M. Focachon, which conclusively prove the influence of one

mind upon another mind, and through this medium upon the body, in the generation and cure of diseased conditions. Intelligent men and women in every part of the world are becoming aroused to the study of the occult powers of the human spirit, and to the investigation of the latent energies of the mind of man. The religious metaphysical philosophy of the East is becoming united to the practical science of Europe and America, and a higher development of man will be the result. The dormant, slumbering energies of the human soul will be awakened again into life and activity. A dead Christianity, which is only the petrifaction of the primitive S3-stem, and a still more defunct Buddhism, will be resuscitated and resume their youthful vigor. What are now accounted marvels of healing will become only ordinary events, like the morning succeeding the night, and spring following winter in regular succession.
If ideas are the inmost essence and reality of what we call external things, and God creates the world and all it con-
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tains of beauty and grandeur, by imprinting upon our minds the ideas of things, it is not an unreasonable supposition that man, who is made in the image and likeness of God, under certain conditions and limitations, may have a creative power and influence over the mind of another. The world exists subjectively, or iu mind, before it is an objective reality. The same is true of the body of man. Why should it be thought a thing incredible that our influence over the mind of a passive subject may be sufficient to affect his bodily condition. The world is to us what we make it, and so is our physical organism. Our ideas and thoughts may be so transferred to the mind of a patient as to become his own. In the modern science of medicine, the blood of a healthy person is sometimes transferred to the veins of an invalid. But a transfusion of our mental life into another is a thousand times better. This is the divine method, and is what Jesus di,d. The injunction of Paul has here a special application, "Be ye imitators of God, as beloved children." (Eph. v:l.) These old and forgotten truths will again be re-established and as conclusively proved as are any of the principles of chemistry, and out of them will arise the divinest and most efficient system of healing the souls and bodies of men the world has ever seen. In the principle we have illustrated above, we are getting down to the bottom fact and underlying reality in the cures effected by Jesus the Christ. He had power to vanish from the sight of men, by expunging from their minds the sensational image of himself, and he possessed the ability to obliterate from the minds of the sick the idea of their malady, and to imprint upon their receptive souls the idea of health and wholeness. During the eighteen centuries which have elapsed since his material manifestation he has lost none of his power to save (or heal) . For in the realm of spirit, into which his living consciousness has been translated, he is " the same
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yesterday, to-day, and forever." What he ever accom- plished, he can do now, and can so impart his life as the risen and ascended Christ to men, that they may do the same. In thejapse of humanity in its organic unity (which is called Adam) from the high table-land of the spiritual and celestial into the sensuous and fleshly range of the mind, the deific powers of human nature became dormant ; but they are not dead. Man in the descending scale of life has touched the bottom, and is rebounding upward. In the restoration of the spiritual life of humanity will come back the power " to work the works of God." When we come to view man, not as a material body, but as a " living soul," which is never sundered from the Infinite Mind, we shall recover our lost dominion over the works of God, especially our own body.
The fundamental principle in the practice of the phrenopa- thic method of cure is the recognition of the true idea of man as already in his true being an immortal spirit, and as such," exempt from sin and disease. In our conception of the patient we divest him of the material and astral envelope, and think of him not as about to be saved in some future time, but as already saved, so far as his true being is con- cerned. We, as it were, dematerialize him in our idea of him. Through the influence of mind upon mind, and in accordance with the law of thought-transference, this serves to dispossess him of the idea and belief of disease, and free him from his engrossment by the illusions of sense. It may be objected to such a method of mental cure, that it is too transcendental, and but a few are sufficiently unfolded spirit- ually to practise it with any degree of success. In reply we would only say that the intelligent force which creates and governs the world is transcendental ; that is, it is purely mental and is beyond the grasp of the senses, but is none the less real and potential for all that. It is quite true that
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only a comparatively small number of persons are at present qualified to practice the system with marked success. But it has been our aim to educate men and women up to that degree of spiritual development that will greatly increase the number of successful practitioners. It may, in truth, be said of surgery, that only a small fraction of the twelve hundred millions of the human race are qualified to be eminently skillful surgeons. Yet that is no weighty objection to the modern science of surgery which is accomplishing such marvels in saving life. The good surgeon, like the poet, is born, not made. The same is true of the phreuopathic healer.
