter who article.—E d |
 TH E MIND-CURE ANI) SCIENCE ON LIFE.

For The Mind-Cure and Seizure of info. impress and mold the life in charge. In
- ^ M a g n e tism and M ind-Gure. the history of medicine there have been
many fanatics and hobbyists who have
J.YMAN C. IIOWK. , discovered th at all disease come from tor
pid liver, or impure blood, or some one
Mind, in its h ig h est interpretation, is functional derangement, and their panacea
the center and source of all phenomena. is to cure all by one process. The same
Spirit may he regarded as the atmos repeats itself in the higher phases in the
phere of mind. In developing its possi way of Prayer-Cure, Will-cure, Mind-cure,
bilities and expressing its qualities through Faith-cure, etc., and each b igot despises all
matter it m ust touch those elements near other methods. If prayer is to do it God
est to it in constitutional sym pathy and needs no clerk or apprentice to apply the
radiate by successive stages through all Divine unction by finite will. If faith is
intermediate degrees to the low est forms to cure, no will or medicine is needed, and
of matter. T he m ost subtile of these prayer is superfluous. If the M ind by im
elude our senses. W e know of them by agination is the Cure all, then W illpow er,
results. W e name one ether, another prayer and God need no Diploma. Mag
electricity, another m agnetism , and so on netism, chemistry, mediumship and the
through the entire class. B ut these names Spirit W orld may be ignored or annihila
neither make nor m odify the principles or ted, and the M ind can do its own inde
facts they are used to express. If we pendent work. B ut all that Mind can do
could reach an ultim ate analysis we m ight m ust be done within the laws of life, and
find nothing but m ind in its dual unity, out they must include both mental and physi
of which all phenom ena How; bu t we can cal with all the subtile blendings and deli
not; and therefore these term s and distinc cate connections by which each individual
tions are needful. It is dem onstrable th at is made a compound unity. To me it
a delicate aura, h av in g qualities to impress seems exceedingly doubtful if any cure is
and modify the lives of others, surrounds ever performed by any mental processes,
every human being. T his aura has a char w ithout involving the cooperation of those
acter dependent som ewhat upon the life delicate forces and chemical atmospheres
that evolves it. T hrough it M ind acts in which all the atoms and molecules that
upon physical bodies th a t are chemically build the organic structure float and play
attuned to its energies and m otions. “ Mag in rythm ical order, and find their appro
netic healers” have recognized and demon priate place in accordance with the law of
strated this personal atm osphere. B ut atomic m otions and spiritual affinities.
they have also at the same tim e demon W e little realize the influence exerted up
strated a m ental atm osphere pervading the on us by the boundless sea of life in which
physical, and actin g w ith it to change the we “live, move and have our being.”
conditions of those who came under its E very instant solar and sidereal energies
power. In all of th is Mind has ever been are breathing all around and within us.
a recognized center of power, using these If our minds may mold or m odify physical
subtile physical factors as agents in its conditions, and banish disease from the
work. But they have also done much in body, physical forces in turn modify and
the way of cure w ithout any known phys lim it the powers of the mind. Any theory
ical agency. T hese are doubtless duo, which ignores the reciprocity of actions
more or less, to the concentration of post and the influence of all the factors which
mortem minds using a m ore subtile, deli make up the individul, both seen and un
cate, intense and therefore more potent seen, and the universe th at environs and
aura through which as th eir medium to holds us, with all its subtle powers and
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com binations m ust be faulty and incom and parcel of the universal nature, or is it
plete. If “M ind-Cure” ignores Magnetism som ething from the outside? W hat I
and all kindred factors, it must be short have learned about this m atter is simply
lived and leave no valuable record, and this, the universe of nature embraces all
few to weep over its grave. there is, and w hat did not originate with
in its lim its is m ythical, and has no real
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existence. W h a te v er exists, either in the
-:->W bat is the L am b?^ m aterial or spiritual realm , does so in ac
cordance with natural law. I am not aware
W . F . I,Y O N . th at B ro th er K iddle, or anyone else, has
authority to determ ine one p art of the sum
P rof. H enry Kiddle says, “T he ‘Lamb’ total of ex istin g things to be any more
is truly the C hrist nature—the divine soul divine than any o th er part, or to say there
within us—which is ‘one with God’ in its is one particle of substance which is not
essence, and which by its intim ations, ever capable of developm ent to higher condi
strives to keep us from yielding to the tions. In tellig en t spirits inform me that
outer earthly selfhood, and to induce us man is a m icrocosm of all there is in na
to surrender our will—the will of our earth ture—an epitom e of every element, that
ly personality to the divine w ill;” and he he is organized body and soul from the ma
says a good deal more of the same sort, terials found in nature, and it required a
which viewed from my stand point seems modicum of all th a t nature affords to pro
like the most arrant nonsense. As I view duce such a m arvelous piece of machinery.
nature, “T h e Lamb” is th e infant of a T hey u tterly deny th a t any man ever came
genus of rum inant quadrupeds of the upon our earth who was organized and
fam ily Capridw, and naturalists say, so constituted any differently, who had any
nearly allied to the goat, th at the propriety more elem ents in his person than proper
of generic distinction is very doubtful. ly belongs to the human race. If it re
W hen the male Lamb comes to be a year quires a little som ething of all there is to
or two of ago it is a breach of decorum in organize and develop an ordinary specimen
polite society to speak of him. It is re of the genus homo, where shall we find
m arked in th e encyclopedia, th at a com some elem ents more divine to produce a
b at between two of these innocent lambs special individual with the “C hrist nature”
who have arriv ed at m aturity is a terrify or some wonderful essence or effluvium
ing sight—“T h e two warriors go back th at he can im part to others?
ward, each some fifteen or tw enty yards, I t is this expectancy of receiving some
and then m eet each o th er with great vio grace or divine assistance from a superior
lence, th eir heads cracking loudly and being whom we, in our ignorance, have
th eir beam ends rising in response to the endowed w ith exalted qualities and powers-
collision of th e heads.” Now, this is na not in our possession, th a t has held th e
ture, b u t B rother K iddle is talking about human race in leading strings, and pre
som ething that has no existence in nature, vented the natural unfoldm ent of those
as I can learn. T hings th at are only powers each individual has within him
found somewhere in the broad realm s of self. T his prevalent idea has been a m ill
a vivid im agination. W h at is this “ Christ stone hung about the necks of suffering
nature” th at he talks about so flippantly? hum anity, and as long as the popular
Is i t some peculiar element th a t was intro clergy can persuade the people th at th e ir
duced into the natural universe at the be help m ust come from some outside source,
ginning of the Christian era which was not they hold them under their control, and
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m ankind is in a condition of mental bond
age.
T he church will no doubt continue to
teach th at m an in his own person is en
tirely helpless and dependent upon some
superior beings for all his grow th and
advancem ent, b u t it is high time th at per
sons who have been redeemed from the
thraldom of church dogm as should learn
th a t man is individually in possession of
all possibilities, and that,w hen h eis prop
erly cultivated, is abundantly qualified by
nature to w ork out his own salvation.
One th in g is sure, th at individual salva
tion never will be attain ed u n til each one
passes through th e experiences necessary
for his own personal unfoldm ent.
T he universe of nature contains all the
good spiritual things of every description
which the most highly developed soul is
capable of receiving or appreciating, and
all those things are ready in rich abund
ance for every individual soul who is pre
pared by suitable experience to receive
them , w ithout any medium or m ediator.
