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LIFE'S GREAT 
 
 HEALING LAW 
 
 BY 
 
 Densie Herendeen 
 
 With an Introduction by 
 Hon. Nat Ward Fitz-Gerald 
 
 The Elevator Publishing Company, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 1901. 
 

 
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 BY 
 
 Densie Herendeen 
 
To My 
 Brothers and Sisters 
 
 The sick and afflicted — Tr|e 
 dowq-trodden and oppressed — To 
 all wF]o are conscious or uqconscious of 
 trjeir own indwelling God, this book 
 is affectionately dedi- 
 cated by the 
 Author. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 The Laws of Nature 23 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 Nature's Laws in Man 33 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Birth and Growth of Individual Con- 
 sciousness 41 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Magnify the Lord 56 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 Practical Illustrations 66 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Laws and Their Application 70 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Laws of our Being- 80 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 Controlling the Mind 89 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 How to Attain Desired Results 97 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 "Seek and Ye Shall Find" 109 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 How to Co-operate with God 119 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 Divine Suggestions 126 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 BY 
 
 Nat Ward Fitz-Gsrald. 
 
 The world to-day, stands upon the threshold 
 of a new birth ; pregnant with a mighty portent 
 of good to the children of Adam — the sons and 
 daughters of the living God. 
 
 The midnight is already passed, and the 
 dawn of this new day, heralding the new era, 
 is upon us. All thinkers must see in the signs 
 of the times, that this new era is at hand ; yet 
 truth to-day is the same as when the morning 
 stars sang together, and all the Sons of God 
 shouted for joy. 
 
 The new day, when religious strifes and con- 
 tentions will cease — when the Fatherhood of 
 God and the brotherhood of man shall be an ac- 
 complished fact, heralds the advent of religious 
 unity over all the race of man. 
 
 Prophecy tells of this new era — when the in- 
 habitant of the land shall not sav, I am sick, anv 
 more — when sorrowing and crying shall be 
 done away — when sickness shall be banished 
 forever — leaving naught to molest or make 
 
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 afraid — when all shall come to know God from 
 the least unto the greatest — when the earth shall 
 be filled with the knowledge of His glory, as 
 the waters cover the sea. 
 
 It is well known, that a vague unrest, 
 pervades all nations, and all people. They 
 seem allied with misery, disease, restlessness 
 and despair. Inharmony permeates the very 
 atmosphere. While blindly groping after the 
 desirable, they clutch only the unsatisfying; 
 seeking for peace, rest, contentment and happi- 
 ness ; and grasping strife, turmoil, unhappiness, 
 disease and misery. What is to be done ? 
 
 If health, contentment and peace are desired, 
 their source must be sought. Your soul must 
 be attuned to vibrative unison, in harmony with 
 the music of the spheres, and catch the rythm 
 of the new song. The twentieth century is the 
 culmination of the ages. Matter is becoming 
 subordinate to soul and spirit. The shifting 
 sands of time and sense have become like the 
 dim visions of a forgotten dream. Physical 
 life is becoming understood as only supported 
 and sustained by Spirit, God. 
 
 Many who are looking for the glow of the 
 spiritual morning, faintly hear its approaching 
 music, making sweeter and better their long- 
 ing lives. 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. ir 
 
 Would you, dear reader, keep pace with the 
 march of events? Do you desire to be adjust- 
 ed to the new order of things? Remember 
 that the promise is, that what is hidden shall 
 be revealed; for light is dispelling the night 
 of ignorance. , The tallow-dip is supplanted 
 by effulgence borrowed from the sun. Stage 
 coaches have given way to palaces on wheels. 
 Nahum's chariots of lightning rush through 
 our streets. Electricity with its flashing- 
 tongues of flame from storm clouds, that filled 
 ignorance with terror, is the slave of man ; and 
 by its power, men converse with each other in 
 audible tones, though separated by hundreds 
 of miles. 
 
 While these mighty strides are being made 
 in one direction— a veritable fulfillment of 
 prophecy — equally great have been the steps in 
 another direction, looking to the destruction 
 of sin, disease and death, which is also a like 
 fulfillment of the phophetic word. 
 
 For centuries upon centuries, Adam's race 
 has unavailingly sought happiness; wandering 
 down the ages in search of what they have 
 never found, — the fabled fountain of perennial 
 youth — tapping every conceivable material 
 fount in the vain hope that its waters would 
 prove a panacea for all ills of the flesh. But 
 
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 health and happiness through material means 
 have been vainly sought; continuing forever 
 to elude the grasp of man's frantic clutch. 
 
 Disease, sin, misery and death, still stalk in 
 our midst, and refuse to succumb to material 
 methods. 
 
 Where, oh where, is that 'hidden manna,' 
 promised in sacred writ, to the hopeful and be- 
 lieving in every age? 
 
 Where is that open door to life and joy, 
 which 'no man can shut, and through which 
 the saved shall go no more out?' 
 
 Where, oh where, is 'the tree of Life,' of 
 which man was promised the right to partake ; 
 and the leaves of which, 'were for the healing 
 of the Nations?' 
 
 How and where shall we children of Adam, 
 "wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
 and naked," find that promised elysian where 
 we should not be hurt of the second death ? 
 
 Must the cradle and the coffin go hand in 
 hand as accompaniments of Adam's children, 
 down the corridors of time, to all generations ? 
 
 Shall the maw of death never be filled, but 
 keep on demanding human food for its insatiate 
 craw ? 
 
 Shall we go on filling cradles forever, merely 
 to keep grave-yards green ? 
 
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 Shall the appetite of the coffin never be satis- 
 fied? 
 
 Shall this farce this lie, — of living to die, — 
 never be stopped? 
 
 Are the worries and torments of mortal life 
 never to cease ? 
 
 Do not the same conditions exist, surround- 
 ing Adam's race of sin, disease and death, as 
 existed thousands of years ago, in spite of the 
 never ending struggle of all races to bring 
 about a different condition of things ? 
 
 Has not the era already dawned, that is de- 
 manding and will strive, to bring about a 
 change ? 
 
 Has not the time arrived to test the spiritual 
 remedies, which God has promised, through all 
 .the ages, to them that do His Will? 
 
 Yes, yes, a million times yes! That time 
 has come — or this book could not have been 
 written. 
 
 Hope, that has been whispering to Love, 
 through the ear of death, in all generations, 
 has at last been heard and recognized. 
 Standing erect, it voices in audible tones to 
 a waiting world, the realization of its dreams, 
 in the conscious conviction of the possibility 
 of eternal life, here and now; and defiantly 
 
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 throws back into the teeth of disease and death, 
 the lie, told to our first parents. 
 
 Life, not death, is the watchword, for all the 
 race. 
 
 Life:, with its Mighty Healing Law, 
 has been uncovered, and presented to a waiting 
 world, in this brave book; written by a noble 
 brave, God-fearing, God-loving and God-living 
 woman. Read it; oh, waiting, longing souls! 
 Gird your loins like a mighty man to run a race ! 
 Bid fears of fleshly foibles and failures, to flee 
 forever. 
 
 Bid dead hopes arise to renewed life and 
 vigor. Snatch the mask of death from the 
 cradle and the grave, and canopy life with the 
 robes of immortality. 
 
 This book, when understood, will redeem 
 the race from sin, disease and death. It will 
 bring the flush of health to the cheek 
 of dispair. It will drive out the devil and dis- 
 ease, and replace in their stead God and Glory. 
 It will answer the cries and prayers that have 
 ascended from wailing millions through long 
 ages of agony. 
 
 Its words sing to the heart, with that match- 
 less rythm, that carries conviction of the truth 
 of the mighty facts it sets forth. No one can 
 read it, without experiencing a beautiful and 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 1 5 
 
 harmonious uplifting in mind, ennobling in 
 soul, and strengthening of body. Its words 
 when understood, cannot be forgotten ; for they 
 vibrate with a vital and living force, which is 
 the Eternal Truth. 
 
 They will bid the tide of time, in the mem- 
 ory of man to roll backwards, until he may 
 raise the curtain, viewing the scene of the first 
 promise made by God to man; and catch the 
 truth of its meaning — " dominion. Dominion, 
 Power, Authority, God-hood, Son-ship, Eter- 
 nal Life, without which ho man can know 
 God. 
 
 This brave book reiterates the teachings of 
 the Nazarene, which proclaimed that the 
 "Kingdom of God is within you." That this 
 God is ever present, and omnipotent, and is to 
 be obeyed, worshipped and loved, with all one's 
 heart, soul and strength. It teaches that Jesus 
 lived His life on the earth, and saved mankind, 
 by showing them the way to destroy sin, sick- 
 ness and death; thus fulfilling God's law. To 
 save not a few, only in Palestine, but all the 
 race ; save from bondage to flesh, From sin and 
 suffering, at all times and places, and under 
 all conditions, through all the ages. 
 
 In His day, the sick were healed ; the sinner 
 cleansed, and the dead raised. He taught that 
 
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 God was Love. He taught, toiled and suffered, 
 that men might learn that Love was, and is, 
 Supreme. 
 
 He taught the destruction of the works of 
 all evil — through God alone. That man must 
 first seek God's help, before it would be given. 
 
 He taught that to seek God, was to find Him ; 
 which meant salvation not after death, in 
 realms beyond the skies, but freedom here and 
 now from every human ill. The Christianity 
 of the world, without the healing of the sick, 
 was not what He preached and left to man- 
 kind. 
 
 He taught that they who walk with God, are 
 empowered now to destroy evil, because it is 
 contrary to an ever-present good. He com- 
 manded His followers to preach the gospel, and 
 heal the sick; and the record shows that they 
 did the work: — the promise being to all who 
 do God's will. 
 
 This book takes up this line of teaching, and 
 shows how it is that Life does all healing ; and 
 that your own individual life is the Real Man, 
 made in God's Image, who can never be sick, 
 suffer or die. 
 
 It shows that we are spiritual, harmonious 
 and eternal, because we are co-existent with 
 God the Father, born of Him, not of the flesh, 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 17 
 
 and are as indestructible as this Infinite Pa- 
 rent. It shows that we must, by a birth of 
 consciousness, become masters; subordinating 
 the mortal body and its discords, to the reality 
 of a spiritual existence. 
 
 This book shows how God's Power is the 
 same yesterday, today and forever; and that 
 today, the same miracles by the same laws, are 
 being wrought that were performed in Judea 
 nineteen hundred years ago. 
 
 This book teaches that we are dependent for 
 life, health and happiness, upon God, and God 
 alone ; and that so long as men look not to God, 
 but depend upon material and physical condi- 
 tions to determine where, when and for how 
 long a time they shall be well and happy ; they 
 will be sick, sinful and miserable. 
 
 It teaches that an all-loving, all-wise God. 
 does not make men sick and sinful, and visit 
 death upon them: that the command "be ye 
 PERFECT/' means the attainment of perfec- 
 tion through the overcoming of sin, sickness 
 and death, by the consciousness of the Spirit's 
 Mastery over the material. 
 
 This book teaches that the Universe is gov- 
 erned by law r , — by one God, one Law, one Life, 
 one Power. That nature's laws are God's 
 Laws. That man has unlimited power to con- 
 
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 trol nature's laws through growth into the 
 higher consciousness; and that through this 
 growth or process, by the law of suggestion 
 we are shown how to come into conjunction 
 with God. It teaches the law of harmony and 
 perfection; proving that all Power belongs to 
 Life, and how the whole man is controlled by 
 suggestion; thus revealing the necessity for 
 correct thinking. It shows that time and space 
 are annihilated through the consciousness of 
 the all-present, omnipotent Power of God. 
 That the sick can be and are healed by the ob- 
 servance of God's laws, in force to-day, the 
 same as when Jesus walked the shores of Gali- 
 lee, healing the sick and calling forth to life 
 the dead from out the tomb. 
 
 Read this book — Study its pages — learn the 
 mighty principles herein set forth — how that 
 Life controls all and is the master and not the 
 servant of death : — and this mighty fact, when 
 once imbedded in your, consciousness, will roll 
 the stone from your grave away, loosing you 
 from your limitations and preparing you for a 
 walk with God. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 "The world does not require so much to be 
 informed, as to be reminded. We all have ac- 
 quired much knowledge, through association 
 with nature, that we are unconscious of pos- 
 sessing; because we have neglected to use or 
 apply it. Most of us are familiar with the laws 
 of nature, but never having taken the time to 
 think of their application to our individual 
 lives, we have failed in understanding their 
 relation to and their workings within and upon 
 the human form. 
 
 There are no laws given, or statements made 
 in this book but such as every student will feel 
 at once, that he has already known. The work 
 is only published to refresh the memory, and to 
 remind us of the great importance of living 
 by these laws — which pertain wholly to hi$£, 
 and the power which it exercises over matter. 
 
 This book is not to be read and laid aside, 
 as most books are. It should be studied by all 
 who desire to live in accordance with Lite's 
 Great Healing Law. 
 
 It should be as carefully studied, as the arith- 
 metic is studied, by those who desire to learn 
 
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 the science of numbers. To fit ourselves for 
 making a practical use of the multiplication 
 table, in the business affairs of life, we did not 
 simply read it over and lay it aside, but we stud- 
 ied it, repeated it, until every truth it enunciates 
 became fixed, indelibly in the mind ; where they 
 have ever since remained, ready to respond to 
 our call. 
 
 And so it is, with the great principles stated 
 in this book. They should be read over, stud- 
 ied, repeated and reiterated, until the conscious 
 Truths which they contain, take hold of the 
 student. 
 
 We all know that these principles require 
 more than a casual reading, in order to under- 
 stand them. 
 
 The Science of Life, based on God, is of far 
 more vital importance to the human soul than 
 is the science of numbers, based on the prin- 
 ciples of mathematics. We can live without 
 the science of numbers, but we only exist with 
 out the science of Life. 
 
 Laws and principles must be studied and un- 
 derstood, if we would apply them. 
 
 This book is not the promulgation of a the- 
 ory, but of a mighty Law; a law which is re- 
 lated to, and connected with many laws, the 
 principle of which, when understood and ap- 
 
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 plied, will not only heal all manner of diseases/ 
 but will redeem the race. 
 
 We claim no new discovery, but simply pre-' 
 sent in our own way, an old truth, which was 
 manifest in the first plant, that ever appeared 
 on our planet. 
 
 This book is the outgrowth of years of study, 
 teaching, healing and the practical application 
 of the principles set forth in its pages, which 
 have invariably proved to be the healing law 
 of life. 
 
 In writing this book, it has been our con- 
 stant aim to simplify, — making the subject as 
 plain as possible, omitting that which might 
 tend to mystify and discourage the student on 
 these lines : — because many have been mysti- 
 fied, and made to feel after years of reading 
 or study, that they were incapable of grasping 
 these truths, — when the fault lay not in them- 
 selves, but in the way this subject had been pre- 
 sented to them. 
 
 Should it be thought that the terms which 
 are commonly applied to Deity are used too fre- 
 quently, it must be borne in mind that it was 
 written for no other purpose, than to reveal to 
 man his own Divine nature. 
 
 In speaking of the Divine, we can only use 
 the terms that define or belong to the Infinite, 
 
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 whether He be in man, or in the Heavens; 
 hence we have used no words too strong to 
 express our meaning. 
 
 Strong language is the expression of Strong 
 thoughts. Strong thoughts can only emanate 
 from strong souls ; and strong souls draw their 
 strength from God in whom they are centered, 
 as a tree draws its strength from the soil, in 
 which it is rooted. We sincerely hope that 
 *'Life's Great Healing Law," may reach every 
 sick and hungry soul, who is ready for it ; and 
 cause them to change their thinking from sick- 
 ness to health; from fear to confidence; from 
 death to life; from faith in man, to faith in 
 God. We desire to assure the sick and dis- 
 tressed, in every clime, the unhappy and op- 
 pressed in every land, that a knowledge of and 
 compliance with the laws herein set forth, will 
 bring health, happiness and harmony, into their 
 lives, here and now. 
 
 Densie HerEndeen. 
 Washington, D. C, May ist, 1901. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 The Laws of Nature. 
 
 the one: law. 
 
 There is but one Law in the universe, and 
 that is the Law of God. All the iaws of nature 
 are but branches of this one law ; for the Infinite 
 Law is composed of many laws, as the tree is 
 composed of many branches. 
 
 For man to have a clear understanding of 
 the nature and operation of any of these laws, 
 he must understand where and how they are 
 connected, and what part they play in the Great 
 Whole. When he understands this, he has a 
 faith that is rooted and grounded in God; the 
 faith that works miracles : — a knowledge that 
 so far transcends faith as it is generally under- 
 stood, that it is indeed the wisdom of God. 
 
 THE UNIVERSE IS GOVERNED BY LAW. 
 
 All things are controlled by Law. All na- 
 ture is formed according to law; and this law 
 
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 is omnipotent, omniscient and omrlipresent, in 
 its reality ; for it is God working. This law of 
 God, is the Life of God, and is the activity of 
 the one Infinite, Omnipresent, Universal Power, 
 which God is. 
 