The system of cure that has been advocated and its prin- ciples expounded in these pages, and in the volumes which have preceded this, is fundamentally at variance with the dominant scientific materialism of the day. It has been the fashion for some centuries to believe and teach that it is the body which makes the mind ; that the soul is a function of the organism, or of some part of it, as, for instance, the brain, and is entirely dependent upon and governed by the organism. This is coming to be viewed by many as a total inversion of the truth, as a monstrous perversion of the true idea of man, and a degrading doctrine against which there is a manifest reaction and revolt in the public mind. In every age of human history, and in all nationalities, there have been philosophers who have held that the soul makes and governs the body. But in our European and "Western civil- izations, owing to the prevalence of materialism, the teaching of such men has been a voice crying in the wilderness, with few to hear. The idealists, who have ever constituted the more spiritual portion of mankind, affirni that the external form and condition of man are dependent upon his internal state ; that it is the nature of mind, or spirit, to ultimate itself in a bodily expression in harmony with it. The
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habitual indulgence of certain evil passions alters the con- formation of the face and the whole body, and the man, in accordance with a divine law, becomes externally what he is internally, so far as such a change can be effected in one brief life on earth. The man who yields to the indulgence of the animal and selfish appetites and propensities, begins to look animal and selfish. The habitual belief of those false and illusive ideas which constitute mental disease, those opinions which prevail in the world, which become a promi- nent part of our education, but which are without foundation in truth, will sooner or later ultimate themselves in physical maladies. For it is an established law of divine order that a man must inevitably in time become outwardly what he is inwardly, and in this life physically what he is mentally. Our system of mental cure recognizes and emphasizes this universal principle. We seek in harmony with it to com- mence the cure of disease from within, to inaugurate a change in the mental status of a patient, which must with undeviating certainty translate itself into a corporeal expres- sion. We aim to prepare the man, not only for the life that is, but also for all the life which is to come. It is a promi- nent intent of the current religious instruction of the day to prepare men to die. That string has been harped upon until it is well-nigh worn out. The philosophy which we advocate aims to prepare men never to die, to view death as an illusion, and to lead the disciple to the attainment of that knowledge of God, and our relation to him, which is eternal life. We enter the sick-room, not to confer upon the patient the useless sacrament of extreme unction to fit him to die, and to smooth his passage into purgatory, but to light in the consciousness of the sufferer the quenchless torch of a present immortality, and faith in a present and full salvation, and to close the gates of Hades against his ingress into its dark domains. All the virtues of life and truths of faith, which
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are the formative principles of a celestial and angelic char- acter, are recommended. As one has well said, " A man of pure and angelic character begins inevitably to present a pure and angelic appearance ; the countenance becomes placid, the manner sedate ; and the soul of man transforms his body until it becomes as angelic as is compatible with its present relations : and when it assumes a new form after what is called death, what shall prevent it from assuming the one most appropriate to its nature? " (The Blazing Star, by William B. Green, p. 1G6.)
It has been our aim, in what we have said in this volume, to restore Christianity to something of its original meaning in the religious consciousness of men ; to winnow away the accumulated and useless chaff, and preserve the divine and living seed ; to divest it of all that is non-essential to it, and which can only be viewed by the enlightened minds of to-day as a subsequent disfiguring addition to the primitive system. We have endeavored to transport our mind back through the centuries and come face to face with the incarnated Christ, and reverently listen to the words of him who spake as never man before spake. In giving an esoteric, or inside, view of Christianity as a system of saving and healing truth, we have, of course, failed to do full justice to the subject. No artist ever yet succeeded in painting the rainbow that spans the eastern heavens after a storm. He only does the best he can, and we add to what he does his evident good intention, and accept the picture as an aid to recalling in our own minds the true and perfect idea of the bow of promise which God has placed upon the clouds. Christianity is inseparable from the living personality of Jesus the Christ. None but he can fully expound it and reveal it. If our attempt to do so shall bring anjr one to sit at his feet and listen to him as he still inly speaks to men, we shall not have written in vain. The system of mental healing must ever be kept
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within the domain of a genuine Christianity. Outside of the system of truth taught the world by Jesus, it will be as powerless to save as was the staff of Elijah, separated from the hands of the prophet and in the grasp of his servant, to raise to life the dead son of the Shunamite woman. The fundamental idea of Christianity as a system of salvation, as also of the mental- cure system of to-day, is that the Christ is the supreme living principle, and the Christ-life in us is the only real and immortal life. All other life is mutable and evanescent. He is a Christian in the full-orbed meaning of that word in whom there is a reincarnation of the intellectual and moral life of Jesus. " He who lives the life shall know of the doctrine." It is only by doing the truth that it becomes so incorporated into our inner being as to become a part of our living self. Then it is not an external garment to be put on and off as occasion may require, but " the life of God in the soul of man." The inner self, when it is composed of the truths of faith, as the external body is of the elements of the world, is as immortal as are those truths. The fully instructed soul is but the formulation into a living personality of God's truth. " Mark the perfect man (the fully initiated) and behold the upright (the spiritually enlightened) , for the end of that man is peace," which is the opposite of mental disease. (Ps. xxxvii : 37.) He in whom the Christ dwells and acts is invested with the silent omnipo- tence of truth, and will be a saving power in the age in which he lives. In all such as have fellowship (or community of life) with Jesus he multiplies and spiritually propagates him- self, and the Christ, as the manifested God, becomes more and more incarnated in humanity. In the language of the leader of the Brahmo Somaj, or Church of God, in India, " The Spirit-Christ spreads thus forth in the universe as an emana- tion from the Divine Reason, and you can see him with the eye of faith underlying all the endless varieties of truth and
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goodness in ancient and modern times. He is the Christ as the principle of pure spiritual intelligence, the "Word of God, mighty Logos. Scattered in all men and women of the Ea«t and the West are multitudinous Christ-principles and fragments of Christ-life, one vast and identical Sonship diversely manifested." It is our sincere prayer that the mental-cure movement, now growing into such proportions in Europe and America, may be a tributary stream to swell the vast current of the Christ-life in the world, until the earth shall be full of the saving knowledge of God as the waters cover the deep.
CONQUER AND REST.
"Why not learn to conquer sorrow?
Why not learn to smile at pain?
Why should every stormy morrow
Shroud our way in gloom again?
" Why not lift the soul immortal Up to its angelic height — Bid it pass the radiant portal Of the world of faith and light?
" Oh ! there is another being All about us, all above, Hid from mortal sense or seeing, Save the nameless sense of love.
" Not the love that dies like roses,
When the frost-fire scathes the sod, , But the eternal rest that closes
Round the soul that dwells in God.
" Into this great habitation Never tear or sorrow came ; Oh ! it is the new creation,
God its light, and love its flame.
" Up, 0 soul ! and dwell forever On this hidden, glorious shore ; Chilled by cloud-shade, never, never; Up, and dwell for evermore."
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