The Labor enquirer., 1886-08-07
Metaphysical Healing.
Recording Secretary.

Metaphysical Healing.
For The ENQUIRER.
The Woman's World of Chicago has
become convert to the metaphysical
system of healing disease. This is one
of those ne doctrines which are ridi-
culed by the uninformed, but gradually
shine forth in their true glory. There
fore cannot understand it enough to
overcome its palpable fallacies.
Thought is the only real entity. Mat
ter is but an impr ession or dream. All
error will disappear when you compre-
hend that God or Good is ubiquitous
filling all space leaving no room for
evil"
Ignorance of the reader makes some
passages appear vague the following is
an instance: Death and sickness are
not death and sickness, but Negation
they are not the approprlating."
A mistake is thus defined: mo one
can do anything with a mistake. A
mistak is the negation of negations. 1t
is Nothing multiplied by itself out of
human consciousness"
A mistake coming from human con-
sciousn ess ought to resemble a thought
but in this instance appearances are de-
ceitfuI, Conclusion: some thoughts are
not real, A diseased kidney is nothing.
Which is the greater nothing, mistake
or Bright5 disease? If all diseases are
due to thought how ls it that many dis
eases creep upon the system unknown
to the patient, until the body is bevond
repair ?
Money is an illusion, vet it is an i'm
portant factor in getting well. People
are asking why, if this is the Christ
method of healing, the healers charge
for their services. answer because
everything in the present organization
of society hangs upon money!"
But the present organization of society
is mistake, hence does not exist. Yet
the healer who can overcome decayed
lung and think sound one in its place,
cannot think away the necessity for
money, nor the evils of society which
cannot exist anywhere because Good
fills ali space.
Let some healer take up this matter of
money for IN it lies absolute proof of the
truth of metaphysics. L,t him 60 right
on healing gratis, and when hu niger
gnaws away some of his intestlnes let
him say: Good riddance. My intes-
tines now consumed. were matter, there
fore nothing. l will think more in their
place, or think am not hungry"
However, to save point, the Woman's
World states: Patients who pay for
treatment get well much faster than
those who do not"
Food is considered as real as thought,
for leading teacher stopped at the
Sherman house, Chicago. where, presum-
ably, good rations are found. To get up
class this teacher sends invitations to
call on her at said hotel, without stating
the object of the visit. l know people
who responded and found that they had
only wasted time and street-car fare.
AS to literary ability, the Woman's
World is ambitious. A good word is
tax en- and worked for all 1t is worth. In
the last number it is ubiquitous" used
lnnumerable times in describing the in
finite qualities of Good. Different shades
of intensity are expr essed by variations
such as, "ubuquity )" also ubiquitous
and "ubuqitioue."
| formed the impression that Good, in
covering so much ground as the entire
universe, must be greatly diluted.
came upon the passage which confirmed
nv suspicion:
"For this whole science Gf 1 under
stand it, hangs on the belief that the
body and soul are identical and that