 Then, for us to have an understanding of the 
 way in which God works, of the activity and 
 nature of life, is, for us to understand the laws 
 of nature. For man to understand the laws 
 of nature, in the full meaning of what the word 
 understand, implies, is for him to be able to 
 control the forces of nature, in proportion to 
 his degree of understanding ; to co-operate with 
 the Laws of God, in proportion to his knowl- 
 edge and faith, in those laws ; or in other words, 
 to exercise the Dominion which was given him, 
 "Over all the earth/' 
 
 THE LAW OF HEALING. 
 
 The fact that there ever has been a case of 
 healing on our planet, is proof that there is a 
 law back of it, the harmonious operation of 
 which caused the healing to be. The very fact 
 that people have been healed from time imme- 
 morial, in different ways and by various meth- 
 ods, is proof that there is an Infinite Law back 
 of it all, which in some way has been co-opera- 
 
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 ted with either, consciously or unconsciously, 
 by the healer. 
 
 We will not take time to discuss the many 
 methods in vogue, that affect the cure of dis- 
 eases in the world, for our desire in this 
 work, is to reveal to you the law that does all 
 healing. We should seek to understand the 
 surest and quickest way by which man can 
 come into conjunction with this Infinite Law 
 of God. We should seek to understand how 
 he can control the forces of nature : — the surest 
 and most desirable means, by which he can be- 
 come conscious of his ability to exercise hi? 
 God-given powers. 
 
 ONK LAW, ONE POWER, ONE LIFE. 
 
 The great underlying truth on which all heal- 
 ing is based, is the fact that there is but one 
 God ; one Power ; one Law and one Life. Life 
 is the operation of this power. Law is the 
 method or manner, by and through which it 
 operates ; and God is the Infinite Operator. 
 
 The Universe and all that is contained there- 
 in, is formed by this one Life; controlled and 
 acted upon by this one Law; filled and per- 
 fected, by this Infinite Power. And so man, 
 and all that is within him, is formed by this 
 same Life, controlled and acted upon by this 
 
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 same Law, healed and perfected by this same 
 Power. 
 
 That which is true of the universe is true of 
 man. 
 
 That which is true of nature is true of man. 
 
 All nature is reproduced in man; hence all 
 laws, functions and forces of nature, are opera- 
 tive and active in man. 
 
 man's place in the great WHOLE. 
 
 It is because man is a conscious being; be- 
 cause he is an individual conscious entity, with 
 power to move and do at will ; that he is greater 
 than all that is external to him. He is more 
 powerful than all nature ; because he has within 
 himself, though latent, the power and ability to 
 consciously control nature. 
 
 Man's greatness, depends wholly on his con- 
 sciousness. He is great only on those lines 
 in which he is conscious of being master; or 
 upon those in which he exercises his dominion. 
 
 If, however, he can become conscious of his 
 connection with the Great Whole — become con- 
 scious of his connection with all life — con- 
 scious of his innate ability and power to quicken 
 and exhilerate it — retard and control its action 
 — he is only beginning to take the place in the 
 world, which it was destined for him to occupy. 
 
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 It is by the use of man's reasoning powers, 
 "his knowledge of right and wrong, and his in- 
 timate connection, or conscious association 
 with Life itself, that he will be enabled to heal 
 all manner of diseases. 
 
 GOD FORMS NATURE. 
 
 Nature is what we see in the world as a re- 
 sult of Life itself, and is the material manifes- 
 tation of its activities. It is this Life within 
 and behind all things, that causes them to be; 
 and forms "Man of the dust of the earth." 
 
 Then it follows, that the laws of nature, are 
 the laws of life, and the laws of life are the laws 
 of God ; every one of which is eternal and un- 
 changeable in its mode of operation. 
 
 THE LOWER KINGDOMS. 
 
 Nature is divided into four kingdoms: — 
 Mineral, vegetable, animal and human. Life 
 is everywhere present, in each and all. It is 
 through the functions that belong to life alone, 
 that these kingdoms are enabled to exist. 
 
 As has been truly said: "God sleeps in the 
 mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in 
 the animal and comes to consciousness in man ;" 
 or in other words, life sleeps in the mineral, 
 
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 breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal, 
 and comes to consciousness in man. 
 
 The things that we see, are but the embodi- 
 ment of the life which inhabits them. The dif- 
 ferent kingdoms on our planet but reveal the 
 different conditions or activities of this same 
 life. 
 
 All mineral life, when quickened and awak- 
 ened, or through its quickening and awaken- 
 ing, takes upon itself vegetable form; and 
 through this activity becomes what we call 
 vegetative or organic life. Thus, by this same 
 law of progress, — this quickening and awak- 
 ening process, — Life takes upon itself higher 
 and higher forms, or more complex and in- 
 tricate organisms, through which it manifests 
 animal life, and then human life. It is to be 
 through this same quickening and awakening 
 process, that there is to come forth upon our 
 planet the Divine life; for "the Kingdom of 
 God is at hand." 
 
 The functions of vegetative life, or that 
 which constitutes its activity, are its powers 
 of growth, repair and reproduction. Hence, 
 wherever organic life is found, we find these 
 three principles manifest ; for it is the nature of 
 all life to grow, repair, and reproduce every 
 organism, in which it is embodied. In the ani- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 29 
 
 mal kingdom, we find these same functions, op- 
 erating, and as they belong to the life, and not 
 to matter, we find them always operative in all 
 organic forms. 
 
 That which causes the animal kingdom to be, 
 separating and making it distinct from the veg- 
 etable kingdom, is the function which belongs 
 exclusively to animal life, and is locomotion, 
 instinct and sensation. We must always keep 
 thoroughly fixed in the mind, the fact, that the 
 plant does not grow, but that the life grows the 
 plant; that the animal does not move, but the 
 life moves the animal. It is the nature of the 
 life to repair and reproduce itself, and not the 
 nature of matter. Sensation and instinct do 
 not belong to the animal; but they do belong 
 wholly to the life within the animal. 
 
 It is through the use of these functions which 
 belong to animal life alone, that it is enabled to 
 control the vegetative forces within it. In other 
 words, the life in the animal must use its pow- 
 er^ of locomotion, following its instincts, in 
 order to satisfy its sensations of hunger, before 
 it can grow, repair or reproduce itself. 
 
 THE BASIC LAW OF HEALING. 
 
 The Life's forces, are manifest in vegetable 
 structure. The Life's functions are manifest 
 
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 in animal organisms ;• and the Life's faculties^ 
 within and through the human form. 
 
 It cannot be too strongly emphasized, that, 
 as the life's forces in the animal, are used and 
 controlled wholly by the animal functions, so 
 must the life's faculties in man, or the human 
 mind, wholly and completely use and control 
 all the forces and animal functions, within his. 
 own organism. 
 
 This is the great fundamental law, on which 
 all healing is based, viz. : that the highest mani- 
 festation of life, operative in any kingdom on 
 our planet, controls wholly and absolutely, all 
 the functions and forces of life which have pre- 
 ceded it, in the order of evolution; and which 
 are operative and active within it. 
 
 THE KINGDOM OF MAN. 
 
 We will now consider man — the human 
 kingdom — in whom is operative, all the forces 
 and functions of life, or of nature, which have 
 preceded him ; and which must be controlled by 
 him, if he would be the perfect man that God 
 intended him to be. It is through this law, 
 that man, because of his rational, moral and in- 
 spirational nature, is to control the vegetative 
 forces and animal functions within himself. 
 
 It is through man's reasoning on what is 
 
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 right and wrong, as his inspirational nature 
 reveals it to him — which is his direct conjunc- 
 tion with life itself — that enables him to con- 
 trol his locomotion, instinct and sensation, and 
 his processes of growth, repair and reproduc- 
 tion. 
 
 Man has consciously trained himself to con- 
 trol his power of locomotion. Through his 
 reason, his feet carry him where he wishes to 
 go and his hands perform the work which he 
 desires accomplished; because, through his 
 brain and nerves, which connect his mind with 
 these members of the body, he is enabled to 
 control them at will. 
 
 In the same way he must control his sensa- 
 tion, for every part of his body is permeated 
 with the ramifications of the fine nerves, which 
 are in turn connected with larger ones, until 
 they reach the brain ; which is the organ of the 
 mind. This shows us that through the same 
 reasoning powers, and a conscious knowledge 
 of what is true and what is false, or what we 
 desire and do not desire, man can change and 
 control his sensations, in exactly the same way, 
 that he changes and controls his locomotion. 
 
 It is because the members of the body are 
 connected with the brain, that they are under 
 the control of the mind. So it is in like man- 
 
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 ner, because every part of the body is connected 
 with the brain, that every part of it is under the 
 control of the mind. The reason that we have 
 both voluntary and involuntary functions in 
 the body, is because the mind has never been 
 trained to control the organs, as it has been 
 trained to control the members. 
 
 Teach the child from infancy its inability and 
 the impossibility, of its accomplishing certain 
 things, and it will never try ; until it begins to 
 think for itself, and to have faith in its own 
 ability to do them. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 Nature s Laws in Man. 
 
 NATURES LAWS EMPHASIZED. 
 
 We have thus far in this treatise, set forth 
 the following fundamental truths. First, that 
 life is everywhere present. Second, that life is 
 God, working. Third, that the working, is 
 according to fixed and unchangeable laws, 
 which man is capable of understanding; and 
 fourth, that all laws when understood, can be 
 co-operated with, or used by man. 
 
 Again, we have the facts clearly stated, that 
 all forces, functions faculties and powers, be- 
 long exclusively to the life that is embodied 
 in the individual form that it is making. It is 
 the life alone, in these individual forms, that 
 grows, repairs, reproduces, moves, knows 
 right from wrong, controls, feels and reasons; 
 because it is connected with the great Life of 
 the Universe, which is the Life of God. 
 
 our mistake. 
 
 We have been attributing to matter, the 
 
34 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 power that alone belongs to life. We have 
 been attributing to Caesar the power that be- 
 longs to God. 
 
 That we "Render unto Caesar, the things 
 which are Caesar's, and to God, the things that 
 are God's," is an absolute necessity. 
 
 We say, the plants grow ; the animals move ; 
 but when we stop to consider, we know that 
 plants do not grow, but that they are grown; 
 that animals do not move, but are moved. It 
 is the life in each that performs the work. Our 
 thoughts and words, should be in accordance 
 with the truth of that of which we are thinking 
 or speaking ; for the law is, "By thy words thou 
 shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt 
 be condemned." 
 
 If the power belongs to God, then admit it, 
 and cease attributing it to matter ; for it is only 
 in this way, that we learn to know God, and 
 become conscious of our connection with Him, 
 "whom to know aright, is life eternal/' 
 
 man's unlimited powers. 
 
 It is because man is not conscious of his 
 connection with this universal Power, that he 
 has become limited, diseased, sickened and died. 
 It is by and through his becoming conscious of 
 his connection with this same universal Whole 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 35 
 
 — this abundance of life which surrounds him, 
 and of which he has known nothing — that he 
 will yet come to know, understand and realize, 
 his unlimited powers. 
 
 When man shall, as he will and must, come 
 to a realization of his powers through knowing 
 God, it will enable him to heal all manner of 
 diseases, because it will establish him in the 
 position which God ordained that he should oc- 
 cupy; and thus enable him to use the powers 
 that already belong to him ; because they were 
 conferred upon him by the Infinite Father, 
 hence his by Divine right. 
 
 Of what use to man has been this God-given 
 dominion? For him to be ignorant of his 
 power, is it not the same as though he did not 
 possess it ? He may be only a servant or slave, 
 throughout his entire existence, because he is 
 ignorant of his real true nature; but when he 
 begins to see the truth of that which his true 
 inheritance implies — begins to understand his 
 power and ability to do and be — because of 
 what he is — he willingly and gladly exchanges 
 the life of servitude for one of mastery ; the life 
 of weakness for one of Power. 
 
 A MOST IMPORTANT TRUTH. . 
 
 Another great fact of life which is proven to 
 
36 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 us throughout all nature, and which we must 
 ever keep before the mind, is, that all of these 
 forces and functions of life, wherever operative 
 and active, are working for the perfection of the 
 organism in which they are found. It is a 
 mighty fact, that all life — that the Infinite 
 Universal Life itself, has but one aim and ob- 
 ject; and that is, not only to grow and restore 
 all organisms, but to continue to work within 
 and upon them, until they are perfected. There 
 is no cessation fronj the beginning to the finish, 
 except what we may call rest periods, through 
 different seasons of the year, in which all nature 
 seems to sleep; but, is always awakened with 
 renewed vigor, for everything is working to- 
 ward the final finish : — toward the absolutely 
 perfect. 
 
 The life starts the little plant from the seed 
 in the ground, brings it up into the open air 
 and sunlight, shoots out its branches, strength- 
 ens its limbs and then brings forth the blossom 
 and fruit. In like manner, it starts the little 
 animals in the world, growing and expanding 
 their organisms, until they become mighty 
 beasts of the fields and forests. 
 
 By and through this same law an Infinite child 
 is evolved and brought forth, into the world, 
 fed and nourished, cultivated and educated, 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 37 
 
 until it stands forth a living, thinking self-con- 
 scious entity. It is this self-consciousness 
 that constitutes the difference between man and 
 nature, and which will enable him to control 
 nature. It is because of_his power to think 
 that man is lifted not only above nature, but is 
 to become conscious of all that is within and 
 behind nature. 
 
 We must first eradicate thoroughly from 
 our minds, the idea of man's unworthiness ; of 
 his littleness, of his inability to attain anything 
 beyond that which his ancestors have acom- 
 plished before him. 
 
 The thought that our fore-fathers lives are 
 good enough for us to live, should never be 
 indulged for one moment by us; unless they 
 finished the work that God gave them to do. 
 
 Man should never be satisfied to leave this 
 planet, until he has not only exercised, but cul- 
 tivated and developed every God given func- 
 tion, faculty and power, to its fullest extent. 
 
 Man is not prying into the mysteries of God 
 by studying and understanding His works : — 
 His method and mode of operation — in other 
 words, "His will concerning us." We too often 
 excuse our ignorance, our mental laziness, by 
 saying that these things are un-knowable, for- 
 getting that "There is nothing covered, that 
 
38 Life's Great Healing Law, 
 
 shall not be revealed ; neither hid, that shall not 
 be known/' if man will but get near enough to 
 the Infinite Heart, to see things as the Lord 
 sees them, and to receive instructions from 
 this Divine Master, thus enabling him to do 
 things as God does them. 
 
 The foregoing laws are but natural laws; 
 revealing to us the way in which God does 
 things throughout nature in a general sense; 
 and also how He does them through and with 
 man, in a particular sense. In other words, all 
 the general laws of nature, are particularized 
 in man ; and each one of us is in the process of 
 becoming conscious of this particularization. 
 That is, becoming conscious of the Universal 
 Spirit, working in the individual. 
 
 It is facts that we are seeking ; natural facts : 
 — facts that pertain wholly to, and are the re- 
 sult of these natural laws of our being : — f acts, 
 that when seen and understood by us, we would 
 be willing to stake our whole existence on the 
 truth of their reality. 
 
 THE TENDENCY OF LIFE TO HEAL. 
 
 Many people have been cured through a blind 
 faith in that which they believed would cure 
 them, without any knowledge or understanding 
 of the process involved; but curing and heal- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 39 
 
 ing, are not the same. Curing, is only tem- 
 porary relief, a change in conditions, a change 
 of sensations ; while healing, is a consciousness 
 born of the true knowledge of the Infinite in- 
 working powers; the consciousness which 
 grows and is strengthened; which is enlarged 
 and broadened by this knowledge, until not only 
 diseases are healed, but all other undesirable 
 conditions are destroyed and overcome with 
 them. 
 
 The law of healing, is the most wonderful 
 law of life. It is the great repairing process 
 that we find throughout all nature. All the 
 forces and powers of life work together for 
 the advancement and perfection of this re- 
 storing tendency ; this repairing process that we 
 find carried on so extensively, minutely and 
 omnipotently throughout all nature. This is 
 the healing power of God.; and throughout the 
 entire vegetable, animal and human kingdoms, 
 God has not only shown us His ability to heal 
 all organisms when diseased or injured, but 
 His determination to do so. 
 
 We find this healing tendency operative in 
 man with re-doubled vigor — because in man is 
 the co-operative faculty; the ability to con- 
 sciously work with it, which thereby exhiler- 
 ates, increases or magnifies it, to an unlimited 
 
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 degree ; thus causing what is termed "instanta- 
 neous healing.'' 
 
 When man understands and knows that this 
 law of his nature is God, working within hint, 
 he will then have a consciousness of his power 
 and ability to follow the injunction of the Mas- 
 ter, of not only going into the world, and 
 preaching the gospel to every creature, but of 
 healing the sick, casting out demons, and rais- 
 ing the dead. 
 
 This command would not have been given by 
 one who could and did consciously control all 
 the forces of nature, had He not known that 
 we were to become conscious of, and use, this 
 same Power. In the study of life then, we not 
 only see the law by and through which all these 
 things can be accomplished, but we see the law 
 which Jesus understood, when he said, "Greater 
 things than these shall ye do!' 
 
