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 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 ONE 
 
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 by 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
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THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Flood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy, The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 
 
 3N the preparation of this course of lectures, 
 it is assumed that the student is already 
 familiar with the text book, "Nature's Way," 
 by Wilbert LeRoy Cosper. It should be read 
 carefully at least twice before the study of this 
 lesson is begun and should be used for reference 
 throughout the course. 
 
 A thorough comprehension of Christian Philoso- 
 phy is to be obtained only by a persevering and 
 conscientious study of both "Nature's Way" and 
 "Scientific Healing." 
 
 The primary object of this series of lectures is to 
 establish a complete distinction between the two 
 types of man upon this plane — the carnal man and 
 Divine Man. It must be clearly understood, how- 
 ever, that we recognize but one creator. Surely we 
 have never understood Christ's avowal: "Ye shall 
 know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," 
 for today few persons are free — from sin, sickness, 
 pain or want. The mere repetition of a Divine 
 statement, or the knowledge of the promises of 
 God, are not sufficient of themselves to bring the 
 desired results. These results can be obtained only 
 when we are actually cognizant of the exact mean- 
 ing of the promises. Those who are carnal can 
 neither understand nor attain the sacred promises 
 which are made for the Divine Man. The differ- 
 entiation between these two men can be readily 
 recognized in the following quotations: 
 
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 Gen. 6:1-4. "And it came to pass, when men 
 began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daugh- 
 ters were born unto them. 
 
 "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men 
 that they were fair: and they took them wives of all 
 which they chose. 
 
 "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always 
 strive with man, for that he also is flesh ; yet his days 
 shall be an hundred and twenty years. 
 
 "There were giants in the earth in those days; and 
 also after that, when the sons of God came in to the 
 daughters of men and they bare children to them, the 
 same became mighty men which were of old, men of 
 renown." 
 
 The sons of God typify the Real Man and the 
 daughters of men represent the carnal man. 
 
 I Cor. 3:1-9. "And I, brethren, could not speak 
 unto you as unto spiritual,* but as unto carnal,f even 
 as unto babes in Christ. 
 
 "I have fed you with milk and not with meat; for 
 hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are 
 ye able. 
 
 "For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among 
 you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not car- 
 nal, and walk as man? 
 
 "For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I 
 am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 
 
 ♦Divine Mind reflects only upon the Spiritual Man and 
 it produces Love, Truth, Health and Intelligence. This 
 man is recognized as the Son of God, the perfect man, 
 hereafter to be designated the Real Man. 
 
 fThe term "carnal" means mortal. It applies to all 
 error, sin, sickness or anything that is opposite from 
 God, and the laws of Nature. 
 
DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 
 
 "Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but minis- 
 ters by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to 
 every man? 
 
 "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave 
 the increase. 
 
 "So then neither is he that planteth anything; neither 
 he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase. 
 
 "Now he that planteth and he that watereth are 
 one; and every man shall receive his own reward ac- 
 cording to his own labor. 
 
 "For we are laborers together with God; ye are 
 God's husbandry, ye are God's building." 
 
 Ephesians 2 : 1 9-22. "Now therefore ye are no 
 more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with 
 the saints, and of the household of God. 
 
 "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles 
 and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief 
 cornerstone. 
 
 "In whom all the building fitly framed together 
 groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord ; 
 
 "In whom ye also are builded together for an habi- 
 tation of God through the Spirit." 
 
 This building is the body of the Real Man. 
 
 I Cor. 3:10-23. "According to the grace of 
 God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, 
 I have laid the foundation and another buildeth there- 
 on. But let every man take heed how he buildeth 
 thereupon. 
 
 "For other foundation can no man lay than that 
 which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 
 
 "Now if any build upon this foundation gold, silver, 
 precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: 
 
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 "Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the 
 day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by 
 fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what 
 sort it is. 
 
 "If any man's work abide which he hath built there- 
 upon, he shall receive a reward. 
 
 "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer 
 loss ; but he himself shall be saved ; yet so as by fire. 
 
 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and 
 that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? 
 
 "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall 
 God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which 
 temple ye are. 
 
 "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among 
 you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a 
 fool that he may be wise. 
 
 "For the wisdom of this Avorld is foolishness with 
 God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own 
 craftiness." 
 
 "And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the 
 wise, that they are vain. 
 
 "Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things 
 are yours; 
 
 "Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the 
 world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to 
 come ; all are yours : 
 
 "And ye are Christ '5; and Christ is God's." 
 
 Jesus represents the perfect flesh body of any in- 
 dividual. Christ represents the complete manifesta- 
 
DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 
 
 tion in the flesh of the Divine Mind: that ALL 
 INTELLIGENCE which created everything. If 
 your body does not represent the Christ, it is un- 
 doubtedly a manifestation of carnal man. It is 
 this man only who can become sick or sinful. The 
 advent of the Holy Ghost transforms the carnal 
 man into the Real Man. 
 
 St. John 1 4 :20-3 1 . "At that day ye shall know 
 that I am in my Father, and ye in me and I in you. 
 
 "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth 
 them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me 
 shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and 
 will manifest myself to him. 
 
 "Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it 
 that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto 
 the world? 
 
 "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love 
 me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love 
 him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode 
 with Him. 
 
 "He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings ; and 
 the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's 
 which sent me. 
 
 "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet 
 present with you. 
 
 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
 whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach 
 you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, 
 whatsoever I have said unto you. 
 
 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; 
 not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your 
 heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 
 
 "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, 
 and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would 
 
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 rejoice, because I said, I go unto my Father; for my 
 Father is greater than I. 
 
 "And now I have told you before it come to pass, 
 that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 
 
 "Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the 
 prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 
 
 "But that the world may know that I love the 
 Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, 
 even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." 
 
 St. John 15:22-27. "If I had not come and 
 spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they 
 have no cloak for their sin. 
 
 "He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 
 
 "If I had not done among them the works which 
 none other man did, they had not had sin; but now 
 have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 
 
 "But this cometh to pass, that the word might be 
 fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me 
 without a cause. 
 
 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send 
 unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, 
 which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of 
 me. 
 
 St. John 16:7-16. "Nevertheless I tell you the 
 truth; it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I 
 go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; 
 but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 
 
 "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of 
 sin and of righteousness, and of judgment ; 
 
 "Of sin, because they believe not in me; 
 
 "Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and 
 ye see me no more; 
 
DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN I I 
 
 "Of judgment, because the prince of this world is 
 judged. 
 
 44 1 have yet many things to say unto you, but ye 
 cannot bear them now. 
 
 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he 
 will guide you into all truth ; for he shall not speak of 
 himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he 
 speak ; and he will show you things to come. 
 
 44 He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, 
 and shall show it unto you. 
 
 <4 A11 things that the Father hath are mine; therefore 
 said I, that he shall take mine, and shall show it unto 
 you. 
 
 44 A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again 
 a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the 
 Father." 
 
 The carnal man is unable to understand how 
 this can be accomplished. It is the Real Man who 
 can teach those who know not the truth and have 
 not found "The Comforter." 
 
 I Cor. 12:28-31. "And God hath set some in 
 the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly 
 teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, 
 governments, diversities of tongue. 
 
 "Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all 
 teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 
 
 "Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with 
 tongues? Do all interpret? 
 
 "But covet earnestly the best gifts; and yet show I 
 unto you a more excellent way." 
 
 These various gifts are to be attained by those 
 who are qualified by spiritual growth. These can 
 
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 minister to others who are unable to receive the 
 Divine Thought for themselves. The attribute that 
 is most necessary to the acquirement of any of 
 these gifts is susceptibility to Thought. 
 
 James 1 :5-7. "If any of you lack wisdom, let 
 him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and 
 upbraideth not ; and it shall be given him. 
 
 "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For 
 he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with 
 the wind and tossed. 
 
 "For let not that man think that he shall receive 
 anything of the Lord." 
 
 The Real Man has the true knowledge and does 
 not waver. He has been resurrected from the death 
 of carnal belief. 
 
 Rev. 20:6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath 
 part in the first resurrection; on such the second death 
 hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of 
 Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." 
 
 The second death can not change the Real 
 Man, the man who has been resurrected. The 
 highest aim of the Christian Philosophical Institute 
 is to resurrect its followers into a newness of life. 
 
 Rev. 20: 1 2-1 5. "And I saw the dead, small and 
 great stand before God; and the books were opened; 
 and another book was opened, which is the book of 
 life; and the dead were judged out of those things 
 which were written in the books, according to their 
 works. 
 
 "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; 
 and death and hell delivered up the dead which were 
 in them; and they were judged, every man according 
 to their works. 
 
 "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 
 This is the second death. 
 
DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 13 
 
 "And whosoever were not found written in the book 
 of life were cast into the lake of fire." 
 
 Paul tells us "The last enemy that shall be de- 
 stroyed is death." We cannot destroy death by 
 dying. Again Paul said: "O death, where is thy 
 sting; O, grave where is thy victory?" Can a vic- 
 tory over death be gained by dying? To be resur- 
 rected from the first death one must be transformed 
 from the carnal to the Divine Man while in the 
 flesh. The first step toward the accomplishment 
 of this change is the individual's realization and 
 acknowledgment of the fact that in reality he is 
 dead — that is, that he is dead to the Divine exist- 
 ence. He must then become as a little child, will- 
 ing and eager to be taught by the great teacher, 
 which is the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth. 
 
 The following promises are for him who has 
 been resurrected, the Real Man, and they are all 
 to be realized while he dwells in the flesh body: 
 Rev. 21 :4: "And God shall wipe away all tears 
 from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
 neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be 
 any more pain: for the former things are passed 
 away." The things that are passed away are the 
 carnal man and all of his attributes and manifesta- 
 tions. No element of the real life has been lost. 
 
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 THE GENUINE AND 
 THE ADULTERATION 
 
 bishop JVilbert LeRoy Cosper 
 
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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 A 
 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 
 
 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 THE GENUINE AND THE 
 ADULTERATION 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 TWO 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 
 AH Rights Reserved 
 
THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Flood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
THE GENUINE AND THE 
 ADULTERATION 
 
 /^■•^HE fundamental principles of Christian 
 If Philosophy are based upon an under- 
 ^"^ standing of man, the real, the creation of 
 God; and man, the unreal, the perversion of the 
 man whom God created in the beginning. It 
 must be remembered always that there is but one 
 .Creator which is God. 
 
 The spiritual interpretation of the Holy Bible 
 and the study of the allegories contained in its 
 first chapters, while revealing what perhaps may 
 be mistaken for a second creation and a second 
 Creator, must never lead us to attribute to any 
 force other than the Divine, the power to create. 
 To man, however, has been given the capacity 
 for applying, in his own sphere and according to 
 his desire, the forces and laws which have been 
 set in motion by Divine Intelligence. The abuse 
 and misapplication of this privilege has resulted 
 in the perversion of man himself and of the crea- 
 tures and conditions under his control. 
 
 Gen. 1 :26-27. "And God said, Let us make 
 man in our image, after our likeness; and let them 
 have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 
 the earth, and over every creeping thing that creep- 
 eth upon the earth. 
 
 4 'So God created man in his own image, in the 
 image of God created he him; male and female cre- 
 ated he them." 
 
 God said: "Let us make man in our image, 
 after our likeness." But he "created" man in his 
 
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 "own image," utterly ignoring the power with 
 which he had conferred. It is incredible that 
 God made a mistake or spoke a falsehood. If 
 the Bible or any other book is to be read under- 
 standingly, the reader must be discriminating. 
 The careless reader is likely to overlook a signifi- 
 cant feature of this quotation, the "us" and the 
 "our." God was counselling with Mind, an es- 
 sential member of the great whole. Mind is that 
 part of Nature which furnishes Intelligence to all 
 things created by God. 
 
 Rom. 12:4-5. "For as we have many members in 
 one body, and all members have not the same office: 
 
 "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and 
 every one members one of another." 
 
 The foot is not a hand nor has it the same 
 duty to perform, yet both are parts of man. So 
 also is Mind a part of God.* Mind is a solid 
 but not as a solid piece of iron or stone. Mind 
 fills all space, hence is immovable and cannot be 
 robbed of a perfect contact throughout. As a 
 fish moves through the water so does matter move 
 through Mind. A fish in the Atlantic Ocean 
 cannot change the location of the ocean. Matter 
 can move in Mind and through it, but never can 
 matter leave Mind and express the Divine Intelli- 
 gence any more than a fish can leave the water 
 and live. We cannot tell from whence came 
 Mind, any more than a fish can tell from whence 
 came the water. We are in Mind, of it, and con- 
 trolled by it. It would be as foolish for matter 
 to say to Mind: "Why did you create me 
 thus?" as for a fish to say to the water: "Why 
 must I stay in here always?" 
 
 ♦See explanation of God in "Nature's Way," Chapter I. 
 
THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION 7 
 
 Mind is the finest of all spiritual elements, much 
 finer than the smallest particles of matter. Mind 
 is not composed of matter. It is like love in that 
 we can feel the emotions and see the expressions 
 of love and it is capable of activity yet it is not 
 physical, although it does express upon that which 
 is physical. Mind is composed of the same sub- 
 stance as is love and both are indefinable. Mind 
 likewise must express upon matter to be conceived, 
 discerned, or to express intelligence. Mind inter- 
 penetrates everything but never can it be swayed 
 or controlled by matter. Matter has no intelli- 
 gence except that which it receives from Mind. 
 
 If God created nothing but good, from whence 
 came evil? "God created man in his own image, 
 male and female created he them." Gen. 2:3. 
 "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified 
 it; because that in it he had rested from all his 
 work which God created and made." God cre- 
 ated and formed a perfect man and if he had 
 remained perfect he never could have been con- 
 trolled by sin or sickness. This creation hereafter 
 will be designated "The Real Man," 
 
 What at first thought would appear a Second 
 Creation is a condition of hypnotism that invades 
 the Real Man. This seeming creation was en- 
 gendered by Lord Godf and not by God. 
 
 Perhaps few students have realized that there 
 are in the Bible three distinctly different uses of 
 the term "heaven." The first "heaven" is men- 
 tioned in Gen. 1:1: "In the beginning God cre- 
 ated the heaven and the earth." Here "heaven" 
 is used in the singular and is not capitalized. 
 
 tSee "Nature's Way," Chapter III. 
 
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 Love is discerned by expression, likewise heaven 
 is acknowledged by expression. This heaven is 
 the perfect state of consciousness which reflects 
 all of the attributes of the Creator. There is but 
 one Mind, one Intelligence and one heaven (the 
 spiritual state of consciousness) created by God. 
 
 The second "Heaven" is found in Gen. 1 :7-8. 
 
 "And God made the firmament, and divided the 
 waters which were under the firmament from the waters 
 which were above the firmament ; and it was so. And 
 God called the firmament Heaven." 
 
 "Heaven" here is a symbol and it also refers to 
 a condition in consciousness, the line of demarca- 
 tion between the super-conscious thoughts which 
 are produced by Mind and are "above the firma- 
 ment," and the conscious thoughts of the brain 
 which are "under the firmament." 
 
 Gen. 2:4. "These are the generations of the 
 heavens and of the earth when they were created, in 
 the day that the Lord God made the earth and the 
 heavens." 
 
 Here we find "heavens" in the allegory of 
 Adam and Eve. Lord God is the personification 
 of the productive force of the invisible carnal 
 mind "which is enmity against God;" this is the 
 beginning of evil. "Heavens" in the plural typi- 
 fies as many states of consciousness as there are 
 brains now in existence; each brain has an indi- 
 vidual reproductive capacity. Lord God, unable 
 to create a man, invades the one created by God 
 and then begins to rule man with a rod of iron. 
 Lord God's weapons are sin, sickness, pain, hat- 
 red, malice, revenge, envy, murder, jealousy, etc. 
 
THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION 9 
 
 Gen. 3:14-19. ''And the Lord God said unto 
 the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art 
 cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the 
 field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou 
 eat all the days of thy life: 
 
 "And I will put enmity between thee and the 
 woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall 
 bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 
 
 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply 
 thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt 
 bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy 
 husband and he shall rule over thee. 
 
 "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast 
 hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten 
 of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou 
 shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; 
 in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 
 
 "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; 
 and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; 
 
 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
 thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
 taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
 return." 
 
 Is it possible to believe that a good and just 
 God, a God of Love, could curse man thus? 
 
 Gen. 6:6-7. "And it repented the Lord that he 
 had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at 
 his heart. 
 
 "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I 
 have created from the face of the earth; both man, 
 and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of 
 the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." 
 
 Lord God here repents for all that he has done; 
 how, then, could he be God, who represents per- 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 fection in all things? This should be proof 
 enough to those who are willing to be taught, that 
 Lord God in this allegory has no part in the real 
 creation nor did he make a man at all. 
 
 Gen. 2:21-22. "And the Lord God caused a 
 deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he 
 took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead 
 thereof ; 
 
 "And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from 
 man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the 
 man." 
 
 This deep sleep which the Lord God caused to 
 fall upon Adam was a hypnotic influence from 
 the perverted brain. It is responsible for the 
 creation of a mortal or carnal mind, and the 
 attendant hell. 
 
 Gen. 2:7. "And the Lord God formed man of 
 the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 
 the breath of life; and man became a living soul." 
 
 Here Lord God makes a man out of the dust 
 (dust is the symbol of nothingness) of the .ground 
 (mortality.) This was accomplished by the dis- 
 torted reproduction of the thoughts which in the 
 beginning were pure and beautiful. The ultimate 
 result of this confused mental state is what we 
 know as carnal or mortal mind. 
 
 Gen. 2:17. "But of the tree of the knowledge of 
 good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day 
 that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." 
 
 This tree typifies the carnal mind and those 
 who eat the fruits of it, either seemingly good or 
 obviously bad, are separated from God. All of 
 the fruits are sin. Jesus said after some of his won- 
 derful healings, "Go and sin no more lest a worse 
 thing come over thee," implying that sickness was 
 just as much of a sin as anything else. A person 
 
THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION I 1 
 
 who pretends to teach truths expounded by Christ 
 and is sick, or even accepts sickness as inevitable, 
 is just as much of a sinner as the man who kills. 
 This person may be considered the so-called 
 "good" fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good 
 and evil. He is dead to the creative forces and 
 can reap no reward from God no matter what he 
 may think. Many a short sighted clergyman 
 preaching a sermon on the resurrection day, has 
 effectively portrayed the wonderful power of God 
 — how on judgment day he will draw together 
 all of the ingredients for each human body that 
 has been dead perhaps for centuries, and its con- 
 stituents disintegrated and blown to the four 
 winds — how God will again unite all this flesh, 
 bones, blood and other elements and judge the 
 individual for his sins. Still, while attributing to 
 God this wonderful power, the speaker has failed 
 to realize some of the teachings of our great mas- 
 ter, Jesus Christ, especially those contained in 
 
 Matt. 10:1, 7, 8. "And when he had called 
 unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power 
 against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal 
 all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 
 
 "And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of 
 heaven is at hand. 
 
 "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, 
 cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." 
 
 If, as the theologian asserts, God has the power 
 to bring all things together on resurrection day, 
 why can he not repair the body when it is in 
 need, just as Jesus commanded his disciples? 
 Many clergymen hold that this healing power 
 was given only to the disciples, but they overlook 
 this statement made by Christ: St. John 14:12. 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believ- 
 eth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; 
 and greater works than these shall he do; because 
 I go unto my Father." 
 
