Mental Therapeutics or Healing Suggestions. Christian Science. Mental Science. Faith Healing, Etc.

As stated in a former chapter, every system of so-called mental healing being practiced in these States or elsewhere today, whether it calls itself Christian Science, Mental Science, Divine Healing, New Thought, Suggestive Therapeutics, or whatever, is but an effort—with more or less understanding—to utilize the law of electric vibration.

Mrs. Eddy says in “Science and Health,” page 292, “Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness.” “Electricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which counterfeits the true essence of spiritual truth.” (So simple, isn’t it?) “The vapid fury of mortal mind expressed in earthquakes, wind, waves, lightning, fire and bestial ferocity shows the so-called mind to be self-destructive.”

There is one synthetical substance, or truth, in the universe. You may name it to suit yourself. It will smell just as sweet and act just the same under whatever name you may give it. It has a habit of remaining just what it is yesterday, today and forever. We call it Electricity. It is the one mind, the one substance, the all and in all. From it is evolved matter in all its various forms. The unit of all force is electrical; the two impulses of which account for the variety of forms in which it manifests itself. It creates, preserves, destroys, and the various manifestations, such as earthquake, floods, fire, lightening are but results of these two impulses, and simply show the absence of any intelligent PURPOSE whatever; and forces us to see that there can be no such thing as a Supreme Being—or supreme intelligence in the universe. That this great omnipresent energy which evolved the meaningless phrases and sentences of Mrs. Eddy’s “Christian Science” was acting neither less nor more “intelligently” than when it produced a Beethoven sonata or a Dante’s Inferno.

Man seems to have been able to a certain extent to control this force and harness it to his use, and has materially lessened its destructive tendency by devices such as the lightening-rod and various insulating methods. This is an evidence of intelligent purpose evolved by the vibratory forces of this intelligent substance.

Man has subjected this force to his usage upon his own organism and the results are astounding. Every day some new application is being made. In the field of Electro-Therapeutics there are so many new developments, so many wondrous actions on various diseases that the medical profession has to constantly revise its text books, in order to keep step with this stately energy that is marching on to disclose to those attuned to receive them the great secrets of nature.

We have the phonograph, which deposits the vibrations of the human voice—or any other vibration, upon the wax cylinder, which can be preserved almost indefinitely and reproduced at will. From whence came the vibratory impulse or suggestion that invented the phonograph? The within is as the without. The above is as the below. The macrocosm is as the microcosm. Is there not in the laboratory of the universe some cyclical or cylindrical formation (as all electric force—which is all the force there is—is spherical) that receives, and preserves, and reproduces the impressions of all thoughts, words and deeds, the brain specifically attuned receiving its specific vibration, or thought? Does it require any great effort to grasp the thought that the electrical (mental, thought) forces or vibrations of the universe can be utilized by us, to act on the cells of the brain and convey to the body or its various organs through the nerves, our commands to cast out all inharmonious vibration, and to refuse to entertain any but harmonious or healthful suggestions. “Whatsoever a man thinketh, he is.” We repeat, these so-called healthful vibrations are as free to all as the air they breathe and cannot be corralled by any set of healers. This is not said to discredit any system of healing, for all are with more or less understanding using the same principle, and with accordingly varying degrees of success. But it is said to destroy and nullify any claim of exclusive ability.

To attune yourself to receive these health-giving or harmony-producing vibrations be alone. Assume any comfortable position. Let the body relax and the mind become passive. All speech is electrical in its vibratory action. Use these words:

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.

You may be afraid at first to say these words. This is all the more reason why you should say them. There is nothing so de-harmonizing and de-vitalizing as fear. Read the chapter in this book on “Fear” again, and cast it out of you forever.

Listen—no person ever died saying, “Be Still and Know That I Am God.”

The repetition of these words will gradually attune the brain to receive the most health-giving, vitalizing vibrations in the universe. These, acting on the cells of the brain are conveyed throughout the entire body by the nerves. The lungs, the liver, the stomach—all—will gradually receive these vitalizing, curative thought vibrations, and respond to them.

Sometimes these inharmonious conditions seem persistent and hard to overcome, and patience and perseverance in repetition may be necessary. But persevere and you cannot fail to win out. It is as certain as that friction will produce fire, and that heat will dissolve ice. Don’t whine. Don’t beg. Don’t pray. Command, as is your right and privilege, as a unit of this mighty electric force which is life and health. It’s up to you. All the life and health of the universe is yours if you will. Permanent, abiding, continuous attunement to the infinite ocean of force, is to continue the integrity of the organism you call your—Self.

Radium

Note.—The discovery of radium opened up a field of experiment and investigation that has greatly confirmed in the scientific mind the belief that all action is electrical and that in this direction will be found the solution of all biological problems.

It is now thought by scientists that radium is the source of life, if not the so-called AURA of life itself. If this were true, it would only mean that radium is the fundamental, basic, primeval substance of the universe, which we have termed Electricity. … It is known to be electrical in its action, giving off light, heat and radiant energy. It seems to be self-existent, or self-renewing, suffering no apparent diminution of its force or energy.

One thing is certain, Electricity is Life, and in the eternally inherent, automatic impulse of its individual electrons will be found the solution of all phenomena. In radium or radioactivity science may be getting down to “bed-rock.” At any rate, it is hot on the trail that will lead to the discovery of the truth we are announcing, viz.: that there is but one substance—Electricity, whose eternal, infinite expression is Life.