 "Except a man be born again," — born from 
 the consciousness of matter and material con- 
 ditions having control over him, into a con- 
 sciousness of life, whereby understanding the 
 laws and forces of nature, he controls all con- 
 ditions external to and below himself, — "He 
 cannot see the kingdom of God." 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 Birth and Growth of Individual Consciousness. 
 
 the: infinite; machine:. 
 
 When the child is born into the world and 
 placed in its cradle, there is nothing there but 
 life and matter : — the life which formed the 
 little body through its vegetative forces, and the 
 material elements of which this form is com- 
 posed. Within that tiny form is the Divine 
 Mechanic, the Infinite Life itself; also the in- 
 struments and the organs that it has not only 
 invented, but has constructed and placed there 
 for its own individual use. 
 
 It is only beginning now, to use the machine. 
 The little brain is commencing to act, for the 
 first time ; and the wee lungs have only begun 
 to take in and use the atmosphere. There has 
 never yet been a particle of food taken into the 
 little stomach. 
 
 Although the whole machine is ready, like an 
 Infinite locomotive, to start on its first run, — it 
 has hardly commenced to move. 
 
42 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 The Infinite Master who made it, lives within 
 it. He is well equipped with all of His propell- 
 ing powers; with all His reconstructing forces, 
 and His intelligent manipulations, to do with it, 
 and for it, exactly as He knows best. 
 
 If He knows not how to repair it, after bring- 
 ing it here, He surely knew not how to make it. 
 But as it is made, and we look at the perfect 
 little form, watch the wonderful breathing, the 
 beating of the heart, the little eyes rolling 
 around in their sockets, as yet unconscious of 
 the wonders that lie before them; and as it 
 takes its first nourishment, closes them and goes 
 to sleep as naturally as though it had always 
 done so — we cannot help but think of the per- 
 fect intelligence, the Infinite love, and the abso- 
 lute powers of life, that could construct such a 
 wonderful piece of machinery. 
 
 THE WRONG SUGGESTION. 
 
 We watch the little mechanism from day to 
 day as it grows, develops and becomes con- 
 scious of the things around it. We see it tak- 
 ing cold, the measles and the mumps; taking 
 them just as it does the medicines that are 
 poured into it; taking all the childrens' dis- 
 eases, which we have been taught that every 
 child must have: — and we think, "You poor 
 
Life's Great Heeding Low. 43 
 
 little thing ! You have come into a hard world, 
 and there is nothing but a. great struggle for 
 life before you. If you survive without star- 
 vation or the small pox, cancer, or being afflict- 
 ed with some other dreadful thing, you will 
 have done well ; but on the whole, it would have 
 been much better for you, if you had never 
 been born. There's nothing but trials, troubles, 
 afflictions, sufferings and distresses before you 
 in life — which is hard enough at best, — and 
 God only knows what you will have to go 
 through." 
 
 Think of this, will you ? This is the way the 
 little Infinite life is taught. This is the quality 
 and character of the suggestions that are poured 
 into it, from infancy to old age. Because 'it 
 is the Infinite Master that dwells within — the 
 Divine Musician — it can play every tune that 
 is thus given it, on its own little harp. It com- 
 mences by playing the cold, sneezing and cough- 
 ing until its little strings are almost broken; 
 then runs the cold into pneumonia, and winds 
 up with scarlet fever; which leaves the poor 
 little instrument, very much battered and badly 
 worn, if not entirely disabled for life. 
 
 In this w r ay it goes on, throughout its- entire 
 life ; trying as best it may and can to repair and 
 restore its own instrument. And yet, because 
 
44 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 of its nature, because of the law of its being, 
 it must carry out all' of the instructions that are 
 given it. In other words, it must either play, 
 or play at, every horrible tune that is called for,, 
 by the clamoring mob around it. 
 
 the; right suggestion. 
 
 On the other hand, one should stand by and 
 see that little form come into the world, know- 
 ing that no power under the heavens or in the 
 universe, could construct and bring it forth, but 
 God Himself. One must also know that its 
 Infinite Maker, has His own plan, His own 
 purpose — and His own idea that He desires to 
 carry out with and for it, the same as He had 
 His idea and purpose in making it. To such 
 an one, is known the fact, that God will not stop 
 His effort, will not cease from His labor, until 
 He has finished the work which He has only 
 just begun. 
 
 To one who can thus see behind the veil of 
 flesh — if the Divine Suggestions only, are given 
 to this little one — what a vastly different life, 
 is open for it. In its little form would be seen 
 to be, only the Infinite Maker, the Divine Mas- 
 ter, God Himself, working. 
 
 This Infinite being should be seen, not only 
 at the beginning of the process, but it should 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 45 
 
 be recognized as being ever present to cope with 
 all adversities. To fight all battles. To heal 
 all diseases. To comfort all that mourn; and 
 to rule in and reign over the earth, as it rules in 
 and reigns over its own physical organism. 
 
 No limitations should be placed upon this 
 little one, because the body should be recog- 
 nized as only a physical shape. That which 
 animates and controls it, should be seen to be 
 the very same Infinite Life that it was before 
 it commenced to construct the little form, and 
 bring it into the world. It should be seen to' 
 be the same Life embodied in this human form 
 that is manifest throughout nature. 
 
 It should be seen to be the Son of God, the 
 child of omnipotence; partaking wholly of the 
 nature quality and attributes of God, its Father. 
 It should be seen to be the Real Man, to whom 
 God gave "dominion over all the earth." 
 
 It is this idea of its dominion, of its 
 mastery, of its wisdom, of its powers, of its 
 ability to do and be, whatever it desires to do 
 and be ; that should be given to it. It is this 
 idea of its possessing only unlimited powers 
 on every line, and in every conceivable way that 
 will develop and bring forth only the unlimited 
 and perfect nature within it, that should be 
 poured into it, from the very beginning of its 
 
46 Life's Great Healing Lazv. 
 
 existence ; if it would stand forth in the world, 
 in character, quality and nature, the man that 
 God intended it should be. 
 
 the; process. 
 
 This transformation is brought about, by the 
 same law, and accomplished in exactly the same 
 way, that all things are brought about with 
 mankind on our planet. 
 
 The very same law that fills the human or- 
 ganism with all the imperfections that "flesh is 
 heir to," will fill this same organism with all the 
 perfections, that man, the Infinite son of God, 
 is heir to. This is done wholly, by the law of 
 suggestion, which is a law of God. It is the 
 law that God has established for the purpose 
 of educating man ; for the purpose of quicken- 
 ing, awakening, and developing the individual 
 consciousness in him. 
 
 The individual consciousness is brought 
 forth, by this law of suggestion. First, the 
 physical consciousness, or the knowledge of 
 being material. Then the intellectual and 
 moral, which is his becoming conscious that he 
 is a living, thinking being — knowing right 
 from wrong ; and next, the psychic and spiritual, 
 which is the consciousness of his immortality, 
 and his conjunction with God his Father. 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 47 
 
 These different degrees, or states of con- 
 sciousness, must be quickened and opened in the 
 individual, the same as the different stages and 
 degrees of life, are quickened and opened in 
 nature. 
 
 Man, being a reproduction of the whole, then 
 that which has been produced in the whole, 
 must of necessity be re-produced in him. As 
 he is a conscious being, constantly climbing^ 
 higher and higher in consciousness, this climb- 
 ing process is but his becoming conscious of the 
 life doing within himself all that it has pre- 
 viously done in nature. 
 
 BIRTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 But what is this individual consciousness? 
 From whence does it come? 
 
 We all know when the child is born into the 
 world, that there is no individual consciousness 
 born with it: — for there is absolutely nothing 
 there, but life and matter. Of course there are 
 the tendencies to limitation, and the tendencies 
 to Infinite possibilities ; but the infant is wholly 
 unconscious of it all. 
 
 The consciousness, is the result of the life 
 acting within and upon the body, after it brings 
 it into the world. It is the result, of the way 
 the life uses the little brain, or of what it 
 thinks. 
 
48 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 Individual consciousness, is the result of 
 thinking. 
 
 We must think, in order to know; and what 
 we know, we become conscious of. 
 
 It is thus, that consciousness is evolved or 
 created — 'tis in this way only, that it is devel- 
 oped. 
 
 The quality and character of the conscious- 
 ness, is wholly determined by the quality and 
 character of the thinking which preceded it. 
 The physical senses — seeing, hearing, feeling, 
 tasting and smelling — are the avenue or chan- 
 nels, which connect this embodied life, this in- 
 dividual entity, with the things external to 
 itself, and to its own organism. 
 
 It is through the use of these senses that it 
 begins to recognize, reflect, remember, reason, 
 understand, know and finally become conscious 
 of the things through which, in this way, it has 
 come in contact. It is by and through the use 
 of these senses, faculties and powers, which 
 belong to the life alone,, that this consciousness 
 is born, or that the life within, becomes con- 
 scious of being an individual entity. 
 
 As these faculties and powers, are first called 
 forth by matter, and are used within and upon 
 matter, it is but natural that the life should 
 first acquire a consciousness of being material 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 49 
 
 or physical; for all suggestions are taken into 
 life, by and through these same avenues with 
 which it handles, and comes in contact with ma- 
 terial substance. 
 
 GROWTH IN CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 It is because Life has acquired this physical 
 consciousness through thinking and planning 
 for that alone which pertains to its physical or 
 animal nature, that it becomes, what we call a 
 physical or animal man. 
 
 You must remember that this physical or ani- 
 mal consciousness, is evolved or created, by 
 man's giving his whole attention to his animal 
 instincts ; and as they are always fed in the body 
 and with the body, he becomes conscious only 
 of his body, hence he thinks that the body is 
 himself. 
 
 It is because the man desires only matter, and 
 the gratification of the animal instincts which 
 are felt and enjoyed only in and through mat- 
 ter, that this consciousness is called physical or 
 material ; for it is composed wholly of material 
 thoughts. 
 
 This is natural in a certain stage of the pro- 
 cess of development, but it is only that which 
 all must pass through; for man cannot tarry 
 long in this condition, without injury to the 
 
50 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 intellectual and moral faculties, which must also 
 be awakened and developed. 
 
 On the higher plane of his being, the phys- 
 ical and animal become his servants, instead of 
 he their slave. His rational and moral nature 
 assumes control ; and his consciousness is grad- 
 ually changed from a sensuous animal, to an in- 
 tellectual and moral man. He becomes con- 
 scious of reasoning and thinking on any line. 
 To all animal instincts he says, "Thus far shalt 
 thou go, and no farther." He not only desires 
 to do certain things, but through his reasoning 
 powers he has cultivated a will, that is strong 
 enough to enable him to do what he desires. 
 
 Every mental faculty is alert and active ; and 
 man becomes conscious that he is £n intellectual 
 being. And yet, this is not the highest con- 
 sciousness, but only a step on the way. 
 
 FALSE PREMISE. 
 
 The most intellectual men we have had on 
 our planet, have been unconscious of being any- 
 thing more than mere physical forms. They 
 have admitted that the machinery in their body 
 runs, that some force or power kept it in oper- 
 ation; but many of them have believed that 
 "death ends all ;"and because they have been un- 
 able to gain any knowledge beyond their physi- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 51 
 
 cal senses, they have believed there was no 
 knowledge beyond. Never having reasoned 
 from life out, but always from matter in, they 
 have failed in getting the true solution to the 
 problem. 
 
 FROM TH£ NATURAL TO THE) SPIRITUAL. 
 
 All reasoning that starts with matter alone, 
 must be as limited as matter is. In the same 
 way, all reasoning that starts with life, must 
 be as unlimited as life is. The end, of neces- 
 sity, is involved in the beginning. 
 
 The whole problem of human and Divine 
 life, is involved in consciousness, and must be 
 evolved from this same consciousness. 
 
 As we have the vegetative, animal and human 
 life in nature, each following the other, or un- 
 folding out of the other, into higher and higher 
 manifestations, so we have the physical, intel- 
 lectual and spiritual consciousness, which un- 
 fold or open up, into higher and higher degrees 
 of realization. 
 
 As the life force within nature, is the creating 
 power that forms or causes all of the different 
 organisms to exist, so thought, within man, is 
 the creative power, that forms or causes all of 
 these different states of consciousness to exist. 
 
 When man begins to see himself, as life, and 
 
52 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 not as matter, as a mental instead of a physical 
 being, he is then only beginning to understand 
 his true nature. But seeing or comprehending 
 this truth does not do away with the physical, 
 but it does adjust it; placing it where it belongs. 
 Also, when man sees himself as being wholly 
 spiritual, composed of life itself, it does not do 
 aivay with the rational being that he thought he 
 was, but places it where it belongs. 
 
 THE OFFICE OF REASON. 
 
 Man, is the king on the throne, and Reason is 
 his chief high counsellor. It serves him — he 
 never serves it. Its business is to be out in the 
 world ; to gather all the knowledge and wisdom 
 of the world and bring it to him ; and he must 
 listen to it. It determines and decides all things 
 for him. Through the way it weighs and 
 measures all the information that it gives him, 
 or in others words, through the way he uses all 
 that it brings him, is he enabled to retain his 
 throne. As reason is under him, serving him, 
 so must the physical body, sensation, all the 
 animal instincts and vegetative forces, be under 
 it, and serve it. 
 
 When man reaches a point in life, where he is 
 taught to believe, because of the suggestions 
 given him, — 'that he is above reason,' 'that he 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 53 
 
 has become so spiritual he has outgrown 
 reason/ and he should pay no attention to it, 
 he becomes insane. He 'has lost his reason/ 
 The chief high counsellor has left him. He 
 has no way of controlling his subjects. No 
 way of knowing what is transpiring around 
 him, either within his own kingdom, or outside 
 of it. 
 
 Reason is the great light-house on the shore 
 of life. 
 
 Many people are in the asylum today, because 
 of having been taught and made to believe that 
 their reason was beneath them. 
 
 THK CAPTAIN OF TH£ SHIP OF Utffi. 
 
 Reason is the captain on the ship, but it is 
 not the owner. The owner is "the master/' 
 and in most of us, he is "asleep in the hinder 
 part of the ship," and has never been awakened. 
 
 Reason, the strong courageous captain, must 
 be, not only nourished and protected, but 
 obeyed and honored in every respect. 
 
 All that is done in every part of the ship dur- 
 ing the entire voyage, should be but the carry- 
 ing out of the captain's orders. The ship is put 
 to rights and kept in order, only by his com- 
 mand; repaired and strengthened according to 
 his own directions ; and the willing and obedi- 
 
54 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 ent service of the crew, depends almost wholly 
 upon the way he manages them. 
 
 Every living being is on the great sea of life; 
 and our human ships exist, only because of the 
 fact that the Infinite Master dwells within. We 
 become water-logged or stranded, drift with 
 the tide, or lashed nearly to pieces by the 
 waves; lamed, halt or blind, just in proportion, 
 as we have not awakened this Infinite Master. 
 
 Suppose we strike an unseen rock, that in- 
 jures and disables the ship, and, unconscious of 
 the power of the Master on board to repair the 
 injury, we hoist the signal of distress, and call 
 in a doctor to repair the damages. This is 
 slow, laborious, and always expensive. Many 
 times the ship sinks, before the doctor arrives ; 
 and often after his appearance, on the scene, 
 because of his lack of knowledge, the engine 
 ceases to act, and the ship goes down. 
 
 CALIv THE OWNER. 
 
 The true way is to awaken or call the Master. 
 He who not only built the ship in the beginning, 
 but invented it, as well. He who made all the 
 materials, out of which it was constructed ; and 
 more than this, he formed the substance out oi 
 which all the materials were made. 
 
 He not only knows how to turn water into 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 55 
 
 wine, but how to turn water into blood : — pure, 
 perfect, healthy blood. Knows, not only how to 
 multiply loaves and fishes : — but to multiply the 
 flesh, functions, faculties, vitality and powers, 
 strengthening and renewing every part and par- 
 ticle of this great machine. 
 
 When this Master is awakened, we then have 
 on deck with us, our own mechanic, lawyer, 
 priest and physician. To awaken this Master, 
 this Owner, and keep him on deck with us all 
 the time, is the object and aim of all true heal- 
 ing. The only purpose of this book, is to re- 
 veal the Law, by and through which this may 
 be accomplished. 
 
 The reason why our ship has not gone to the 
 bottom, been lashed to pieces by the waves and 
 breakers, or stranded on the rocks and shoals, 
 is because it carries this Infinite Master ; for : — 
 
 "Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea, 
 Or demons or men, or whatever it be, 
 
 No waters can swallow the ship where lies, 
 The Master of Heaven, and earth, and skies." 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 Magnify the Lord. 
 
 REAL HEALING. 
 
 Real healing is to "magnify the Lord." To 
 magnify anything or any one, we must in 
 speaking or thinking of it or them, always ex- 
 aggerate, enlarge upon, that of which we may 
 have only caught a glimpse, until we have in 
 our own mind and consciousness, so increased 
 the character and nature of that which we are 
 magnifying, that it appears to our mental vision 
 to be, and we really believe it is exactly as we 
 have magnified it. 
 
 This is all done by the law of suggestion, 
 which is the GREAT law OF LIFE. 
 