 They do not recognize the necessity for resur- 
 rection from the first death. Jesus said: "Know 
 the truth and the truth will make you free." 
 Anyone who teaches a Christian religion and is 
 unable to accomplish the healing work as taught 
 by Christ surely cannot "know the truth." 
 
 Lord God acknowledged the wrong and re- 
 pented for having caused the evil, then why 
 should we follow his teachings especially since 
 he has declared that he would destroy all of the 
 things that he had made? 
 
 Gen. 6:5. "And God saw that the wickedness of 
 man was great in the earth, and that every imagination 
 of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." 
 
 Here it is affirmed that it was the imagina- 
 tion of the thoughts of the heart that was only 
 evil continually. Once these imaginations are re- 
 moved, the evil will disappear and the body will 
 return to its normal state. 
 
 Lord God put enmity between the serpent and 
 the woman. Gen. 3:20. "And Adam called 
 his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother 
 of all living." 
 
 And up to this point there has been mention 
 of no living beings save Adam and Eve. In this 
 we have another proof that the narrative is alle- 
 gorical and not literal. Eve represents the origin 
 of all evil. There is no record of Eve's death, 
 for evil has not yet died. The struggle continues 
 between the two elements, the true and the false, 
 the Divine Mind and carnal mind, and — in the 
 individual — the heart and the brain. 
 
THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION 13 
 
 Eph. 2:14-22. "For he is our peace, who hath 
 made both one, and hath broken down the middle 
 wall of partition between us ; 
 
 "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even 
 the law of commandments contained in ordinances; 
 for to make in himself of twain one new man, so 
 making peace; 
 
 "And that he might reconcile both unto God in one 
 body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 
 
 "And came and preached peace to you which were 
 afar off, and to them that were nigh. 
 
 "For through him we both have access by one Spirit 
 unto the Father. 
 
 "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and for- 
 eigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the 
 household of God. 
 
 "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles 
 and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cor- 
 ner stone; 
 
 "In whom all the building fitly framed together 
 groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 
 
 "In whom ye also are builded together for an habi- 
 tation of God through the Spirit." 
 
 This partition which is between the heart and 
 the brain in the physical body is the origin of the 
 enmity which one organ displays for another. 
 Both assume that they are right. One or the other 
 must give in if they are ever to restore peace in the 
 body. If the brain receives thoughts from the 
 carnal mind, the body will be governed by it and 
 will manifest whatsoever mortality images thereon. 
 If the carnal mind wishes to manifest upon the 
 body a tumor, cancer, tuberculosis or any other 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 disease, the individual is unable to prevent it. 
 These images of the carnal mind must be displaced 
 by the Divine image of Perfection; then carnal 
 man will be transformed into his Real Self. When 
 we break down the partition between the heart 
 and the brain and accept the "Spirit of God," so 
 making peace in our bodies, we are resurrected 
 from the first death and have become new men. 
 
 Rev. 20:6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath 
 part in the first resurrection: on such the second death 
 hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and 
 of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." 
 
 For those who have been resurrected from the 
 first death are these promises : 
 
 Rev. 21 :3-4. "And I heard a great voice out of 
 heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with 
 man, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be 
 his people, and God himself shall be with them, and 
 be their God. 
 
 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
 eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
 nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for 
 the former things are passed away." 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE 
 
 Students are requested to read each lecture five 
 times before beginning the study of the succeeding 
 lesson. 
 
CHRISTIAN 
 PHILOSOPHICAL HOME 
 
 DR. CHRISTINE B. BELCHER 
 
 REGENT AND CUSTODIAN 
 
 FOR 
 
 INDIGENT MOTHERS AND 
 
 INFANTS 
 
 'Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, 
 receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receirveth not me 
 hut him that sent me." 
 
 OFFICES 
 
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 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
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 SCIENTIFIC 
 HEALING 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 THREE 
 
 THE MIST 
 
 bishop Wilbert LeRoy Cosper 
 
 mwmwmwf^^mzj^m^^m^wwmmmwb 
 
SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 A 
 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 
 
 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. , 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 THE MIST 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 THREE 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Flood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
f 
 
 THE MIST 
 
 OR now we see through a glass darkly, but 
 then face to face; now I know in part; but 
 then shall I know even as also I am known. 
 
 Divine Intelligence with a formula, a mental 
 image of its own creation, as its model, molded out 
 of Space and Darkness a creature which we call 
 man. Spirit, the activity of Mind, which we can 
 best comprehend as Energy, supplied life to the 
 creation. The Intelligence of Mind communi- 
 cated constantly to man by means of mental im- 
 ages the directions which were necessary for his 
 well-being and understanding. 
 
 Man's brain is a complex mechanism created by 
 Mind for the purpose of receiving Divine Thought 
 in the form of mental photographs or formulas and 
 translating it into physical expression, into whatever 
 language is native to the individual and at will into 
 spoken words, which impress others through the 
 corporeal sense of hearing. 
 
 Words are at the best vague and inadequate 
 attempts at the reproduction of thought, for the use 
 of words and the interpretation of words depends 
 almost wholly upon the circumstances of educa- 
 tion. One word may convey as many different or 
 modified ideas as there are persons to interpret it. 
 The interpretation depends largely upon the men- 
 tal images associated with that word in the ex- 
 perience of the individual. This effect is of course 
 to some extent qualified by the context but it is a 
 factor which always must be recognized in the use 
 of any form of communication which depends 
 upon words, either spoken or written. To illus- 
 
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 trate: speak the one word "dog" to a group of 
 people, then ask them individually to describe the 
 mental impression produced by the word. It will 
 be found that on each brain it has produced a 
 different picture. It is impossible for the individual 
 to think merely "dog." In most cases the word 
 will conjure a mental picture of a dog of a cer- 
 tain breed and color. Usually it will be a certain 
 dog prominent in the experience of the individual, 
 or if it does not bring such a picture it will convey 
 the thought "the word dog," "d-o-g" as distin- 
 guished from other words in the language. This 
 conception would be most natural to one absorbed 
 in the study of the orthography and derivation of 
 words. 
 
 In any case the interpretation of any testimony 
 of spoken or written word as of any other evidence 
 of the five corporeal senses is colored by the asso- 
 ciation of other mental images previously existent 
 in the brain of the recipient. 
 
 For this reason the manifestations of the physi- 
 cal senses, so often accepted as conclusive, cannot 
 be trusted absolutely. They depend for their ac- 
 curacy upon the ability of the individual to receive 
 the thought which originally preceded the words. 
 It is therefore of infinitely more importance to cul- 
 tivate this faculty of the "Sixth Sense"* than to 
 acquire any learning which can be gained from 
 books. For through the sixth sense, that of 
 "thought photography," the original formulas are 
 received by the brain and reproduced in pure un- 
 adulterated thought which will guide the recipient 
 unerringly in every detail of life. 
 
 It is true that if the man who receives and be- 
 comes conscious of Divine thought correctly trans- 
 
 *Explained in Chapter VII of "Nature's Way." 
 
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 lates that thought into words; another who hears 
 the words may receive a false impression from 
 them. If his brain does not receive the same 
 thought which prompted the words of the other he 
 can only imagine from his former experiences or 
 education what the words were meant to convey. 
 His imagination may mislead him and injure him 
 but the fault is not in the Creator of the thought 
 nor in the other's translation of the thought. The 
 ignorance of the hearer is the only wrong. 
 
 Those who must depend wholly upon the tes- 
 timony of the physical senses will always be sub- 
 ject to error. The evidence of these senses is de- 
 pendable only as it is substantiated by the tran- 
 scendent perception of the "Sixth Sense." The 
 Real Man, the Son of God, of which Jesus was 
 the perfect example, is always protected by the 
 ability to detect the true and the false and to 
 judge the reality of the physical manifestations in 
 the light of spiritual knowledge. To judge by the 
 physical senses is to "see through a glass darkly," 
 to have the vision clouded by the mist of ignorance 
 and error. 
 
 Gen. 2:5-6. "And every plant of the field before 
 it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before 
 it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain 
 upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the 
 ground. 
 
 "But there went up a mist from the earth, and 
 watered the whole face of the ground." 
 
 The mist is misunderstanding, which induces 
 the brain's misinterpretation of Divine Images, by 
 the haze which obscures the fine lines, the explicit 
 instructions, the clear cut perfection of true thought 
 photographs. 
 
 To portray the disastrous effect of trust in the 
 
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 evidence of the physical senses: suppose that for 
 years a pilot has guided his boat into the harbor 
 by the sound of a bell which guides him into the 
 channel and by the sight of lights which mark the 
 course. While the boat is on a voyage, the harbor 
 officials decide that the bell should be moved to a 
 dangerous rock outside the harbor's entrance and 
 that the lights also should be placed on each side 
 of it to warn incoming ships of danger. Their 
 reasoning is, of course, faulty and their action de- 
 plorable, but the boat returns and the pilot, who 
 relies upon sight and sound steers his ship upon the 
 rock and is destroyed together with all who have 
 trusted their lives to his intelligence. Had he been 
 able to receive thought as well as sight and sound, 
 he would have become conscious through the spir- 
 itual sense of the decision which prompted the 
 change in the signals and his unerring guide, 
 Divine Intelligence, would have enabled him to 
 find the unmarked channel. 
 
 The physical senses can never change Divine 
 Thought, but the brain may reject or misinter- 
 pret thought and accepting the senses as its pilot, 
 be dashed upon the rocks of sickness, unhappiness 
 and want. All error has for its cradle the failure 
 of the brain to completely interpret the thought 
 which is furnished it by Mind. The consequent 
 acceptance of unreliable sense impressions nurtures 
 error. 
 
 Gen. 2 :20. "And Adam gave names to all cattle, 
 and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the 
 field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet 
 for him." 
 
 This was the perverted Adam, "the figure of 
 him that was to come."* 
 
 ♦Explained in Chapter Three, of "Nature's Way." 
 
THE MIST 
 
 Rom. 5:12-14. "Wherefore as by one man sin 
 entered into the world, and death by sin ; and so death 
 passed upon all men, for that all have sinned : 
 
 "For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is 
 not imputed when there is no law. 
 
 "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, 
 even over them that had not sinned after the similitude 
 of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that 
 was to come." 
 
 It is this Adam, the impostor, who names all 
 things. This Adam, himself, is the product of per- 
 version, the result of ignorance. How can it be 
 possible for him to correctly name the creations 
 brought before him? Only Divine Intelligence 
 can supply the true name and meaning of each 
 creature, and Adam by reason of the mist upon his 
 consciousness is unable to translate the Divine 
 Thought. In an incomplete and desultory man- 
 ner according to the images already enthroned in 
 his deluded brain, he interprets the fragments of 
 thought, which penetrate through the mist. 
 
 For instance, he perceives a black object, the 
 Divine Intelligence flashes to his brain, the 
 thought, "That is black." Adam, becoming con- 
 scious of part of the message and guessing at what 
 he does not understand, says: "Yes, that is white." 
 No matter how often intelligence repeats "That is 
 black," Adam's brain interprets the message and 
 reiterates in all sincerity, "Yes, I understand that 
 is white." Adam's posterity, in their turn dis- 
 connected from the source of true knowledge and 
 depending upon the education to be acquired 
 through the physical senses, look to Adam for 
 teaching. Adam tells them that black is white 
 and they believe it and teach their descendants the 
 same fallacy. Thus the errors are forced upon all 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 men and as time passes they increase in magnitude, 
 like the proverbial bit of gossip many times re- 
 peated, until in the beliefs and standards of the 
 world there is little trace of the Divine Thought 
 which is constantly seeking to redeem man from his 
 own imaginings and to dispel the mist from the 
 vision of humanity. 
 
 Divine Intelligence communicates to Adam the 
 message: "Man's heritage is health, happiness, 
 and spiritual development." Adam fails to repro- 
 duce the thought perfectly and says, "God has 
 given us suffering and sickness that we may be 
 made perfect." 
 
 The mist still hangs heavily upon the face of the 
 earth. Misguided man still labors under myriads 
 of illusions, the race still bows to the authority of 
 the False Lord God who placed upon it the curse 
 of sorrow, pain and want. It cannot see, beyond 
 the mist, the rainbow of the promise; 
 
 "Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and 
 he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people 
 and he shall be with them, and be their God." 
 
 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
 eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sor- 
 row nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, 
 for the former things are passed away." 
 
 When mortal man, blinded by the mist, finds 
 that his body is imperfect or diseased, his first 
 thought is of material remedies for he has been 
 educated to believe in their efficacy. Usually he 
 hastens to a physician and accepts his edicts as 
 those of an oracle. His brain trained to travel in 
 the paths beaten by ages of mortality, does not 
 suggest the thought that since God created and 
 formed man in the beginning without the aid of a 
 
THE MIST 11 
 
 physician He may still be able to repair the mech- 
 anism which He produced. If such a thought is 
 suggested by another who has begun to emerge 
 from the mist into the light of spiritual understand- 
 ing, the sufferer, with the brand of ignorance upon 
 him, will explain loftily that mental remedies may 
 be all very well for those who have only imaginary 
 ailments, but that he knows what is wrong with 
 him and his case requires medicine — or manipu- 
 lation — or diet — or at any rate he prefers to rely 
 upon the wisdom of the physician. The phrase, 
 "the doctor says," is today far more common than 
 the one, "the Bible says," for the mist, while 
 slowly lifting, still obscures the sun. 
 
 By some in every age, the power of Mind has 
 been recognized and demonstrated. The superi- 
 ority of Spiritual remedies was illustrated in the 
 case of a certain woman nearly twenty centuries 
 ago and many today might profit by her experi- 
 ence. 
 
 St. Mark 5:25-29. "And a certain woman, 
 which had an issue of blood twelve years, 
 
 "And had suffered many things of many physicians, 
 and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bet- 
 tered but rather grew worse, 
 
 "When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press 
 behind, and touched his garment. 
 
 "For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall 
 be whole. 
 
 "And straightway the fountain of her blood was 
 dried up ; and she felt in her body that she was healed 
 of that plague." 
 
 Man should turn to his Creator for the correc- 
 tion of the ills which have resulted from his failure 
 to accept the Divine guidance in the past. The 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 only way by which humanity may be completely 
 freed from pain and sickness is by the acquirement 
 of spiritual knowledge. Every man, woman and 
 child must be taught to rely, not upon the ability 
 of the physician, the surgeon, the osteopath or 
 the mental healer to correct the results of false 
 thinking and wrong living, but upon the power of 
 Divine Intelligence to dictate true thought and 
 direct right activities, so precluding the very pos- 
 sibility of sickness and sin. The magnitude of this 
 task is almost inconceivable but it is the ultimate 
 aim toward which all spiritual people are striving. 
 
 Until a man can receive and correctly interpret 
 the Divine messages, he is subject to the false be- 
 liefs of others whom he trusts. He has a pain and 
 consults a physician. The physician diagnoses the 
 case, advises an operation and sends him to a sur- 
 geon. The surgeon confirms the physician's opin- 
 ion and sends the patient to a hospital. After 
 the operation when the patient has spent several 
 weeks or perhaps months (together with a consid- 
 erable sum of money) in recovering from the or- 
 deal, he may find that the pain is gone or he may 
 find, like the woman of whom St. Mark wrote, 
 that he "was nothing bettered but rather grew 
 worse." 
 
 Surely at the best the body receives a question- 
 able service when it is deprived of any of its 
 organs. It is doubtless true that many surgeons 
 sincerely believe that in certain cases, operations 
 are actually necessary, but this belief, however 
 sincere, does not lessen the disastrous results 
 which sometimes follow them. The fact that the 
 surgeon recognizes no method more powerful than 
 the knife does not mean that surgery is the highest 
 form of remedial effort that man can or will 
 
THE MIST 13 
 
 achieve. It means only that those who can not 
 see beyond it for the mist before their eyes, must 
 accept whatever aid or satisfaction it can afford 
 them. 
 
 Materiality can never satisfactorily govern the 
 beings who were created by Spiritual Intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE 
 
 Students are requested to read each lecture five 
 times before beginning the study of the succeeding 
 lesson. 
 
CHRISTIAN 
 PHILOSOPHICAL HOME 
 
 DR. CHRISTINE B. BELCHER 
 
 REGENT AND CUSTODIAN 
 
 FOR 
 
 INDIGENT MOTHERS AND 
 INFANTS 
 
 "Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, 
 receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, 
 but him that sent me" 
 
 OFFICES 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL HOMES 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
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 HEALING 
 
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 LESSON NUMBER 
 FOUR 
 
 THE FLOOD, Part I. 
 
 bishop Wilbert LeRoy Cosper 
 
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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 A 
 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 
 
 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 THE FLOOD, PART I 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 FOUR 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 by 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Flood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
THE FLOOD 
 Part I 
 
 3T seems incredible that for hundreds of years 
 intelligent and learned men have accepted 
 the story of the Flood as the literal account of 
 a deluge planned and executed by a wise God. 
 Surely such believers have not paused to weigh the 
 statements made in this record or to apply to the 
 picture, drawn by the writer, the light of simple 
 reasoning such as they would inevitably bring to 
 bear upon the writings of their contemporaries. 
 
 In order to justify our assumption that the Flood 
 described in Genesis is purely allegorical, and has 
 no reference to an actual flood of water, it is nec- 
 essary to emphasize the inconsistency of various 
 statements when considered literally. 
 
 The very possibility that a loving Creator could 
 destroy all of his children, save the very few de- 
 scribed as having found favor with him, is incon- 
 gruous with any natrual conception of God. Such 
 an action could come only from a tyrannical na- 
 ture. What would the world think today of a man 
 if, because his children had disobeyed his com- 
 mands, or in some way incurred his displeasure, he 
 should deliberately drown them all? Would he 
 not be liable to the most severe punishment which 
 the law could inflict? How then can we reconcile 
 our ideas of God with such an act? 
 
 Again, we believe that God is wise, yet accord- 
 ing to Moses* narrative, if it be read literally, God 
 instructed Noah to build an ark, approximately 
 four hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet long, 
 
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 seventy-three feet wide, and forty-four feet in 
 height. This large structure was to contain one 
 window which was to measure about one foot and 
 a half! What would we think today of the wis- 
 dom of an architect who could plan such an ab- 
 surdity ? The fate of the human beings who were 
 left to perish in the water could hardly have been 
 worse than this incarceration. 
 
 In the 19th and 20th verses of the 6th chapter, 
 God tells Noah to take into the ark with him two 
 of every sort of living thing. In the 9th verse of 
 the 7th chapter, it is stated that the animals went 
 into the ark "two and two," the male and the 
 female, as God had commanded. 
 
 No explanation is made as to why in the second 
 verse of the 7th chapter the Lord had said: "Of 
 every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, 
 the male and the female; and of the beasts that 
 are not clean by two, the male and the female." 
 Nor is it explained how the sevens are to be di- 
 vided into pairs. 
 
 After we have learned that Noah, disregarding 
 the Lord's instruction and obeying God's original 
 command, had taken into the ark two of each spe- 
 cies, we find in the 20th veise of the 8th chapter, 
 that Noah offered burnt offerings of every clean 
 beast and of every clean fowl. How then was the 
 replenishment of the earth to be accomplished? 
 