It is quite probable th a t the person
called Jesus C hrist was a harm oniously or
ganized man, but it remains to be proven
th at he had incorporated in his selfhood
any possibilities not properly inherent in
each individual m an or woman who has
inhabited our planet. All th a t was need
ful for the people who lived in his time,
or for those who live in the present age,
is proper unfoldm ent to a higher moral
condition, and th a t m ust depend entirely
upon individual effort.
T here are m illions of good, pure minded,
upright men and women upon our planet
to-day who are filling their stations in life
properly, who are acting in obedience to
the highest dictates of m orality and who
are daily preparing for all the enjoyments
they are capable of appreciating in Spirit
Life, and still they place not the least de
pendence upon C hrist whatever. It can
hardly be possible th at any one supposes
th a t the universe of nature was changed
the least particle in any respect when
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Christ made his appearance in the world.
T h at he brought anything upon our planet
or took anything away—th at he changed
in any respect a single natural law then
existing or th at he enacted new ones, or
made one hair white or black any more
than the hum blest citizen who has lived.
I t will be a brighter day for the human
race when every child is taught that they
have the best elements which nature has
provided wrapped up in th eir own organ
isms, and all th at is necessary in order to
rise ultim ately to the highest pinnacle of
celestial glory is to properly cultivate and
improve those powers which are within
themselves.
If I receive anything of value from
Jesus Christ or any other person, and ap
propriate it to my use, I become indebted
to them, and justice requires th at all such
demands should be cancelled; but in view
of the fact th at nature has provided each
individual the means, and made it obliga
tory upon them to work out their own
development, such obligations are entirely
unnecessary.
I challenge the proof that the man Jesus
had wrapped up in his person any element,
essence or m ental power, or any endow
ment whatsoever, other than those which
every member of the human r ace possesses
in a certain degree of development; or
th at he now occupies an exalted position
in the celestial spheres th at may not be
attained by any other individual. And fur
ther 1 say it cannot be proven th at any per
son has ever e xperienced an emotion or any
sensation whatsoever except it was in per
fect accordance with natural law—such ex
periences were made possible and p rovided
for in the realms of nature entirely inde
pendent of Christ or any other person who
has lived or died. If they were not in
nature they could not be produced again.
W e are informed th at all intelligent per
sonal beings inhabiting the sp irit spheres
were at some time residents upon this or
some other planet in a m aterialized form,
th at everyone, w ithout exception, has been
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dependent upon the principle of evolution least, has been the case in nearly all of
or progressive unfoldm ent for th eir ad the discoveries of n atu ral laws.
vancem ent and spiritual growth, and they T he rainbow and the eclipse, the day
claim there is no condition of exaltation and n ig h t and th e seasons were long
above them, to which they may not legiti observed and m ostly attributed by man in
m ately aspire. All started alike from the his ignorance of law to the direct agency
same level. All have w ithin th eir own of the gods which he made, or imagined,
organism an inherent som ething of all to control them . Such, for a long time,
there is in nature, and bypassing through was also the case w ith pestilence and con
th e whole routine of individual experience tagious diseases; b u t man having long
may arrive at the highest round of the made these a study discovered the causes-
ladder of eternal progress known to in and laws to a certain extent-—sufficient,at
telligent beings.
least in all enlightened society, to no
T he m achinery of the universe by which longer rely on prayers to the unknown Gods
th is is accomplished has been intact from to remove them , and long since began a
all p ast eternities, and will so rem ain dur system of n atu ral protection, but often-
ing those to come.
ad opting inefficient and injurious pre
W e are satisfied from all the evidence ventives, as in the case of vaccination, at
in the case th at “The Lamb of God which least as I think from long observation and
taketli away the' sins of the world” is a critical exam ination. I tru st we have at
m ythical allusion which has no meaning last found a fa r b e tte r and safer preven
in fact.
tive in the M ind-Cure and the mind pre
F o r T h e M ind-C ure m id Science o f Life. ventive. I t has long been observed and
well known th a t a sensitive person feel
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into a com pany filled w ith m irth and
W A R IiK N CHAS10.
pleasure and joy and h ilarity soon par
took of the general feeling, and was lifted
Col. R. G. Ingersoll has somewhere out of the sadness. I t has also long been
said if he had been God m aking a world known th at alm ost every person on going
and m ankind he would have made health into a company of sad, sorrow ing and
catching instead of disease. It has long weeping persons were, if no local or per
been known th at disease in many instances sonal interest exists betw een the visitor
was catching, as it is popularly called, and the party, he or she will partake of
thus adm itting th at some invisible particles the prevailing feelings. How often we
of m atter sufficient to affect a human sys have noticed th at a single person coming
tem did pass from one body to another into a company th a t is silent and thought
even w ithout physical contact,but it seems ful can fill the whole room w ith m irth
to have been left to a much later day for and life and jollity. I have long known
man to discover th a t health was as much from experience, as well as believed from
catching as disease, and t he Colonel seems testim ony of physicians, th a t a personal
to have overlooked this later discovery visit to a patient, even w ithout a prescrip
which is now being largely made useful tion, furnished a tonic, and lifts the
in the various modes adopted by modern patient up far more than medicine usually
healers largely outside of the medical does. M ind certainly does tran sfer some
faculty. Phenom ena are largely w it vitalizing elem ent from one body to an
nessed in all departm ents of life before other. The crowds th at go to the pugilistic
we discover the laws on which they are combats are greatly demoralized by par
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th is is the greatest evil which we see
cropping out in pugilistic exercises on the
streets among the boys who take it second
hand from reading and hearing. Now,'.is
it not tim e to utilize this discovery of a
law in nature which proves th at health as
well as disease is catching? Is it not
time th a t our asylums for the sick and in
sane were based on these laws, and that
the old rem edies of force either by medi
cine or physical pow er were modi tied ac
cordingly?
W e are as y et in the early stages of this
im portant discovery in which Mind is a
potent factor in rem oving disease and im
parting healthy circulating currents, and
no doubt m any im portant principles will
yet be discovered and made applicable in
rem oving and preventing the diseases
which under our old system afflicted nearly
all persons in some corroding form. So
far as my observations go it seems th at
two persons m entally harmonious, whose
physical systems are positive and negative
to each other, if one is in health and the
other not so, can eith er exchange vital
m agnetism or the one im part to the other,
and my observations do not lead me to
conclude th a t the well one need be the
positive to im part a healthy magnetism,
nor th at in all cases the negative, if a
healer, will take the disease, or be affected
by it, at least for any length of time.
How we are to discover who are positive
and negative to each other (except; by im
pression, on which I rely), I cannot tell.
I have for m any years been able to affect
favorably from my healthy system per
sons both positive and negative to me
w ithout being affected injuriously, which
I attribute largely to the mind.
A certain clergyman was sent for suddenly to
go to a cottage, where he found a man in bed.
“ Well; my friend,” said the pastor, “ w hat in
duced you to send for m e ? ” The patient, who
was rather deaf, appealed to his wife. “ W hat
does he s a y ? ” “ He says,” shouted the wo
man, “ what tlie deuce did you send for him
for ? ”
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To T h e E d ito r of the M ind-Cure and Science of Life.
->>-Tbe Mind-Sure Theory.-^
FLETCHER WILSON.