 All healing is done by the law of suggestion, 
 — whether that suggestion is material, oral or 
 mental. The life forces within the patient are 
 "amenable to control, by suggestion," and they 
 are wholly and completely under its sway. If 
 the suggestion of disease is held to, more tena- 
 ciously than that of health, the disease will 
 make its appearance in the body; and the pa- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 57 
 
 tient will die, if the suggestion of death, is 
 stronger than that of life. 
 
 The doctor suggests to his patient his ability 
 to heal him, by taking his case. He follows up 
 this suggestion with medicines, all the time, 
 adding others by words of encouragement and 
 cheer; such as — "Oh! you'll soon be all right; 
 you'll be better to-morrow; the fever or pain 
 will soon be gone; get a good sleep now and 
 you will wake up feeling much better." In ad- 
 dition to his medicines and words of hope, are 
 his mental suggestions, which are his faith in 
 the patient's recovery; in his own ability to heaJ 
 the disease or keep the patient sick with the 
 drugs, in which he has so much confidence. 
 
 All of these different forms of suggestions, 
 would amount to nothing were it not for the 
 life in the body. It is the life that takes up 
 every suggestion and acts upon it, exactly in 
 proportion to the weight that the suggestion 
 carries with it; and that is determined wholly 
 by the power that any prior suggestion may 
 have over that. 
 
 You should always keep in mind the impor- 
 tant fact, that this life in the patient's body, is 
 the Lord of that particular individual ; and that 
 it is this Lord who reigns supremely through- 
 out every particle of the entire organism. 
 
58 Life's Great Healing Law, 
 
 It is this life or Lord, that made the body in 
 the first place; and it is this same life or Lord 
 that digests, assimilates and appropriates all 
 foods, for its own use. There is but one life; 
 and yet there are lives many. "There is but 
 one Lord, and yet there are Lords many." 
 
 No doctor or healer, of whatever "pathy," or 
 "faith," will treat a corpse. When the life is 
 gone, or this individual Lord has left His ma- 
 terial habitation, all work ceases; and mortal 
 man stops his efforts. 
 
 The desire and effort of every physician on 
 every line — from the little pill doctor, to the 
 Great Physician — is to quicken or awaken; to 
 exhilerate or in some way control this life, or 
 Infinite Lord within. Each one undertakes it, 
 according to his understanding of what it is, 
 and his belief in his own ability to accomplish 
 what he desires to do. 
 
 THE LAW OF SUGGESTION. 
 
 This law of suggestion, is the basis of all 
 education ; for it controls the entire mental and 
 physical man. Material, oral and mental sug- 
 gestions, are poured into the individual from 
 infancy to old age. His whole life is controlled 
 by suggestion; and the quality, character and 
 success of his life, is determined wholly by the 
 
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 suggestions he has received, and the way he has 
 acted upon them. 
 
 All suggestions are made to the life within M 
 either consciously or unconsciously. This is 
 proven by the fact that no one ever makes sug- 
 gestions to a lifeless form. No one ever sug- 
 gests to it, what it might, can or should do; 
 thus proving that it is the life alone, that re- 
 ceives and acts upon the suggestion given. It 
 is the life alone, that takes up every suggestion, 
 and works it out into — what we may call — the 
 individual consciousness, and the physical or- 
 ganism. 
 
 All healing, on every line, practiced to-day, 
 is but an effort on the part of the healer, to 
 "magnify the Lord." He does this in his own 
 way, either blindly and ignorantly, or intelli- 
 gently and consciously; which depends wholly 
 on his understanding of who and what the Lord 
 is, or in other words, his understanding of the 
 activity and nature of the Infinite life. 
 
 Real healing then, is the result of a clear, 
 true understanding of the nature and tenden- 
 cies of the life or Lord within; and in having 
 all suggestions made in exact conformity with 
 its real and true nature. Every suggestion 
 given, is accepted by it, whether true or false ; 
 and as it is Infinite in its power of operating, 
 
60 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 it quietly goes forward, carrying out the sug- 
 gestions it receives, to the best of its ability; 
 whether it be to produce a cold or cure one, 
 to create a fever, or control one. 
 
 But the true suggestion, given with a clear 
 understanding of the truth involved, carries 
 with it, infinitely nwre force and power; be- 
 cause it awakens in the life the consciousness of 
 what it really is. This causes it to manifest 
 in the flesh, the truth of its being; which is 
 perfect health, and perfect happiness. 
 
 the: power of imagination. 
 
 The diseased, unhappy poverty-stricken con- 
 dition of mankind to-day, is the result of the 
 ignorant use, or abuse, of man's great magnify- 
 ing faculty ; which is imagination. Ninety per 
 cent of all the diseases, unhappiness and pov- 
 erty in the world, is the direct result of distort- 
 ed imagination. 
 
 To imagine one's conditions as worse than 
 they are, is a sure way to bring about those 
 worse conditions ; because all such thoughts are 
 auto-suggestions, which too often carry with 
 them, the controlling power. 
 
 To magnify our aches and pains, — the evil 
 things that have been said about us, — our ina- 
 bility to do what we would like to do — our lack 
 
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 of money — or, the fear that what we now have, 
 will not last us long, or will give out before the 
 arrival of that dreaded 'rainy day/ — is to give 
 directions to the Infinite life within; and sug- 
 gests to it, that which it faithfully carries out 
 and externalizes, in the individual conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 FALSE TEACHING. 
 
 We have given no heed to the command to 
 "Magnify the Lord," because we have spent all 
 of our time in magnifying 'the Devil/ The 
 Devil having been believed to be, the being who 
 opposes everything that, the Lord undertakes 
 to do ; and we having been taught from infancy, 
 that because of our forefathers having entered 
 into conversation with him, he led them into 
 sin, from which they have never escaped. We 
 have also been taught, because we are children 
 of these same ancient relics of ignorance and 
 selfishness, that we were born in this same sin 
 — that we are under his control, and all unhap- 
 piness, poverty, diseases and death, are the di- 
 rect result of our association with him. 
 
 All of these old ideas or suggestions, must 
 be eradicated from the mind, before we can ex- 
 pect or hope to be healed, or to understand 
 God's laws. There is no way by which we can 
 
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 loosen our hold on the so-called Devil or his 
 hold upon us, so quickly as by taking a firm 
 hold upon God. "We cannot serve two mas- 
 ters." 
 
 CONSCIOUS CONJUNCTION WITH GOD. 
 
 We must learn to recognize the omnipotent 
 power of God in all things, working for Good. 
 We must also recognize the fact that no living 
 being, creature or thing, demon or saint, can 
 interfere with God's work, within and for us, 
 if we but keep ourselves in conscious conjunc- 
 tion with Him. Conscious conjunction with 
 Him, means conscious connection with the uni- 
 versal Life ; drawing from it constantly, health, 
 strength and vigor, happiness, peace and love, 
 courage, success and plenty. 
 
 There is nothing that can shut us off, or 
 come between us and this Infinite reservoir, 
 unless we let it. Nothing can interfere with 
 us in any way, but we ourselves. No power 
 can hold the disease in our body, the beliefs in 
 our mind, or the ignorance pertaining to all 
 things, but we ourselves. 
 
 Every living being who is conscious of his 
 thinking power ; conscious of his ability to con- 
 trol his own mind, can determine what he will 
 think, and w^hat he will not think — what he 
 
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 will become conscious of, and what he will not 
 become conscious of. Through the same way 
 that he determines what he will do and what 
 he will not do, so does he determine what he 
 will feel and what he will not feel. 
 
 It is through the reasoning power that man 
 controls his locomotion, and so by the same 
 method does he control his sensation. The 
 suggestion is made as to where he will go, 
 and what he will do — reason deciding what is 
 best and most desirable under the circum- 
 stances, — and the life within moves the body 
 away to accomplish the desired results. In 
 like manner with regard to sensation. The sug- 
 gestion of pain or pleasure is given ; and reason 
 takes it up deciding what is best, what is right 
 and most desirable ; and the life within the body 
 responds as readily, automatically and per- 
 fectly, to carry out the desired results, as it 
 does in the other instance. 
 
 TH£ ignorant man. 
 
 The reason why we have not heretofore rec- 
 ognized the importance of this mightly truth, 
 is because we have never given the subject 
 proper attention. It is only the densely ignor- 
 ant man or woman who condemns without in- 
 vestigation, any subject that they do not under- 
 
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 stand. The wise and honest man will always 
 admit that he does not know, thus placing him- 
 self in an attitude to learn the truth, by recog- 
 nizing the fact that because he does not know 
 or understand the truth, is no reason why it 
 should not exist. That because he is not fa- 
 miliar with all the laws of nature, does not 
 signify that nature has no laws. 
 
 Paul says, "That which is not of faith is sin/' 
 All ignorance is sin. Being born in sin, is be- 
 ing born into ignorance. Remaining in sin, 
 is to remain in ignorance. Getting out of or 
 free from sin, is only done through knowledge, 
 and this knowledge or wisdom, comes only 
 through proper thinking. Knowledge of God, 
 and the things of God, gives the required faith 
 that not only lifts man above sin, but stops his 
 sinning; for it lifts him out of ignorance, and 
 puts an end to his folly. 
 
 Just so long as we believe in a 'personal 
 Devil/ or an 'evil power,' that can interfere 
 with God's work with us, anti our work with 
 God, we are a house divided against itself ; and 
 Jesus emphasized the fact, that a house thus di- 
 vided cannot stand. 
 
 SUFFICIENT FAITH. 
 
 Man always has enough faith to accomplish 
 
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 his purpose; but in order for him to make a 
 success in everything, both for himself and 
 others, he must centre this faith on that which 
 will do him the most good. To centre all of his 
 faith in God, is to be so closely united to Him, 
 that God and one become a majority: for 
 Whatsoever ye shall ask, believing it shall be 
 done unto you, of my Father, which is in 
 Heaven. 
 
 But to centre his faith in the power of evil, 
 in the Devil ; the Devil and one become a ma- 
 jority; for 'As your faith, so be it unto you." 
 This axiom, given us by the Divine Master, 
 "As your faith, so be it unto you," is a universal 
 law: and hence, applicable in all circumstan- 
 ces and conditions of life. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 Practical Illustrations. 
 
 THE GROWTH OF A BOIL. 
 
 When you see a little speck of inflammation 
 showing forth upon the body, and you begin 
 to suggest to yourself and others, — "It's a boil. 
 I'm sure that it's a boil ; because I have seen and 
 had them; and I guess / know perfectly well 
 what boils are." You watch the, at first, little 
 speck enlarge and grow, until it is "unto thee, 
 according to thy faith." 
 
 Your faith is wholly in the boil; in the pain 
 and suffering which it produces ; and this faith, 
 this fear, brings you into a full and complete 
 realization of it. 
 
 On the other hand, if you had faith in God — 
 if you as certainly knew and thought that your 
 body is a temple of God, and the Spirit of God 
 dzvells within His holy temple — you would sug- 
 gest to this perfect life within — even though the 
 boil might be far on the way — that IT had the 
 
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 power and ability to stop all inflammation, and 
 to heal the boil immediately. 
 
 You would set your reasoning faculties 
 to work, to suggest or remind the life within, 
 that it had constructed channels within that 
 body, gates and doors, by which all the refuse 
 should be carried off, without breaking through 
 the walls or eating holes in the flesh. 
 
 This suggestion would at once be taken up 
 by the life; and it would much more willingly 
 and easily stop the pain, and reduce all inflam- 
 mation, than it would continue to 'bring the 
 boil to a head ;' because, that is its normal way 
 of operation. The intense desire of all the 
 forces, functions and powers of its nature, are 
 on the line of construction, and not of de- 
 struction. The Infinite power of the universe 
 is bearing down upon them, and compelling 
 them to heal. 
 
 God being the Infinite all perfect one, all the 
 forces and laws of His being must not only be 
 perfect, but must bring forth perfection. It is 
 the innate tendency of all the life forces to pro- 
 duce perfection. Hence, when you talk boil, 
 think, suggest and have faith in boils, the Infin- 
 ite power sees to it, that you get a perfect boil. 
 
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 PERFECT DISEASES. 
 
 The life's nature is to carry out every sug- 
 gestion given. It's nature is to perfect, every- 
 thing that it creates. As it creates or exter- 
 nalizes in your consciousness all suggestions 
 given to it, you have as a result, not only per- 
 fect boils, but perfect felons, perfect gout, rheu- 
 matism, paralysis, consumption, dyspepsia, 
 smallpox; and in fact you are disabled, "laid 
 up," as the result of your own suggestion, and 
 the suggestions of others, by this same Infinite 
 life. 
 
 Just as long as you continue to believe that 
 there are diseases which your flesh is heir to, 
 "as your faith, so be it unto you." 
 
 We all receive what we inherit. Every case 
 is tried before the Supreme Court. The Infinite 
 Judge is always at his post of duty, and every 
 one receives according to the claims which he 
 makes before this Judge, who is the Life in 
 each. 
 
 If he insists upon having what his fore- 
 fathers left him; that which has been handed 
 down to him from generation to generation; 
 and which constitutes all the infirmities of the 
 flesh ; the court decides in his favor, thus "visit- 
 ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
 unto the third and fourth generation." 
 
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 On the other hand, if he is making the claim 
 for his Divine inheritance — for all the condi- 
 tions that belong to man as the Son of God — for 
 the recognition and realization of his own 
 Deific powers to create for himself health and 
 happiness; the decision of the same court will 
 be in his favor; and he will receive the full 
 amount of his claim; for the Infinite Judge 
 "shows mercy/' unto all those who "love Him 
 and keep His commandments." 
 
 As long as you have faith in, or are afraid of, 
 tuberculosis, microbes, bacteria, bacilli and all 
 kinds of disease germs — faith in these to de J 
 stroy and eat up your flesh — you have not faith 
 in God. And, to make a long story short, and 
 bring it right down to where you can see it : — 
 you are either absolutely ignorant of the fact, 
 that "your body is the temple of God," or else 
 you believe that all of these parasites are 
 greater gods, and exert more power, than the 
 Infinite Almighty Himself. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 Laws and Their Application . 
 
 THE LAW OF PERFECTION. 
 
 In the preceding pages, we have already enu- 
 merated several important facts of life. One 
 of the prinpical ones, of which is, that it is the 
 nature of the creative power to perfect every 
 organism that it creates. That just exactly as 
 the plant is formed and continually acted upon, 
 by this Infinite life within it, until it is not only 
 a perfect organism, but brings forth perfect 
 blossoms and fruit; and as the animal is not 
 only formed but is continually acted upon by 
 the perfect life within, until it becomes a strong 
 beautiful, intelligent animal; so is the organ- 
 ism of man formed, and is continually acted 
 upon by the Infinite life within, until, not only 
 the blossom and fruitage of manhood is brought 
 forth, but the strength, beauty and sublimity of 
 character is evolved; until man stands forth 
 in his maturity, not only conscious of this In- 
 finite power working within him, but conscious 
 that he is working with it, and that he is it. 
 
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 He becomes conscious that he is directing and 
 using it for the accomplishment of his highest 
 ideals. Conscious that "all power in Heaven 
 and Earth," has been really and truly given 
 unto him ; and that the command of God, "Let 
 him have dominion," has become an establish- 
 ed fact, and is no longer a meaningless and hol- 
 low statement. 
 
 ALL POWERS BELONG TO LIFE. 
 
 Another important fact is,- that all the forces, 
 functions, faculties and powers belong to the 
 life itself, and not to the plant, animal or human 
 organisms. This life has proven its supreme 
 power over all matter, not only by making mat- 
 ter, but by forming all material conditions. 
 
 The fact that the life does the growing, that 
 the organisms do not grow but that the life 
 grows them, must always be kept before the 
 mind. Also the facts, that the restoring and 
 repairing process is accomplished by the life 
 alone. That it is all wise; knowing exactly 
 how and where to do the work. Also, it is in- 
 stantaneous in its operations; for the moment 
 the injury is done, the healing forces are set 
 at work to heal the wound. 
 
 The reproducing power belongs to life; for 
 no organism can be brought forth on the earth, 
 
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 without the consent of the Infinite Master ; and 
 not only His consent, but under His own direct 
 instructions and supervision. 
 
 No organism moves itself, but the life within 
 moves it ; and not only that, but the life knew 
 exactly how to construct the many varieties 
 of machines, from the tiny insect to the most 
 perfect human form, in order to move them in 
 the way it wanted to go ; and that it might do 
 with them what it had planned. 
 
 It is the life alone that feels ; that uses its 
 physical senses, as a means of knowing what 
 is going on throughout its own organism, and 
 external to it ; and it uses its instinct for its own 
 self-protection and self-preservation. 
 
 the; child of life:. 
 
 To life alone, belongs all of these powers, 
 faculties, forces and senses. As the individual 
 life, that which is embodied in the individual 
 organism, is but the child or offspring of the 
 universal life; it must of necessity partake 
 wholly of the nature, characteristics, attributes 
 and substance of the Infinite Father, of which 
 it is the offspring. 
 
 All children, all offspring, partake wholly of 
 the nature, characteristics attributes and sub- 
 stance of the parent, of which they are the 
 child. 
 
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 It is a universal law of life, that everything 
 reproduces after its kind. 
 