 In Gen. 7:20, we read: "Fifteen cubits up- 
 ward did the water prevail; and the mountains 
 were covered." Fifteen cubits represents less than 
 twenty-two feet. What kind of mountains were 
 these which were hidden when the water was but 
 twenty-two feet deep? Surely not physical moun- 
 tains ! They were the obstacles in the way of the 
 
THE FLOOD — PART I 
 
 spiritual perception, mountains of ignorance, doubt, 
 fear, and selfishness. 
 
 Surely all of these discrepancies must convince 
 us that a literal version of the story is incredible. 
 This fact, nevertheless, does not reflect upon the 
 wisdom of the Creator, nor does it destroy, or in 
 any degree impair the wonderful lesson of the nar- 
 rative. It only discloses a fertile source of error 
 in modern man's tendency to accept everything 
 upon appearances and to look no farther than the 
 realms of the corporeal senses. If we are to profit 
 by the inspired writings of ancient peoples, we must 
 understand something of the psychological condi- 
 tions of their generations. 
 
 In "Nature's Way," the principles of thought 
 photography have been explained. All spiritual 
 thought is impressed upon man's brain in the form 
 of pictures or symbols. In order to communicate 
 this thought to others, the brain must translate these 
 mental photographs into thought. The simplest 
 and most direct way for a spiritual person to ex- 
 press these thoughts to others is by the description 
 of the picture or symbol which he sees. The oldest 
 writings we find in the form of pictures carved in 
 stone. The allegory is the form of writing most 
 nearly approaching this pictured thought. It is, 
 therefore, to one in whom the sixth sense is highly 
 developed, the clearest possible form of expression ; 
 conforming most closely to the original Spiritual 
 Thought. Among Oriental peoples the allegory 
 is today a favorite form of expression, but among 
 the Occidental races it is almost obsolete. The 
 reason is that we have cultivated the five senses to 
 a higher degree and have looked toward material 
 delicate nerves of the sixth sense have atrophied 
 from disuse and their function has been forgotten. 
 
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 There remains still a recognition of the fact that a 
 sixth sense exists but of its true nature almost noth- 
 ing is realized by the world. 
 
 To a materialistic, practical, modern man, all 
 allegory is incomprehensible. He can see no reason 
 for what seems to him a vague and unnatural style. 
 Such a man usually discards the Bible as a myth 
 and when the true meaning is disclosed to him pro- 
 tests: "Why did they not write it so that it could 
 be understood?" The reason is simple; the Bible 
 was written by men of inspiration, which means 
 men who received Spiritual Thought and relied 
 upon the sixth sense rather than upon physical im- 
 pressions. To them, therefore, the allegory was 
 the most natural and the most easily understood 
 form of speech. 
 
 It was not employed, as many seem to imagine, 
 for the purpose of puzzling and confusing the 
 reader. The fault lies in our ignorance, and in the 
 fact that we have educated the brain at the ex- 
 pense of the Mind. To achieve true progress, we 
 must renounce many of the conclusions which we 
 have reached by much mental effort. 
 
 As we read the allegory of the Flood in its sym- 
 bolic interpretation, we find a story of wonderful 
 beauty and of infinite importance to every man 
 searching for the path which leads out of the 
 swamps of mortality into the blossoming meadows 
 of the Spiritual Consciousness. 
 
 Gen. 5:28-29. "And Lamech lived an hundred 
 eighty and two years, and begat a son : 
 
 "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same 
 shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our 
 hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath 
 cursed." 
 
THE FLOOD — PART I 
 
 Noah was born for the purpose of re-establish- 
 ing the spiritual conditions of fallen man; thus 
 transforming into the perfect form the man created 
 by the Lord God from the dust of the earth. This 
 man we know is not a true man but is merely the 
 distortion or perversion of the Real Man brought 
 about by his own misconception of the spiritual 
 messages communicated to his brain by the Divine 
 Intelligence. The "dust of the ground" represents 
 the mist of mortality, and it is of this that mortal 
 man is formed. It is not difficult to realize how 
 this creation can be instantly destroyed by the real- 
 ization of spiritual truth. A physical mist may ob- 
 scure an object or render it so indistinct, that we 
 mistake it for something very unlike it. We may 
 see a rock and call it a tree, but when the sunshine 
 disperses the mist, where is the tree? Thus when 
 the spiritual light penetrates into man's misguided 
 brain, the creation of the mist disappears, the man 
 formed of the dust of the ground is no more, 
 
 It was Noah's mission to bring about the de- 
 struction of this man of illusion. The flood was for 
 the purpose of destroying this man and no other. 
 While Noah was probably an actual historical 
 personage, he represents in the allegory the person- 
 ification of individualized Spiritual Consciousness 
 and had he been merely a mythical figure, the 
 meaning and usefulness of the truth presented in 
 the story would be in no wise impaired. 
 
 Gen. 2 :7. "And the Lord God formed man of the 
 dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the 
 breath of life; and man became a living soul." 
 
 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of 
 the ground and breathed into his nostrils the 
 "breath of life/ 1 In the study of "Nature's Way," 
 the reader has recognized the expression, "the 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 breath of life," as the mark by which the creations 
 of the false Lord God are designated.* 
 
 We learn now through further study of the al- 
 legory that the Flood was planned for the express 
 purpose of destroying these creations. 
 
 In Gen. 6:7, the Lord, not God, says: "I will 
 destroy man whom I have created." In the 1 7th 
 verse of the same chapter, God says: "And, be- 
 hold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon 
 the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the 
 "breath of life." 
 
 Gen. 6:1-2. "And it came to pass, when men 
 began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daugh- 
 ters were born unto them, 
 
 "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men 
 that they were fair; and they took them wives of all 
 which they chose." 
 
 The term "sons of God" refers to the spiritual 
 creation before the fall, and not to a particular 
 sex. The "daughters of men" are the creation of 
 Lord God, the carnal beings, whether male or 
 female. 
 
 Gen. 6:4. "There were giants in the earth in 
 those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God 
 came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare chil- 
 dren to them, the same became mighty men which were 
 of old, men of renown." 
 
 The union of the Real Man with the mortal 
 man has produced the adulterated creature which 
 we today call man. Mortal man or carnal man 
 can exist only as a parasite, diverting into false 
 channels a part of the energy and activity which 
 rightfully belong to the Spiritual Man. 
 
 ♦Read last paragraph, Chapter IX, of "Nature's Way." 
 
THE FLOOD — PART I 1! 
 
 "The same became mighty men which were of 
 old, men of renown." The general acceptance of 
 mortality and submission to the curses of the im- 
 postor Lord God, finally changed the whole 
 thought of the world and men accepted as their 
 ideals these perverted and unreal creations. False, 
 erring and distorted mortals became "mighty men 
 of renown." 
 
 Gen. 6:5. "And God saw that the wickedness of 
 man was great in the earth, and that every imagination 
 of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.' ' 
 
 Some students of the Bible have averred that 
 God's eyes were too good to behold evil. We learn 
 here that "God saw that the wickedness of man 
 was great." In this verse is named the beginning 
 of all man's troubles. It was the imagination of 
 the thoughts of his heart, which was evil. This 
 does not mean that sickness, pain, and sorrow are 
 only imaginary, but it does mean that the origin of 
 every pain or sorrow or discord lies in an imagina- 
 tion, in other words, a failure to reproduce clearly 
 in the brain the message of a Divine Thought. 
 The message thus perverted, misleads the brain 
 and causes it to err in the application of supplies 
 which are given for the maintenance of bodily wel- 
 fare. It wrongly mixes chemicals, which thus be- 
 come harmful rather than nutritious and the organs 
 are impaired; their strength and vitality lessened, 
 and pathological conditions of various sorts are 
 manifested. These are all actual, existing condi- 
 tions, but all are due to the original "imagination 
 of the thoughts of the heart." 
 
 Whenever a man can be shown the true mode of 
 life, so that he can fully realize his error, the full 
 and perfect acceptance of the Divine Thought 
 builds up and completes the imperfect mental pic- 
 tures which his brain has held. The deficiencies in 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 his understanding and in his flesh are then supplied 
 naturally and the imagination disappears, together 
 with the corresponding ailments and abnormal con- 
 sequences. 
 
 To illustrate the dangers and the extent of the 
 effect of one wrongly interpreted thought: God 
 creates the grape with its delicious and wholesome 
 juice. To each man who comes in contact with 
 the fruit, the Divine Intelligence gives an appetite 
 for, and a keen enjoyment of the wholly desirable 
 juice of the grape. As time passes the same In- 
 telligence tells man how to form cups of leaves and 
 how to extract the juice from the grapes and drink 
 it from the cups. But one man who fails to obey 
 perfectly a message from the Divine, presses out 
 two cups of juice instead of one, as the Intelligence 
 had instructed. He drinks one cup and having no 
 appetite for the second, puts it aside for another 
 day. When he returns to it, it has fermented and 
 become an intoxicating wine. The Divine Intelli- 
 gence sends him a message of warning, but the 
 brain through its first imagination has lost some- 
 thing of its alertness and it does not heed the mes- 
 sage. He drinks the wine and in the exuberance 
 of the senses which follows, believes that he has 
 discovered a wonderful means of spiritual exalta- 
 tion. He repeats the experiment and makes larger 
 and larger quantities of the liquor. As he con- 
 sumes it in excessive quantity he begins to see 
 things which do not exist. He tells others of this 
 vision and they, too, believe that he has discovered 
 a source of wonderful power which permits him to 
 look into the spiritual world and see things that to 
 them are invisible. When they learn that it is the 
 juice of the grape which has given him this power 
 they are eager to experience the same novel sensa- 
 tions. Soon they, too, become slaves to the strong 
 
THE FLOOD — PART I 13 
 
 drink and live in a world of illusion and false 
 thought. 
 
 God created the grape for a good purpose, 
 but man has misunderstood the messages by which 
 the Divine Intelligence has instructed him in its 
 proper use and he, himself, has made it a curse. 
 
 God also created the apple, and for a beneficent 
 purpose, yet man has extracted the juice from the 
 apple and made an intoxicating liquor, which was 
 not God's creation. Likewise the grains which 
 furnish both man and animals with one of the most 
 important food supplies have been made to yield 
 the most harmful of liquors under man's perverted 
 manipulations. Through the same misunderstand- 
 ing man has built up for himself a false world, an 
 unnatural existence in which sickness, pain, and 
 want have usurped the places of health, happiness, 
 and abundance. 
 
 Gen. 6:6-7. "And it repented the Lord that he 
 had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his 
 heart." 
 
 "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I 
 have created from the face of the earth, both man, and 
 beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air ; 
 for it repenteth me that I have made them." 
 
 We have in these verses complete proof of our 
 assertion that the Lord God referred to throughout 
 Genesis is not God. It would be impossible for an 
 omniscient God to do something for which he must 
 afterward repent. God does not make mistakes. 
 
 The Lord herein promises to destroy the mortal 
 conditions which he has created, but even to this 
 day they exist in the greater number of people. 
 The Flood represents an individual experience, not 
 an event which included all of mankind. The de- 
 struction of mortality can be accomplished only in 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 the individual just as each individual builds up his 
 own world of illusion. The Flood began for some 
 men thousands of years ago, in others it is only now 
 beginning, still others buried in the mist of error 
 have not yet opened their hearts to its purifying 
 tide. 
 
 Gen. 6:8-1 0. "But Noah found grace in the eyes 
 of the Lord." 
 
 These are the generations of Noah : Noah was 
 a just man and . perfect in his generations, and 
 Noah walked with God. 
 
 "And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and 
 Japheth." 
 
 Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth repre- 
 sent different mental forces operating in the con- 
 sciousness of the one individual. 
 
 Gen. 6:1 1. "The earth also was corrupt before 
 God, and the earth was filled with violence." 
 
 The "earth" to which the writer refers is not 
 the planet upon which we live, but is the symbol 
 of the physical man whom God had created in 
 all perfection. 
 
 Gen. 6:12. "And God looked upon the earth, 
 and, behold, it was corrupt ; for all flesh had corrupted 
 his way upon the earth." 
 
 "Flesh" is always the symbol of mortality. We 
 have here repeated assurance that God recognized 
 the existence of evil. 
 
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THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Flood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
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 THE FLOOD 
 Part II 
 
 EN. 6:13. "And God said unto Noah, The 
 end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth 
 is filled with violence through them; and, be- 
 hold, I will destroy them with the earth." 
 
 God spoke to the individual Spiritual Conscious- 
 ness in man. 
 
 Gen. 6:14-16. "Make thee an ark of gopher 
 wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt 
 pitch it within and without with pitch. 
 
 "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it 
 of : The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, 
 the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty 
 cubits. 
 
 "A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a 
 cubit shalt thou finish it above ; and the door of the ark 
 shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second 
 and third stories shalt thou make it:" 
 
 The ark represents the human heart, the recep- 
 tive organ for Divine Thought. The description 
 of the ark which makes it an absurdity if accepted 
 literally is a symbolic reference to the structure of 
 the heart which fits it for its spiritual functions. The 
 fact that Noah is instructed to build this ark means 
 that he is to recognize the nature and faculties of 
 the heart in this capacity. 
 
 Gen. 6:17. "And, behold, I even I, do bring a 
 flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, 
 wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and 
 everything that is in the earth shall die." 
 
 How different is the picture symbolically ex- 
 pressed in this verse, from the old literal belief of 
 
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 a Flood of water which was sent to destroy men 
 and women and children, unsuspecting little lambs 
 and innocent babies. The term "waters" is the 
 symbol of Spiritual Thought in the impalpable 
 form in which it is transmitted from Mind to the 
 individual We have explained heretofore that 
 the "flesh in which is the breath of life," represents 
 mortal or carnal conditions and not necessarily 
 animal tissue. The deluge of Divine Thought is 
 to destroy all mortality. It is obvious that the re- 
 ception and acceptance of the all-intelligent could 
 not permit of the harboring of ignorance or mis- 
 understanding. 
 
 Gen. 6:18-19. "But with thee I will establish my 
 covenant ; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and 
 thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 
 
 "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every 
 sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive 
 with thee; they shall be male and female." 
 
 The wife of Noah and his sons' wives imply the 
 power of reproduction which must always remain 
 alive. The "male and female" of all flesh has the 
 same significance. Noah takes into his haven the 
 very conditions which are to be destroyed. How 
 can we account for this fact if we read the record 
 literally? 
 
 The symbolic interpretation clears away the 
 mystery. The only way to destroy ignorance is to 
 turn it into intelligence, hence the end of mortality 
 can come only when, in the words of Paul, "This 
 corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this 
 mortal shall have put on immortality." 
 
 So Noah gathers these false beliefs and cor- 
 rupted visions into the seat of all consciousness 
 where they may receive the direct flow of Divine 
 
THE FLOOD — PART II 
 
 Intelligence and thus be transformed into true un- 
 derstanding and correct mental images. 
 
 Gen. 6:20. "Of fowls after their kind, and of 
 cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the 
 earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto 
 thee, to keep them alive." 
 
 "The fowls" are symbolic of the thoughts which 
 have been formed by Mind, but have not yet en- 
 tered the individual heart. The recipient, there- 
 fore, is as yet unconscious of their messages. The 
 "cattle" represent thoughts which have been re- 
 ceived but not yet translated into conscious thought. 
 The "creeping things" are the insidious, perverted, 
 mental forces, which turn pure thoughts into imag- 
 inations and falsehoods. 
 
 Gen. 6:21 . "And take thou unto thee of all food 
 that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it 
 shall be for food for thee, and for them." 
 
 The food upon which all of these subsist is the 
 invisible etheric supply. 
 
 Gen. 7:1. "And the Lord said unto Noah, Come, 
 thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I 
 seen righteous before me in this generation." 
 
 The Lord God has repented for his errors and 
 has turned his perverted activities back into the 
 proper channels. He is now carrying out the plans 
 of the true Intelligence. 
 
 Gen. 7:2. "Of every clean beast thou shalt take 
 to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of 
 beasts that are not clean, by two, the male and his 
 female." 
 
 Seven is a symbolic figure and has no reference 
 to actual number. It means a complete condition, 
 however small or large. The male and female, as 
 above, indicate the reproductive propensities, the 
 ability to multiply and increase. 
 
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 Gen. 7:4. "For yet seven days, and I will cause 
 it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; 
 and every living substance that I have made will I 
 destroy from off the face of the earth." 
 
 "Seven days" means the completion of intelli- 
 gence. "Forty" is a symbol of continuity. "Days" 
 mean intelligence and "nights" typify ignorance. 
 The rain is to fall until continuous intelligence has 
 superseded the former ignorance. We must ob- 
 serve here that it is the Lord and not God who 
 says, "every living substance that / have made 
 will I destroy." 
 
 Gen. 7:10. "And it came to pass after seven days 
 that the waters of the flood were upon the earth." 
 
 The flood of Spiritual Thought fell upon man. 
 
 Gen. 7:1.1. "In the six hundredth year of Noah's 
 life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the 
 month, the same day were all the fountains of the great 
 deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were 
 opened." 
 
 The "great deep" represents Space and all that 
 it contains, the "cosmos" is perhaps the most famil- 
 iar synonym. 
 
 In the lecture, "The Genuine and the Adultera- 
 tion," has been given the interpretation of the con- 
 fusing terms "heaven," "heavens," and "Heaven." 
 We read now that the windows of "heaven" were 
 opened. This heaven is the Divine Consciousness. 
 When these windows were opened, a deluge of 
 Spiritual Thought was poured upon man to drown 
 all mortality, all of the creations of the false Lord 
 God. 
 
 Gen. 7:14. "They, and every beast after his kind, 
 and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping 
 thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and 
 every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort." 
 
THE FLOOD — PART II 9 
 
 The "bird" is here mentioned for the first time. 
 It represents falsehood. 
 
 Gen. 7:15. "And they went in unto Noah into 
 the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath 
 of life." 
 
 We are again reminded that it is the flesh 
 "wherein is the breath of life" which is to be de- 
 stroyed. This expression might be said to be the 
 trademark borne by the creations of Lord God. 
 
 Gen. 7:17. "And the flood was forty days upon 
 the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the 
 ark, and it was lift up above the earth." 
 
 At this point the light has overcome the dark- 
 ness of ignorance. The forty nights are forgotten 
 and only the days remain. The Spiritual Thought 
 now dominates both heart and brain. The Divine 
 Thoughts enter the heart, are imaged clearly upon 
 the brain and man follows the dictates of God. 
 
 Gen. 7:18. "And the waters prevailed, and were 
 increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went 
 upon the face of the waters." 
 
 The heart, symbolized by the ark, rested upon 
 the Divine Intelligence. 
 
 Gen. 7:20. "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters 
 prevail; and the mountains were covered." 
 
 These are the mountains of ignorance, doubt, 
 fear, and selfishness, not of earth and rock. 
 
 Gen. 7:21 . "And all flesh died that moved upon 
 the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, 
 and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
 earth, and every man." 
 
 Gen. 7:22. "All in whose nostrils was the breath 
 of life, of all that was in the dry land, died." 
 
 The writer again emphasized the fact that it 
 was "all in whose nostrils was the breath of life," 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 who died. The dry land represents the barrenness 
 of mortality. 
 