Mit. E d i t o r : I have received every
number of your M i n d - C u r d a n d S c i e n c e
o r L i f e , and perused them with a deep
personal interest. The prom inent idea
advanced in them, that m ateriality, sin,
disease and suffering are as naught, com
pared w ith mind, goodness, health and
happiness, and th at spirit is the Alpha and
Omega of existence are most gratifying
thoughts to me. T hat the religion of
Christ relates to-day to the healing of the
body, as well as to the salvation of the
soul, and th at a preacher of the Gospel is
a teacher of the Science of Life, and a
healer of all m anner of disease, precisely
as was Christ and his Apostles, is a ra
tional conclusion; but in carrying out your
theory, it seems to me you have wandered
into mazes of darkness. I do not intro
duce my pen for discussion, for I dare not
presume myself com petent for such a
work, but to present certain objections for
publication in your Journal, so that, by
one single effort, your explanation will
reach the wants of all your student readers
like myself.
The whole fault of your theory is em
braced in the one idea of individual
nonentity. To state it in your own lan
guage: “All this is enacted or fulfilled in
each individual at the moment of dissolu
tion * * * * * when the beliebthat
he is, is destroyed, and when lie finds that
he is naught, because resolved back into
the one and only Life, as the ocean may
receive back the w aters taken from it,”—
(Mind-Cure No. 4.) Again: “ I claim no
distinct spirit entity now nor hereafter”—
(in No. 5.) I still trust that, somehow,
your explanation may remove the literal
m eaning of the above language. B ut if
not, then I have to say, first: It denies
the fact of unlimited individual attain
m ent, based, though it is, on the other
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equally unquestioned fact of unlim ited festations, but confess them God’s way of
endowment. W ho will dare say th at man, repeated assurances of im m ortality.” Do
‘■at the m om ent of his dissolution,” has you assum e th a t “ G od’s way” is to trifle
expended the last spark of his spiritual or w ith his children? W h a t is it to the
mental endowment? Or can you conceive creature to be assured of immortality, if,
of a thought w ithout a thinker? and to be as you say, “ T o be hereafter, to live, to
healed by the power of thought, is it to know, to act, are all to be found in the
deny the existence of th at which thinks? then fact, as w ell as now, th a t we are not,
.Still fu rth er: W h a t if, when the leper is because GOD IS .” I t is no wonder, then,
cleansed, he “is resolved back into the one th a t God uses deception in try in g to “as
and only Life, as the ocean may receive sure” his creatures of im m ortality, for, by
back the waters taken from it.” W here the true u n d erstanding you present, they
was the good of his healing? Surely the know it to be a falsehood to them. You
Ocean is not enlarged nor purified; God re fer to 1 Cor., 12th chapter, in support of
is not added to nor dim inished, neither is your position. W ell, I will not say with
the creature benefited,for lie does not exist. you “ it m atters not to m e” if it does; hut
Secondly. The twin brother of hope in I am quite certain it does not teach the
im m ortality is the inherent desire to rec “ One S p irit” in the sense th at there is no
ognize our friends, both here and here creature in heaven or earth but it. Besides
after, b u t your theory is: T here is no it speaks of th e discerning of spirits
Jesus, no Moses, no Paul, no Napoleon, no (verse 10th), and when we compare this
leather, no Mother, no W ife, Son nor chapter w ith the declaration elsewhere,
Daughter, for “ the whole,” as you say, “is th at it is “in H im (God) we live, move and
b u t one Sea of S pirit,” whose “laws of have our being," it becomes evident that
localization produce the m aterial bodies the Scripture teaching is not, that “every
for a brief time (the italics are mine),” as creature which is in heaven, and on the
also by its own inherent laws it produces earth, and such as are in the sea, and all
the phenom ena of a more spiritualized th at are in them ” are to be swallowed up
form for a brief period, and as the one dis of God, as the ocean may receive the
solves back into its constituent elements, waters taken from it, but rather, it re
so does the other.”* And yet the analogy quires all the creatures in existence to
you use in support of this theory is the constitute the P e rfe c t W hole. You truly
physical body, which you claim is naught said, th at “it is as easy for the one Life
outside of spirit. Is it possible th at the or God to have its billion tongues,”—and
“ true understanding” you hold up to view you m ight have said, living, thinking,
consists in not expecting ever to find “a spiritual and im m ortal creatures—“as for
continued spirit body” whom we can call a tree to have its thousand branches, or
our friend, b u t only to “ meet th at which for the human body to be one, yet to have
passes for our friends who lived,” and in many m em bers.” And why not, a fte r all,
this way only “ receive com forting assur establish your M ind-Cure system upon
ances?” and can you “confess them God’s this basis? T he poor, sin-sick soul would
way of repeated assurances of immor have all the higher regard for the All
tality ?”
Spirit to bo assured of an unending and
Again you say, “ I do not deny one of perfect existence, where friend can meet
the various phases of phenom enal mani- friend, and forever partake together of
the bounties of love, than to be im pressed
*The follow ing w ere my e x a c t w ords in Fcl>. e d ito ria l:
“ T h e re is no d e sn s, no M oses, no Paul, no Napoleon, if
with the idea of his individual annihila
the fo u r bodies th a t you now th in k of w ere they, as those tion at death, and th at there can be no
bodies a re n o t, none o f th em U nor ever w ill be.”—F a I . afterw ard to his present sufferings, a n d

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no good to he realized as the outcome of
liis afflictions. Cheer us diseased, help
less and despondent ones up, if it is in
your power, witli the revelation of a bet
ter understanding.
A bout the P rem iurns.<<-
Q uite a fair num ber of friends have in
formed ns th at they are working for some
of the premiums. T his pleases us. Some
are a little confused over the form er offer
to agents to retain 25 cents and to sent us
75 for a yearly subscriber. Please note
th at we cannot give agents any cash com
m ission in cases where we give a pre
mium. W e prefer th at our canvassers
will work for the premium s, and they can
rest assured th at they will get them. Con
sidering the high cost of our magazine it
is very low when we accept 75 cents for a
year. However, in any case where friends
of th e cause do not wish a premium I am
w illing to have them work as they have
been, and retain the 25 cents.
Please rem em ber th at every subscriber
who sends $1 to me, and also sends a 2
cent stam p will get the Gold T ooth Pick
named in the premium s free; or by their
paying the same to my agents they will
get it as soon as the -M and a 2 cent stamp
is received, if wo are inform ed th a t the
stam p is for this purpose. T h is will assist
agents to g et subscribers. I will n ot allow
this extra g ift to interfere with premiums
to agents, except th a t agents who work
for a cash commission only cannot promise
this Pick.
A New York physician says he lias a patient
who has a horror of words containing the letters
“ cli.” This horror, it is presumed, is at itsliiglit
when the patient thinks of the physician's
“ eh”arges.
Mrs. Ada S. W ilmeroth. of Chicago, accom
panied by Mr. A. 15. Dobson, of Maquoketa,
Iowa, and Mr. D. M. Bowman, of Cleveland.
Ohio, made us a friendly call and left their kind
wishes.
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Tlierc is no death where love lives.—Freeman
11. D owd.
“Man cannot make principles; he can only
discover them.”
Health of mind consists in the perception of
the law.—Emerson.
The glory is not in never falling, hut in rising
every time we fall.—Confucius.
The world of appearance subsists in, and by. a
world of Divine Thoughts.—Plato.
Socrates said: “ Never do I lire of Id lin g Un
wise men that the body is not the man.”
“As the grace of man is in the mind, so Ihe
beauty of the mind is eloquence.’’—Cicero.
Souls are not saved in bundles. The Spirit
asks of every man, how is it with t /tee.'—E m e r s o n .