 God, the Divine Father, the Universal Infin- 
 ite Power, "created Man, in His own Image," 
 or after His kind, hence all finite beings, crea- 
 tures and things, must reproduce after their 
 kind; for they are all reproductions of God's 
 Law. 
 
 As we have all our lives studied the finite be- 
 ings, creations and things, in order to gain the 
 knowledge that we have, thereby becoming con- 
 scious of the finite only: so must we in like 
 manner devote as much time to studying the In- 
 finite, the loving and eternal, if we would gain 
 knowledge of it, and become conscious of the 
 Infinite loving and eternal beings, which we are, 
 as children of this Infinite loving Father. 
 
 Beloved, 'Now are we the sons of God; but 
 it doth not yet appear what we shall be," be- 
 cause we have not yet become conscious of be- 
 ing this Infinite life; and "what we shall be," 
 will never be revealed until this life has ap- 
 peared to us, and then shall we be like it ; for we 
 shall have seen it as it is, and will then become 
 conscious that we are it. 
 
 This great change is to take place, only in 
 and through consciousness. Through right 
 thinking, this consciousness is to be changed 
 
74 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 from the mortal to the 'immortal. It is to be 
 changed from a diseased creature, to a healthy 
 being; from an unhappy creature, to a happy 
 being; from a failure in life to a success. 
 
 By letting "the same mind be in you, that was 
 in Christ Jesus our Lord," you change the indi- 
 vidual from the weak, diseased, ignorant, sel- 
 fish creature, that he has made himself, — by his 
 own and others' suggestions — to the conscious- 
 ness of being the perfect, healthy, unselfish and 
 mighty being — the Divine image, as God cre- 
 ated him. 
 
 It is because man has imbedded or centered 
 his consciousness in matter — in the physical 
 body, that he has become weak and limited; 
 hence unconscious of his Divine prerogatives. 
 We always become conscious, of that in which 
 our thought is centered. We always become 
 conscious of being that which we really and 
 truly think we are, for "As a man thinketh in 
 his heart, so is he." If he thinks he is com- 
 posed only of flesh and blood and bones, this 
 becomes as real to him as though he truly were. 
 
 CHANGING CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 In order to transfer this consciousness from 
 the physical organism to the life within, man 
 must think that he is life. He must imbed or 
 
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 centre his consciousness in life. He must think 
 of himself as doing and being, all that life is 
 and can do. 
 
 As he became conscious of his limitations 
 while living in matter only, because matter is 
 limited, so must he become conscious of his 
 unlimitations while living or centered in life, 
 because life is unlimited. 
 
 In other words, he must deliberately and 
 persistently, change his abode of habitation, 
 from matter to life, from the physical to the 
 spiritual, from Mammon to God. 
 
 Instead of thinking of seeing with his eye?, 
 and hearing with his ears and feeling with his 
 nerves, all of which are material and limited; 
 he must think of seeing, hearing and feeling 
 through them. He must think of himself 
 as centered in Life, as being the very 
 centre of all life; thus seeing, hearing, 
 feeling, tasting and smelling with the 
 Universal. He must see that the Universal 
 Powers are his powers. That because he is cen- 
 tered in It, It is centered in him ; and through 
 the consciousness of his being centered in It, 
 the Universal Power works in and through him. 
 
 He sees all things as it sees them. He 
 hears all things, as it hears them and is to be- 
 come conscious of all things as they are in It. 
 
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 Thus centered in It, he looks out through his 
 physical eyes. He must remember that he is 
 seeing with the universal sight, but seeing 
 through his eyes, as one looks out through his 
 window into the outside world. 
 
 In remembering this fact, he knows that the 
 universal sight cannot be weakened or injured, 
 in any way. It is Infinite and Omnipotent in 
 its mode of operation; for it is the all-seeing 
 eye of God. 
 
 Inseparable from this universal sight, is the 
 perfect constructing and reconstructing power 
 of the Almighty. This is there not only to heal 
 and restore, but it is there to invent, construct 
 and perfect the physical organism, for its own 
 use. 
 
 RESTORING THE SIGHT. 
 
 In studying life outward from God, from the 
 very centre of life, to the circumference of mat- 
 ter, one not only gains a higher and holier con- 
 ception of Deity, but gains a consciousness of 
 the mighty fact that he can of himself do noth- 
 ing, but that it is the Father dwelling within 
 him, who doeth the work. 
 
 That which a man thinks in his heart, he of 
 necessity knows, and what he knows, he be- 
 comes conscious of. Thus we see why it is, 
 
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 and how it is, that "as a man thinketh in his 
 heart, so is he." 
 
 It makes not the slightest difference to the 
 Infinite law of God — to the universal construct- 
 ing and reconstructing powers of the Almighty 
 — whether you have cataract growing over the 
 eyes, are cross-eyed or have astigmatism; are 
 near-sighted or far-sighted, weak or otherwise. 
 It not only has the ability and the will to re- 
 move and restore all, but it always carries with 
 it, the necessary materials and instruments, 
 through which the work is to be accomplished. 
 
 All that is required, for you to become con- 
 scious of perfect sight, is your belief in its 
 ability, and your faith in its determined effort 
 to do the work. "Have faith in God, and noth- 
 ing shall be impossible unto you," for, "as your 
 faith, so be it unto you." 
 
 It is because you believe that the cataract can 
 shut out the light of God, that gives it power 
 to do so. The cataract and one are a majority, 
 in their ability to make you blind, the same as 
 God and one are a majority, in their ability to 
 make you see. 
 
 For man to transfer his consciousness from 
 matter to life, is for him to become as abso- 
 lutely conscious of the fact, that he lives, moves 
 
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 and has his being in life, as he is now conscious, 
 that he lives, moves and has his being in matter. 
 
 the healing power is in the individual. 
 
 That which is true of the eyes, is also true 
 of the ears. That which is true of the Infinite 
 power seeing, is also true of the Infinite power 
 hearing. 
 
 We must have it stamped indelibly on the 
 mind, so that it can never be eradicated or 
 changed ; that the healing and restoring power 
 of God Himself, is inseparably connected with 
 every faculty, function, sense and portion, of 
 the entire human organism. 
 
 It makes no difference whether it is for the 
 perfection of the ears, so that the Infinite life 
 can hear all sounds through them, or the per- 
 fection of any of the other organs of sense. 
 Whether it is for the perfection of the organs 
 within the body, so that the Omnipotent func- 
 tions of life can perform their work perfectly — 
 or the muscular and nervous systems — the cir- 
 culation of the blood — or the strengthening of 
 the bones : — in fact, throughout every atom 
 of the entire human form, it makes no differ- 
 ence in what part of it, or in what connection 
 we find it, this mighty fact of God remains the 
 same: — that is, that the healing and restoring 
 powers of the Divine life within yourself, are 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 79 
 
 inseparably connected with every function of 
 the body ; every particle and portion of it ; every 
 faculty of the mind ; and every sense and activ- 
 ity of the whole being of man. 
 
 We must also keep in mind, that the only re- 
 quired condition for perfect restoration, per- 
 fect health and understanding on every line, 
 is, through man consciously connecting himself 
 with the Infinite Power — God — in thought. He 
 must acknowledge Him in all his ways; by 
 holding to the fact that it is "the Father dwell- 
 ing within" him, that is doing the work — and 
 "I can of myself, do nothing." 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 Laws of Our Being. 
 
 ONE GRAND WHOLE. 
 
 Man must always think of life, as being one 
 universal whole ; connecting and permeating all 
 things. He must think of himself as being 
 that part of the universal whole, which is em- 
 bodied in his own human form. 
 
 "We are all one body, with many members/' 
 Every human being is but a member of this 
 Great Body. Then this universal life that we 
 are to become conscious of, is but the Soul or 
 Lord of this Great Body, of which we all are 
 members. Thus we see how necessary it is, 
 for us to not only think, but to know that all 
 the faculties, functions, forces and powers of 
 the universal life, belong to and are operative 
 in us, and that we are in the process of becom- 
 ing conscious of this Infinite operation; for in 
 this way we not only see, but we understand 
 why and how, "I and the Father are one/' and 
 "All that is mine is thine." 
 
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 Man thus sees that, whereas once he, as a 
 physical conscious entity — was a prodigal in 
 the far country of matter and material limita- 
 tions — now he has returned home to his Fath- 
 er's house. In this way, through constantly 
 and rationally, thinking and dwelling on this 
 line, he transfers this consciousness from mat- 
 ter to life ; thus becoming conscious that he is 
 the "Son of God :" while before, he knew only 
 of his physical existence, as the son of man, 
 who was in the far country feeding swine — that 
 is, feeding only the animal instincts and tenden- 
 cies of his own selfish nature. 
 
 "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," is 
 a spiritual truth, the same as it has been a phys- 
 ical fact; because it is founded on law. 
 
 If a man's consciousness is wholly composed 
 of what he thinks, if it is a law, that he must 
 think, in order to know, and what he knows, 
 he becomes conscious of; then the first knowl- 
 edge to be attained is, what to think and how 
 to think. 
 
 THINKING AND FEEUNG. 
 
 But before we take up this subject, it is nec- 
 essary to understand, and always remember 
 that, thinking and feeling, go together. Sen- 
 sation and attention go together. These are 
 
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 the two feet, on which the individual travels 
 around in consciousness. 
 
 If we think unkind and angry thoughts to- 
 ward others, we feel unkind and angry toward 
 them. If we think unhappy and miserable 
 thoughts in regard to ourselves, we will feel 
 unhappy and miserable. 
 
 The character and quality of every thought 
 that we think with the individual brain, is car- 
 ried down through the nervous system, into 
 every part of the body. Thus we feel misera- 
 ble and unhappy, or angry and disagreeable 
 all over. If we imagine we have been injured 
 or imposed upon, or that some one has hurt our 
 feelings, we feel depressed accordingly. 
 
 On the other hand, if we think how happy we 
 are, how loving, kind and good we are, we will 
 feel happy, loving, kind and good. We always 
 feel exactly what we think, and we have always 
 been thinking what we have felt. 
 
 If we feel a pain, we think what an awful 
 pain it is, and how miserable it makes us feel. 
 If we feel indigestion, we are afraid it is going 
 to become chronic gastritis or dyspepsia, and 
 we keep on thinking about it, and feeling 
 it, in other words, magnifying it until 
 we get it. This is a law and it is op- 
 erative all the time, whether we are con- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 83 
 
 scious of it, or not. We feel what we think, 
 and think what we feel, whether of pleasure or 
 of pain; strength or weakness; health or sick- 
 ness; and so on, down the whole scale of hu- 
 man existence, whether desirable or unde- 
 sirable. 
 
 Remember that the brain is like the central 
 telephone office; and the nerves are the wires 
 connecting it with all parts of the body, which 
 carry every message to the end of the line ; and 
 the character and nature of the message, is re- 
 ceived by the individual consciousness, to the 
 very utmost extent of its borders. 
 
 SENSATION AND ATTENTION. 
 
 It is a law of our being that sensation and 
 attention belong together. We always get* the 
 sensation from that upon which we place our 
 attention. 
 
 If we hold our attention upon a beautiful pic- 
 ture, the more we become absorbed in it, the 
 more we receive the sensation from it, until 
 we feel as beautiful as it is. Or, if, upon the 
 other hand, we place our attention upon a sad 
 or hideous picture, and become absorbed in it, 
 we will feel as sad and ugly as it is. We never 
 hear sounds, see objects, smell odors, taste or 
 feel things, unless our attention is placed upon 
 
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 the object or thing, with which the senses come 
 in contact. 
 
 THE ARM OF SENSATION. 
 
 It is because sensation belongs to the Great 
 Whole, to life itself, that it is at one with all 
 life, and therefore, is universal. Sensation is 
 to the individual life, what the arms are to the 
 body. The end of the arm reaching out from 
 the body, has its five fingers ; the other end be- 
 ing connected with the body, is at one with it. 
 If we could look down through the arm, into 
 the fingers, we would see only as far as the ends 
 of the fingers ; then by looking up into the body, 
 we could not only see throughout the entire 
 body, but would be able to know all that was 
 going on within it. 
 
 The universal sensation, that which reaches 
 out through the individual body, has its five 
 physical senses ; and these physical senses being 
 the fingers on the great arm of sensation, they 
 are necessarily limited ; but it is through them 
 and with them, that life handles and uses mate- 
 rial things. 
 
 As the arm of sensation belongs to life itself, 
 it is in looking in and through this arm to life, 
 instead of out through the physical senses to the 
 world, that man becomes conscious of his con- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 85 
 
 nection with life. In this way by looking back 
 into life, by centering the attention on life, we 
 must by the same law receive the sensations of 
 life,- because we are holding our attention 
 upon it. 
 
 As we know that life itself is healthful, pow- 
 erful, intelligent, joyful and courageous, we 
 know that by holding our attention upon it, 
 we get the sensations of health, strength, joy 
 and courage from it. By this same law, in 
 thinking of life, or the things of God — for life 
 is God — meditating and dwelling upon His 
 law day and night, we are compelled to feel in 
 our physical bodies, the harmonious operation 
 of this life. 
 
 These are not theories, but they are mighty 
 facts; facts which we have known all through 
 our lives; but facts, the importance of which, 
 we have never stopped to consider. 
 
 We have always known that to see a creeping 
 reptile, crawling, gives us a creepy, crawling 
 feeling all over; and to talk about all of these 
 unpleasant things always makes us shudder. 
 
 "thk worst headache:." 
 
 In the same manner with disease. We re- 
 tire at night thinking how tired and exhausted 
 we are from the day's exertion ; and conscious 
 
86 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 of "that tired feeling," as well as thinking of it. 
 We think it more than probable, that we shall 
 have a sick headache in the morning, because 
 we are "subject to them, ,, and as we awaken, 
 we begin to think and wonder how we feel. 
 
 This thought starts out the millions of little 
 feelers, all over the body to tell us whether we 
 feel better or worse. We decide that we feel 
 about the same, until we meet others of the fam- 
 ily or houshold and each one inquiring "How 
 do you feel?" This necessitates that much 
 more thinking about our trouble, hence that 
 much more feeling for the pain. They tell us 
 how badly we look, and pitying us with "you 
 poor thing, I'm so sorry for you," which makes 
 us only feel their pity, and our own poor con- 
 dition; until, by the time we have heard them 
 all, we are ready to admit, "I have the worst 
 headache, I ever had in all my life." Yes, and 
 it has been brought about in the same old way, 
 and by the same law, which is the law of sug- 
 gestion. 
 
 PROOF THAT SUGGESTION IS THE CONTROLLING 
 LAW OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 The law of suggestion, is the controlling law 
 of individual consciousness. In other words, it 
 is the law through and by which all human con- 
 sciousness is formed. 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 87 
 
 This can be proven to any one, who will take 
 the trouble to read the historical record of 
 where a child, in infancy, was confined alone in 
 a dungeon until twenty years of age. He was 
 not permitted to converse with any human be- 
 ing. When he was brought out into the world, 
 — because there had never been any suggestions 
 given to him, because the life in that human 
 form had never had suggested to it, in thought, 
 word or deed, what it could do, or might be- 
 come — this human creature, was unconscious of 
 doing or being anything. He could neither 
 speak nor think; and was as helpless and un- 
 conscious, as when first placed in the dungeon. 
 
 If this proves to us, that through education 
 by suggestion the individual becomes conscious, 
 not only of matter, but of being material ; not 
 only of diseases, distresses and miseries, but of 
 being diseased, distressed and miserable, it 
 must also of necessity prove to us, that this 
 same individual, can through this same law of 
 suggestion, become conscious, not only of life, 
 and of being life, but of possessing all that per- 
 tains to life. 
 
 Every suggestion is made through the mind ; 
 and the more it is dwelt upon, and thought 
 
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 about, the stronger and more powerful it be- 
 comes. This brings us to the fact, that it is of 
 great importance for us to know what to think 
 and how to think; or what to suggest and how 
 to suggest. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Controlling the Mind. 
 
 IS IT TRU£ ? 
 
 Let us look at this subject for a moment, in 
 another way. 
 
 Is it true that your life is in your body? 
 
 Is it true that your individual life — that 
 which is embodied in your human form — is a 
 part or portion of all life? 
 
 Is it true that not a drop of blood can flow 
 within your body — not a particle of food be di- 
 gested — not a muscle move — not a nerve re- 
 spond — in fact, not the smallest degree of work 
 be accomplished in any way, unless this life 
 within does it ? 
 
 Is it true that human life, is the culmination 
 of all mineral, animal and vegetative life? 
 
 Is it true, that this life principle in nature has 
 not only formed matter, but has the power to 
 construct and reconstruct it, into any form it 
 desires ? 
 
 Is it true that this Infinite life has the power 
 
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 to transmute mineral substances into vegetable 
 forms, and to continue to transmute these nat- 
 ural substances, from vegetable forms into ani- 
 mal flesh ; and through its own innate potencies, 
 transmute these same elements into human 
 flesh — construct a brain — connect this brain 
 with all parts of the human form, so that it can 
 control this form at will, performing every 
 function, and controlling every faculty, force 
 and power that belongs to this Infinite life 
 itself? 
 
 Is it true that at birth, there is nothing but 
 this life and the material structure in which 
 it lives? 
 