 Gen. 7:23. "And every living substance was de- 
 stroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both 
 man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl 
 of the heaven: and they were destroyed from the 
 earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that 
 were with him in the ark." 
 
 They were "upon the face of the ground,' 9 which 
 is the mortally guided brain. They were destroyed 
 from the "earth," from the Real Man, whose do- 
 main has been invaded by these illusions. Mor- 
 tality, ignorance, and misunderstanding died, and 
 there remained alive only Noah (the Spiritual 
 Consciousness) and they that were parts of that 
 consciousness. 
 
 How different is this picture from the vision of 
 hundreds of thousands of men, women, and chil- 
 dren drowned by an angry God. 
 
 Gen. 8:1. "And God remembered Noah, and 
 every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him 
 in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the 
 earth, and the waters asswaged;" 
 
 Throughout the allegory it is necessary to dis- 
 tinguish between the works of God and those of 
 Lord God. It is God here who caused the wind 
 to pass over the earth. This wind blew away the 
 last vestige of the mist. The misrepresentation of 
 Spiritual Thought by the brain is now completely 
 corrected. 
 
 Gen. 8:2. "The fountains also of the deep and 
 the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from 
 heaven was restrained;" 
 
 The deluge of Spiritual Thought ceases when 
 mortality, with all the curses of Lord God has been 
 overcome. After this clear and perfect state of 
 consciousness has been attained and the Flood is 
 
THE FLOOD — PART II II 
 
 ended, there continues a constant, quiet flow of 
 Divine messages, but this is a flow of etheric sup- 
 ply, not the cleansing overwhelming charge of the 
 Divine Forces upon the ranks of ignorance and 
 error. 
 
 Gen. 8:3-4. "And the waters returned from off 
 the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred 
 and fifty days the waters were abated. 
 
 "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the 
 seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of 
 Ararat. " 
 
 The sevens here represent, not a certain definite 
 period of time but, as before, the completion of the 
 undertaking, whether it is accomplished in a mo- 
 ment or after many years. 
 
 Gen. 8:5-6. "And the waters decreased contin- 
 ually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the 
 first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains 
 seen. 
 
 "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that 
 Noah opened the window of the ark which he had 
 made:" 
 
 This is the first indication that we have had of 
 any ventilation of the air-tight structure in which 
 Noah and his family and all of the animals have 
 been housed for about nine months. A literal in- 
 terpretation is obviously impossible. 
 
 Gen. 8:7. "And he sent forth a raven, which went 
 forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from 
 off the earth." 
 
 The raven represents doubt, hesitation. It is 
 forced out of the brain of Noah, never to return. 
 
 Gen. 8 :8-l 2. "Also he sent forth a dove from him, 
 to see if the waters were abated from off the face of 
 the ground ; 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 "But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, 
 and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters 
 were on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth 
 his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into 
 the ark. 
 
 "And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he 
 sent forth the dove out of the ark ; 
 
 "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and 
 lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off : so Noah 
 knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 
 
 "And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth 
 the dove; which returned not again unto him any 
 more." 
 
 Noah sent the dove from the heart to find lodge- 
 ment in the brain. We find the dove again in the 
 New Testament, where the symbolic significance is 
 given. 
 
 Luke 3:22. "And the Holy Ghost descended in 
 a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came 
 from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; 
 in thee I am well pleased." 
 
 The descent of the Holy Ghost upon the indi- 
 vidual marks his resurrection into a spiritual life. 
 This is the most important event in any man's life. 
 Its import is shown in the following verse : 
 
 Rev. 20:6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part 
 in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath 
 no power, but they shall be priests of God and of 
 Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." 
 
 The most glorious promises of the Bible apply to 
 those who have been resurrected from the death of 
 mortal existence. 
 
 Rev. 21 :3-4: "And I heard a great voice out of 
 heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with 
 men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
 
THE FLOOD — PART II 13 
 
 people, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
 their God. 
 
 ** And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
 eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
 nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for 
 the former things are passed away." 
 
 No effort is too great for the attainment of this 
 reward. 
 
 The olive leaf which the dove brought back to 
 Noah is the symbol of the reconciliation of the 
 brain and the heart. 
 
 Gen. 8:13. "And it came to pass in the six hun- 
 dredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of 
 the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : 
 and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, 
 and, behold, the face of the ground was dry." 
 
 Noah removed all sense of separation of the in- 
 dividual consciousness from the Divine Intelli- 
 gence. The face of the "ground," mortality, was 
 no longer watered by the mist. 
 
 Gen. 8:14-17. "And in the second month, on the 
 seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth 
 dried. 
 
 "And God spake unto Noah, saying: 
 
 "Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy 
 sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 
 
 "Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with 
 thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of 
 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that 
 they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruit- 
 ful, and multiply upon the earth." 
 
 God's command to Noah is a command to every 
 person who has been resurrected into the true life. 
 He is to bring forth from his heart every phase of 
 Divine Intelligence that it may be fruitful and mul- 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 tiply upon the earth. This entails a two-fold duty, 
 that of increasing and broadening his own under- 
 standing and that of dispensing truth to all man- 
 kind. 
 
 Gen. 8:20-21 . "And Noah builded an altar unto 
 the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every 
 clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." 
 
 If all these animals went into the ark in pairs to 
 replenish the earth, and Noah sacrificed one of 
 each, how could they breed? 
 
 "And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the 
 Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground 
 any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's 
 heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite 
 any more every thing living, as I have done." 
 
 The burnt offerings typify Noah's recognition 
 and acceptance of the true Lord as a spiritual 
 power. 
 
 When mortality has been destroyed in a man, 
 the purpose of the Flood is accomplished. How 
 gladly should we all welcome such a deluge! It 
 may destroy many of our cherished illusions, but 
 it brings freedom from the hypnotic influence of 
 the Lord God who fastened upon man the crea- 
 ture from the "dust of the ground." It restores to 
 us the peace and power and dominance which 
 God gave to his creations and removes fear, 
 doubt, and delusion forever. 
 
 Gen. 8:22. "While the earth remaineth, seedtime 
 and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and win- 
 ter, and day and night shall not cease." 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE 
 Students are requested to read each lecture five 
 times before beginning the study of the succeeding 
 lesson. 
 
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 PHILOSOPHICAL HOME 
 
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 REGENT AND CUSTODIAN 
 
 FOR 
 
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 INFANTS 
 
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 receweth me: and whosoever shall receive me, recerveth not me, 
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 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 MAN VERSUS NATURE 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 SIX 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration 
 
 HI The Mist. 
 
 IV The Hood, Part I. 
 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
MAN VERSUS NATURE 
 
 fiM T varying intervals in the history of man, 
 \ZJ| there have been periods of bloodshed and 
 ^^ suffering, of political, intellectual and relig- 
 ious turmoil and revolution. Is this fact due to 
 progress? Does the growth and development of 
 man necessitate such suffering? Normal develop- 
 ment, true growth, can have no such disastrous by- 
 products. They indicate an unnatural, or rather 
 an anti-natural, activity, a mistaken attitude to- 
 ward life and progress. 
 
 Back of the World War there is a Universal 
 War, a great, futile, destructive conflict, waged 
 unwittingly yet ceaselessly by all peoples through 
 many ages. It is the War against Nature that has 
 made possible the widespread devastation of the 
 World War. 
 
 There has been expended in this War all of the 
 energy of which millions of men are capable and 
 all of the destructive agencies procurable for many 
 millions of dollars, with the attendant destruction 
 of the results of the labor of both Nature and man 
 for generations past. What incalculable good 
 could have been accomplished for humanity by the 
 constructive application of the concerted energy of 
 all of the warring nations working for any mutual 
 good! What comfort could have been obtained 
 for all of the subjects of all of the governments that 
 have been engaged in the conflict if the money that 
 has been expended for deadly munitions could 
 have been used with safety for the upbuilding of 
 the several nations! Such waste is directly op- 
 posed to the scrupulous economy of Nature which 
 utilizes every atom for some constructive purpose. 
 
 It is true, but none the less lamentable, that 
 heretofore no nation, however peace-loving, could 
 with impunity expend its resources for the better- 
 ment of its political, social, or industrial conditions, 
 
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 for it must be prepared to defend its liberty against 
 aggressors who employ the methods of modern war- 
 fare. Permanent alleviations of these grievous 
 situations can come only upon a basis of inviolable 
 peace. 
 
 There is but one way to overcome a wrong con- 
 dition : First, to uncover the root of the error, then 
 to destroy the root. We may for centuries cut off 
 the various branches as they are forced upon our 
 consideration, but always new shoots spring up 
 and grow unnoticed until they have reached ma- 
 turity. Then the ripened fruit of battle and de- 
 struction falls upon the world and "history repeats 
 itself" because we have not discovered and up- 
 rooted the error that has been responsible for it all. 
 Permanent, universal peace must have a firmer and 
 more logical foundation. It must come from an 
 arrangement which is not out of conformity with 
 Nature, for Nature is more powerful than all na- 
 tions, and while man may pervert her products and 
 ignore her laws, he can never gain the supremacy; 
 for all he enjoys of power and capability he owes 
 primarily to Nature, and eventually she will re- 
 assert herself. If man is in harmony with her, he 
 will benefit by her victory. If he is blindly oppos- 
 ing her, he will be crushed. 
 
 Through his ignorance of the Natural Laws, 
 man has assumed an authority to which he has no 
 right. Like a child who plays with machinery 
 which it does not understand he will inevitably 
 suffer. Man has deemed it his privilege to bring 
 about by any possible means, variations in species, 
 either of plants or animals, that his selfish desires 
 may be satisfied. Accentuated by selfish aims and 
 seeing only the immediate and obvious results of 
 such experimentation, man labels as progress the 
 destruction of characteristics which Nature has 
 deemed necessary for the permanent welfare of the 
 universe. 
 
 Nature has established a perfect balance 
 
MAN VERSUS NATURE 
 
 throughout all creation. How dare man presume 
 to tamper with so stupendous and perfect an ad- 
 justment? Can he not see that such interference 
 can bring him nothing but ultimate disaster? In 
 cases innumerable the results have been obviously 
 deplorable, yet in others where the havoc is less 
 conspicuous man continues to glory in his apparent 
 victory over Nature. 
 
 The result of the introduction into America of 
 the English sparrow is a familiar example of man's 
 inability to calculate the outcome of his experi- 
 ments. In attempting to play one of Nature's or- 
 ganisms against another in order that the weaker 
 may be exterminated, man has thus introduced 
 various species into districts where they had been 
 unknown. Often the new species has proved less 
 desirable than those which they have destroyed. 
 
 Man must not assume that he knows the reason 
 for every animal's existence and the reason for its 
 every activity, or that, if he does not know the 
 reason, there is none. He cannot safely block the 
 activities of every species which does not please 
 him. Everything that Nature has produced upon 
 the earth has been put here to fill some specific pur- 
 pose. The fact that man is often unable to dis- 
 cover or agree with that purpose, is an indictment 
 of man rather than proof that the creative intelli- 
 gence is at fault. Whenever man attempts to im- 
 prove upon the provisions that Nature has made for 
 all creation, the results are immediately or even- 
 tually disastrous. Still man is unable to see that 
 these disasters have been due to his own bungling 
 attempts to improve upon Nature or to divert and 
 control her activities. 
 
 Every one of Nature's adjustments is so exact 
 and so delicate that the slightest interference or 
 deviation may precipitate an incalculable calamity. 
 Yet through the ages man has continued to experi- 
 ment with varying degrees of intelligence and un- 
 derstanding until practically every species upon the 
 
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 earth has been influenced — almost every plant and 
 animal has been forced to depart from its natural 
 sphere and to undertake activities foreign to itself 
 in order that it might survive in the midst of un- 
 natural conditions. 
 
 Proportionate with man's extended investigation 
 into the organism and properties of plants have 
 been his efforts to adapt all species to his own 
 short-sighted desires. This deleterious propensity 
 has culminated in the highly intensified processes 
 of Plant Experimentation. Instigated by selfish 
 aims, man has eliminated in the cactus the thorns 
 which Nature provided for the protection of the 
 plant. He has removed from the grape and the 
 orange the seeds which were intended to insure the 
 continuation of the species. He has produced in 
 familiar flowers and fruits undreamed of colors and 
 forms and an almost inconceivable variety of char- 
 acteristics. Only man's pleasure has been consid- 
 ered in these efforts. Never have the rights or 
 needs of the plant been respected, nor has its place 
 or purpose in the great intellectual plan of the uni- 
 verse received due consideration. The following 
 quotation is proof of the attitude of the leading 
 plant experimenter of the century : 
 
 "About the only difference between this (Mr. 
 Burbank's) method and Nature's method, is that 
 in the wild state the characteristics that are likely 
 to be preserved through natural selection are those 
 that are advantageous to the individual plant that 
 manifests them, whereas under conditions of arti- 
 ficial selection, the plant developer considers not 
 the needs of the individual plant but the taste and 
 needs of men. 
 
 "Perfume is developed in Mr. Burbank's calla, 
 for example, and in his fragrant petunias and ver- 
 benas, not because this is of advantage to the 
 plants themselves, but because the perfume is pleas- 
 ing to the human nostrils. Similarly the blue color 
 
MAN VERSUS NATURE 
 
 of the poppy is to please the human eye, the crin- 
 kled leaf of the geranium to satisfy a human taste 
 for the bizarre, and the varied forms of the Shasta 
 daisy to gratify aesthetic sensibilities."* 
 
 Even the experimenters themselves realize that 
 they are not producing any new thing, that they 
 are merely uncovering or accentuating some trait 
 long hidden in the germ-plasm of the subjects of 
 their experimentation, or that, on the other hand, 
 they are obscuring some trait which originally be- 
 longed to the species. In other words, the power of 
 creation belongs to a higher intelligence than the 
 brain of man, and likewise there has fortunately 
 been withheld from man the power to destroy one 
 atom of God's creation. Science long ago recog- 
 nized the fact that "matter is indestructible." There 
 still remains in man's hands, however, the power 
 to pervert and misappropriate the forces that have 
 been given into his charge. It is undoubtedly true 
 that the original forms, before any human manipu- 
 lations were practiced, manifested all of the desir- 
 able characteristics of which they were capable, 
 and none of the harmful and destructive propensi- 
 ties which man is unwittingly propagating. Of 
 these occult characteristics more will be said later 
 on. The author of the following quotation con- 
 sidered only the obvious features: 
 
 "An interesting question arises as to whether 
 such accentuation of a peculiarity or tendency may 
 amount to a bringing out of a new characteristic 
 that was not represented in any ancestor, near or 
 remote. 
 
 "Is Mr. Burbank's light blue poppy, for exam- 
 ple, the first of its kind; or, were there blue flow- 
 ers among some of the ancestors of the poppy? 
 
 "The best view appears to be that the seemingly 
 
 ♦Page 149, "Luther Burbank, His Life and Work," by 
 Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Hearst's, 1915. 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 new trait was really submerged in the ancestral 
 germ-plasm, if the phrase be allowed, and has 
 been made tangible by the removal of more or less 
 antagonistic traits that obscure it. In the case of 
 the blue poppy, for example, the submergence was 
 doubtless of long durations for blue poppies have 
 not been the fashion within the memory of man; 
 but through successive generations of selection, the 
 factors of yellowness and redness are removed, 
 and an individual finally produced in which the 
 primal blue, which was probably the color of some 
 very remote ancestral poppy, was revealed. In a 
 crude way, the process might be compared to the 
 restoration of an ancient canvas by the removal 
 of successive layers of pigment with which it had 
 been overlaid."* 
 
 It is unnecessary in this work to deal at length 
 with the principles by which plant experimenters 
 alter the characteristics of the various plants, for 
 the variations are so familiar that no one can ques- 
 tion their existence. It is worthy of note, however, 
 that in order to intensify certain desired characteris- 
 tics, it is necessary to destroy thousands of indi- 
 vidual plants which hold to their natural traits de- 
 spite man's interference. 
 
 Both in plants and in animals such variation has 
 been produced by cross-breeding or hybridization. 
 This occurs directly by the effort of man, or is 
 caused indirectly by man's interference in the past 
 with the natural activities of the various species. 
 A true species will never hybridize with another 
 species, except through the agency of man. Many 
 hybrids^ which have been \n existence as long as 
 man's records extend are considered true species, 
 and these may sometimes spontaneously cross- 
 
 *Page 35, "Luther Burbank, His Life and Work," by- 
 Henry Smith Williams, M. D., LL. D. Hearst's, 1915. 
 
 $The Latin word Hybrida or hibrida, a hybrid or mon- 
 grel, is commonly derived from the Greek — an insult or 
 outrage, with especial reference to lust ; hence an outrage 
 on nature, a mongrel. — Enc. Britannica. 
 
MAN VERSUS NATURE II 
 
 breed. Often man's responsibility for the cross- 
 breeding of plants is so remote that it is not easily 
 recognized. So far as history shows man has 
 known of the sexual function of plants only since 
 the seventeenth century. His intentional instrumen- 
 tality in the hybridizing of plants, therefore, has 
 been confined to the last three centuries, but long 
 before this he had unconsciously influenced their 
 activities. It is generally recognized that the direct 
 agent in cross-breeding is usually an insect, most 
 frequently bees or related species. The appetite 
 of the insect for the pollen of different species is 
 what leads it from plant to plant and produces 
 cross-fertilization. The appetites, the structure, 
 and the habits of practically all insects have been 
 influenced by man's control and manipulation of 
 their environments. It is to man, then, that the 
 responsibility reverts. In the original, natural state, 
 hybridization would never occur. 
 
 In the case of animals, if the species are widely 
 separated, the sex cells will not unite, but in species 
 similar to one another, it is possible for them to 
 unite and form a new individual, a hybrid, unlike 
 either parent, often obviously and always poten- 
 tially a freak, an unnatural monstrosity. 
 
 With the natural union of the male and female 
 reproductive cells of the same species, each cell is 
 satisfied, there is perfect equilibrium between the 
 two halves, all that one lacks the other supplies, 
 and the result is an equally well-balanced, normal 
 individual, true to the species and able to breed 
 true and function normally. When individuals 
 belonging to different species are cross-bred, there 
 is not this balance; on one side or the other there is 
 excess; each may have qualitative demands that 
 the other is unable to satisfy, and each may have 
 characteristics that the other cannot utilize. It is 
 inevitable that the offspring will be an unnatural 
 creature. In the divine economy of nature, such 
 a hybrid is out of place. It must infringe upon 
 
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 some of the legitimate fields of some of the real 
 species, in turn forcing these to trespass upon the 
 rightful domain of still others, until finally the whole 
 of creation has been diverted • from its true course 
 and original purpose and man is groping blindly 
 amid these false conditions of his own making, 
 vainly endeavoring to discover his own purpose 
 and his heritage of peace and happiness. 
 
 Fortunately in species which are very dissimilar 
 cross-breeding does not result in offspring. It is 
 impossible to cross two individuals which belong to 
 what are classified as different "families." If the 
 species belong to the same family and are still quite 
 dissimilar, they may bring forth young, but the off- 
 spring thus produced will be sterile. The mule is 
 the most familiar example of such a case. It is 
 only with species very near to one another that 
 hybridization results in fertile offspring. Man has 
 been able to circumvent this sterility in the case 
 of plants by propagating the hybrid by grafting — 
 by sacrificing a pure type and making its roots and 
 stem bear an adulterated fruit. 
 