If you value good health and prize Truth, read
T h u Min u -Cu h k a n d S c iio n c k o k L if k one year.
“ T he e ar may catch the sw eet slight sounds arom a;.
lint Mind will teach w here harm onies a b o u n d .'1
“ Benjamin Franklin was married at the age of
twenty-one. He discovered lightning shortly
afterward.’’
In England and Italy there are several phy
sicians who hold Ihe view Unit cholera, is merely
an aggravated form of ague.
Every mind is hut the image or reflection of
the Eternal Mind. Every individual reason, the
exampler of the Divine Reason.—Sehelling.
The peculiarity of our scientific or physical
habit of thought is, that it ignores the metaphy
sical method altogether. —Chicago Inter Ocean..
The externa] world is a reality, hut a re ality
which rests solely upon prior evidence we have
of the existence and perfection of God.—Dcs
Cartes.
Men must grow up to new beliefs before they
can profit by them. They must outgrow old
beliefs before they can safely dispense with
them. —■(.). Erothiugham.
“To discover means by which that perfect
balance of mind and body which constitutes
positive health could he secured, would be to
discover more than the fabled fountain for which
Ponce de Leon went in search.”
All nature is b u t art unknow n to thee,'
All chance, direction which thou canal not see,
All discord, harm ony n o t understood,
All partial evil, universal good
And spite o f pride, in e rrin g reason's spite,
O ne tru th is clear, w hatever is, is right.
— Pope.
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THE M1ND4URE AND LIE N EE OF LIFE, coveries, lienee I ju stify myself, and at
least m ust be honest.
.125 W EST MADISON S T R E E T , - CHICAGO. I will touch a few points that have
Pr of . A. J . S w a u t s , E d ito r and Publisher. given unrest, and I m ay he better under
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stood :
O ne Y ear, - - - • - * - $1.00 1st. M utter—I have said th at matter
S ix Month*, - - - - - .50
Single Copies, - - - - .10 does not exist, and th a t it is no part of
If th e dem and leads to a weekly issue, it will co st a fte r being, bu t th a t M ind is the all of exis
said change, y early, $2.50. All who pay p re sen t ra te s before,
w e may issue it w eekly, will be e n titled to g et it each, week tence. I think g reat m ental conflicts will
to the close of th eir subscription witlio.ut ex tra charge.
A dv ertisin g ra te s, 10 c en ts p er line, o f 9 w ords each. F o r he fought o v erth is question. I must drop
stan d in g “ ads.” and special rates, a ddress the Editor. th is soon, and can only say th at Mind is
Pubs, w ishing to exchange, p a p er or “ ad s.” inform us.
supreme, the potential, and th at it, or
Pahli$he.r$ who Im e H ihe ftr sl eleven lines o f th e above
J‘rospe<:/us in their jo u rn a ls, as a reading item , w ill be en- S pirit— I use these term s as synonymous—
lU led !o a copy o f Tine M i n d -C u r e a n d S c i e n c e o f L i f e
one [/ear f o r /itemselves o r f o r a n y f r ie n d , p r o v id e d a is being or Life. M atter is inert, and lias
•/narked, ropy is fo r w a r d e d id Has office.
neither life nor intelligence as an inherent
P u b lish ed o n th e Second Saturday in each M onth.
E n tered a t th e post-office in C hicago, 111.,as 2d class m atter.
property; yet S pirit, being omnipresent,
is in m atter, but not o f it. Spirit is
absolute existence. M atter merely proves
-^•Explanation to Quostioners.-^- th a t S p irit is, as it is the expression of
S pirit. “ F or the invisible tilings of God
Many Spiritualists and other thinkers are seen, being understood by the things
have w ritten us at various times, hut fre th at are m ade.” Horn. T. 20.
quently since our February issue, relative 2d. Disease—I hold th a t we have seven
to our attitude in several particulars. senses, and th at all of these are mental;
N early all of these friends have endorsed th at the exercise of each sense is Mind
our new views, some, however, have ex action only. T hey inhere in Mind, and
pressed misgivings, while o thers have sa id : are properties of it. T hey do not inhere
“ You have thrown a dam per upon me,” in m atter, else a dead body is capable of
“ you have set me to thinking anew, and I exercising each action. Mind, then, ex
wish to hear fu rth er upon these thoughts.” presses disease by the abnorm ities it pro
F riends, T adm ire you as philosophers duces in or upon the body. The body as
and thinkers, and have many views th at I m atter cannot feel any disease. A ll feel
would like to put forth, and may in time, ing and action is m ental. W hen the con
h u t the mental telegram s from many of ditions of b reath in g are suspended by a
our subscribers say: “ I would he cautious, tumor, a cancer, or any other disease which
and not ‘go hack’ upon your friends, nor Mind in any form of operation fixed upon
strike out so boldly that you will lose the body, it is M ind using the body to
yourself in the fog.” express the disease. I t is a lack of sagac
I regard those who are well inducted ity to deny the existence of disease, and
into the Spiritual Philosophy as the finest then to turn around and present a theory
thinkers in th e world, and over two-thirds for the cure of disease.
o f my readers are of this class. 1 have 3d. God—I do not believe in the
good reason to believe that each issue of anthropom orphic or theological idea of
my Journal is read by over 25,000 thinkers. God. I confess no being in the form of
I would not appear to disregard the views man who is above man. W h a t I mean by
so long held by these friends, and it is the term God can he expressed by over a
very probable th at beautiful harmony dozen other terms, yet each m eaning the
m ight prevail if we could converse to same, and one is as sacred to me as the
gether. T his is a day of many new dis other. A few of these term s are: Good,

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Life, N ature, Love, Spirit, Mind, Force,
Law, W isdom , etc. W e say granite, stone,
ro ck —three words—yet we mean but one
thing; soil, earth, dust, ground, clod,
loam, etc.—six words—y et they mean but
one thing. I cannot adm it th at any one
being in human form is God. If I adm it
it in one case, I shall claim it in as many
instances as there are human beings, and
thus make the words of the serpent—man
—true: “ Ye shall be as gods.” If God, as
theology teaches, means an individual
form, or body, then he is nowhere except
where th e said body is. T he entire Spirit
substance in its m ultiplied modifications
is the only God that I confess.
4th. Individuality—T h is is the block
of stum bling to many friends. In my
■classes many good Spiritualists, and others,
have been led to see this in the light in
which I hold it, but I do not hope to clear
th is m atter up in the short space here
■allowed. I can only try to im part “more
lig h t.” W e will be individuals to all
etern ity as truly as that we are individuals
now. T he best understanding does not
apply me or I to the body.
I believe th a t everything th a t is is in a
■one universal sea of S pirit or Life, and
th a t it always will be, in some sense; but
we know th at th o fo r m of everything th at
the eye can behold will, and does change.
I can adm it of naught th at is unchange
able, unless it is a sp irit atom. T he same
o r sim ilar form of anything can he, and is
reproduced, hence resurrection simply
m eans rebirth. You cannot m aintain th at
iSpirit is shaped in the form of the human
body, for to argue thus, is to argue th at
the body is Spirit; neither can you in fact
nor in th o u g h t arrange S pirit atoms in
any form th at the eye ever beheld, else
you claim th a t you can see Spirit. Now,
I say th a t Spirit, which is Life, produces
all the vegetable, anim al and mineral
forms, and if you m ust say th at it forms
them out of m atter, neither I nor anyone
else can disprove it. Now carry this
th o u g h t to the future. A fter the body is
T h is m a t e r i a l w a s co pie-d
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Id ?
dissolved there is no less of life; simply
an original form is minus. I have ad
m itted a belief in emeryphase o f phenomenal
action; I heartily believe in them and
none but cowards and slaves of supersti
tion will refuse to investigate these sub
lime truths, nor can they be explained
away.