 Is it true that through the use of functions, 
 senses and factulties, that belong to this life 
 alone, an individual consciousness is brought 
 forth and begins to open up and unfold, in pro- 
 portion to the nature and quality of the sug- 
 gestions given it? 
 
 Is it true that the law of suggestion, is the 
 great law of human or individual conscious- 
 ness; and that by and through the operation 
 and use of this law, man becomes a self-con- 
 scious entity? 
 
 Is it true that he can, in proportion to his own 
 desire and faith, centre his attention on that 
 
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 which he desires, or does not desire, until he 
 becomes conscious of it? 
 
 Is it true, that through this process of evolv- 
 ing consciousness, he has evolved for himself, 
 only that which he involved, through the law 
 of suggestion ? 
 
 If so, is it not also true, that by this same 
 process of evolving consciousness, he can evolve 
 for himself only that which God involved in 
 him, and that by this same law of suggestion? 
 
 INDIVIDUAL DECISION. 
 
 • 
 
 Each and every individual must answer these 
 questions, for himself, and this he will do, ac- 
 cording to his own understanding of the laws 
 pertaining to individual consciousness. 
 
 These statements, if true, are true because 
 they are literal facts ; for every truth, is a literal 
 fact. Then all facts must be admitted as facts, 
 all truths must be admitted as truth; for it is 
 the admitting it as truth, the thinking about 
 it, dwelling upon it, that gives man the knowl- 
 edge of its being true. It is this knowledge, 
 that frees us from the consciousness of limita- 
 tion, diseases and all unhappy conditions. It 
 is in this way only, that you can "know the 
 truth, and the truth shall make you free." 
 
 We must recognize, that the laws of life are 
 
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 the laws of the Lord ; and it is on these laws, 
 that man is to meditate day and night, if he 
 would "be like a tree, planted by the rivers of 
 water, that bringeth forth fruit in his season: 
 whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatso- 
 ever he doeth shall prosper." 
 
 the power of thought. 
 
 Man's power to think is Infinite. His mind 
 is never still one moment. He is constantly 
 thinking whether awake or asleep, in an object- 
 ive or subjective condition. 
 
 Thoughts pour through his mind, like the 
 water through a hose, and these thoughts are 
 the suggestions, which act upon the life itself, 
 causing it to create in his body and in his con- 
 sciousness, that which corresponds with what 
 he thinks. It is the nature of these thoughts, 
 to create corresponding conditions, the same as 
 it is the nature of the water to moisten the soil 
 or plants, on which the hose is turned. 
 
 As it is the nature of water to wet, so is it 
 the nature of all life to create. It cannot help 
 itself. It must create for the individual every 
 suggestion that is persistently held in the mind, 
 without regard to pain or pleasure, disease or 
 health ; the same as the water moistens the soil, 
 regardless of fruit or weeds, thorns or flowers. 
 
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 CONTROLLING WILD HORSES. 
 
 We never know what a mighty power the 
 mind is, what an Infinite force it is, until we un- 
 dertake to control it. Many people spend a 
 whole life time in letting the mind run wild, 
 the same as a man would let his horses run wild 
 in the fields, without thought or knowledge of 
 their power and ability to pull the loads, and 
 do his work for him. 
 
 To get our mind under control, and compel 
 it to think what we want to think, is no easier 
 than for the man to tame and harness his wild 
 horses, and compel them to perform the work 
 that he wants done. It is on exactly the same 
 principle, and is accomplished in the very same 
 way. 
 
 First, the man must be made to believe that 
 the horses are his own individual property, to 
 be used as he wills. 
 
 vSecond, he must understand that he has the 
 power and ability to tame and control them, 
 thus compelling them to do his work. 
 
 Third, it mtist be shown him, that the horses 
 are powerful creatures. That with a sufficient 
 number of them harnessed together and moved 
 at his will, he can pull any load and perform 
 any work required on his own or another's 
 premises. 
 
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 These are the three important requirements, 
 which must be instilled into the man before he 
 will undertake the work. 
 
 In the first place, he must be brought to see 
 the force and power, which is being wasted by 
 these animals in their present untrained state. 
 Then, he must also see the great advantage it 
 will be to himself and others, for him to utilize 
 this force and power, in his daily work and life. 
 
 These facts must all be firmly rooted in his 
 mind, before he can have sufficient faith in his 
 own ability to cope with the situation. Be- 
 cause, he knows that there will be many traces 
 kicked over, many dash-boards splintered, and 
 many times his arms will be nearly pulled from 
 their sockets, before he has become master of 
 the situation. 
 
 However, the result of the entire work, will 
 depend wholly on the amount of desire and 
 faith, will and understanding, or persistent ef- 
 fort, which he consciously applies, during the 
 entire undertaking. 
 
 TAMING AND CONTROLLING THE) MIND. 
 
 It is in this same way, that man is to become 
 conscious of possessing the many forces and 
 faculties of his own nature, and the mastery 
 of his own mind. 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 95 
 
 First, he must be made to believe that all of 
 these forces, faculties and powers, are his own 
 individual property, to be used and controlled 
 by his own will. 
 
 Second, he must be made to see that he has 
 the power and ability to develop and control 
 them, and to command their obedience to his 
 will. 
 
 Third, he must also be shown that these pow- 
 ders are omnipotent. That with them harnessed 
 together or separate — as the case may require — 
 he can accomplish any work desired, in the 
 scope of his own mental horizon. 
 
 He must also be brought to see, that the 
 forces and powers within his own body are not 
 only being wasted, but are running wild; de- 
 stroying and tearing up the flesh; thus break- 
 ing down the different faculties, functions and 
 senses, which are his most valuable possessions. 
 
 "the last enemy to be overcome is death/' 
 
 Then he must see the great advantage it will 
 be to him, not only for temporary, but for per- 
 manent relief. Not only to enable him to 
 "grow old gracefully," remaining healthy to the 
 last, but that he may utilize, these forces and 
 powers, in his daily walk, conversation and 
 thought, until "he returns to the days of his 
 
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 youth ;" for this life within him, and which 
 really constitutes his own being, never grows 
 old, never decays, and never can be destroyed. 
 
 Thus it follows as a logical sequence, that 
 as man not only becomes conscious of this life 
 working within and upon him, but becomes con- 
 scious that he is this very life itself, he can not 
 grow old, decay or in any way be destroyed. 
 
 The law is, that man partakes wholly of the 
 nature and quality of that, of which he becomes 
 conscious. His body, being but the embodi- 
 ment of his consciousness, it is by and through 
 it that he manifests or shows forth the state or 
 degree of consciousness, which he possesses. 
 
 These facts must all be firmly rooted in his 
 mind. He must believe in their possibility. 
 He must have sufficient faith awakened in his 
 own ability, to control with his own mental 
 faculties, the functions, forces and powers of 
 his own nature, before he will persevere, until 
 he has established his mastery over them. 
 
 In like manner and according to the desire 
 faith, will, and understanding, that he uses, will 
 he accomplish the desired result, or reach the 
 goal. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 How to Attain Desired Results. 
 
 PERFECT MEMORY. 
 
 The next step to be taken in this process, is 
 the practical application of the laws involved. 
 
 When you read this book, you must not 
 think "Oh my memory is so poor* it has been 
 failing for so long, I know I shall remember 
 but very little of this. If I could only remem- 
 ber it, I know it would do me a world of good. 
 Why didn't I get hold of it before my brain 
 became so weakened that I cannot remember 
 anything ?" 
 
 Steady there ! Now, this is the first kick over 
 the traces, and brings the horse to a standstill, 
 blocking and preventing the accomplishment 
 of what you desire done. "You must not get 
 discouraged/' This discouraging thought 
 should call your mind to the fact that your 
 memory is absolutely perfect, although you 
 may be unconscious of it. Of course what you 
 
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 are unconscious of possessing, you cannot con- 
 sciously use. 
 
 If you want to become conscious of having 
 a perfect memory you must begin to sow the 
 right kind of seed to produce it. Every 
 thought is a seed sown in consciousness; and 
 the law is, that each seed brings forth after its 
 kind. By thinking that the life within is per- 
 fect, and that the power of memory belongs 
 to it alone, hence must be as perfect as the life 
 from which it emanates — you are sowing the 
 seed that will bring forth the perfect memory. 
 
 You must remember that you, yourself, are 
 the embodied life to which this perfect memory 
 belongs. 
 
 Seeing this truth you can truly and con- 
 scientiously say, "My memory is perfect. I can 
 remember all things that I desire to remember ; 
 and my power to forget is also perfect, for I can 
 forget those things which I do not wish to re- 
 member. I can and I will forget the limited 
 being that I have believed myself to be, forget 
 that I ever had a poor memory, and remember 
 always the perfect unlimited being that I must 
 become conscious of, because of what I really 
 and truly am. 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 99 
 
 the; wild imagination. 
 
 As you read on down these pages, you may 
 find that you have another kind of horse to deal 
 with, a regular bucking broncho; and you are 
 brought to a standstill with this exclamation: 
 
 "Yes, I can see how all this might be a great 
 help to nervous people, or to people who have 
 only some little physical ailment; but with 
 spinal trouble like mine, and a weak stomach, 
 enlarged heart, torpid liver, gout, lumbago, ver- 
 tigo, bronchitis and corns like I have, its differ- 
 ent. 
 
 This might do all right for those who have 
 a happy home, and pleasant surroundings, but 
 with any one who has a husband like mine to 
 live with, or children that treat them as mine do 
 me, or not knowing where the money is to come 
 from to pay the next month's rent, or where 
 we will get our next meal : — you see, my 
 troubles are greater than other peoples ; and if 
 things were only different, I don't doubt but 
 this would do me much good." 
 
 Right here is where your imagination plays 
 havoc. 
 
 You imagine that your special troubles are 
 greater and stronger than the Almighty Him- 
 self. You imagine your load is larger than the 
 
 LofC. 
 
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 Lord can carry, and your disease worse than the 
 Infinite Power can heal. 
 
 This is all false ! You do not mean to tell or 
 think, what is untrue, but when you stop to 
 think, you see that you are magnifying every- 
 thing but the Lord, thereby increasing and en- 
 larging everything, that you do not desire. 
 
 You must stop sowing thorns and thistles 
 if you do not want them ; for your body is the 
 soil in which these seeds grow. 
 
 TAMING THE WILD IMAGINATION. 
 
 You must keep in your mind something like 
 this: 
 
 "I am sustained and upheld by the Infinite 
 power of God, by Love itself. All the troubles, 
 trials and diseases of my life, are as chaff be- 
 fore the omnipotent force of this Infinite Love. 
 
 "My husband, or my wife, is filled with the 
 love of God, the same as I am filled with it. 1 
 will turn my eyes from the circumference of 
 things into the very centre of all Power, and I 
 will ,see this Infinite Power, centered in all 
 things. 
 
 I will see that all of these trials, have been 
 but a disturbed condition on the circumference, 
 — in the world N of matter — to drive me into the 
 Centre, into my God. When I am centered in 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 101 
 
 God, I am conscious of being surrounded with 
 Infinite Love, Peace, and Joy. Hence, my sur- 
 roundings must become pleasant, and my home 
 happy, because of the perfect life which is 
 working in me, and in each one around me ; and 
 because of the Infinite love which I am radiat- 
 ing. 
 
 My children are God's children. Within 
 them is the Divine spark of Infinite possibility ; 
 and I will breathe on this spark, the love of God 
 which fills my soul, until I fan it into an In- 
 finite flame. And this flame of fire will con- 
 sume all of the envy, hate, jealousy, passions 
 and selfishness, which I have seen growing 
 within them ; for 'My God is a consuming fire/ 
 
 'My God will supply all my needs,' for He 
 knows the rent must be paid, to keep my fam- 
 ily sheltered, and that the food is needed by the 
 life, to sustain and keep these bodies in a 
 healthy condition. As these bodies belong to 
 the Lord our God, who is the life that made, 
 and is within them, I know that He will care 
 for His own. 
 
 My troubles are nothing, as compared with 
 what they might be. 
 
 Therefore, I shall cultivate a faith in His 
 protecting care until I am conscious that He is 
 reigning in and ruling over me. And accord- 
 
102 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 ing to the strength, will and faith that I possess, 
 will I persist in thinking the truth of that 
 which I know I am." 
 
 HOW TO THINK, SPEAK AND ACT. 
 
 You must always remember, that the Lord, 
 your God, is your own individual life — your 
 own spirit. 
 
 Then you must meet with this same line of 
 reasoning, every thought that is contrary to the 
 way the Lord your God would think it. Every 
 word that is contrary to the way the Lord your 
 God would speak it ; and every act that is not in 
 direct accordance with the way the Lord your 
 God would do it. 
 
 Your work now is, to become fully as con- 
 scious of the Lord your God, dwelling within 
 you, and of yourself as being the "Spiritual 
 man," "the Lord from Heaven," as you have 
 been conscious that you were a physical being. 
 
 You must never forget that the law is, that 
 which you think, you know; and what you 
 know, you of necessity must become conscious. 
 
 "thought creates presence/' 
 
 A great man once said "Thought creates 
 presence." This means nothing more nor less 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 103 
 
 than, that which you hold your attention upon, 
 you receive the sensation from, hence must be- 
 come conscious of its presence. 
 
 This line of thinking will be difficult at first, 
 because we are creatures of habit. We have 
 acquired the habit of finding fault with, and 
 thinking that everything is wrong, and we 
 don't see why things should be so ? We can't see 
 why we must have so much trouble while other 
 people have such an easy time ? 
 
 We must learn that the experiences of human 
 life, belong alike to every individual. Each one 
 must sooner or later pass through the trials and 
 sufferings of life, as well as through its joys 
 and pleasures. 
 
 "it's all right/' 
 
 The motto then, for every day life, for every 
 hour of the day and every moment in the hour, 
 should be, "It's all right. ,, Everything is all 
 right, for the Lord is doing all that is being 
 done. 
 
 The life, or Lord, within every form, is doing 
 the very best that it can under the cimcumstan- 
 ces. Your individual consciousness is the cir- 
 cumstances, under which your Lord is working. 
 
 Your individual thinking, and the sugges- 
 tions that you are constantly making contrary 
 
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 to its law and nature, are piling up these diffi- 
 culties and diseases through which the All- 
 Perm:ct One cannot reveal to you, neither 
 what He is, nor what He can do. 
 
 By your taking the firm stand that every- 
 thing is right, that everything happens at the 
 right time and in the right place, that nothing 
 can possibly go wrong, that nothing can be 
 wrong, that everything is going right, and ev- 
 erything is right — by doing this persistently 
 and determinedly, you acknowledge Him in 
 all your ways, and He will direct your paths. 
 You thus, commit your "way unto the Lord; 
 trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to 
 pass." 
 
 In this way, we see that these commands of 
 the Bible, are based on the immutable laws of 
 nature, which are the laws of God, operating 
 in man. The Bible reveals to us, that God has 
 no laws which are not operative or latent in 
 man. It is because man is the Image of God, 
 that all the laws and forces of His nature, must 
 be revealed in and through His Image. 
 
 I care not what your circumstances and con- 
 ditions are, what your life is or has been, or 
 the nature and character of those around you ; 
 if you will take for your motto, "It's all right," 
 and apply it to every circumstance and condi- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 105 
 
 tion of your life, from the time you open your 
 eyes in the morning until you close them at 
 night, you will find that it is the Infinite leaven, 
 that will leaven the whole lump of your entire 
 existence. 
 
 When you burn your hand or become injured 
 in any way, you should insist that "it's all 
 right," with a conscious knowledge of what 
 these words imply. This knowledge is, that 
 you are life, and life cannot be burned, neither 
 can matter feel. This life within your organ- 
 ism is ready always, with its reconstructing 
 and healing forces; also with its Infinite and 
 unlimited power to control matter in every 
 sense. 
 
 In this way you will very soon learn how 
 quickly the burn will heal; that it will be im- 
 possible for you to take cold in it ; and that you 
 will feel very little, if any pain from it. By 
 continuing this process always, you will learn 
 that you never get burned or hurt in any way ; 
 for you are acknowledging Him in all your 
 ways, and "He shall direct thy paths." 
 
 Every time you speak a cross word — or be- 
 come impatient or angry, saying and doing 
 what you know afterwards you should not have 
 done, — instead of brooding over it, and think- 
 ing of the harm you have caused to yourself 
 
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 and others, you should quiet yourself by declar- 
 ing, "It's all right! It's all right !" Meaning 
 not that you are glad you did it, and that you 
 have taught them a lesson, and will give them 
 the same or much more just like it, the next 
 time you get a chance — but instead of this, you 
 mean it is all right, because it has revealed to 
 you, your weakness It has shown you how 
 prone you are to condemn, thus reminding you, 
 that you are being condemned by others. 
 
 It is all right, because it has shown you more 
 clearly than ever that selfish animal nature that 
 you have been cultivating for so many years; 
 until it has grown to become your master, and 
 you, its slave. 
 
 It is all right, because it has shown you the 
 mighty difference between this mortal and the 
 immortal ; between this human animal, and the 
 human Divine; between the man that dwells 
 without, and the God that dwells within. 
 