 Each plant originally filled a definite place in 
 the plan of creation, containing chemicals and pos- 
 sessing certain qualities which were calculated to 
 accomplish a specific purpose. Such vegetables as 
 were intended for man's food contained chemicals 
 which were compatible with the chemicals, mechan- 
 ism, and functioning of the human body. When 
 man begins to alter any of the characteristics of 
 these plants, he cannot calculate the results. He 
 may, in the adaptation of a vegetable form, pro- 
 duce a different combination of chemicals than 
 was originally intended, and so do unsuspected yet 
 incalculable harm to those who eat the products. 
 Such thoughtless adulteration of man's food has 
 produced in the body, appetites and cravings for 
 more obviously harmful adulterations such as stim- 
 ulants, intoxicants and soporific drugs. 
 
 Man has partaken of the fruit of hybrid plants 
 
MAN VERSUS NATURE 13 
 
 and has fed upon the flesh of animals which have 
 eaten these hybrid forms of vegetation. Thus he 
 has taken into his own body quantities of chemi- 
 cals which it was never intended to assimilate. This 
 "forbidden fruit" has been the direct cause of most 
 of the ills of the flesh, and so long as man continues 
 to produce new hybrids, new diseases will continue 
 to appear, just as many new diseases have devel- 
 oped in the last decade. These unnatural foods 
 are not merely useless or unnecessary — they are 
 absolutely and invariably harmful. Little does man 
 realize of the danger he courts when he opens this 
 Pandora's box of "improvements upon Nature." 
 Nothing less than Infinite Intelligence is to be 
 trusted with the manipulation of the processes of 
 Nature. Every anti-natural activity is an obstacle 
 to the fulfillment of the purpose of the universe. 
 Man assumes tremendous responsibility when he 
 instigates such processes. 
 
 In the original state, under the rule of omnis- 
 cient Nature, each species had its own products 
 to contribute and its own species to propagate. 
 Each was subordinate to the whole and each 
 served as a source of food for other species. All 
 worked together to form one harmonious mechan- 
 ism, just as the different members and organs of 
 the body, functioning normally, contribute to the 
 well-being of the body. It is just as impossible to 
 decide what is good for man or any other species, 
 without regard for the rest of creation, as it is to 
 consider the welfare of the heart or the lungs or the 
 brain entirely apart from the welfare of the body. 
 The universe is a unit and what is not universal 
 good is not good for any individual. A peace, 
 so-called, that is not universal will bring to no 
 individual — hence, no class or nation — true or 
 lasting peace. 
 
 From a superficial survey, it would seem that 
 selfishness is at the root of all the error. This, how- 
 ever, is not true, for if man were intelligently self- 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 ish he would realize that the only way to attain 
 permanent, unassailable satisfaction for himself is 
 to work for the satisfaction of the needs of all the 
 universe. The real sin is ignorance, blindness, in- 
 ability to see to the bottom of things. Man's great 
 aim should be to see things as they are, to under- 
 stand what is actually going on about him and 
 what he, himself, is doing, but under the mesmerism 
 of popular beliefs he accepts without question the 
 conclusion of those who are considered "authority." 
 He is too indolent to express his inherited ability of 
 unbiased discernment. Some one says to another: 
 "How convenient it would be if we could grow 
 oranges without seeds!" The other readily agrees 
 and they discuss and emphasize the advantages of 
 the proposed modification because it is something 
 that they desire for personal gain. Finally the 
 desired alteration of Nature's product is accom- 
 plished. Oranges without seeds are produced and 
 the world loudly acclaims the victory of science, 
 recognizing a questionable temporary profit and 
 utterly disregarding or unconscious of the fact that 
 they are cheating Nature and robbing her creations 
 of the greatest and most essential factor in their 
 existence — the power to "multiply and replenish 
 the earth." 
 
 
 
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 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration 
 
 HI The Mist. 
 
 IV The Hood, Part I. 
 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
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 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
M THE FALL OF MAN" 
 
 SN order to explain the way in which man has 
 perverted the animals, it is necessary to go to 
 the origin of the perversion in man, for the 
 man who is responsible for these outrages against 
 Nature is himself perverted, a creature less than 
 the real man, a man who has "come short of the 
 glory of God.*' 
 
 "In the beginning" God created the heavens 
 and the earth, and all that in them is. The length 
 of time during which this creation was consum- 
 mated, the exact sequences of creation and the 
 extent to which subsequent creations depended 
 upon previous ones does not concern us here; but it 
 may be well to point out that similarity of structure, 
 while it may prove that the similar organisms were 
 created by the same Intelligence and by qualita- 
 tively the same process, does not prove a conse- 
 quent sequence nor any degree of interdependence. 
 That these organisms were created by one Intelli- 
 gence which was and is the personification, or 
 rather the deification of perfect system and abso- 
 lute order is axiomatic; that these living, self- 
 conscious, volitional organisms have spontaneously 
 evolved from inert, unconscious, absolutely passive 
 matter is inconceivable. Furthermore, it in no wise 
 concerns us here to know or to discuss the time at 
 which creation was completed, the date at which 
 the system was perfected and was able, merely 
 by the operation of Divinely established "Laws of 
 Nature" to automatically continue in its own oper- 
 ation, every subsequent event being governed by 
 these laws. 
 
 A few of these laws have been discovered by 
 man through observation of their operation; many 
 more of them are entirely unknown in the realms of 
 science. Such, for example, are the laws through 
 
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 the operation of which Jesus Christ was able to 
 change water to wine, multiply the loaves and 
 fishes, etc. Let us therefore take, for present pur- 
 poses, the case of creation at the moment of com- 
 pletion and perfection. All Nature is in perfect 
 equilibrium; each species is operating in conjunc- 
 tion with every other species, not consciously, with 
 intent to please, but through the operation of Na- 
 ture's librations. Man is the greatest of all crea- 
 tions. He finds about him all that is necessary for 
 his well-being — the plants and animals which fur- 
 nish him with food, shelter and raiment. 
 
 Heretofore we have considered all these 
 questions on a purely physical and material basis, 
 without regard for any intelligent, rational mental 
 or volitional control. When we begin to consider 
 the acts of man we must go back to their cause, 
 and every act has a mental cause. Material 
 science, mistaking effect for cause, has grown to 
 believe that this mental cause arises in the brain, 
 in the super-oesophageal ganglion. 
 
 Although psychologists, anatomists, physiolo- 
 gists and alienists have worked on this subject for 
 many years, and although they have developed 
 many ingenious theories concerning association, 
 etc., and have located and charted portions of the 
 cerebrum which seemed to be the locality of cer- 
 tain cerebrations, still they have never explained 
 the origin of thought, the retention of memory or 
 the ultimate, intrinsic nature of consciousness. 
 
 The fact is that the brain is not a thinking or- 
 gan, thought does not originate in the brain, the 
 brain is incapable of producing thought of any 
 kind. Let us first examine the original, the true, 
 the unadulterated way in which primal man re- 
 ceived thought, that we may understand better the 
 imperfect way in which man now cerebrates. 
 "Cerebrates" is used to denote the cerebral activi- 
 ties connected with thinking, not to express actual 
 thinking, i. e., the production of thought. 
 
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 All of the intelligence which man manifests is 
 received from the Divine Intelligence. This Intel- 
 ligence is received through vibration by a set of 
 superlatively minute nerve cells to the spinal cord, 
 the medulla, the cerebellum, and thence to the 
 cerebrum. In the natural state, the pathway of 
 these messages is unobstructed and the messages 
 are received perfectly, the cerebrum interprets them 
 perfectly, and the body is consequently governed 
 perfectly. With the entrance to the body of every 
 natural chemical substance comes the necessary 
 intelligence for its assimilation and use. This in- 
 telligence does not pass through the cerebrum but 
 is used by the nervous system in its control of the 
 body, and the organism is never conscious of any- 
 thing except the results. Messages governing the 
 conscious conduct of the body, are transmitted to 
 the cerebrum, and the subject is therefore conscious 
 of them. He may not be conscious of the source 
 but he understands the messages and obeys them. 
 
 This is a description, let it be understood, of the 
 natural, the true method, the method used by per- 
 fect man who was the expression of God's idea of 
 the "image of God." At the moment of comple- 
 tion and perfection, man and every other organism 
 was thus governed. 
 
 Then man selfishly plucked a beautiful flower, 
 and later he touched this plucked flower to a flower 
 which was growing upon a plant. This cross-pol- 
 lenized the plant, and when the resulting hybrid 
 fruit was ripe man saw that it was unusual, and 
 he did eat. This was a substance which had no 
 place in the Divine Plan and for which there was 
 no formula. The mixed, confused formula which 
 came with this hybrid, partly from each of the 
 true stocks, made a confused and incomplete pic- 
 ture or image upon the brain. This resulted in 
 confusion in the assimilation of the substance, the 
 body made its first mistake, and man experienced 
 his first pathological condition. Man, however, 
 
THE FALL OF MAN 
 
 did not see the disaster. He merely found that he 
 had discovered something new; that he, the indi- 
 vidual who had eaten the hybrid fruit, was able to 
 experience a sensation which no man had ever 
 felt. Therefore, he set himself above other men, 
 as a superior being. Other men began to worship 
 him and to attempt to do as he had done. Then 
 he, to prove his power, taught others to do the 
 same thing, and as each ate, his body was poisoned 
 by the unnatural food, and each man's body be- 
 came defective — The Natural was altered to 
 please man's tastes and desires. 
 
 This, however, was a slow and often uncertain 
 process, and man soon found a quicker way of pro- 
 ducing the same results. Whereas, prior to this, all 
 thoughts that were transmitted from one being to 
 another were simply expressed by the vibration of 
 the intelligence, with every individual in perfect 
 contact with the Divine Intelligence, and each able 
 to draw for himself all that was necessary for his 
 own guidance, now there came a thing for which 
 there was no symbol or parallel in Nature's code. 
 Therefore man invented a means of signs, per- 
 ceived through the corporeal senses, by which to 
 convey these new conceptions. 
 
 Very quickly, as the system developed into lan- 
 guage, and as man, through his love of novelty, 
 came more and more to depend upon this new 
 method and to use it exclusively, the old method of 
 receiving all intelligence directly from the Divine 
 was forgotten, the vibratory nerve centers were 
 poisoned, relaxed and coarsened. Man was soon 
 unable to communicate with the Divine even when 
 he wished to do so. 
 
 It was then no longer necessary to cross flowers 
 to get these new fruits, and thus attain the new 
 conditions and sensations, and in a few genera- 
 tions, since all things had to be taught to each 
 child through the medium of the corporeal senses, 
 the knowledge that was not used by any genera- 
 
8 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 tion was soon lost, for man had not yet perfected a 
 written language. 
 
 It was not until the last three centuries that man 
 again began to interfere to any degree with the 
 breeding of plants. But now, with the accretion of 
 the knowledge of many centuries, he is able to in- 
 tensify this destructive process and to operate upon 
 a scale undreamed of by primal man. 
 
 At the time when each man was governed by the 
 Divine, there was no possible way or conceivable 
 reason for one individual to control in any way the 
 conduct of any other. Each man, for himself, led 
 his life as it was given him, and let others lead 
 theirs. But now it became different. With the 
 advent of spoken language, men began to influence 
 one another, to suggest procedures to one another, 
 to attempt to "use" one another. The control that 
 one man could exert over another man was soon 
 found to be very great, and the more perverted the 
 man, the farther he was from the Natural, the more 
 did he wish to control others, and the more disas- 
 trous was this power. 
 
 It was also learned that the more often a man 
 submitted to the control of another man, the more 
 difficult it became for him to resist control, and the 
 easier it was for that man or another to dictate to 
 him. In the case of the particularly susceptible, it 
 was not even necessary to express the wish in the 
 physical symbols for the operator was able, simply 
 by means of his perversion and misapplication 
 of the laws of vibration, to induce the subject 
 to implicitly carry out his desires. This power is 
 much more widely distributed and practiced than 
 is commonly supposed. Many audible commands 
 carry their real power in the correlated mental 
 command. 
 
 At the time when all were governed by the 
 Divine there was a great plenty for all; but now, 
 under the mismanagement of man's attempted im- 
 
THE FALL OF MAN 
 
 provement, the individuals had lost their power to 
 obtain naturally all that was necessary for them, 
 and certain men, seeing that there was not enough 
 for all, began to hoard supplies, to barter and 
 trade, and finally they made a medium or standard 
 of exchange — money. 
 
 The struggle for money and all that it repre- 
 sented soon became and still remains one of the 
 bitterest struggles of the race. Men, then as now, 
 under the craze for gold, trampled and wantonly 
 destroyed every object, creature or person that 
 stood between them and their glittering goal. 
 
 But man did not stop with these self-destructive 
 measures. He used every power at his command 
 to utilize every plant and animal to satisfy his self- 
 ish ambitions, utterly regardless of the effect upon 
 the objects of his manipulations. He wantonly 
 destroyed those things which were useless to him 
 to make way for something which he could use. 
 The destruction of these things which he did not 
 want, but which were the source of supply for 
 some other creatures, left those other creatures 
 without their natural foods, and they were forced 
 to attack other things, to change their appetites 
 and habits, to destroy things which they otherwise 
 would never have harmed. 
 
 Since the dawn of history man has been striving 
 to improve these conditions which he has brought 
 upon himself, but always he has worked in the 
 wrong directions, always looking toward improve- 
 ment by getting away from Nature, by making 
 greater changes, by applying his ambition to things 
 as they were, instead of striving to return to the 
 real and Natural. Thus he has sometimes suc- 
 ceeded in making things more nearly as he wished 
 them, only to be further from satisfaction than 
 ever, for each realization of a dream brought the 
 desire for more new things. Despite their inven- 
 tions, their achievements, their so-called progress, 
 men are today dissatisfied at heart, striving for 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 something which they do not find, missing the joy 
 of living, yet always eagerly pressing on, unable 
 to see the error, unwilling to acknowledge their 
 mistake, still clinging blindly to the age-old as- 
 sumption of superiority to Nature. 
 
 "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" 
 One of the great primal laws of Nature is that 
 no creature shall cause the death of any other crea- 
 ture except when the slaughtered victim is actually 
 to be used as food. This law has been defied by 
 man more, perhaps, than any other. Man, when 
 he sees any creature, which seems to his paltry and 
 distorted mind to be undesirable, immediately sets 
 about to destroy it as completely as possible with- 
 out even a vestige of conscience or consideration of 
 the rights of the massacred. 
 
 By thus aligning himself against Nature, by 
 thus using his utmost influence and power on the 
 side of perversion, he severs whatever remaining 
 contact there may have been between himself and 
 Nature, and is thus separated from his one reliable, 
 adequate and infallible protection. As can plainly 
 be seen the one impelling power behind the whole 
 unnatural process is man's selfish ambition to do as 
 he pleases, utterly regardless of any other person 
 or thing, regardless of his own ultimate welfare or 
 the immediate welfare of the others of God's 
 creations. 
 
 An example of this is the world-wide command 
 to "swat the fly." Children are lauded and are 
 paid bounties for the murder of these defenseless 
 and highly useful insects. Everywhere it is ac- 
 counted a great honor to take part in the wholesale 
 killing of the supposedly injurious fly, whereas, if 
 the truth were known, the good that this insect does 
 is so much greater than any undesirable activities 
 which man can lay at its feet that the actual im- 
 mediate result is deleterious, not to mention the in- 
 comparably disastrous, although almost always 
 
THE FALL OF MAN II 
 
 unseen, effect upon the moral and mental status 
 of the murderer. 
 
 Man has discovered that a fly frequently has, 
 clinging to his feet, certain microscopic organisms 
 and that as he walks about, he frequently drops 
 and leaves behind him a small portion of these 
 minute germs, bacteria, or whatever the scientist 
 may label them. This is altogether true. The fact 
 which is frequently or wholly overlooked is that 
 the flies are feeding upon the germs, that they are 
 the flies' chief article of diet, and that the num- 
 ber on their feet are insignificant in comparison 
 with the immense numbers which they eat. 
 
 The man of science further assumes that these 
 minute organisms are the cause of disease, or rather 
 that a few, a very small portion of the thousands 
 which man has identified and classified, are the 
 specific causes of certain diseases. Wilmott Evans, 
 a noted English surgeon and author, has made the 
 following statement as to the effects of germs : 
 
 "If germs cause disease, how is it possible that 
 any of us can survive when germs are as numerous 
 and as widely spread as I have described them? 
 Fortunately for us, all germs are not harmful. Of 
 the many thousands of germs which are known to 
 us, only a very small portion can give rise to dis- 
 eases of the human body, while on the other hand, 
 many germs are of the utmost importance in daily 
 life. If it were not for germs, malt would never 
 give rise to beer, and the juice of grapes would 
 never become wine. If it were not for germs, no 
 cheese would ever ripen, and dough would never 
 rise. 
 
 "The special and much appreciated flavor of 
 certain butters are said to be due to the presence 
 of certain germs. Vinegar is produced by the ac- 
 tion of a particular kind of germ, and it is possible 
 to quote many other instances of the importance 
 of the action of germs in daily life. When dead 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 vegetable material is placed in the soil, it cannot 
 be utilized to make the soil more capable of pro- 
 ducing plants until its structure has been changed 
 by the action of certain germs which have this 
 function. Every one interested in gardening 
 knows the value of a large supply of nitrogen in 
 the soil for the growth of crops; it is therefore of 
 great interest to know that within recent years we 
 have learned that there are certain microbes espe- 
 cially associated with and growing in the roots of 
 peas and beans which possess the power of taking 
 nitrogen from the air and combining it so that it 
 can be utilized for the growth of plants. 
 
 "All germs give rise to certain chemical sub- 
 stances and some of these are retained within the 
 body of the microbe and some are set free, and it 
 is probably through the action of these chemical 
 substances that germs produce many of the actions 
 to which they give rise."* 
 
 On page 63 of the same book he gives still fur- 
 ther evidence against the theory that germs cause 
 disease : 
 
 "In the mouth, in health, may be found, even in 
 perfect health, many varieties of bacteria. It is 
 clear therefore, that the mere presence of an or- 
 ganism in the body cannot be taken as proof that 
 the body is suffering from the disease caused by 
 that organism. In the mouth, in health, can be 
 found the germ that causes pneumonia, and so on 
 the surface of the skin can usually be discovered 
 those which give rise to boils and abscesses. Part 
 of this absence of disease, in spite of the presence 
 of the organism, is doubtless to be ascribed to one 
 or more of those protective influences which will 
 be found described in the chapter on Immunity; 
 and if the tissues are healthy, the germ is unable to 
 grow freely and awaits the time when, by some 
 
 ♦Page 51, "Medical Science of Today," by Wilmott 
 Evans, M.D., B. S., B. Sc. London, F. R. C. S., England. 
 Seeley & Co., London, 1912. 
 
THE FALL OF MAN 13 
 
 local damage or in some other way, the tissue will 
 become vulnerable to its attacks." 
 
 Here Dr. Evans has beautifully arranged and 
 stated an excellent indictment of the germ theory, 
 but he fails to draw the obvious conclusion, he fails 
 or refuses to convict the theory which he has be- 
 friended. "There are none so blind as those who 
 will not see." 
 
