The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-11
POWER OF MIND.
SeconI supplementary Lecture by
NJ S. Helen Van Anderson.
COtt.lle Hall Filled With Deeply Inter-
eSted Audience.

Rev Helen Van Anderson of Boston gave
the second and last of her supplementary lee
lures on ''The Practical Application of the
Power of Mind TO the Healing OF Disease" in
Cottells hall last night at o'clock, before the
Rhode Island Metaphysical Association. Much
interest has been manifested in all these lee
lures by Rev. Mrs. Anderson, and, ss has been
the case on other nights the hall was filed
with an Infested audience last night.
Mrs. Van Anderson spoke substantially as
follows:
Do not evil thoughts bring disease as well
as thoughts CT fear? All thoughts that are
not good are negative, that is, corresponding
to darkness. Many thoughts bring about false
and wrong conditions OF the body. A case is
known where paralysis of the throat was
caused by n fit of passion, which was healed
after some years when the patient became re-
pentant. All are not healed. but there is
enough TO prove that II is always safe to seek
this method, for IL is true that the mind has
power to heal disease. True, jest, righteous
living is the best way Of keeping well body
The cause OF disease often lies in the mind
Passion. fear. bad thoughts, sorrow, etc, in
the mind may influence the body. Pictures or
images i'm the mind which are constantly kept
in view of the minds eye are bound TO have
their effects. Well established laws and Ger
tain causes for certain effects are seen on
studying, yet there is an undreamed OF world
for us yet TO explore. These bad negative
pictures must be erased and replaced by good,
positive pictures, and this is 'mental heal
ing" There are different kinds OF healing,
but mental healing is as superior to the others
as the modern machinery is TO the old hand
work. We may use the mind for selfish ends
and false motives, hut we do 80 at our peril.
II we break law or infringe on anothsr's
right must suffer for II in the end "As
ye SOW so shall ye reap" pure motive, not
freed from natural mperfections, often exists
A person who is sincerely doing his best 10
much safer TO RELY on for help than one who
e clouded or has not arrived at the altrustic
level. We must look at the channel through
which the spirit flows mind may be
clouded as piece of glass. A ray OF light
may lose its color and be stained by passing
through colored glass.
Higher than the mental, but using the
mental and coming through It, is the spiritual
plane. There is but one life power energy
but many diversities of its manifestation. In
the other realms we find diversity I'm the
spiritual, unity. On the spiritual plane we
are all holy, perfect, for that is universal
spirit which transcends body and mind. Wa
are not TO leave the physical and mental en-
tirely, but place 1t where il belongs and use
10 rs mn instrument. Do not put IL in the place
of the mind or spirit that runs IT, According
TO the intensity of your thoughts yon can
realize in your body whatever you will. But
you must have faith in your thoughts. Hvp.
notisn Is an illustration of this power. What
ever we believe in will make us suscepti5le
20 its influence. There Is an unused energy
in US; 10 is tho spiritual. and we gain use OF it
by consciousness Of 10 and belief In IL. We
must be able to call on 10 on demand ard
abandon ourselves 90 10. 10 is illustrated IN
swimming when we ioat when we have col =
fidence In ourselves. 80 we must trust that
this power can work In me o. make me
whole. lt Is an implicit faith. Then the ~
suit h made with no effort on our part This
il where 10 differs from the mental, WHERE
We must STRUGGLE 60 attain. I'm the slir,tual
A. ~ the Abandonment 81 confidence, faith, I'M
questioning, bringing the consciousness into
rapport with the spiritual force the spirit
will work its own effect, as IL does IN all the
rest Of nature.