correspond immediately to the reigning loves and thoughts of the soul needs no further proof than the most common reflection upon the changes in action of these two organs, when the feelings and thoughts are passing through marked states.
A change in the totality of consciousness means a like change in the physical organism. Do we fail in our attempts to have a sound mind in a sound body? It is because the thought of the Divine power and presence is transient and spasmodic, when it should be the sign of the life-stream's direction.
When once the fundamental laws of our being are understood and embodied, the effort of one man to cure another will be a normal condition. There can be no help in merely making a verbal contradiction of another man's disease. But the spoken word of truth will awaken the sickened mind of another, while the sphere of a heart overflowing with tender sympathy will penetrate both body and soul of the needy one. This sphere, in a highly developed state, can be extended and directed voluntarily, upon the same principle that the Lord is omnipresent, and that the angels nearest to Him in quality of life have a sphere which extends to the boundaries of heaven. Thought filled with love is quite enough to touch those who are already sensitive to spiritual influence; but where the disease has deadened the sensibilities of both soul and body, the life sphere must frequently be conveyed by the hand; for in the hand the whole nature of a man is ultimated.
To bring the subject to a practical issue: There is much in the illogical, unphilosophical statements of certain modern schools of mental healing which seems to act as