 Nor does the author whom we are quoting stand 
 alone nor is he particularly remarkable among 
 scientific authors — he is taken merely as an exam- 
 ple of the technical authors of today. 
 
 As we have stated before, every species of 
 plant and animal has been affected by man's cu- 
 pidity. Each has been forced to leave its natural 
 sphere and acquire appetites, tastes and habits 
 which are naturally foreign to it. This is the case 
 with the germs. Certain germs, intended to assist 
 in the disintegration of dead bodies, to decom- 
 pose organic waste, and to play a definite part 
 in the plan of Nature, have found that their 
 only chance of survival lies in the capacity to 
 assimilate certain substances which are present in 
 the body which is pathological, which is suffering 
 from the mal-assimilation of the unnatural foods 
 which man has forced upon it, or from the many 
 secondary conditions thus invoked. 
 
 The germs lie in the body, just as our esteemed 
 contemporary has noted, eking out a meager exist- 
 ence, just able to survive and produce a few off- 
 spring, but patiently awaiting their chance. Then 
 the body acquires the disease which produces the 
 necessary food stuffs for the germs. Immediately 
 they begin to thrive. They are able to produce 
 myriads of their kind, and where only a few were 
 able to live in the healthy body, now there are 
 ideal conditions for millions of their kind. 
 
 These little germs, forced by man to acquire un- 
 natural tastes, are concomitant with the disease 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 which produces their food, and the scientists, 
 finding these germs present about in proportion to 
 the progress of the disease, conclude that they 
 have produced it. It is the time-honored error of 
 confusing cause and effect. 
 
 Having decided that these germs are the cause, 
 the scientists set about to destroy them and to de- 
 stroy whatever agent they can find responsible for 
 their transportation. The consequence is their edict 
 to "swat the fly," a course which will never bring 
 about the elimination of disease. 
 
 Man has not confined his destruction to the ani- 
 mal world. In fact, due to his belief that plants 
 are without feeling or sensation, he has been par- 
 ticularly careless of the way in which he has treated 
 all forms of vegetable life. As a matter of fact, 
 plants suffer as intensely as animals or humans, 
 although their expressions of agony are less ob- 
 vious. Because most plants are incapable of quick 
 movements, because they cannot express their suf- 
 ferings in any audible way, and because they, are 
 unable to make any very active defense, man has 
 been willing to murder, mutilate and destroy them 
 in any way that he has seen fit, without even the 
 slight restraint through which the obvious suffering 
 of animals has sometimes caused him to mitigate 
 or forego his crudest crimes against them. The 
 power of animals to defend themselves has also 
 prevented man from doing many things which he 
 otherwise would have done. In self-defense many 
 plants have found, since perverted man began his 
 crimes against them, that such means as tactual 
 poisons, briars, etc., are the only means by which 
 they can survive the onslaughts of their arch-enemy, 
 man. 
 
 Proofs of the sensitiveness of plants are not dif- 
 ficult to produce. All plants respond, more or less 
 quickly, to a number of stimuli, such as heat, light, 
 gravity, moisture, etc. Many plants open and 
 
THE FALL OF MAN 15 
 
 close their flowers as light is present or absent, re- 
 spectively. A number of plants, such as the pitcher 
 plant, the fly catcher, etc., are capable of quick 
 movements which indicate a highly conductive ner- 
 vous mechanism. 
 
 "To gratify esthetic sensibilities," man tears a 
 beautiful flower from its parent plant and places it 
 where he can enjoy its beauty with the least pos- 
 sible exertion. The crime against Nature, the 
 murder of the plant and the flower, and the de- 
 struction of the hundreds or even thousands of im- 
 mature seeds which the flower bears — these things 
 are never considered, these are insignificant in 
 comparison with an act that will "satisfy a human 
 taste." 
 
 Our sympathies are with those who love flowers 
 for decoration, but flowers are more beautiful on 
 the plant than off, and the little extra care that is 
 necessary is more than repaid by the knowledge 
 that our selfishness is not satisfied through murder 
 — that our ambitions are not un-Natural and anti- 
 Natural. 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 
 
 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 -NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE 
 UNITS 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 EIGHT 
 
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THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Hood, Part I. 
 V The Hood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
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 VITAL ENERGY 
 
 ' HAT is vital energy, and from what is 
 it derived? 
 
 Man assumes that the energy for 
 every activity of the body, the maintenance of the 
 bodily temperature, and everything that man does 
 or can do is derived from the oxidation of the food 
 which he ingests. Simple quantitative experiments 
 have disproven this, but man, with the evidence 
 against the belief, still continues to cling to his con- 
 viction that such is the case. Compared with the 
 most perfect combustion engines, man is ten times 
 more efficient, if the food is the only fuel for the 
 body. Compared with the most exact calorimeter, 
 man gets incomparably more energy out of his sys- 
 tem than the oxidation of his food can account for. 
 
 In this respect, of course, man does not stand 
 alone. The animals derive their energy in pre- 
 cisely the same way as man. A pigeon with only 
 two ounces of wheat in its crop, for instance, can 
 fly for hundreds or even thousands of miles, and 
 expend in locomotion and the maintenance of 
 bodily heat, energy that would require more than 
 twenty-five times that amount of food. It has 
 been claimed that this energy has been derived 
 from the oxidation of stored-up foods, but experi- 
 ment shows no decrease in bodily weight that will 
 account for this. Nor can the tremendous and 
 long-continued work of Arctic dogs, mountain 
 guides, domestic animals, etc., be accounted for in 
 this way. 
 
 It must be remembered that only a portion, and 
 usually only a small portion, of the food taken 
 into the body is assimilated, that a large portion of 
 the food taken into the body is excreted as waste 
 matter. It is, of course, only that portion which 
 the body actually assimilates from the ingested food 
 
VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 5 
 
 which can be considered as furnishing fuel for the 
 body. 
 
 The fact is that there is going on in all living 
 organisms a high degree of radio-activity; that 
 matter, under the catalytic agency of life, becomes 
 radio-active; that the atoms involved in these or- 
 ganic reactions are profoundly affected; that their 
 internal system of electrons is actually altered. It 
 is in this, the catalysis of life, that organic reactions 
 differ from all others. It is the presence of this 
 greatest of all catalytic agents, life, which accounts 
 for the enormous amount of energy which an or- 
 ganism is able to produce. 
 
 A simple example of this is the case of the 
 chlorophyll or green coloring matter of plants. This 
 substance, in the presence of light is able to cap- 
 ture, combine, and thus solidify the free carbon 
 dioxide of the air into a form which the plant can 
 use. Man can learn analytically the chemical con- 
 stituents of this substance and he can put these 
 things together but he cannot make the resulting 
 substance capable of utilizing carbon dioxide, sim- 
 ply because he cannot provide this mass with the 
 sine qua non, life. And a mass of chlorophyll that 
 has once been deprived of its life, by desiccation, 
 for example, can never again carry on life activi- 
 ties, although there are some that can lie dormant 
 for long periods while partially desiccated and can 
 immediately resume their normal activities when 
 proper conditions are restored. 
 
 Similarly, on a small scale, in every cell in the 
 body there is going on a process of slight atomic 
 destruction, that is, radio-activity. The chemist 
 excuses his ignorance of these processes, of the 
 chemical and physical properties of living matter, 
 by saying that it is "unstable" that it will not wait 
 for him to apply his tests, that it will simply "break 
 down" or return to its elemental state. 
 
 This radio-activity, this liberation of a portion 
 of the electrons which comprise the atom, is going 
 
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 on wherever there is life. The immense amount of 
 energy that the complete destruction of only one 
 atom yields is almost incredibly great, and the 
 partial destruction of atoms which takes place in 
 living matter yields unthinkable quantities of en- 
 ergy. The following example will give some idea 
 of the energy changes which accompany radio- 
 activity : Radium gives off enough heat every hour 
 to melt its own weight of ice, and the life of a 
 piece of radium is about 1 200 years. This means 
 that, in round numbers, there is enough energy in 
 any quantity of radium to melt 10,500,000 times 
 its own weight of ice. 
 
 Nearly all of our knowledge of radio-activity 
 has come in the last two decades, and it is safe to 
 say that the scientists will have solved by the end 
 of the century, many of the mysteries which still 
 surround it. 
 
 In the animal and human body there is another 
 significant aspect of this subject of radio-activity, 
 and correlated is another false belief of the physiol- 
 ogist. It is generally believed that the food which 
 is taken in through the mouth, and the air which is 
 breathed are the only sources of supply for the 
 body. All of these things are taken into the body 
 in the atomic or molecular state. But the process 
 of supplying the body does not stop with the things 
 that are eaten and the air that is breathed. 
 
 In the organic world, with the exception of re- 
 actions involving radium, thorium, and similar 
 metals, and the phenomenon of gas flames, etc., 
 practically all reactions do not affect the internal 
 structure of the atom; it is the arrangement of the 
 atoms not the atoms themselves that are affected. 
 But in living matter there is a different state of 
 affairs; there is a constant interatomic disturbance, 
 a changing about and liberating of the electrons 
 composing the atoms. 
 
 Associated with this internal electronic reaction, 
 is a process by which the body is supplied from 
 
VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 7 
 
 without by a stream of electronic units, the cor- 
 puscular elements of atoms which are entirely be- 
 yond the realms of chemistry. 
 
 These almost infinitely smaller and more mobile 
 electrons are not controlled in the crude ways in 
 which atoms and molecules are governed. To un- 
 derstand these electrons and their activities it is 
 necessary to go as far beyond the electrons as the 
 electrons are beyond the solar system in the scale 
 of comparative magnitudes. These electrons are 
 each a unit much as the solar system is a unit, but 
 not in any ultimate sense of the word. They are, 
 as physical scientists are beginning to believe, far 
 from being simple or ultimately elementary. 
 
 THE ULTIMATE UNITS 
 Conceptions of unity are always difficult, and 
 they usually prove to be erroneous. Man's con- 
 ception of the ultimate units of matter has under- 
 gone great change within the last two decades. 
 Conceptions of the atom which had stood for cen- 
 turies with little change except greater definiteness 
 went down before the onslaught of investigations 
 of radio-activity. No one now believes the atom 
 to be "the ultimate particle of matter" that it was 
 once considered. 
 
 Recent experiments with radio-active substances, 
 rarified gases, gas flames, and various electrical 
 discharge phenomena have given rise to electronic 
 and corpuscular theories which, in turn, have served 
 as a step in the proof of the existence of such units, 
 for the electrons are units just as atoms and mole- 
 cules are units, but they are not ultimate units. 
 These are generally believed to be not matter at 
 all, in the ordinary sense of the word, but rather a 
 sort of disembodied electrical charge, a unit of 
 negative electricity. The size of these electrons is 
 uniform and their mass is usually considered to be 
 about one-thousandth part of an atom of hydrogen, 
 the lightest known atom. Associated with these 
 
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 electrons there are positive charges of much greater 
 magnitude but of much less number. 
 
 The discovery of these electronic units has given 
 rise to a new conception of the internal structure of 
 the atoms. They are now believed to be not in- 
 comparable to the solar system, the immense num- 
 bers of electrons revolving about the positive 
 charge. 
 
 These electrons, due largely to their inconceiv- 
 able minuteness, are practically beyond the range 
 of direct observation. Various conceptions have 
 been offered, but the one most commonly accepted 
 is that they are a sort of vortex or whirl in the 
 ether. At its best, this is very vague, but that fact 
 must inevitably result from the vague conception 
 of "ether" which is at present principally nega- 
 tive. 
 
 There is, however, in these vague and often pur- 
 blind investigations and results of scientific work, 
 the element of truth. This conception of the elec- 
 trical nature of the corpuscles or electrons, and the 
 fact that atoms consist of electrons, and that all 
 matter consists of atoms has led to the conception 
 that all matter is electrical phenomena. Still fur- 
 ther, the conception of the electrons as revolving 
 vortices of which the ultimate units of revolution 
 are wholly intangible invokes the conception of 
 electricity as motion — as motion of what the scien- 
 tists, for lack of better name or conception, call 
 "ether." 
 
 The conception of all matter as motion is fun- 
 damentally correct, but the conception of ether, if 
 not erroneous, escapes error only by being confined 
 to negation. At its best, the ether conception is 
 wholly inadequate. 
 
 These electrons are, in fact, similar to the atoms, 
 being a sort of epitome or miniature of the atom, 
 just as the atom is an epitome of the solar system. 
 
 The particles, the revolution of which gives rise 
 to the phenomenon of the electron, are also little 
 
VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 
 
 vortices. This is the last of the epitome series. In 
 this case the axis and the two substances in revolu- 
 tion are ultimate, elemental, homogeneous, in the 
 fullest meaning of the words. 
 
 Let us now consider the intrinsic nature of each 
 of these three elemental and ultimate unities. 
 
 The first of these, and probably the most diffi- 
 cult of conception, is Mind. This is unchangeable, 
 immovable, absolutely homogeneous, and abso- 
 lutely solid. It always has existed and always will 
 exist, exactly as it is now. Every point (in the 
 mathematical sense of location without magnitude) 
 in it or of it in perfect contact with every other 
 point. Thus every point in Mind has the same 
 intelligence as the whole Mind. Perceptions of 
 time and space must be entirely eliminated from 
 conceptions of Mind, for it is clearly beyond the 
 realm of both of these conceptions, for both time 
 and space in their ultimate analysis are only "con- 
 ceptions," convenient tools of the mundane intel- 
 lect. Here the word "space" is used in the sense 
 of the three geometrical dimensions, the sense in 
 which it is used in such expressions as "matter is 
 that which occupies space" and "two things cannot 
 occupy the same space at the same time." 
 
 Space, however, has another meaning, which, 
 although it may seem superficially to be the same, 
 is as different as, for example, red is different from 
 middle C, that is, they are simply incomparable. 
 It is this Space with which we are now concerned. 
 This conception of Space is independent of arbi- 
 trary units of linear, square, and cubic mensura- 
 tion. This is the Space which is more nearly 
 synonymous with emptiness, wholly unaffected by 
 the presence or absence of any substance. This 
 is the Space which surrounds the cosmos, this is 
 the Space which scientists have attempted to fill 
 with "ether." 
 
 This Space is immeasurable, infinite, ubiquitous, 
 but always it is of itself absolutely and invariably 
 
10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 passive, it is capable of transmitting vibrations, it 
 is the frictionless medium of certain impulses. 
 
 There is a common conception that space is neg- 
 ative, that it is merely the absence of anything. 
 This belief is false. Space is the real, the positive 
 condition, the eternal and the infinite, "that which 
 occupies Space" is negative, the antithesis of 
 Space. This, true Space, is one of the ultimate 
 units, the irrefragable elements, concomitant with 
 and inseparable from Mind. 
 
 The other of the three original and eternal uni- 
 ties is Darkness. This also is commonly thought 
 of and defined as "the absence of light," but as in 
 the case of Space, Darkness is the real, the positive, 
 the indestructible. The vibrations set up by in- 
 candescent matter are able to make it temporarily 
 imperceptible, but it is always present, and the 
 moment that the source of incandescence is de- 
 stroyed or removed, the Darkness immediately re- 
 asserts itself. It is unlike light, which once extin- 
 guished can never reassert itself except through the 
 agency of a new cause. 
 
 Let us remember that Mind, Space and Dark- 
 ness are the real, eternal, indestructible, infinite, 
 ubiquitous, homogeneous realities, altogether out- 
 side the realms of time or geometrical mensuration. 
 This does not mean that all things are outside the 
 realms of time or dimensions, nor does it mean that 
 the things which are perceived by corporeal senses, 
 measured by arbitrary units of time and space, are 
 "unreal," "imaginary" or invariably deleterious 
 and intrinsically contemptible. The disparaging 
 reflections which scientists, soi-disanU have at- 
 tempted to cast upon "matter" have been equaled 
 in futility and absurdity only by the attempts of 
 certain scientists to prove that matter is all-power- 
 ful, that the human brain is the highest intelligence 
 that ever existed or now exists, that salvation can 
 be attained in "fifty years," or perhaps even 
 "thirty" if a sufficient number of investigators will 
 
VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 1 1 
 
 devote themselves to the study of the phenomenon 
 of old age and its prevention, said "salvation" to 
 consist of a deathless human body, of endless 
 earthly, corporeal life. 
 
 Matter was created by Mind, the Divine Mind, 
 for a Divine purpose, and the misuses which man 
 has made of his God-given liberty does not alter or 
 affect this truth in any way. All things were given 
 to man for his use, and with them was given the 
 perfect understanding of their uses, and perfect 
 liberty in their use — such liberty as could be given 
 and made possible only by an Infinite Intelligence. 
 
 In Mind, omniscient and infinite, all things were 
 completed and finished before anything was "cre- 
 ated." In Mind there is now the perfect "For- 
 mula" for everything which now appears, or which 
 ever was, or ever will be manifested in matter. 
 Each and every natural substance, every particle 
 of matter, every organism, every system, every phe- 
 nomenon has its Formula in Mind. Using these 
 Formulas, Mind then begins the creation of matter. 
 
 Revolving about Mind, as an axis, Darkness 
 and Space form the first material units. These 
 little vortices are no longer in the infinite and im- 
 measurable. They are the first step in the world 
 of matter. Although these units are as much 
 smaller than the electron as the electron is smaller 
 than the cosmos, still they are subject to geometrical 
 dimensions. Their size is as inconceivable to man 
 as the size of the universe. Still they, as surely, 
 have actual magnitude, and it is only the limit of 
 man's means of mensuration and observation that 
 prevents them from being measured. 
 
 That is the first step in the production of what 
 is ultimately to be known as matter. Each of these 
 vortices is made according to the Formula for the 
 units of that magnitude, according to the Divine 
 Plan for them. 
 
 The Formula then combines these vortices into 
 little systems, thousands or millions of them to form 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 the "elements" on the next grade of magnitude. 
 Here the myriads of smaller vortices revolve about 
 the Formula of that magnitude; thus, by their sys- 
 tematic rotation, they form an individual entity, a 
 functional unity. These are the things which 
 scientists have worked with and which they have 
 named "electrons." 
 
 Thus it is that man, stopping at the electrons for 
 want of physical apparatus for further investiga- 
 tion, has missed the last two gradations, and con- 
 sequently has not found the true interpretation of 
 the facts which he has observed. It is intrinsically 
 impossible for physical apparatus to perceive or 
 explain the Ultimate Unities of Mind, Space, and 
 Darkness. These revelations are possible only 
 through perfect contact with Mind, through the 
 Mental Communication which was described and 
 explained earlier in this course. Man, before he 
 had abused the liberty which was given him, had 
 this perfect contact, and man today can return 
 through the maze of human perversions to this real 
 and conscious communion. Then he can under- 
 stand the Laws of Nature, and the creations of 
 Mind, and he is able to use that which he under- 
 stands. 
 
 To some it may seem almost incredible that 
 from the union of two ultimate Substances have 
 come all of the great diversity of materials now in 
 existence. To the student of chemistry, however, 
 this fact is not remarkable. He has but to follow 
 the trail of the results of his own experiments, 
 which have disclosed to him the actions of various 
 known chemicals, their ability to combine in a 
 variety of forms, to interact and form new com- 
 pounds totally unlike the original chemicals. Then 
 he can realize, at least, the possibility of the truth 
 that all matter originated in two Substances, active 
 in a far greater degree than anything manifested 
 in the cruder forms with which he is familiar and 
 charged with the power of Mind which is the 
 
VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 1 3 
 
 Primeval, the Supreme, the Parental, Energy, 
 without which there is no activity. 
 