As nature forms the physical body, so
the same natural laws produce m aterial
ized forms out of substance; but I claim
th at there is no evidence th at th a form
which thus appears to physical view con
tinues either in form or in sight. I also
claim th at it is not Spirit which the phy
sical eye beholds,-else you claim th at you
can see Spirit. You may conjecture th at
S pirit atoms, which no eye can see, are
continuously in the human form in eternity
—which simply means time, here and
now—but such you cannot maintain. I
adm it th at the one Life is in everything,
but we cannot maintain that our child as
a departed spirit is continuously in the
human form, for you know th at you be
lieve this moment that the organic body
was your child. If the body was Cicero,
Jesus or Paul, then you deny immortality,
while 1 do not; for we know th at their
bodies are naught. N either the physical
body nor their name was Life nor Love,
yet both expressed Life and Love, and
both live in Mind or memory, and this is
the only way th at they do live, so far as
the original fo rm is concerned. I do not
deny th at Spirit or Life exists right along,
but I deny th at it remains in th a fo rm of
the body. The word immortality is too
indefinite. I t fosters the old belief that
intelligence or Life is m atter which the
eye can behold. It is not im m ortality
thatceases; the only difficulty is the wrong
conception of the term. To you the im
m ortal must be seen, but I say th a t the
very opposite is the truth, for all th at we
see decays, while it is th at which we can
not see—the unseen—th at is real and im
m ortal, or Life. W ho can see Life, elec
tricity or magnetismV W e cannot sec
lot) THE MIND-CURE AND SCIENCE OF L IFE .
thought, and yet it, as a part of M ind is
the tangible substance. All thoughts
or Mind-waves have forms as science now
dem onstrates; yet thoughts—and by this
I. mean angels or spirits—are the real,
and are sent by the human brain, which is
the chief seat of intelligence, of good or
evil in the universe, and these thoughts
or spirits are the forces th at effect us, and
th at disease,cure,or kill the body. Study
the Mind-waves to learn Spirit movements.
f feel th at I m ust not carry the argu
m ent further, as but few of our readers
are fully ready yet for these thoughts. Of
course, many of the dear church friends
are, far from a readiness to consider views
so thoroughly spiritual. 1 know of many
thinkers who, with myself, oppose ma
terialism , and yet stand clearly in light
upon these m atters, and the knowledge is
m ost comforting.
From N ature or the one Mind all actions
em anate. The sun is one, yet billions of
rays go out to every part of our solar sys
tem. A carriage wheel is one, yet it is
composed of various parts. Any whole
is made of parts. A tree has many
branches, leaves, etc., yet, though many,
it is but one. One grove may consist of
many trees. The body is one, yet it takes
many parts to constitute it. It takes
many atoms to constitute the ocean, yet
the ocean is one. A building is one, yet
it has many parts. T he U nited States is
one, and yet many. “ E p lu r ib m unurn”
declares the theory. I adm it th at John
Jones is not Jam es Brown, and th at one
branch upon the tree is not any other
branch, yet both exist in the tree, and are
o f it. T he one sea of Spirit is the total
of Life in the universe, and the same Life
is in every thing. T h at which you call
us, or our life, is neither distinct nor dis
severed from Life. “ No man liveth unto
him self.” In this L ife—Paul has it in
God—“ we live, and move, and have our
being.” W e have to adm it individuality
to be understood, yet my attitude is like
the above. A large sponge consists of
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protuberations w ithout and w ithin,and o f
its various connecting fibres. Now to il
lu strate this tru th , let th e sponge be filled
with w ater; w hile we. m ay call it but one
w ater, yet you see it goes in every direc
tion, and tills every projecture. Study
this. Let the w ater rep resent the one
Life or S p irit, while the protuberations
represent the hum an or organic bodies.
These are individual, yet they are in or o f
the sponge. T h ey are sponge, and they
and the w ater in them is a part of the
whole, y et the one is no t the other, nor
are they dissevered.
If my w ritin g is too materialistic or not
ju st rig h t, it m ay be th at what you call
“ I ” or “ me” is not responsible, for several
very line clairvoyants and elairaudiants
have claim ed for a long tim e th at they
see Theodore P a rk e r in my aura and that
he directs my w riting.
MINI) A N D SPIRIT.
T he L atin fo r S p irit is “spiritus,” from
“spirari," to “ breathe, to blow.” W eb-
ster’s first definition is, “ A ir set in m otion
by breathing; breath.” lie defines it fu r
ther, “T he intelligent, im m aterial, and
im m ortal p art of man. Intellectual or
moral state.
T he L atin for M ind is “mens, mentis.'"
Its root in many languages is “m em ory.”
W ebster’s definition of it is: T he intel-
lectualor rational faculty in m an; the un
derstanding; the power th a t conceives,
judges or reasons; also the entire spiritual
nature; the soul; m em ory; rem em brance.
Locke says: “ S p irit is a substance in
which thinking, know ing, doubting, and
a power of m oving'do subsist.”
Now, candid reader, if the above are
good authorities, why labor so to show
that S pirit is of greater im portance than
M ind? It means chiefly “ to breathe,”
while Mind means memory, intelligence,
understanding, the pow er to conceive,
judge; reason. If M ind m eans the entire
spiritual nature, then the entire spiritual
nature means Mind.
 T IIE MIND-CURE AND SCIENCE OF LIFE.
An oyster or a young infant can breathe,
b u t th eir m em ory does not am ount to
much, and they have bu t little understand
ing, or pow er to judge or reason.
R ecently from a Spiritualistic rostrum
in Chicago it was said: “ T here is no such
th in g as m ental cure; it is a m isnomer to
call the healing of the Spirit, Mind-Cure.”
W hile for peace I could adm it th at Spirit
means as much as Mind, yet as a m atter
of fact I th in k th a t it does not.
As theology holds to its ideal God, so
do the tenaceous for Spirit, or Spirits hold
to this term , but the form er has been sup
planted by other and b etter term s, hence
if thinkers intend to keep up with the age
they will do well to heed the inevitable,
for M ind now asserts its supremacy, and
is com ing to th e front, and Mind may
keep it there.
M ind is understanding, and memory, and
em braces all th a t S pirit means. W h at
would you know w ithout memory? If
alone in a room w ithout a window you
would not know th at there is a single per
son in existence except yourself, and fur
ther you would not know of the existence
of anything in the universe from a grain of
sand to a stellar orb. W ill some one tell
us why S pirit is of more im portance than
M ind? Suppose left to your choice to
surrender your sp irit or your m ind which
would you retain ? F riends, if we cannot
learn it before, I think th at we will find
a t the m om ent of the event we call death
th at our sp irit—as some say—will not be
at all, sim ply because breathing has ceased,
but I hold enough to individuality af
ter th at and forever to say th at you, as
m ind, memory or thoughts will not cease
and although in the one whole M ind, yet
each thought or memory now yourow n will
interm ingle, yet rem ain distinct from every
other thought to all eternity. Mind will
never cease, but in its workings it will
comm unicate w ith m ind. I make but lit
tle use of the term soul, because so allied
to the body. W hen the body is no more,the
soul is naught, but your m ind is immortal.