 It is all right, because it has brought you 
 to see the littleness of the external, the noth- 
 ingness of the life of the world — to seeing the 
 greatness, the magnitude and the glory of the 
 internal, the life of God. 
 
 the: results. 
 It is in this way and by this method that the 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 107 
 
 temper is wholly overcome, and that all the pas- 
 sions and animal instincts are brought under 
 complete subjection. Every time that you are 
 brought face to face with the contrast between 
 the life in matter, and the life in God, your de- 
 sire to attain the latter is intensified. Your 
 faith is quickened and increased. Your deter- 
 mination is aroused and strengthened ; and with 
 renewed vigor and zeal you "press forward to 
 the mark of your high calling which is in Christ 
 Jesus your Lord." This Christ Jesus, your 
 Lord, is the individual consciousness of your 
 own indwelling God. 
 
 HABIT OF RIGHT THINKING. 
 
 As we are in the habit of thinking and feeling 
 with the physical senses in the body, so must we 
 get into the habit of thinking and feeling with 
 the spiritual senses, in life. This is done only 
 by practice. By learning to control the think- 
 ing power in order to produce the harmony 
 upon the body, just as the child learns to con- 
 trol its fingers, in order to produce harmony 
 upon the piano. 
 
 A few moments spent each day in practicing 
 this method of thinking, will in due time re- 
 move all undesirable conditions, either physi- 
 cal or mental. If a few moments each day will 
 
108 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 do this, then hours will do more; and just as 
 the child spending much time in its practice on 
 the piano, soon becomes a musician; so will 
 any one spending much time in this way of cor- 
 rect thinking, soon become a healer — a power 
 in the world for good. 
 
 This kind of thinking is called "treatment" 
 or "prayer." It is in this way that we are to 
 pray without ceasing, and in everything give 
 thanks. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 ''Seek and Ye Shall Find/ 9 
 
 TIME AND SPACE ANNIHILATED. 
 
 As God is everywhere present, filling all 
 space, beings, creatures and things, when you 
 are centered in Him, through Him you are con- 
 nected with all other beings, creatures and 
 things. 
 
 As sensation is a universal function, belong- 
 ing to all alike, by centering your attention 
 upon the life within another, whether in the 
 same room or across seas or continents, you 
 have the ability to awaken the sensation with- 
 in them, that corresponds exactly to that which 
 you are holding your attention upon. 
 
 This is a law of life, and not a theory. Sen- 
 sation and attention belong together. When 
 the sensation is awakened, the attention is al- 
 ways called to it; and when the attention is 
 fixed on anything, the sensation is always 
 brought forth. Either the attention awakens 
 the sensation or the sensation commands the at- 
 
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 tention. Hence, when the attention is wholly 
 withdrawn from anything, the sensation will 
 cease, thus causing the individual to become un- 
 conscious of it. 
 
 By this law then, when the attention of the 
 healer is centered in the life of the patient, and 
 not in the disease, in the understanding of the 
 ability of this life to heal all manner of dis- 
 eases, and with the necessary faith in its deter- 
 mination to do so, the sensation of health and 
 happiness must be awakened in the patient. 
 This in turn, calls the patient's attention to the 
 fact, that the sensations of pain have ceased, 
 or are ceasing; that the disease is healed, or is 
 healing. 
 
 ' Now, this is the law, which, when thorough- 
 ly understood and appreciated by the healer- 
 does away entirely with the thought of limita- 
 tion. This idea of limitation must be over- 
 come; because in conscious work, man can do 
 no more than he believes himself capable of 
 doing. Hence, it is supremely necessary, for 
 him to understand these Infinite laws ; for only 
 by understanding them, is he enabled to use 
 them. 
 
 Remember always, that the sensation of pain, 
 will call the individual's attention to it; and 
 the sensation of pleasure will likewise call at- 
 
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 tention thereto. In fact, any kind of sensa- 
 tion when sufficiently awakened, will com- 
 mand the attention of the one* in whom it is 
 aroused. 
 
 So, it is of little importance, where you are x 
 what you are doing, or what your disease or 
 trouble may be; if the healer can fix his atten- 
 tion wholly on the life within you, "On the 
 spirit of God," that dwells within, convinced of 
 Its power to instantly heal you, the sensation of 
 health and happiness must bk called forth. As 
 the attention is held on this life within you, 
 and the sensation of health and happiness 
 within your own individual life, is aroused, that 
 sensation immediately calls your attention to 
 tfie fact; and you feel better, or become con- 
 scious of being healed. 
 
 It is this quickening and awakening of the 
 reconstructing forces of life within the patient 
 that does the healing. This quickening and 
 awakening of your own spirit, by the suggestion 
 given from the mind of the healer, whether the 
 suggestion be mental or oral. 
 
 THINGS TO BE) AVOIDED. 
 
 Stop talking about your diseases to any one ; 
 stop talking of your troubles to any one. It 
 only fixes it in their mind; only centers their 
 
ii2 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 attention upon that which you are desiring to 
 free yourself from ; thus making the load just 
 that much heavier, for you to carry. 
 
 Besides, when it is learned as a fact, that dis- 
 ease is caused by ignorance, we shall soon "be 
 ashamed to show our ignorance/ ' 
 
 When it is learned, that faith and fear are 
 synonymous, that you fear the disease, because 
 you believe or have faith in its power to make 
 you suffer — you will cease your fear, or you 
 will remove your faith from that which you do 
 not want. 
 
 If you would "fear God," you should have 
 faith in God to prevent anything from causing 
 you trouble, or from making you sick. 
 
 The greatest enemy you can have, is your 
 own fear, which is your own Devil. As 
 "Faith is the substance of the things hoped for/' 
 so fear is the substance of the thing you do not 
 desire. As faith is the controlling power in 
 man, and is always charged with the Infinite 
 creating power of God, so fear being only faith 
 in the wrong direction, is charged with this 
 same Infinite creative power of the Almighty. 
 This shows why "the fear of the Lord, is the 
 beginning of wisdom;" because your faith is 
 always centered in that which you fear. 
 
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 o 
 
 You must avoid all conversation of an un- 
 happy nature, like disease, sickness and death. 
 Avoid the thought and discussion of anything 
 and everything, that does not magnify, or is not 
 magnifying, the Lord. 
 
 Remember that "an ounce of preventative, 
 is worth a pound of cure," and that it is while 
 you are well and happy, that you must contin- 
 ually make the suggestions to yourself of 
 health, strength and happiness 
 
 You should not wait until you feel the pains 
 or disease, before beginning to prevent them. 
 You should not wait until your house begins 
 tumbling about you, before you commence the 
 work of strengthening it. With every stroke of 
 the hammer, with every thought that you think; 
 you should drive a wedge or clinch a nail, that 
 will tend to fasten more and more in your con- 
 sciousness, the mighty fact, that "your body is 
 the temple of God," and that "The Lord is in 
 His holy temple." 
 
 ROOTING YOURSELF IN GOD. 
 
 When you think "I cannot take cold, t>e sick, 
 or troubled," never forget to state the reason 
 why. Always say, because I am life, and I 
 must become conscious of being life." In this 
 way, by always adding the 'because' to every 
 
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 statement that you make, you are rooting your- 
 self in God. 
 
 The 'becauses' are the roots that not only cen- 
 tre, but hold you in God, as the roots of a tree 
 hold it upright on the earth. 
 
 A tree with but few roots, soon becomes top- 
 heavy, and falls. By this same law, the man 
 or woman who does not always give God, Life, 
 Spirit, Love, as the reason for their standing, 
 thus rendering "unto God, the things that are 
 God's," must become top-heavy with their own 
 importance, and fall. When they find them- 
 selves flat, they have only to remember the ad- 
 monition that reads: "Let him that thinketh 
 he standeth, take heed, lest he fall;" but, one 
 who centers every thought in Life, soon learns 
 that, "god is able: to make: him stand." 
 
 You can transfer your consciousness from 
 matter and sickness, to life and health, only by 
 persistently holding yourself there in thought, 
 or by compelling your attention to obey you. 
 
 You must constantly insist that the Power 
 of God within you, is master of all conditions, 
 and with every thought declare thztyou are that 
 Power. Instead of saying that you are sick, 
 weak, lame, stiff and sore, you must declare 
 yourself to be the opposite ; for life is not, and 
 never can be sick, weak, lame, stiff or sore ; and 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 115 
 
 it is the Truth, as God is true, that you are Life. 
 It is God's truth : because He made you, out of 
 His own spiritual substance. 
 
 SOWING AND REAPING. 
 
 It is because of the many laws of your being 
 which you have been using ignorantly, that you 
 are in your present condition. 
 
 You must remember that every thought you 
 think, is a seed sown in the soil of your own 
 body ; and every seed brings forth after its kind. 
 These seeds are not only being sown by you to- 
 day, but you have been sowing them daily, for 
 many years. 
 
 When you feel a pain, ache, or think the blues 
 are taking hold of you, it is not necessarily the 
 sprouting of the seed you scattered this morn- 
 ing or yesterday, but the coming forth of the 
 little germs you planted months, or even years 
 ago. 
 
 The aches, pains and diseases that afflict our 
 bodies are merely the showing forth, or are the 
 results of our past thinking. 
 
 Your garden does not bring forth only the 
 flowers, fruit and vegetables that you planted 
 in it, but it brings forth all the weeds, thorns 
 and thistles, whose germs are in the soil. It is 
 your business, if you would have a beautiful 
 
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 garden, to cultivate the soil; planting and al- 
 lowing to grow, only the seeds, from which 
 you desire to produce more perfect conditions ; 
 for "every plant which our Heavenly Father 
 hath not planted, shall be rooted up." If you 
 do not want certain plants to grow, you must 
 stop watering them. You must turn off the 
 hose. You must cut them down, or pull them 
 up. You must stop thinking of them, and mag- 
 nifying them. 
 
 "The word of God is the sword of the spirit," 
 and the word of God is always the truth; for 
 God can utter only truth. So every thought 
 that you think, in direct accordance with the 
 truth of your being — and which is the truth 
 according to the way your God made you, His 
 life within, and His will concerning you — is a 
 word of God. The reason why "The word of 
 God is quick and powerful, and sharper than 
 any two-edged sword," is because it is a Divine 
 suggestion. It is instantaneous in its opera- 
 tion, not only because of its connection with 
 the Law of suggestion, but all power belongs to 
 it because of its nature for it is God uttering 
 Himself. 
 
 Thus, by learning how to think, in Life, in 
 God, you will soon learn to hear God thinking 
 in you. "The Lord spake unto him." 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 117 
 
 "bear ye one another's burdens/' 
 
 As soon as you become conscious that you 
 are personally connected with God, that every 
 individual is His child, and that His design is 
 to bring forth children in this world for Him- 
 self ; you will never hesitate to pray for, or to 
 treat, anyone in trouble to whom your atten- 
 tion may be called. 
 
 You will always send a helping thought to 
 them, or in other words, will lend a helping 
 hand to your brother ; thus bearing "one anoth • 
 er's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of 
 Christ." 
 
 You will not wait for any person to ask you, 
 nor to make a bargain, as to the amount and 
 kind of pay you are to receive before you are 
 willing to help the spirit of God within them to 
 come forth in the flesh. 
 
 If you are working for your own personal 
 glory, you are not working for God. 
 
 If you are working wholly for certain per- 
 sons and not for God, of course you are more 
 interested in what they give you. But if you 
 are working wholly for God, and not for 
 money, and are conscious that God only works 
 in and through the people, of course you are 
 more interested in Him, and in receiving from 
 Him, that which He gives you. 
 
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 All these little selfish tendencies, that we find 
 in ourselves, are but finger-boards to point out 
 to us the way we are going; whether we are 
 serving God or serving Mammon. 
 
 As we learn to depend on God, we will be- 
 come independent of all that is external to us. 
 The more we depend on that which is external 
 to us, for our health, happiness and power, 
 the weaker we become in all ; and the less good 
 we accomplish. 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 How to Co-Operate With God. 
 
 ATTITUDE AND METHOD. 
 
 Having set forth in this treaties a concise and 
 clear statement of the Law, the next step in or- 
 der, is to explain the practical attitude and 
 method, that will make clear to the mind of the 
 student, the process involved. This will also 
 give him, not only the direct result of the ap- 
 plication, but will enable him to become con- 
 scious of the workings of the great Law of 
 Life — which is the Law of God. 
 
 It is not only necessary for one to understand 
 the law, as set forth in the preceding chapters, 
 and recognize the fact that the life controls and 
 uses all — that all powers belong to life, and 
 that its nature is to perfect all organisms — but 
 further, it is necessary in order to heal our- 
 selves and others, for us to know how to use 
 these principles. 
 
 It is important that we dwell upon these un- 
 changeable and all-powerful laws of nature, 
 
120 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 thinking about them, and studying their oper- 
 ation in all things; until we fully realize their 
 strength and power. It is only in this way, 
 that we can become conscious of the power and 
 presence pf God. 
 
 The more the individual becomes conscious 
 of the presence of this Power, the greater 
 power will he possess and be able to use in the 
 healing of others. 
 
 ATTITUDE. 
 
 It is by centering ourselves in life that we 
 become conscious of life being centered in us. 
 And that which we can realize as being true of 
 ourselves, is more easily recognized as true of 
 others. 
 
 In order to get into the right attitude before 
 trying to help another, it is better for the healer, 
 or the one who desires to awaken the healing- 
 power, to begin by thinking of the Infinite uni- 
 versal life within and behind all things, and 
 to which all powers belong. Think, then, of 
 your own body being filled and flooded with 
 this same life, and that you are: this life) 
 which is in your own form; and that you are 
 connected with, and inseparable from all life, 
 that is within every other human form; 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 121 
 
 as your breath is connected with and insepara- 
 ble from the atmosphere around you. 
 
 You must recognize that God, the Infinite 
 Father, is the universal Life, of which your own 
 individual life is the child. Then think that 
 you are this individual life; and that you are 
 not the physical body which you have always 
 thought you were. 
 
 You must take this stand then — of the indi- 
 vidual talking to the Universal; or, in other 
 words, of the God child, talking to the God- 
 Father. 
 
 CENTER YOURSELF IN GOD. 
 
 In doing this, you should centre yourself in 
 God — way back in deep — in order to look out 
 from Him, or through Him into all His other 
 children. 
 
 To illustrate : — you do this, in the same way 
 that you would centre yourself, if it were possi- 
 ble, in the Sun in the Heavens ; if you desired to 
 look out through its rays, and' see what it, or 
 each ray, was doing. In order to do this, you 
 would get way back, deep, into the sun ; with a 
 conscious knowledge of your being one with it. 
 Conscious that you could manipulate and use 
 each individual ray, at will. Conscious that 
 you were made out of the very same substance, 
 
122 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 quality, attributes and nature of the sun him- 
 self, and that because you were conscious of 
 this, you understood that it was the sun dwell- 
 ing within you, that did the work; and you 
 could in this way realize the fact that in him 
 you lived, moved and had your being 
 
 When you think of yourself thus centered 
 in the sun, you see that you are not only con- 
 nected with the rays that emerge from it, but 
 you are in close touch through these rays with 
 every part of the universe on which they fall. 
 Through this self-conscious knowledge, time 
 and space are annihilated ; and you can commu- 
 nicate with, talk to and strengthen each indi- 
 vidual ray, in proportion to your knowledge 
 of its nature, and your own ability to do the 
 work desired. 
 
 It is in this way, that you centre yourself in 
 God. 
 
 You must always keep in mind the fact, that 
 all life is centered in you, and that you are the 
 center and the culmination of all life. The very 
 centre of your being, is the "Divine Spark," the 
 indwelling God; and is that which connects 
 you, with the Great Whole. 
 
 It is this Infinite Life, this "spirit of God that 
 dwells within you/' that you must centre your- 
 self in, or fix your attention upon, in order that 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 123 
 
 you may become centered in God. .You must 
 shut out all the outer world of matter and every 
 material thought before you can retire within 
 the inmost depths of your own soul where God 
 is always found. 
 
 You can never find or know God, outside of 
 your own soul. 
 
 You can never touch or affect the God in an- 
 other, from the outside of yourself. 
 
 You must first enter your own life— enter 
 into the secret place of the Most High, which 
 is within yourself, before you can consciously 
 co-operate with God. 
 
 Your own spirit is the only door, through and 
 by which you can enter into the Universal Life. 
 
 Your own spirit says to you "I am the Door : 
 by me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, 
 and shall go in and out and find pasture." 
 
 When you are centered in your owu life, cen- 
 tered in your own God, you are centered in the 
 God of all. You are thus in direct touch and 
 conjunction with the life or spirit, in every 
 other individual. You can then talk to them 
 mentally, telling the God within each, the abso- 
 lute truth about itself, and its ability to do and 
 be; holding your attention upon it until the 
 knowledge of these truths are realized by the 
 individual or by the patient. 
 
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 As the sun shines on the just and the unjust 
 alike, so God shines in the just and the unjust 
 alike. The sun is the light without, while God 
 is the Light within. 
 
 The only work for each individual is to be- 
 come conscious of this shining, and learn to fol- 
 low this inner Light. 
 
 To repeat, it is by centering the thought in 
 God, or in the Life, that is within and behind all 
 things, thus becoming connected with all 
 things, that does away with time and space to 
 the individual. 
 