 We can best illustrate the action of Mind, Space 
 and Darkness by comparison with some of the 
 chemical elements which are familiar to everyone; 
 for instance, hydrogen, and oxygen, which are both 
 described as "colorless, odorless, tasteless gases," 
 when united (through the agency of energy in 
 some form) according to the formula H 2 make 
 water, a liquid. The same elements united ac- 
 cording to the formula H 2 2 produce peroxide of 
 hydrogen. Except in appearance there is little 
 similarity between water and peroxide of hydro- 
 gen ; in taste there is a marked difference, in chem- 
 ical action they are unlike ; either could never take 
 the place of the other, yet neither contains one ele- 
 ment which does not exist in the other. The only 
 difference in composition consists in the proportion 
 of the atoms of the two elements. In water, two 
 atoms of hydrogen are combined with one of oxy- 
 gen. In peroxide of hydrogen, two atoms of hy- 
 drogen are combined with two atoms of oxygen. 
 Even atoms of oxygen alone combined in groups 
 of three, form a gas which is sufficiently distinctive 
 to be recognized as ozone rather than oxygen. 
 
 In many other chemicals we find evidences of 
 this same law. Iron shows the property of com- 
 bining in two proportions, forming the basic oxides 
 FeO and Fe 2 3 , and two complete sets of salts 
 which, while containing exactly the same elements, 
 although in different proportions, display widely 
 different properties. Copper, mercury, and various 
 other metals have this same property. There are 
 but a few more than seventy elements recognized 
 by science. From these, we know, come practically 
 all of the infinite variety of matter with which we 
 are familiar upon this plane. 
 
 When we realize that so-called elements are not 
 in reality elementary, but by the action of Mind 
 the most potent form of Energy may be decom- 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 posed into more elemental form, it is not difficult 
 to comprehend the origin of all matter in the tTvo 
 true elements, Space and Darkness. 
 
 We must remember that properties such as ac- 
 tivity, variation in valency, etc., which are distin- 
 guishable in the comparatively crude chemicals 
 with which we can experiment, are immensely in- 
 tensified in the elementary forms, 
 
 To illustrate the beginning of material chemicals, 
 let us suppose that through the Energy of Mind one 
 volume of Space uniting with one volume of Dark- 
 ness forms a compound thus: Sp+D=SpD. One 
 volume of Space uniting with two volumes of 
 Darkness forms another compound: Sp+2D= 
 SpD 2 . Then SpD+SpD2=Sp 2 D 3 ; Sp 2 D 3 +D= 
 Sp 2 D 4 ; Sp 2 D 4 +SpD 2 =Sp 3 D 6 , and so on ad in- 
 finitum. 
 
 Man, in his experimentation, finds the compound 
 Sp 3 D 6 , and because he cannot, through any agency 
 at his command decompose it further, he labels it 
 an element and calls it oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, 
 or any one of the seventy or more elements which 
 he has discovered. 
 
 From this stage man can observe the interaction 
 of the chemicals and follow their changes and he 
 can even, in a measure, control their actions. Be- 
 yond this plane he cannot yet penetrate except 
 through a mental discernment made possible only 
 by perfect contact with Mind. 
 
 Matter cannot be made by material means, life 
 cannot come from the unliving. The things which 
 are made may say to the Maker : "Why hast thou 
 made us thus?" but they cannot undo that which 
 has been done. The true and natural way in which 
 man can and should control matter is through con- 
 tact and co-operation with Mind, through the same 
 means which Jesus of Nazareth used when he con- 
 trolled the winds and the waves, turned water into 
 
VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 15 
 
 wine, cleansed lepers, multiplied the loaves and 
 fishes, and walked upon the water. 
 
 As before stated, perfect Natural Man is in 
 absolute contact with Mind, and all of his activi- 
 ties are in perfect accord with the Divine Plan. 
 Thus he is functioning in accord with Nature, re- 
 ceiving all things that are necessary for his supplies, 
 his maintenance, the repair and upkeep of his 
 body. When a natural food is taken into the body 
 there is a corresponding flow of electrons which 
 enter the body through the organs of respiration. 
 Any thing that is lacking in the food or that is 
 needed for the assimilation of the food is supplied 
 by this stream of electrons. This flow ceases when 
 man loses his contact with Mind — when he be- 
 comes mortal. 
 
 Hie Real Man thus obtains in a finer state every 
 necessary formula and chemical, and he can even 
 partake in safety of the hybrid fruits, unaffected 
 by their poisons. 
 
 The etheric chemicals enter the lungs, are liqui- 
 fied by the pneumogastric nerve, and are carried 
 in the blood stream to that part of the body for 
 which they are intended. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE 
 
 Students are requested to read each lecture five 
 times before beginning the study of the succeeding 
 lesson. 
 
 Copyright, 1919 
 by 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
^MMMIMilBJHJMJILJM^^ 
 
 SCIENTIFIC 
 HEALING 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 NINE 
 
 MOTHERHOOD 
 
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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 A 
 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 
 
 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 
 
 MOTHERHOOD 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 
 NINE 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Hood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
MOTHERHOOD 
 
 /^■•^HE welfare and happiness of generations 
 i] to come depends primarily upon the educa- 
 ^US tion of those who are to become mothers — 
 education not along lines of material physical 
 learning, but the acquisition of a spiritual under- 
 standing which will remove all of the fear and 
 dread which too often accompanies the thought of 
 motherhood. There is no other factor, political, 
 social, financial, or educational, which will aid so 
 surely or so immediately in the repopulating of the 
 nations so grievously depleted by the ravages of 
 war, as the assurance imparted and demonstrated 
 to all women that they may bear children without 
 pain and suffering. The removal of all fear from 
 prospective motherhood would be more effective 
 even than a sense of duty to country or race for 
 it would overcome the reluctance which in thou- 
 sands of cases prevents women from accepting 
 their rightful share of the responsibilities of the 
 world. 
 
 To remove the misapprehension and fear which 
 in the past has attended maternity, it is necessary 
 to understand the entire process which begins in 
 the very beginning of materiality and at its com- 
 pletion brings forth upon this plane an infant capa- 
 ble of marvelous development and possessed of 
 potentialities as yet unmeasured. 
 
 Through a belief in reincarnation many have 
 reached the conclusion that individuals in the spirit 
 world, incarnate through mothers of their own 
 choosing. A very little reasoning belies this idea, 
 for we find large families of children quite fre- 
 quently among the most unattractive and unde- 
 sirable mothers. Surely no one would consciously 
 choose for his mother one who neglects and mis- 
 treats her children. Yet we find this type quite as 
 prolific as the class of women who may be devoted, 
 capable and in every sense desirable mothers. 
 
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 Surely if this condition of conscious choice were 
 possible to all individuals entering upon this life, 
 the childless woman would without exception be 
 one to be shunned for she must either have been 
 rejected by all of the unborn or have herself refused 
 to accept the charges committed to her keeping. 
 This belief is wholly incongruous in the face of 
 existing conditions. 
 
 The general assumption that the child in the 
 embryonic state is nourished and formed wholly 
 from the mother's blood, which in turn is formed 
 from the food she eats, is equally erroneous. Pros- 
 pective mothers are warned that they must eat 
 certain amounts of certain varieties of food in order 
 that the child may be correctly supplied with the 
 substances necessary to its development. The ad- 
 visors fail to note the fact that a cow, whose diet 
 is confined entirely to grass, bears young as perfect 
 as those of any species subsisting upon a greatly 
 varied diet. It may be said that grass is the na- 
 tural food for the cow. We have no thought of 
 prescribing such diet for the human mother. This, 
 however, does not alter the fact that in the flesh 
 of the calf we find as many different chemicals as 
 in that of the baby whose mother's diet has been 
 chosen according to the most approved system. 
 "Man does not live by bread alone." Nor is the 
 infant body formed alone by bread, meat, milk, 
 or other recognized foods. 
 
 Let us penetrate to the depths of the very be- 
 ginning of individual life that we may be able to 
 teach intelligently the truths which will place ma- 
 ternity upon a new and infinitely more attractive 
 basis. 
 
 We have shown in previous lectures how Mind 
 controls Darkness and Space in the first appear- 
 ance of materiality. Mind produces a thought 
 and that thought becomes a thing. Consider the 
 little grains of wheat. Within that tiny seed is 
 enclosed every necessity for the development and 
 maturity of the plant, and for the production of 
 
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 the ripened grain. But from what source came 
 the elements which are employed to produce the 
 matured wheat? From the soil and the water? Par- 
 tially, no doubt, yet neither the soil nor the water 
 show evidences of the coloring, the flavor, the dis- 
 tinctive characteristics of the wheat. A chemical 
 analysis of the earth and the water which come in 
 contact with the plant fails to reveal all of the 
 chemicals which are found in the wheat. Obviously 
 then there are factors apart from these which are 
 concerned in its production. There is a certain 
 potentiality which we find in every grain of wheat 
 and in nothing else in the world, which at all times 
 and in all places produces wheat. Never by any 
 chance do we find the grain of wheat producing 
 an apple tree or a grape vine. What is this dis- 
 tinctive property of each creation which enables it 
 to reproduce its own likeness throughout the cen- 
 turies? It is the effect of the formula, created in 
 thought by Mind and governing the compound of 
 Darkness and Space which is the beginning of each 
 individual manifestation. 
 
 We cannot detect, either in earth, air, or water, 
 all of the chemicals which constitute the wheat, 
 because these originate in Darkness and Space in 
 a form so ethereal, so minute, and so intangible 
 as to be entirely beyond the realm of physical 
 recognition of experimentation. 
 
 The Soul within the seed, the magnetic attrac- 
 tion resulting from the action of Spirit upon matter, 
 attracts to the seed whatever intelligence is neces- 
 sary according to the Divine Formula for the com- 
 pletion of the product intended. It attracts like- 
 wise whatever chemical mixtures or compounds 
 are required for the mature plant and for the for- 
 mation of scores of new seeds, all containing the 
 same latent power which in due season repeats the 
 process that produced the parent plant. 
 
 Certain conditions which are a part of the re- 
 quirements of the Divine Formula for wheat may 
 
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 be withheld by the interposition of man or by other 
 unnatural means. These are such as the necessity 
 for heat, light, and moisture. The loss of any of 
 these requisites prevents the natural development 
 of the plant. 
 
 In the development of the individual human 
 being we find a parallel to the growth of the indi- 
 vidual plant. The differences are due to the dif- 
 ferences in the original Formulas. 
 
 Mind created the formulas which produced the 
 spermatozoum and the ovum, the first traces of the 
 process which are perceptible to man and the limit 
 of physical experimentation at the present time. 
 
 By the vibratory forces of the ether and in con- 
 formity to the Divine Plan for replenishing the 
 earth, the ovum is attracted to the female body 
 which will afterward become the mother of the 
 new individual. The spermatozoum is carried to 
 the male and all unconsciously, the man and 
 woman take into their bodies by inhalation, these 
 minute, invisible, yet complex and wonderful or- 
 ganisms. 
 
 By the act of coition the spermatozoum and the 
 ovum are united in the uterus of the future mother 
 and together they form the seed which has the 
 power to attract from the finer ethers the substances 
 and intelligence which constitute a human being, 
 just as the grain of wheat attracted the essentials 
 to its complete expression. Sealed within the uterus 
 in contact with the warmth and moisture of the 
 human body, together with the light of Divine In- 
 telligence, the tiny seed grows and changes until 
 it has attained the familiar form of the infant body. 
 
 The union of the male and the female procrea- 
 tive elements forms the magnet which attracts from 
 the Ethers the compounds of Darkness and Space 
 which build the little body according to the com- 
 plex Formula created by the Divine Intelligence. 
 These etheric chemicals attracted by the soul of 
 the unborn child, are inhaled by the mother, just 
 as she has previously inhaled the ovum from which 
 
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 the embryo has grown. In the lungs they enter 
 the mother's blood and are carried through the um- 
 bilical cord to the child. 
 
 Enclosed in the electron with every particle of 
 etheric chemical is the thought formula which di- 
 rects and controls its action, and propelled by 
 Spirit, the expression of Divine Energy, each tiny 
 electron finds its own particular place in the build- 
 ing of the intricate mechanism of the little body. 
 The child is thus formed directly by the power of 
 the Divine Mind, from the delicate substances of 
 the finer ethers. The mother's blood is but the 
 channel for the flow of this Divine Activity. What 
 the mother eats has little to do with the chemicals 
 of the child's body. What the mother thinks, 
 however, can affect both the child's mental and 
 physical development. The little brain in the pro- 
 cess of formation is most delicate and sensitive to 
 thought. A thought of fear in the mother's mind 
 that something which she has eaten or something 
 that she has done may injure the child, will have 
 the effect of paralyzing to a degree the functioning 
 of the body. Thus the results which the mother 
 fears do sometimes follow, yet she does not realize 
 that the injury is the result of her fear rather than 
 of the act which caused the fear. 
 
 The mother's belief, for instance, in the stories so 
 prevalent among other mothers of how various 
 conditions "always" cause colic in babies may so 
 interfere with the action of Divine Thought in the 
 building of the little organs that the false mental 
 picture of an imperfect digestion is forced upon the 
 little brain and the perfect etheric chemicals which 
 enter its body are thus wrongly mixed through the 
 perversion of the thought which the Divine Intelli- 
 gence has supplied with them. The child's diges- 
 tive organs are weak and imperfect and after birth 
 the child manifests the ailments which the mother 
 had anticipated, confirming her belief that many 
 things (in reality perfectly harmless) can cause 
 colic. 
 
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 Much that is called heredity originates thus in 
 the prenatal influence of the mother's fears and 
 false teachings. It is true that the results are no 
 less disastrous than if germs of disease transmitted 
 through the parental blood were the real cause of 
 the afflictions. The knowledge, however, that 
 false thoughts rather than diseased organs are re- 
 sponsible for the ailments makes the remedy much 
 simpler and the prevention easy. For if the mother 
 actually knew that it was only her wrong beliefs 
 which could injure her child, all cause for alarm 
 would then be removed and fear would cease to 
 exist. The child would then be free to receive the 
 pure intelligence and unadulterated chemicals of 
 the Divine Creation. 
 
 The whole duty of the prospective mother then 
 resolves itself into a negative one, merely to refrain 
 from interfering with the perfect natural develop- 
 ment of the child by thoughts of ailments and im- 
 perfections. 
 
 This course is far less simple than it would ap- 
 pear at first thought. For the woman reared and 
 educated in the belief of unavoidable ills, and of 
 the weaknesses of the flesh, it is difficult indeed to 
 erase these beliefs from the brain. The mere re- 
 petition and forcd assertion of a knowledge of per- 
 fection is utterly useless. Unless she can actually 
 penetrate the falsehoods of prevalent errors and 
 see their inconsistency and absurdities, she cannot 
 hope to correct her distorted mental vision. Pro- 
 testations of faith or knowledge however constant, 
 will not avail. When she once sees the truth the 
 necessity and incentive for affirmation disappears. 
 
 The ideal motherhood is a state of serene and 
 conscious responsibility and efficiency. It can exist 
 only when the mother understands the Divine Laws 
 which have produced her child, understands them 
 at least to the extent that she is able to keep herself 
 and her offspring in harmony with them. If she 
 can do this she has the assurance of the health and 
 
MOTHERHOOD II 
 
 happiness of her children. To the true mother that 
 assurance is of more value than all else. 
 
 The prevalence of mortal beliefs today makes 
 the rearing of spiritual children a momentous task. 
 To keep them uncontaminated requires the moth- 
 er's constant thought and care. So many wrong 
 practices have become an accepted part of the 
 treatment of children that it is not surprising that 
 so few individuals are able to attain maturity with 
 even a semblance of the spiritual understanding 
 which was theirs by right of birth. 
 
 Deception and falsehood play a large part in 
 the relation of many parents to their children. If 
 the child asks for something which they do not wish 
 to give him, they tell him that it is "all gone" or 
 that it will "hurt the baby." The child usually 
 recognizes the untruth and soon loses his confidence 
 in the parent's veracity. A direct refusal of the 
 child's request is more honorable and far less in- 
 jurious to his ideals. Parents who have themselves 
 taught these first lessons in falsehood often spend an 
 old age in sorrow over the waywardness and de- 
 ception of their children. A truthful answer can 
 always be given to the child's questions. A sin- 
 cere effort should always be made to express the 
 truth in terms which he can understand. If, how- 
 ever, the explanation is entirely beyond the child's 
 power of comprehension, he may not understand 
 the meaning of your words but he will, neverthe- 
 less, recognize your sincerity, and your acknowl- 
 edgement of his intelligence will strengthen the 
 child's self-respect, one of the fundamental quali- 
 ties of character so often permanently crushed by 
 thoughtless parents. No one should ever be per- 
 mitted to ridicule or to humiliate a child. When 
 a child has done anything which necessitates re- 
 proof, the correction should be made firmly, but 
 always with an attitude which presupposes the 
 good intention of the child and which does not force 
 upon the sensitive mind a sense of inferiority and 
 degradation. Much has been said of the duty of 
 
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 a child toward its parents. Much has been left 
 unsaid of the parents' duty toward the child. The 
 respect of the child for its mother should be 
 equalled by the respect of the mother for the child. 
 Love and consideration if genuine should be mu- 
 tual and instinctive. 
 
 The indignities heaped upon a little child in a 
 mistaken idea of discipline will often cripple ini- 
 tiative and lessen self-confidence to such an extent 
 that the individual of inherent talent and ability 
 and creative power is reduced to a mere unthinking 
 machine which obeys unquestioningly the com- 
 mands of the parents and in later life those of em- 
 ployers or of husband or wife, but who must al- 
 ways cower and shrink and follow, deprived for 
 life of the God-given dominion, and right to in- 
 dividual choice. 
 
 Courage, self-reliance, initiative, all are essen- 
 tial to a successful life and must be cultivated in 
 the child if he is ever to reach the fulfillment of his 
 possibilities. These characteristics must be en- 
 couraged in the infant before he is old enough to 
 creep or even to sit alone. It is always easier to 
 help the baby to accomplish the attempted feats 
 than to watch it struggle and strive to do some- 
 thing to its untrained muscles almost impossible. 
 These attempts to help the baby, however, are 
 usually an injustice to the child and often do well- 
 nigh irreparable damage to its physical or mental 
 capacity. A child who is never helped or coaxed 
 to sit erect or to stand or walk, will accomplish all 
 of these exploits at the time and in the manner in 
 which Nature intended. The child who is care- 
 fully supported in his first steps will never gain the 
 confidence and poise, the nice co-operation of brain 
 and muscle which results from a normal, spon- 
 taneous development. 
 
 The child should be given much freedom and 
 quiet and should never be disturbed without rea- 
 son. If he is to grow up as a spiritual being he 
 must be allowed to assimilate and reproduce the 
 
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 Divine Intelligence which he, himself, receives. If 
 parents or friends persist in constantly forcing their 
 ideas upon him they will exclude the constructive 
 spiritual thought which alone can determine what 
 is for his welfare. The inevitable result of such 
 substitution is to pervert the little brain and render 
 it mortal. 
 