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Christian Science or Mammon?
To the Metaphysicians in general we bear the
most friendly feelings. We have endorsed their
curing method from the first. We believe that
they are doing good work, but we would like to
see greater charity among them toward other
true reformers and t oward good upright Spiritual
ists who have stood in the smoke of battle and
made the people ready for the various forms of
cure now used by magnetic healers and by the
metaphysicians as well. One reason that me
diums and magnetic healers do not allow them
selves to turn fully to the mental cure is because
they know that they are in methods that have
been honored of heaven and earth and still are.
They have cured all forms of disease. They feel
that they have as much right to the mental cure
as any others have, and that it came to them
and is their own right as far as they feel dis
posed to practice it. Many of them do practice
it and others will as soon as they believe that
reform asks them to.
We regret very much to see the spirit of mam
mon and avarice figure so prominent a part with
,iv)ne of the so-called Christian Scientists. Our
objection is not general but limited to a very
few. I know that $100 is a stiff sum to charge
those who desire to learn this science, but when
“$30(1” are charged it is the most shameful ex
tortion.
1 have been a mental healer for many years,
although I never took special instructions until
last May in a class taught in Chicago by the
President of the Metaphysical College (?) in Bos
ton. I taught two classes in July and August
last of thirty students each and used her books
and system chiefly, but at their close I closed her
books and sold them and have not had them
since and have no use for them. Her last letter
to me was in September, 1884. I did not reply
to it. In my April issue I shall justify myself in
giving a review of her dishonesty as a journalist
and of the known falsity of several statements
to which she affixed her signature. When 1
give them they will come straight, and it will bo
her privilege to try to clear the m atter up in the
public mind.
I believe in “charity toward all and malice to
ward none,” but so far as honest people can be
protected I give my pen to it.
Mr. S. D. Slayton, of Lebanon, N. II., gave us
a pleasant call. lie reports a growing interest
in his city in the Mind-Cure science. We have
quite a list of subscribers in Lebanon, the most
of whom Mr. 8. is acquainted with, and he
speaks of them as among the prominent citizens
of tlie place. Their fidelity to the cause of re
form indicates this.
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SCIENTIRIG
Revised for The Mind-Cure and Science of Life.
Nature of the Existence of Matter.
EDW ARD It. KNOWLES, PII. I)., LL. I>.
| This article was substantially written e x te m p o r e by the
author three years ago, self inducted into a semi-clairvoy
ant state, during a sitting just long enough to put it on
paper, and since then it has been laid aside without any
importance being attached to it by the writer, who has
only recently carefully considered it, and never having
had'much experience until within two years with clair
voyance, has himseir been surprised at the clearness
with which he set forth therein concisely a bold theory
and one of the highest importance.—The writer. |
“We feel hut the pulse of th at viewless hand
Which ever lias been and still shall be,
In the Stellar orb and the grain of sand,
Through N ature’s endless paternity.”
Philosophers are now obliged to refer
all the phenom ena of the universe to the
action of a substance occupying space,
which communicates light, heat, electrici
ty and g rav itation from one body to an
other, and mental emotion and imaginary
ideas from one m ind to another. This
om nipresent medium is called “ether.”
Its reality is now fully proven, understood,
and generally adm itted, also the fact th at
there is a peculiar form or modification of
ethereal force, which has, with some pro
priety, been denom inated A nim al Magne
tism, and which is concerned in producing
a n d s c ie n c e o p l if e .
DEPARTM ENT.
all the phenom ena of anim al life, and
the wonders of E theropatliy and Mesu
ism, and that this modification of eth<
action can he directed by the will of
intelligent being, as well as the elec
eel can habitually and instinctively dii
electricity by its will, still another moi
cation.
In view of these facts, the o n ly 1
whereby to account for certain incon
vertiblo facts is to refer m atter, as wel
light, electricity, etc., to the immate
substance called the ether. All the
ficulties with which philosophers i
m eet in explaining various phenomena
the action of the ether arise from t’
not explaining the very existence of i
ter by ethereal action.
“T hat which truly is, or essence,” is
proper m eaning of substance. Substi
is “the ultim ate point in analyzing
complex idea of any object. Accident
notes all those ideas which the anal
excludes as not belonging to the mere
ing or nature of the object.”
T he substance of all m atter is the et
this “creating and inform ing Spirit, wl
is with us and not of us.” T he accid<
of any object arc its peculiar modifiea
of ethereal action.
The ether acts in space, directed
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compelled in its action by the Divine W ill.
There are:
1. Simple modifications of ethereal ac
tion.
2. Combinations of such modifications.
The accidents of objects are constantly
sustained by the Divine W ill in accord
ance with fixed and perm anent laws. This
theory explains the phenom ena of m atter
by the action of the eth er; but i t teaches,
neither that the ultim ate reason of all
movement is a force prim itively commun
icated at creation, a force which is every
where present in all bodies, but different
ly limited; nor yet th at force is transm it
ted through the ether; b ut th at the Divine
Will constantly sustains by sympathetic
induction all the modifications of ethereal
action which constitute m atter.
At any point in space the ether is con
stantly governed by the D ivine W ill in
such a way th at an object there situated
has a real existence there, w hether anyone
perceives it or not; as its real existence is a
combination of certain modifications of
ethereal action. And the same object is
presented to every sp irit who happens to
come into communication with th at point
in space, the presentation being governed
by fixed laws. Any one who has already
perceived a particular object knows that
upon going again to the place where it is,
the same object will be perceived by him,
i. e., the same com bination of modifica
tions of ethereal action will be communi
cated to his soul by m eans of this same
ether as a medium and by certain other
combinations and modifications, of ethe
real action.
Our perception, therefore, of real ideas
or material objects is the result of the ac
tion of the Divine Will on our minds, and
the Eternal S pirit constantly sustains and
presents these real ideas for the contem
plation of created spirits, but they exist
out o f the m inds which perceive them.
This theory does not m erge the creature
into the creator,and does not make God the
agent or power in everything th at is done,
Ill
nor docs it lead us to adopt Ilume, viz.:
that the mind is but a mere series of im
pressions, and that we can have no knowl
edge of it.
For The Miiul-Ourc and Science of Life.
->->The Morning of Eclecticism.-^-
C. FANNIE AM .VN.
W e are again beginning a new age of
thought, as, indeed we always are in some
departm ent. The selection of good from
various systems of medicine is antique,
and now that eclecticism is making itself
known in mental forces, we are realizing
its effects in moral, social, religious, and
political life.
Nature is not a hot-house. The law of
growth is apparently of slow and sure
development. The larger and more valu
able a tree or idea, the more time it takes
for development.
The cure for ignorance is mental action.
As this .power has exhumed the buried
beauties of Pompeii, so will it resurrect
from the ashes of theology and thought
lessness, the facts of the past, and added
to present unfoldment, give us a future of
glorious growth. As long as any one sys
tem, claims to have the only remedy for
abnormal conditions of mind and body,
the age of eclecticism is only dawning.
T ru th is not an isolated steep mountain
to which there is but one route, and that
monopolized by one system. I t is univer
sal, and in all places sends its rays to the
keen observer.
It has been, and still will be needed for
awhile, that concentrated thought should
develop certain single ideas to their blos
soming point. Then, they must take their
place co-incident with, and relative to
others, and the best points of all, be merged
again into higher unfolded facts. No one
science is understood till it uses and real
izes the value of others.