 The law also is, "Whatsoever is bound on 
 earth is bound in Heaven, and whatsoever is 
 loosed on earth is loosed in Heaven." This 
 binding and loosing is only in consciousness, 
 and is connected with the law of "As your faith, 
 so be it unto you." 
 
 Expressed in another way, it means, if we 
 believe that God can do only so much with us, 
 or we can do only so much with Him, the In- 
 finite Creative Power, sees to it that we are 
 bound, right where we place our limitations 
 While, if we believe that God can do all things 
 with and through us, or that "I can do all 
 things through Christ which strengtheneth 
 me," the same Infinite Creative Power in 
 Heaven sees to it that we are unbound or loos- 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 125 
 
 ened from where we remove our limitations. 
 
 Thus, in talking to God, we must come in 
 the attitude of child to parent ; not as an imper- 
 fect, "crawling worm of the dust," but as the 
 perfect child of a perfect Father; and admit 
 that because of the laws of heredity, the child 
 must inherit all the perfections of its All Per- 
 fect Father. 
 
 The perfect child, asking its Father to re- 
 mind it of, or to teach it of the wisdom and 
 love, life, health and power, that it had with 
 God the Infinite Life, before the world was. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 Divine Suggestions. 
 
 DIVINE SUGGESTIONS. 
 
 Oh thou Almighty God, my Father, glorify 
 thou me, with the glory which I had with thee 
 before the world was. 
 
 Magnify thou me with the Wisdom, Light 
 and Love which I had with Thee before the 
 world was. 
 
 Reveal Thou Thyself to me in all things, in 
 all beings, and on all planes. Open thou me, 
 that I may see in thee all that thou hast made, 
 and that I may see in that thou hast made only 
 thee. "Holy! Holy!! Holy!!! Lord God Al- 
 mighty, as it was in the beginning, is now, and 
 ever shall be." 
 
 Thou art my Father, and I am Thy child. 
 Thou art my God ; I am Thy son. Thou art my 
 life, my love, my hope, my glory, and I am Thy 
 living one, Thy loving one, Thy hopeful one, 
 and Thy glorified one. 
 
 I am Thy perfect child, exactly as Thou 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 127 
 
 didst make me. Perfect, because I am com- 
 posed of thine own substance, elements and na- 
 ture. 
 
 All that I am and have I received from thee. 
 All that I am and shall be, comes from thee. 
 Because of what I am, because of what thou 
 art, I stand before Thee, perfect as Thou art 
 perfect. 
 
 But this perfection, this light, this love, this 
 health, strength, vitality and power that Thou 
 hast given me, that came to me from Thee, I 
 must live and give to the world. Hence, I 
 stand before the world shielded and protected 
 by Thy love ; vivified and strengthened by Thy 
 power, illuminated and enlightened by Thy 
 wisdom, healed and perfected by Thy life. 
 
 No dart from the enemy can touch me, be- 
 cause I am shielded by Thy love. No evil 
 thoughts, from any being, in Heaven above, or 
 in the earth beneath, or in the regions under the 
 earth, can faze or affect me, because of this In- 
 finite shield that surrounds and protects me. 
 No fear can open the gates to admit anything 
 contrary to Thyself. I have no fear, for Thou 
 art with me, and I realize that "perfect love 
 casteth out fear." 
 
 As I am filled so full of the Infinite love of 
 
128 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 Thyself, there is no room for anything but 
 Thee. 
 
 I fear no disease or inharmony known to 
 man, by whatever name it may be called. 
 
 I fear no accidents, no troubles ; nothing that 
 the so-called "flesh is heir to," can affect or eat 
 up my flesh while I know that the infinite love 
 of God, not only surrounds and infills it, but 
 permeates every atom of it, thus penetrating 
 and inflating every part and portion of my en- 
 tire being; for this love is life, and this life is 
 God, working. God, the infinite, omnipotent, 
 omniscient and omnipresent Power: loving, 
 working, abiding, dwelling within: filling me 
 so full of Himself that naught else can enter: 
 and thus I not only radiate His love, but I ra- 
 diate His health also. 
 
 My head, brain, throat, lungs, liver, heart, 
 kidneys, bladder, spleen, bowels, in fact, every 
 organ and function of my entire being is oper- 
 ated and acted upon by this Infinite dynamic 
 power of God. 
 
 Every function of my being is a God func- 
 tion. No weakness about it. The function of 
 every organ is performed absolutely by God 
 Himself. The digesting, assimilating, appro- 
 priating, restoring and renewing process is done 
 by His own hand, and under the supervision 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 129 
 
 and guidance of His own eye. No foods that I 
 take into the system of this body, that I might 
 want, can in any way interfere or impede in the 
 slightest degree this work of the Almighty. 
 Nothing but my own faith, in its power over 
 me, and over Him, can "give me indigestion." 
 
 I see every organ filled, infused and flooded 
 with this omnipresent, omnipotent healing, 
 strengthening and vitalizing power of God ; and 
 I can only feel what I fix my attention upon. 
 
 I am master of all circumstances and environ- 
 ments when I live at the centre of all life. I can 
 control and move all things, according to the 
 infinite desire within myself, as fast as I know 
 His will concerning me. 
 
 There is no lack or poverty or want in my 
 realm : for all things are mine, when I abide in 
 the consciousness of ownership, of dominion 
 over all. "Peace, plenty and prosperity are 
 within my walls," and success on every line of 
 undertaking; with the consciousness of abund- 
 ance and to spare. 
 
 I am led, controlled and moved to do only 
 that which will lead me into better conditions 
 by the Infinite wisdom that is ever working with 
 me and watching over me. 
 
 "The peace that passeth all understanding 
 fills my soul/' and "I sleep the sleep of the 
 
130 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 just," compelled and held in sleep by the infin- 
 ite hand of the Almighty. No nervousness or 
 indigestion, no cough, cold, asthma, or so- 
 called bronchial affection, or any other foolish 
 reasoning can interfere with me or make me 
 afraid. 
 
 Infinite health, perfect love, and absolute har- 
 mony, fills me and floods me. 
 
 I will allow nothing that is external to me to 
 come into my consciousness, or take possession 
 of me. 
 
 I stand the supreme master of all states and 
 conditions, both external and internal to my 
 body, mind and soul ; for I am the mighty be- 
 ing, the Infinite one of the Most High. 
 
 1 AM LIFE. 
 
 Because of this, I illuminate and purify my 
 soul. 
 
 I enlighten and enlarge my mind. 
 
 I strengthen and heal my body ; and yet, not 
 I, "but the Father dwelling within me; He 
 doeth the work;" for "there is no power but 
 one, and that is God." 
 
 This Infinite Power, operating and working 
 within me, is the dominion which God has 
 given me ; and by and through the use of it, I 
 shall manifest to the world all that I am. With 
 Thy power as my power, consciously using it, 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 131 
 
 I shall become as Thou art, the master of all 
 conditions and environments. 
 
 In Thine own Wisdom, in Thine own Light* 
 under the direction, guidance and control of 
 Thyself, I will come forth — I am coming forth 
 in the world — perfect as Thou art perfect ; for 
 Thy Light and Wisdom illumiries my entire be- 
 ing. 
 
 All the clouds of darkness, doubt, worry, 
 anxiety, disbelief or fear, melt before Thy Light 
 and disappear as the dew before the rising sun. 
 
 All preconceived opinions, narrow concep- 
 tion, bigoted affirmations, wrong ideas, will be 
 revealed to me as no part of Thee; and drop 
 from me as quickly, as easily, as the rain from 
 the clouds in the springtime. 
 
 I know that in Thee I can do all things. 
 
 I know that by and through Thee I shall be 
 all that Thou wouldst have me to be, for "I and 
 the Father are One." 
 
 "And now, O Father, glorify Thou me with 
 Thine own self, with the glory which I had 
 with Thee before the world was." 
 So Let it Be. 
 ( By changing the pronoun, you can use 
 the above as a treatment for others. 
 
132 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 THE MISSION OF PAIN. 
 
 When the realization of the Truth of these 
 Divine Suggestions takes possession of the in- 
 dividual, there is a great change in conscious- 
 ness experienced. This centering of the at- 
 tention in the Life, for the purpose of healing 
 all manner of disease, is, of course, a great 
 thing for every one, because sickness is never 
 desirable. No one enjoys suffering, although 
 pain is a necessity. It is necessary in this way. 
 Pain always reveals to us that there is a de- 
 ranged condition in the vital processes of life, 
 within the human structure. Pain warns us 
 that something is wrong; and this is its divine- 
 ly ordained mission. 
 
 If it were not for pain, the disease would 
 eat up the flesh ; disable and derange the entire 
 organism, before we could know that there was 
 anything wrong. Many times the entire sys^ 
 tern would be clogged, and the whole machin- 
 ery completely stopped, were it not for this 
 honest messenger of pain, which, in its earn- 
 est endeavor to save and protect the whole or- 
 ganism, has been condemned and abused ; 'for 
 its pains.' 
 
 It is utterly impossible for any human being, 
 to feel pain, where there is no life. The object 
 of the pain then, is but to call the individual's 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 13^5 
 
 attention to the fact that there is something 
 wrong, and that he must call this Infinite heal- 
 ing power of God into action to restore har- 
 mony, for it is everywhere present throughout 
 the entire body. It is there to heal, restore 
 and perfect ; but it, like all of the other forces, 
 faculties, functions, powers and senses of man's 
 entire nature, is under his control. 
 
 You must remember that for years and 
 years, you have been sowing the seeds which 
 produce all of these deranged conditions: 
 which obstruct the flow of the blood, shatter', 
 the nerves, exhausts the brain-force, weakens 
 and deranges all of the different organs, and 
 interferes in every conceivable way, with every 
 line of action, throughout the entire being of 
 man. 
 
 You have no right to feel disappointed or 
 become discouraged, when you commence the 
 work of repairing, restoring, healing and per- 
 fecting your own body, until you have worked 
 at this reconstructing process as faithfully as 
 you have in the past years, worked on the de- 
 structive lines. Because you see the truth, in 
 regard to what you really are, does not signify 
 that it will be externalized instantly. 
 
 Seeing food on the table, does not produce 
 flesh on your bones. The food must be eaten 
 
134 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 by you ; it must be taken into the stomach and 
 digested, assimilated throughout the system, 
 and appropriated by every part of the entire 
 structure to which it belongs; before it be- 
 comes "flesh of your flesh, and bone of your 
 bones/' 
 
 RECOGNITION AND REALIZATION. 
 
 In exactly this same way, before the truths 
 which you see, can be externalized in your con- 
 sciousness, you must perceive or recognize 
 them as true. You must dwell upon them, 
 think about them, until you understand all the 
 reasons for their being true. This understand- 
 ing gives you the knowledge, the faith in their 
 reality, which causes you to realize their truth, 
 or to become absolutely conscious that they are 
 true. 
 
 There is as great a distinction between recog- 
 nition and realization as there is between recog- 
 nizing that the food is on the table, and realiz- 
 ing the strength and flesh which is produced 
 through your having eaten it. 
 
 When we see how little we know of the work- 
 ings of God, and how much is to be learned by 
 us, before we can become all that we desire to 
 be, we have only to remember that as fast as 
 we are ready for new truths, or for new light 
 on any subject, it will be given us. 
 
Life's Great Healing Lcms. 135 
 
 Our work is to do the eating or correct think- 
 ing, digesting, or right actions, assimilating 
 and appropriating, which is accomplished 
 through living the life, as God intended that 
 we should. The growth of consciousness 
 must, in this way, be fed, nourished and 
 strengthened, as the growth of the body is fed, 
 nourished and strengthened. This perfect and 
 healthy growth of consciousness, can be at- 
 tained only by the individual, using every fac- 
 ulty of the mind to produce it ; as every func- 
 tion and organ of the body must be used, in 
 order to produce a perfect and healthy growth 
 of the body. 
 
 You must not simply remember all the laws 
 that have been given in this book, but you must 
 reason everything out for yourself; using 
 your own judgment as to where they belong 
 and how to use them ; what you need and how 
 you are to act; listening all the time to the 
 promptings of your own highest nature, and 
 deciding everything by the Light of this Infin- 
 ite Life within your own soul. 
 
 "ye must be born again/' 
 
 The change of physical consciousness in re- 
 lation to the healing of the body, experienced 
 by each one while studying on these lines, can 
 hardly be compared with the mighty change 
 
136 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 that takes place within the individual when the 
 Divine consciousness of what he is, as Life 
 itself, is aroused and awakened within him. 
 This change is the greatest that has ever been 
 experienced by man ; for through it he becomes 
 conscious within himself, that he is an Infinite 
 being, and knows that this Infinite conscious- 
 ness will broaden and expand until his doing 
 corresponds with his being. 
 
 There is no illustration that explains so clear- 
 ly to the mind of the reader, this change in con- 
 sciousness, as that of the chick hatching from 
 the egg. 
 
 There are years and years of the individual's 
 life, when this higher consciousness lies latent 
 or dormant, — when nothing but the common 
 mortal or human life is apparent, — as there are 
 weeks and months that the chick lies latent or 
 dormant in the egg, because the process by 
 which the egg is to be transformed into the 
 chick, has not yet begun. 
 
 Suppose, if it were possible for the egg to be 
 conscious of being an egg, then, when the in- 
 cubating process commenced, it would also be 
 conscious of a change taking place within itself ; 
 although it might not know what that change 
 was. Neither could there be any conscious- 
 ness of limitation felt within the chick, until 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 137 
 
 after the transformation of the egg into itself, 
 had taken place, when the sensation of limita- 
 tion would be the strongest. 
 
 It is the growing and the expanding of the 
 little chick, that causes the shell or its limita- 
 tions, to be broken ; and it steps out into a new 
 world, (and yet it is the very same world,) 
 with its little body filled full of the many liv- 
 ing powers, forces and functions, which it 
 could not have imagined before, of ever being 
 able to possess. Its consciousness of being a 
 perfect little chick, as it steps from the shell, 
 would not be the consciousness that is yet to be 
 acquired through using all of its new powers; 
 for it must eat and walk, run and fly, grow and 
 develop all of that which pertains to its new 
 nature. 
 
 The human race, is to-day, like so many 
 eggs, — placed here and there, — bought and 
 sold, — handled and used by circumstances, — 
 "under the law," because controlled by, or 
 "servants of the law." 
 
 BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN 
 HEAVEN IS PERFECT. 
 As you, through this transforming process, 
 become conscious that you are Life, the sensa- 
 tion of limitation is broken, and drops from 
 you the same as the shell drops from the chick. 
 
138 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 You then stand forth, conscious of your own 
 Divinity. Conscious that you are the very Life 
 itself, that you have always known was embod- 
 ied w T ithin your own human form. Conscious 
 that you are unlimited on every line and in 
 every direction ; because you are connected with 
 all Life. Conscious that you are composed of 
 a spiritual essence and substance, which no 
 disease can affect or touch. Conscious that 
 you are master of all your own conditions and 
 environments. Conscious that you are the Son 
 of God; and that nothing conceivable to man 
 can interfere with you, or retard the work 
 which you know that you must accomplish. 
 
 Instead bf feeling that something or some- 
 body can impede your progress, you know that 
 everything under the sun, and that God Him- 
 self, is not only working for, but with you, in 
 the perfection and culmination of your highest 
 desires and ideals. You are then, no longer 
 "under the law, but under grace/ ' 
 
 The "Grace of God" is the unlimited and 
 omnipotent functions, forces and powers of the 
 Almighty, which you must become conscious of 
 possessing. 
 
 You should not think that the attainment of 
 this Divine consciousness is impossible for man, 
 because those doubts all tend to retard the 
 
Life's Great Healing Law. 139 
 
 transforming process, within yourself alone. 
 You must be "confident of this very thing, that 
 He ivhich hath begun a good work in you, will 
 perform it, until the day of Jesus Christ" or, 
 until you are as perfect a Divine human, as He 
 was. 
 
 Remember, the principal difference in the il- 
 lustration of the transformation of the chick 
 within the shell and yourself, is the difference 
 in consciousness. Your transformation is 
 wholly in consciousness. That is, you are 
 conscious of being transformed, while the chick 
 is not. Others looking upon you from without, 
 unless they are in this same process, can know 
 nothing of the change that is taking place with- 
 in you. 
 
 Remember, also, that if it were not possible 
 for this change to take place within men, it 
 would be impossible for any one to conceive of 
 the plan or to desire it; much less to under- 
 stand and know the law, by which it is to be 
 brought about, or attained. 
 
 Life's Great Healing Law is only one of the 
 branches of this Infinite Tree of Life, which 
 is very different from the "Tree of knowledge 
 of good and evil," of which Humanity has 
 been so persistently eating, for lo ! these thous- 
 ands of years. 
 
140 Life's Great Healing Law. 
 
 The 'Flaming Sword' of Truth that 'turns 
 every way to protect this Tree of Life' is being 
 recognized and understood by man; and the 
 "Cherubims are seen to be the Divine beings, 
 which must be recognized as living within every 
 soul, if man would enter Life, take of the fruit 
 of this Tree, eat, and Live Forever. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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