 When the baby begins to talk he should not be 
 urged to say certain words. If he is permitted to 
 follow natural impulses he will say the things which 
 properly exercise the rapidly developing organs 
 and which are in harmony with the thought which 
 belongs to that period. The parents' choice of easy 
 or clever words may throw the child's mental 
 world into confusion and materially interfere with 
 his progress. 
 
 The parents' pride in the child's progress is 
 natural and commendable, but they should be con- 
 tent always with true progress which makes a foun- 
 dation for future accomplishment rather than to 
 incite spasmodic achievements which will incui 
 future disappointment and inefficiency. The baby 
 who deliberately, if laboriously, rises to his feet, 
 stands alone, and sits down without panic or dis- 
 aster, has gained something of inestimable value, 
 whereas the child who is placed on his feet by 
 some admirer and persuaded to take a few uncer- 
 tain and precipitate steps only to fall into some one 
 else's outstretched arms, has been grievously handi- 
 capped in his chances for self mastery and inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 The parent should, of course, protect the child 
 from danger of injury, but this should be done un- 
 obtrusively and without allowing the child to feel 
 that he is being shielded. A child will receive 
 fewer falls and will be in much less danger if he 
 learns at the very beginning of his experiments to 
 fall adroitly rather than to expect someone to be al- 
 ways at hand to save him from falling. 
 
 An undesirable characteristic that is thought- 
 lessly cultivated by many parents is the tendency 
 
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 to blame someone or something else for one's own 
 errors. This quality in an adult is never admired 
 and is usually displeasing, yet frequently the seed 
 has been sown in the infant brain by a mistaken at- 
 tempt at comforting the child. The baby stumbles 
 and bumps his head on a chair, the mother takes 
 him in her arms, displays much agitation over the 
 occurrence and tells him that it was "a naughty, 
 naughty chair." Perhaps the bump was a very 
 slight one which would have passed almost unno- 
 ticed if the mother had shown no alarm and had 
 made a smiling comment but instead she has in- 
 stilled a feeling of animosity for an object which 
 she knows was in no way culpable $nd she has 
 introduced the sentiment which in later years will 
 find expression in the weak self-justification, "It 
 wasn't my fault," or "I never had a chance." 
 
 Constant warnings are unnecessary and debil- 
 itating. When the child is told repeatedly that he 
 will fall or that he will get hurt there are stamped 
 upon the sensitive brain pictures of disaster which 
 will manifest sooner or later in misfortune. The 
 suggestion of a different occupation or the intro- 
 duction of another plaything will more effectively 
 avert the danger and will make a wholesome con- 
 structive mental image instead of a demoralizing 
 fear. 
 
 The redemption of the race, the restoration of 
 the Real Man depends in greatest measure upon 
 the new generation. Let us, therefore, as Christian 
 Philosophers, make our first and highest responsi- 
 bility, as in truth our greatest privilege, the protec- 
 tion and resurrection of the little ones who are com- 
 mitted to our care. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE 
 
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 times before beginning the study of the succeeding 
 lesson. 
 
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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 A 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 
 
 BY 
 REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D„ C. P. 
 
 BISHOP OF THE 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 "NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE- 
 
 HEALING 
 
 LESSON NUMBER 
 
 TEN 
 
 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 
 
 541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 
 Wilma Alice Cosper 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
THE LESSONS 
 
 I Divine Man and Carnal Man, 
 
 II The Genuine and the Adulteration 
 
 III The Mist. 
 
 IV The Hood, Part I. 
 V The Flood, Part II. 
 
 VI Man Versus Nature. 
 
 VII The Fall of Man. 
 
 VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 
 
 IX Motherhood. 
 
 X Healing. 
 
HEALING 
 
 3N the study of this course of lectures, some 
 may be surprised to find little in regard to 
 healing. In this last lecture therefore we 
 must impress upon the student the fact that there 
 is little to be written or to be learned about healing. 
 The power to heal is but one of the natural results 
 of spiritual understanding. If you have acquired a 
 clear comprehension of the truths expounded in the 
 preceding lectures and in the text book "Nature's 
 Way," you have, without further teaching, the 
 power to heal. If you are not fully conscious of 
 this power, the way may be opened more clearly 
 by the exposure of some of the misunderstandings 
 which are most frequently provocative of doubt or 
 failure. 
 
 If any disease which comes under the observa- 
 tion of a Christian Philosopher can produce in him 
 a sense of repulsion or loathing, his power to heal 
 that disease is thereby lessened. Unless by the ac- 
 quirement of a more complete knowledge, he can 
 lose this aversion, there is little probability of suc- 
 cessful treatment of the case. 
 
 To Jesus, the lepers whom He healed were not 
 "loathsome things," else He could not have gath- 
 ered them into the light of spiritual knowledge 
 where, nourished by the etheric supplies, their 
 wasted bodies were restored to the normal state. 
 
 St. Paul gives expression to the truth which en- 
 abled Jesus to heal the lepers. In Rom. 14:14, 
 he says: "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord 
 Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but 
 to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to 
 him it is unclean." 
 
 And again in the 20th verse of the same chapter 
 he says: "All things indeed are pure; but it is evil 
 for that man who eateth with offense." 
 
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 "There is nothing unclean of itself!" For many 
 persons this fact is difficult of comprehension. One 
 can conjure in a moment's thought the memory of 
 innumerable objects seemingly unclean. This fact, 
 however, is the consequence of a narrow and per- 
 sonal point of view. The unbiased consideration 
 of this problem necessitates a breadth of vision so 
 great as to be in reality universal. 
 
 There are many things unclean according to 
 man's tastes, sensibilities and education, which to 
 other of God's creatures are the acme of desir- 
 ability. Then the uncleanness is not the creation 
 of God but is due solely to man's selfish viewpoint. 
 For passing judgment upon all things, he has made 
 his standard the question, "Is it pleasing to me?" 
 Many of his decisions would be instantly reserved 
 were he to ask instead, "Is it pleasing to the Intel- 
 ligence which created all things?" 
 
 For instance: a man walks upon the sea shore 
 and suddenly comes upon quantities of decaying 
 fish. The odor and the appearance of the decom- 
 posing material is most offensive to him. He would 
 undoubtedly designate the condition as "unclean," 
 yet he sees a flock of sea gulls feasting upon the 
 fish with every evidence of relish. 
 
 The same intelligence which created man, cre- 
 ated the sea gull and prepared a means of furnish- 
 ing suitable food for it. The power gave to man 
 and to the gull appetites for different kinds of food 
 in order that the one creation might subsist in a cer- 
 tain sphere and the other in a totally distinct pro- 
 vince — each fulfilling a specific purpose in the plan 
 of the universe. 
 
 The odor of decomposing matter, although dis- 
 tasteful to man is not "unclean of itself." To other 
 of God's creations it is pleasing, therefore, to God 
 it is a necessary and desirable condition. 
 
 When life has been withdrawn from any indi- 
 vidual creature or plant, that individual can pro- 
 
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 gress no farther in the existing form, so to permit 
 of the constructive use of the living atoms and elec- 
 trons which have made up its mass, the body must 
 disintegrate. By so doing it liberates the impris- 
 oned elements which enter upon a broader field of 
 activity. Is this process pernicious or unclean? 
 Viewed in the light of universal welfare, it is bene- 
 ficent and purifying. 
 
 Many varieties of shell fish which man considers 
 edible and appetizing, feed upon this same decay- 
 ing flesh and it goes to build up their tissues which 
 are in turn eaten by man. Thus he welcomes in a 
 different state the same materials which under 
 other conditions were loathsome. 
 
 The decomposing carcass of an animal, disgust- 
 ing to human sensibilities, affords the chosen food 
 of the vulture and other scavengers. The blow- 
 fly, in man's judgment a nuisance, is one of the 
 efficient and helpful agents in the dissolution of 
 material which can attain new usefulness only by 
 returning to the original chemical elements. To 
 these creatures, subsisting upon the foods which 
 nature has suited to their requirements, there are 
 no ill effects attendant upon the consumption of 
 "tainted meat." To man the results of the same 
 food would be very different. Why? Because 
 the Creator has given to each creation its own food 
 supply. Yet the very fact that a thing is "good" 
 to any one of God's creations, precludes the possi- 
 bility of judging it "unclean of itself." 
 
 Virgin soil will often produce a meager crop of 
 vegetables. The same soil enriched by manure 
 will bear an abundant harvest. We call the fer- 
 tilizer filth, yet the vegetables we consider pure and 
 clean. 
 
 To successfully treat disease, the practitioner 
 must arrive at a realization of the truth that "noth- 
 ing is unclean of itself." He must be so firm in this 
 knowledge, that decomposition of tissues such as 
 
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 the excretions from tubercular or cancerous bodies 
 cannot arouse fear or a horror of the disease or 
 any doubt as to the simplicity with which the 
 infected flesh may be cleansed and purified by the 
 application of natural laws. When a healer has 
 risen above all horror of disease in any form and 
 has lost all fear of infection or contagion, his heal- 
 ing power becomes superlative. 
 
 Every chemical element which is excreted from 
 the body of a tubercular patient has previously 
 been taken into the body in another form. And 
 as these chemicals enter either as food or upon the 
 breath, there is nothing about them suggestive of 
 uncleanness or danger. Often the pure spiritual 
 substances enter the body as perfect chemicals 
 combined according to Divine Formulas but 
 through fear of contagious disease or because of 
 some other false teaching the brain of the indi- 
 vidual may fail to rcognize and interpret the Di- 
 vine Formula for their proper combination and 
 natural use. Fearing tuberculosis or dwelling upon 
 a detailed picture of its ravages upon some other 
 body, the brain is more likely to misinterpret the 
 Divine Formula and through its very fear of the 
 disease cause the body to put the chemicals to- 
 gether in a way that produces tuberculosis or some 
 condition resembling it. 
 
 Another person in the same household, eating 
 the same food and following the same routine of 
 life may take into his body the very same chemi- 
 cals, but with a brain free from fear and morbid 
 pictures; his body functions normally, the chem- 
 icals are used according to the Divine Formula 
 and the body shows every evidence of health and 
 normal development. 
 
 It has been shown previously that everything in 
 the physical state originated in a certain mixture 
 of Space and Darkness and every material, no mat- 
 ter what its appearance or effect can be resolved 
 by the power of Mind into these two primary Sub- 
 
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 stances. There is, therefore, "nothing unclean of 
 itself." The only fault or error lies in the wrong 
 mixture of elements which when rightly used pro- 
 duce perfect conditions. Knowing this fact, the 
 practitioner of mental therapeutics should see in the 
 symptoms of any disease no cause for horror or fear 
 but merely the need of a mental readjustment 
 which can restore the complete and natural func- 
 tioning of the different organs and remove all un- 
 desirable conditions. 
 
 Another detriment to successful healing is very 
 closely allied to aversion for the manifestations of 
 disease. This is the fear of death. If the thought 
 of death either of himself or of a patient can pro- 
 duce a mental panic in the practitioner, he is not 
 yet qualified as a master of his work. What we 
 call death, the withdrawal of the spirit from the 
 body, is a perfectly natural and normal condition. 
 It does not, however, to the spiritual man, imply 
 illness or pain. We see the grass grow and die; 
 each season's flowers bloom and wither ; the leaves 
 bud on the trees, grow into a luxurious mantle and 
 in the autumn fall to the ground and decay; yet 
 none of these phenomena cause sorrow or a sense 
 of loss. The birth, development and death of the 
 human body is governed by the same natural laws 
 which control the grass and flowers and trees. The 
 death of the body after it has fulfilled its purpose 
 upon this plane is no more tragic or deplorable 
 than the falling of the autumn leaves. When the 
 leaves have decomposed and returned to their na- 
 tural elements, those elements are as truly alive as 
 they were when newly created; what then is 
 death? Merely one transitory stage of life, no 
 more to be feared or avoided than any other na- 
 tural event of life. The death to be shunned is not 
 this transition, but the "death" which reigned 
 "from Adam to Moses," the deadening of the 
 Spiritual Understanding. This death is synony- 
 mous with mortality, error and sin. 
 
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 When the student has attained to the clear spir- 
 itual vision which banishes all dread of disease and 
 fear of death, he will not hesitate to undertake 
 any case of healing. 
 
 The man who has a true conception of natural 
 law will never presume that he can interfere with 
 the Divine Plan or that he can accomplish results 
 that are not in harmony with the laws of Nature, 
 for however great the power of a spiritual man, 
 that power is derived from and is subservient to 
 the power of Mind, hence no man can ever usurp 
 the power of Mind. 
 
 When the season comes for the grass to wither, 
 no man can keep it green ; when a man or a woman 
 has accomplished his or her mission upon this plane, 
 no healer, however powerful, can force the spirit 
 to remain in the body. For this fact we should 
 be truly thankful and no conscientious, sincere fol- 
 lower of the truth would desire to usurp the Divine 
 Privilege of decision as to when, for the universal 
 good, a man shall step from this limited physical 
 existence into a state of broader experience and 
 higher sensibilities. No intelligent practitioner will 
 pretend to the power of postponing this transition 
 beyond the natural season, but without exceeding 
 his authority he may assert that it is his privilege 
 to remove from this period of life the suffering and 
 the fear and to clothe it with its rightful aspect of 
 beneficence and repose. 
 
 The understanding of the Divine Law, is the 
 one essential to the power to heal all unnatural and 
 abnormal conditions. The man or woman who 
 has been resurrected into a spiritual life through 
 the acquirement of Divine Truth does not need to 
 be taught to heal. Such a one carries in his very 
 presence the healing which comes from the purify- 
 ing, perfecting flow of spiritual thought constantly 
 received and assimilated. He may not even be 
 conscious of this power, yet it will affect those with 
 whom he associates. Just as one who carries a 
 
HEALING 11 
 
 light into a dark room dispels the darkness: al- 
 though the consciousness of this fact may not im- 
 press him. His whole thought at the moment may 
 be upon another purpose, such as finding a book, 
 or closing a window, yet he cannot enter the room 
 without turning the gloom into brightness. He 
 need not deny the darkness or affirm the light, the 
 result is automatic. The practitioner should never 
 attempt to force certain thoughts. It is what a 
 man is, not what he things that does the work. We 
 often find in insane asylums, persons who believe 
 that they are Napoleon or other famous characters, 
 yet their firm conviction and their constant affirma- 
 tions as to their identity do not affect the real facts 
 or impress others who have more reliable sources of 
 information. The repetition of such statements as 
 "I am not sick," "There is no such thing as pain," 
 "I know that in reality I am well," are as futile as 
 the claims of the deluded "Napoleon." A con- 
 sciousness of health or well-being could never give 
 rise to such assertions, therefore they are actual 
 evidence of the existence of the very conditions 
 which they seek to deny. 
 
 Much valuable energy is spent in unnecessary 
 resistance and struggling to "throw off" undesir- 
 able manifestations. The simple, quiet acceptance 
 of the Divine flow of spiritual thought obviates all 
 this nerve-straining effort, for the inflow of light 
 dissipates the darkness as naturally as the rising 
 sun dispels the night. 
 
 The cultivation of personality and individuality 
 is so much an object, in most systems of mental 
 training, that it sometimes defeats the desired aim. 
 Man must, at least at times, eliminate the idea of 
 self and transcend the limits of personality in or- 
 der to realize the source and the mode of opera- 
 tion of the Divine Forces. He must function, not 
 as an independent entity, but as an inseparable 
 portion of Divine Intelligence, if he would come in 
 contact with true knowledge. He must not at- 
 
12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 tempt to force upon the Divine Powers the fulfill- 
 ment of any person's selfish desires. Man has 
 not the right to dictate to God or to Nature, his 
 authority and his duty alike are consummated 
 when he enters into perfect harmony with the one 
 Intelligence, to the end that, he becomes the trans- 
 mitter of whatever that Intelligence sees fit to con- 
 vey. Any effort further than this, any attempt to 
 advise or enlighten the Divine Intelligence is merely 
 an evidence of the mist of ignorance and it serves 
 only as a stumbling block in the pathway of health, 
 happiness, and prosperity. Let no man feel that 
 this fact imposes a limit upon his power to heal or 
 upon his usefulness to humanity, for whatever is 
 beneficial or desirable for humanity is included in 
 the gift of God to His children. Whatever is good 
 we may freely promise to every suppliant, but we 
 must always leave to the Divine Intelligence the 
 prerogative in the distinction between the desires 
 of ignorance or mortality and the requirements of 
 spiritual man. The latter are given freely, the for- 
 mer must be withheld if we consider the real wel- 
 fare of the misguided person. We would not be 
 kind to a child if we lifted it that it might reach a 
 dangerous weapon, although it might desire it 
 greatly. Thus we would not wish even if such re- 
 sults were possible, to help any man to attain a 
 purpose which seems to him desirable, but which 
 would eventually increase his misfortune. 
 
 The cultivation of the ego has been much ad- 
 vocated. To obliterate the thought of the "ego," 
 "I am," and to dwell upon and exalt the "sumus," 
 "we are," would be conducive of far more benefit 
 to the world and likewise to the individual. This 
 thought does not end with the inclusion in one con- 
 sciousness of all mankind, it means the indivisible 
 unity of all intellects, all forces, all substance and 
 all intelligence. As there is but one God, there is 
 but one unit in the universe. There is no man so 
 highly developed, so self-sufficient, so intelligent 
 
HEALING 13 
 
 that he can exist for one second apart from the 
 intelligence and the energy which he derives from 
 the one Mind. Man, therefore, or mankind are 
 not units, they are but members of the one body 
 and to attain their highest degree of efficiency and 
 usefulness, each one must accept his rightful place 
 in the Divine System. He must perform willingly 
 whatever duties are imposed upon him by the office 
 which he was created to fulfill. 
 
 Thus when another, stifled by the mist of igno- 
 rance comes to you gasping for breath and begs 
 your assistance, you have nothing to do but to say 
 in the words of the greatest Master of the ages: 
 "Father, thy will be done," and because the pa- 
 tient has come to the light and has come with his 
 brain in an attitude of reception and submission, his 
 heart is set in vibration in harmony with your own, 
 and as the misguided brain accepts the dictates of 
 the heart, the whole body vibrates with Divine 
 Activity. Every organ is aroused from its lethargy 
 and responds to the energy of Mind. Discord is 
 thus eliminated and perfect natural action is re- 
 stored. 
 
 The only way to become an unobstructed chan- 
 nel for Divine Thought, is by temporary oblitera- 
 tion of all conscious thought. The cultivation of 
 this practice has been explained in "Nature's 
 Way," in the last paragraphs of Chapter VIII. 
 When a patient appeals to you, a Christian Phil- 
 osopher, you should employ no treatment save this : 
 enter for a moment into concentration by the ob- 
 literation of physical thought thus offering yourself 
 as an agent of Divine Thought, a phonograph, as 
 it were upon which the Divine Intelligence may 
 place the record which it wishes to communicate 
 to the patient. By his voluntary contact with your 
 consciousness he has then come in contact with the 
 Mind which possesses omnipotent properties of 
 healing and purity. 
 
14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 
 
 We can but repeat to all who ask, "What must 
 I do to heal?" "You must do nothing, but you 
 must understand much." 
 
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