The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-25

mind cure. The eccIesiasts have taken I'D
the subject and are wrangling over it. Some
are hostile to it, declaring, perhaps without
knowing much about it. that its tendency is
atheistical. Others believe in it and prac-
tice 1t under the name of the prayer cure"
or faith cure" Rev Joseph Cooke is said
to uphold it,
1t isn't easy to get practical rules on
! acknowledgements. heard both men and
| women, who assumed to know all about the
mental cure, talk hours thereon without be
! ing able to seize on point l could make
| practical. How to begin, that's the question
nobody answers. Perhaps the teachers tell
when they instruct their classes; the takers
! do not. The fog about is quite as dense as
| the regular medical code could desire
Mrs. A. NJ. Diaz, president of the Woman's
Educational and Industrial Union, is an en-
thusiastic believer in the mind cure. She
| declares it has opened new world to her
From her CLEANED the following principles
| of the system:
! SIN spiritual healing the Bible assertion
| that God good has all power and all place
must be clearly understood; also that the
person is spirit, not flesh. Good is the all,
| the real, Evil is the nothing. With God
all things are possible to us, and we may
dominate flesh and sin. The little word NTH
comprises the whole matter. In our oneness
with God lies our salvation-not merely our
future salvation, but salvation right off
now and all the time. We must be recep-
tive, seeking; must harbor no fear; must
recognize and feel the perfect love that
casteth out fear" In short, Mrs Diaz'
gospel of healing sounds very much like the
Christian religion brought down to every -day
application.
Another teacher of the transcendental
philosophy, who draws his lore from DIR.
Evans, asserts that there are within the in
closure of our inner beings certain dormant.
unused spiritual energies and potencies that
can save the soul and heal the body of its
maladies, and that they are only now being
discovered and utilized ANYHOW, our
timer beings figure quite conspicuously in
the mind cure. Those who are not sure that
they have inner beings are likely to make
slow progress in this branch of idealistic
philosophy.
DR.. Evans puts it down as basic assertion
that all life consists in either thought or
feeling; that thoughts are things, the only
real things IN the universe-substantia reali-
ties, transmissible entities. That the moro
direct and spiritual way of transmitting
them is by sensation, not words. either soolleD
or written. A thought impaired to another
may be made to incIose a feeling, and that
thought has in it creative force
He also asserts that thought is an interior
speech, or inward word, the proper Language
of souls, the universal language of spirit
He says: eve ought to ascertain, as far az
practicable, the precise nature of the dis
ordered mental state, or fixed mode of thought
which is the spiritual root of the patients
malady, and which has crystallized, through
the law of correspondence, into an organic
expression in the body This should be at
tackled by the psycho-therapeutic force
Thought medicine) from every point of
approach. What is called magnetism. which
has proved itself one of the most efficient
means of the cure of disease, owes its eff
cheney to the fact that in it's Utmost
reality it is but the sphere of our
thoughts and feelings. This subtle spiritual
principle continually exhales from us and
forms an atmosphere around us charged with
the living forces of our minds The secret
of the influence Of magnetism is the inf1u-
ence of the thought and will of the operator
over the mind, and through the mind over
the body of another.
THE human body is the external world |
which the soul creates for its manifestation |
and as the theatre of its activity. All out |
ward things are but the differentiation of |
ideas Ideas are the images and inmost real
ity of all created things, and always tend to !
an external or material manifestation If
the mind forms an idea of a change in the
bodily status, and holds itself steadily and
tenaciously to that idea, it originates, or at
least intensifes, an effort of nature-that is.
an unconscious action of the mind to ex-
press itself outwardly, and to form the BODY
after the pre-existing idea
Solomon's assertion that as a man think
eth in his heart, so is he, has been given a
fresh start by the mind cure We are told
that we can think ourselves into every good,
bodily and spiritually; but the thinking must
be a steady thing. There must be no flag
ying, no dropping of stitches in our thought
robes to ravel into unsightly rents; no de,
'palring, no fearing, no doubling We must
1eUer quit our holds. We must, in short
earn the power of thought and rely upon it.
Then, as the scriptures have promised us, we
shall ''be as gods" GERTRUDE GARRISON