I think the Mind-Cure has been born in
Ibis m anner, and will be studied under vari-
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ous names, t ill it comes to signify t lie power
and m astership of the unseen over the seen.
The term , Mind, is eclectic, and takes
up points of various phenomena. I t ap
peals to our understanding, through our
m ental and physical senses, and belongs
to th is prim ary departm ent of Life. (I
hope and think my superiors will pardon
me if I say, S pirit is untranslatable in m a
terial language, and I fear the term is used
too freely.) M ental eclecticism dealing
now with the kingdom w ithin, will give
us a b etter understanding of life’s laws,
seeming im possibilities will be accom
plished, and the world will realize it can
m inister to “mind diseased.”
Tt is related th a t Ingersoll said: “ If I
were God I would have health as catching
as disease.”
W hen this modern apostle of homelove,
vs. theology, understands him self more
fully, he will know th at health is contagi
ous. 1 notice that his anathem atizing
hearers, little realize how keeping seated
despite th eir scorn, they unconsciously
absorb health, and w hatever thought con
duces to th e ir mental growth. If this
had been understood, 171 years ago, it
would not have been recorded how T.
B ritton lost his life. A t a literary society
in London, a ventriloquist sounded to him,
“ Thom as B ritton, go home for thou shalt
die.” D espite a well-balanced brain,
“ H onest Tom became depressed in spirits,
took to his bed, and died.”
To day, an essayist w rites of electricity;
“ w hat astounding discoveries aw ait the
future world we know not, it may unveil
the m ysteries of so-called spiritualism ;
which th e very mediums themselves de
clare th ey do not understand; by its mes
meric power, the door of the mind is
opened to the brain of another, and who
knows b u t th at the tim e may come, when
we shall not need wires; when m ind can
com m unicate with mind a thousand miles
aw ay; when even the thoughts of man
kind will be known, and such a thing as a
secret cannot be k ept.”
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a t t he NLM a n d m a y b-e
S u b je c t US C o p yri g h t L a w s
So the work goes on. The gray dawn is
w ith us. T he M ind, its laws and powers,
will be acceptable to the masses, as a
beautiful system to be studied. It will
select th at, which shall be best adapted to
the needs of hum anity, for this is one of
the laws of progress, which we neither
wish, or will to, or can avoid.
To My Spiritualistic Friends.
■JAY CIIAAPKJ,.
T hree weeks ago I arrived in this,W est
ern M etropolis, which was fanned a little
too keenlyr for com fort by the breezes
from Lake M ichigan.
I have been studying her rapid growth,
enterprise, and busy streets. Naturally I
so u g h to u th er public libraries, art galleries
and advanced thinkers. I have heard
Mrs. R ichm ond, Dr. Thom as and Prof.
Swing. Mrs. R . is as interesting and
eloquent as twenty" years ago, when I first
heard her. D r. Thom as and Prof. Swing
I had never heard before. T he former
speaks in D ooley’s th eatre, the latter in
C entral Music Ifall each Sunday morning.
W hat would our grandm others have
said to hear sacred songs sung and the
“ W ord of God” read and preached from,
on the stage of a theatre where “the devil
and his im ps” dance and play pantomime
every night and Sunday afternoons? The
wheels of progress move rapidly and Chi
cago follows close upon the heels of the
Modern A thens (Boston) of whom she
borrowed so much capital; perhaps brains
also. Spiritualism is one of the greatest
forces th at is sending us ahead so rapidly.
I t is penetrating all the avenues of society,
and has so softened the ironbound creeds
of the past th at a Methodist of 18:10 could
by" no possibility recognize his brother
M ethodist of 1885. Old theologies are
m elting away under her steady blaze, and
in nothing is it more noticeable than in
the mode of curing diseases of the mind
and body. T he citadel of the old and
 T1IE MIND-CUKE AND SCIENCE OF LIFE.
new schools of drug m edication are being
invaded and m ust ultim ately surrender to
more n atural methods. In this general
agitation all kinds of cures are being
put forw ard for recognition. Faith-
cure, P rayer-cure, Christian-Scientist-
cure, Grape-cure, H o t water-cure, Mind or
Mental-cure, Rest-cure, and Massage or
M agnetic cure. T he poorest and most in
consistent of th e above (of which I name
the first three as m ost prom inent) are far
better than the best of the drug systems.
H aving read D r. E vans’ books with
much interest, th e first several years ago,
I called upon the E d ito r of M i n d -C u k e
a n d S c ie n c e o f L i f e to gain any new
evidence of the advance of his methods
of curing disease.
W ith genuine frankness and freedom
he allowed me to examine his subscription
lists, and it was a pleasure to note so many
reform ers, especially am ong the Spiritual
ists, from M aine to California, among his
patrons, and who had also w ritten many let
ters com m ending his enterprise and his
work, which he seems to have entered
upon w ith so much zeal.
The people are fully awake to the neces
sity of b etter m ethods of curing the sick.
This is evident from the deep and wide-
spreading in tere st m anifested in many of
the various phases named above of curing
disease.
T he m ental conflict going on between
many of these rival cures will no doubt
ultim ate in good. T hose m ost useful will
be retained as the others sink out of
sight.
I call the special attention of my friends
to the articles in this num ber by Charles
Dawbarn, Lym an C. Howe, W . F. Lyon,
W arren Chase and C. F anny Allyn. They
seem to me well w orthy a careful perusal.
T he E d ito r assures me th at he intends to
spare nopains to make future numbers still
more readable to all advanced thinkers.
He is receiving numerous letters of in
vitation to go into other towns and cities
and teach the system of Mind-Cure, and
T h is m a t e r i a l w a s c o p ie d
a t t h e N LM a n d m a y b e
S u b j e c t U S C o p y ri g h t L a w s
115?
solicits me to aid him on the paper, and
for the present I shall do so.
T here is no doubt at all th at the gen
eral principles undertaken in these new
methods of curing disease must succeed.
D irect all letters and papers to me at
this oflice.
^ E xplanation of the Diagrams.-^
Several have w ritten to the editor to-
know what the cuts upon our cover and
the one within signify. He replies that
these were designed by Sidartha, alias
Alshah. He is one of the most accurate
Physiologists known, and is a most won
derful thinker and scientific discoverer.
H arvard University uses one hundred
maps and charts made by him in teaching
several of the sciences. It would be im
possible to go into details touching the
researches of this discoverer. His works
are used by thousands of first-class phy
sicians, and by the best colleges in th e
land. Mrs. Swarts and myself have heard
him in about forty of his lectures and
have studied well his fine work, “The-
Hook of Life” [Book of Wisdom], an
elaborate work on the Mental, Social and
Physical redem ption of man. They are
the most remarkable discoveries ever
made in Scientific research.
In these cuts are shown the m ajor and
m inor axis through the brain form ing a
cross. Very much can be said upon this,
but time forbids now. The Professor
proves by indisputable facts th at man is
the “Tree of Life,” and that in him are
found the “twelve manner of fruits” and
in him “the river of Life,” with its four
heads flowing in four directions. In him
is the “ T hrone” and also the “New Jeru
salem.” The garden of Eden is the human
body; the “serpent” was man. He proves
what the fruit was, and opens the way into
the whole mystery.
This fine work of 320 pages is very fully
illustrated with S idartha’s wonderful
drawings and paintings, to elucidate h is
iu t h e MIND-CURE AND SCIENCE OF E l l E.
discoveries; is elegantly bound, and sells
rapidly at S2.50. Reader, if you had any
correct idea of this most progressive, sub
limely scientific and scholarly work, you
—-at least one hundred reform ers—would
rem it the above price to me, and 1 will
send it a t once w ith great pleasure. Please
order it, as I handle it, and am sending
them out to thinkers.
Sidartha is here now, and I say as Rev.
II. W . Thomas, I). D., said to me: “The
world will hear this man yet.’'
As a th in k er and philosopher I place
him first. If you read him you will know
w hat to do w ith Jesus, with Resurrection,
the Cross, Heaven, H ell, Redem ption, etc.,
and he will teach you a self-salvation and
a knowledge of divine manhood th at c overs
from a progressive m ind forever the
dogmas and ignorant superstitions of
ancient Catholicism handed down the
dusty ages to the mammon-worshipping
clergy of to-day, who still try to delude
and frighten souls to embark upon their
ereedal ships, th at are doomed to be more
thoroughly overthrown with all their
falacies than was Judaism and its temples
of worship in the long-ago.
-^M ow it
W e are receiving numerous letters of
com m endation from many of the most
progressive and intelligent in the land.
W e extend our hand anew to all earnest
workers in reform , and especially do we
say to every true Spiritualist th at we
mean well toward you, and we need and
expect your aid. Please do not regard us
as unkind because we have been led in the
m ost honest of motives to write some
things th at seem to differ from the gen
erally received views of Spiritualists.
W e are as free from dogmatic orthodoxy
as any of you are, but ask of you our
privilege not to abuse its honest adherents.
If they can overthrow our w ritings let
them m eet us as men. W hen they cannot
T h is m a t e r ia l w a s c o p ie d
a t t h e N L M a n d m a y be
S u b je c t US C o p yri g h t L a w s
do this they go to th eir totering castles
and fire a t us under cover. We have
never severed our m embership from the
first society of S piritualists here, to which
Mrs. R ichm ond discourses, nor from the
Iow a Conference, and see no reason yet
why we should. W e had sooner join
others than to sever any friendly relations.
S piritualists are in science and reform
more actively than any other people, and
we wish to endorse them as a whole, and
see no reason w hy our journal should be
draw n into the special endorsem ent of any
one part of the large intelligent class.
W hatever our private opinions may be,
we need not m ake our journal a judge
between brothers.
Lecture Tour by the Editor. <-
Many persons have w ritten to us relative to
visiting their locality to teach them the science
of Mind-Cure, and they wish to know the charges,
etc. AVe now have an experienced foreman to
preside over our office and journal, and we are
expecting soon to sta rt tow ard the east to teach
classes at several points, and to lecture on Sun
days. AVe understand the system thoroughly
and have instructed over one hundred students,
among whom were various physicians
We would like to hear from all our Michigan
friends who might desire to attend a course of
twelve le ssons at $50 per student atKalama/.o,
Grand Haven or Rattle Creek. Also we wish to
visit Cleveland, Ohio, and various other cities.
Will some w illing friend please correspond with
us about the m atter so that we can engage one
to work the interest up at their place?
A o i o n t s and those intending to subscribe for
T un Mi n p -Cu h e will please us by beginning
with our first issue, October, as we have of it
about 100; of November, 75; December, 250;
January, 875; February, 450. We issued 2,000
the first mouth, and the same nearly every issue
since.
These are all very fine and instructive, and it
will ho better for you to have them from the
beginning. Many of our late subscribers would
begin w ith No. 1 if they knew that we can sup
ply them. Any friend who will order back num
bers to give away to others may have them at 4
cents each. Please order for your friends.
 THE MIND-CUKE AND SCIENCE OF LIFE.
I will send the Gold Tootli P ick and a thor
oughly Spiritualistic lecture by -the Editor, “The
Supernatural Impossible,” also another nice
pam phlet by Sidartha—both 10 cents each—and
T h e M i n d -C u k e a n d S c i e n c e o f L i f e one year,
for $ 1 to every friend sending the same with ad
dress and a S cent stamp for postage. You
must name each in your order. You will ap
preciate these and we have plenty of them.
.^.Mind in N a tu re.-^ -
This is the title of a monthly magazine, pub
lished by7 the Cosmic Publishing Co. 171 West
W ashington street, Chicago; J. E. Woodliead,
manager.
We have ju st received the March issue, which
is the first of Vol. I., and notice among its
“ Special C ontributors” the names of the lit.
Rev. Samuel Fallows, I).I)., II. W. Thomas,
D.D., Prof. David Swing, Galusha Anderson,
LL.D., G. C. Lorimer, D.L). Various noted
names of the medical profession are among the
contributors.
Its further title is, “ A Popular Journal of
Psychical, Medical and Scientific Information.’'
Its Prospectus sparkles w ith high purposes, and
promises to give attention to many good interests
of advancing truth, and among other things,
says : “ It will summarize all the cases worthy of
note recorded in different journals, and met with
elsewhere, which come under the head of Mind-
cure, and also of faith or prayer-cure, presenting
the latter in a reverent as well as in a scientific
spirit.’’
We welcome this new messenger to public
favor. It is a move that truth and progress can
not fail to sanction, and the popular names
which grace its staff guarantee its success. The
mental forces tell us that other names are in the
arena whose experience and adroitness will never
fail to guide this white-winged messenger or
head-light of truth.
Good articles by Dr. Thomas, Bishop Fallows,
Prof. Butler, Dr. Lorimer, Prof. Swing and
others appear in this first issue.
We can only speak well of the magazine and
its purposes. It contains sixteen pages, is $1 a
year, or 10 cents per copy.
The Carrier Pace, edited by Mrs. ,1. Schlesin-
ger at 8541 Broadway, Oakland, Cal., comes to
us regularly, not only bearing a branch, but
usually the pendent fruit. It has been kindly
telling the afflicted some good things about T h e
M i n d -C u b e a n d S c i e n c e o f L i f e . W hen first
it came we opened our window and received it
T h is m a t e r i a l w a s c o p ie d
a t t h e N LM a n d m a y b e
S u b j e c t U S C o p y ri g h t L a w s
115
kindly and listened to its narratives of the land
of fruit and wine. Its Mistress does not succeed
in impressing us that she is lacking in charity to
all. Really it is a messenger of Love and Truth.
Upon our last page, ju st above the “Olive
Branch,” and near three “life-saving crews,”
while the old Boston “Banner” throws its light
upon all, it speaks again. We trust it will never
be said of the “Dove,” “it returned not again
unto him any more.”
Several other reviews are laid over until next
issue owing to lack of space.
The “ Primitive Mind-Cure,” by Dr. W. F.
Evans, is for sale in this city by the Sanitary
Publishing Co., Room Oil, 159 La Salle street, in
single numbers or by job lot. Price, $1.50.
This house is doing a good work introducing
literature that meets the demand of the times.
You will also find “Divine Lmo of Cure ’' “Men
tal-Cure” and “ Mental Medicine” at this same
house. All of these works are by Dr. Evans,
and are very able.
The Children’s Progressive Lyceum of Cleve
land, Ohio, will celebrate the forthcoming an
niversary (the 37tli) of Modern Spiritualism by a
grand exhibition and full dress ball, on Sunday
and Monday, March 29th and 30th. The West
Side Lyceum of the city has been invited to
participate in the exercises, and we hope that
the friends in the neighboring towns will join
them. T h o m a s L e e s , Conductor.
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She also teach es s tu d e n ts in th e science of healing, a t h e r
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