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SPIRITUAL HEALING: SPECIFIC AILMENTS

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Alcoholism:

For these conditions may be overcome with this body if the entity will turn first to
the spiritual self, and seek spiritual aid and guidance from within; then put self IN an
institution where all these phases of such experiences are understood and application
made for the REMOVAL of the [spinal] pressures.
If the entity's mental self then KEEPS the seeking to the Christ-love, the Christ-
spirit, there WILL be the abilities to remove those things that have so easily beset the
body.
Know this first and foremost: ALL HEALING of any nature must be of God; for
God (in Christ, to man) alone is life, is health, is good; and when applications are made of
mechanical means, electrical means, the vibratory influences of medication or what not,
the GOOD is the manifestation of Creative Forces or God!
Just as the blush of the rose, the beauty of the sunset, the dew upon the grass, the
beauty of love - all are to man's understanding, to man's spiritual self - upon the spiritual
portion of man's mind - a manifestation of God, that Creative Force, that everlasting Life.
Life alone is eternal because it is of God; and only in Him may it be
RIGHTFULLY sought!
Then, four weeks should be sufficient. Go to Macon, Missouri - Still-Hildreth;
have corrections made in the cerebrospinal system to produce coordination between the
sympathetic and the cerebrospinal system.
During that whole period - pray and study to show thyself approved unto God, a
workman - not ashamed of the weaknesses but showing forth in thy daily life, that ye
walk and ye talk with Him; who has promised to be thy STRENGTH, thy might, if ye
will seek to do His biddings.
Let others seek with thee in prayer - not in unbelief. For indeed may ye in thine
experience PERSONALLY know that as He hath said, If ye will ask in my name,
BELIEVING, doing, ye may know the Lord that He is indeed good and cares for the
children of men.
Then seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened unto you. 1427-1


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The Spiritual Approach to Treating Specific Ailments

Contents: Pages:
A. General 5

B. Alcoholism 10

C. Arthritis 16

D. Cancer 19

E. Deafness 21

F. Epilepsy 22

G. Eye Ailments 26

H. Insanity 31

I. Melancholia 36

J. Mind Retarded 39

K. Poliomyelitis 40

L. Tumors 43

M. A Philosophy of Healing from the Edgar Cayce Readings
by Meredith Ann Puryear 45

N. Related Circulating Files and Research Bulletins
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1. Healing Series:
a. Consistency in Healing
b. Magnetic Healing (Laying On of Hands)
c. Principles of Healing
d. Spiritual Approach to Treating Abnormal Children
e. Spiritual Healing: General
f. Spiritual Healing: Karmic Ailments
g. Workings of the Law
2. Karma and the Law of Grace
3. Karma of Physical Ailments and Abnormalities
4. Meditation
5. Prayer
6. Suggestive Therapeutics, Vol. 1 & 2
7. Visualization

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The Spiritual Approach to Treating Specific Ailments
General

1527-3, Male 20, 5/4/38

Each soul, each entity - as was given from the beginning - should gain this, as in relation
to the activity of spirit through bodily forces:

Is there more of God or Life in a brainy individual adult than in the babe without ANY
direction whatsoever? IS there?

It is then a growing condition.

The body with a broken structural condition will heal, but unless it is mechanically set in
proper accord it will NOT set of itself!

The manifestation of spirit in materiality is to use WHAT IT HAS and to do the best it
can with same!

But the PHYSICAL is to use cooperative natures; cooperating with nature, cooperating
with spirit, cooperating with mind, to make for that which will be the WHOLE!

For what is the first law? The Lord thy God is ONE!

1527-1, Male 19, 2/2/38

There is, then, the necessity of understanding and interpreting the law of matter - or cause
and effect - as related to the mental and spiritual expressions in matter.

As has been given of old, when there are disturbing or harmful or detrimental influences,
there is error at the base or the cause of same.

For ever does that injunction stand, as the promises of the divine forces in the experience
of man, that Whatsoever ye sow, that must ye also reap.

Just as sure as it was said that he that breaketh the law in the least jot or tittle is guilty of
all.

2994-1, Male 35, 5/12/43

Now, while conditions are rather serious, they are long standing, and the condition has
become progressive, - we find that, with a great deal of care and patience, and
(continued on the next page)

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persistence, the body MAY be able to care for itself - and to engage in activities that
would be more in keeping with its purposes for its entering this material plane.

First, the attitudes of the body must be considered. While at times there have been hopes,
these have gradually faded; and the body has at many times become very antagonistic to
all that would pertain to a spiritual or mental attitude that would be helpful.

Resignation to the conditions does not necessarily mean patience on the part of the body.
Know, deep within self, that God is not mocked. And while to self in the present these
conditions may not appear to be results of thine own self, - whose body is afflicted? Thy
body is indeed the temple of the living God. What manner of worship hast gone on, then,
in the REAL body? Not the physical being, that at present is hindered by pathological
conditions, illnesses, lack of the ability of locomotion, lack of the activity of the organs
that function to bring the physical conditions for carrying on, and the ability to reproduce
themselves in themselves.

For, each anatomical structure, each atom, each vibration of each organ, must be able to
rebuild itself - if there will be the returning of the elements for its recuperation to any
extent. There must be created, - in mind, in purpose, in body, - those influences and
forces that will resuscitate life itself in each cellular unit of the body.

These activities must begin within self as for a purpose, as for hope, as for desire. Not as
boastful, not as egotistical, but that each word, each act, each hope, each element of
activity, is to be selfless and unto the glory of Creative Forces, or God.

If this, then, becomes to the body as but sounding brass, forget it!

But know, He IS the Giver of life. He IS life, in thee. And if there is the seeking, if there
is the belief, if there is the ACTING - in mind, in body - to SUBDUE the earth, the
material disturbances - there may be added many days yet of a USEFUL service in the
vineyard of thy Maker, to the glory of thy Brother, the Christ; who gave Himself that ye
might have intercession with the Father, through just such circumstances in body and
mind as has overtaken thee in the present.

That is the beginning, then; thy attitude.

In the physical, then, we have many changes that are to be wrought. Many of those
things that have become dormant are to become active again, through the limbs, through
the nerves, through the activities of the organs to coordinate with the life plasm itself that
keeps the body-entity alive, that makes the body even aware - not only of its physical
disability but of regrets, the feelings of imposition upon the activities and the goodness
and the grace and the mercy and the love of those FOR whom the body finds it would
like to do, itself.

How, then, may the physical applications be brought about? These will require that there
be daily attention, not only to this attitude that has been indicated.

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And search ye the scriptures daily. For in them ye have promises that are THINE! In
them ye have hope. In them ye have the promise of life, of eternal life, of the water of
life, of the bread of life, that makes man free; free here and now - of disease, of
disturbance in the various centers of those conditions where the lack of the activity of the
liver in itself has taken from the body-forces those influences that will add to the nerve
and muscular forces of the body the stamina, the strength.

But these are present in the earth through the application, then, in love, in patience, in
persistence, in USING that thou hast daily in hand, and the next step may be given thee.

Begin with these: [specific physical recommendations given] .

And, most of all, keep that attitude indicated. And study the Book - to show thyself
approved unto Him.

Pray daily; not for self, but to be used as a channel of manifestation of the mercy of God;
that ye may glorify Him - not man, not others, but glorify God as manifested in the
Christ.

456-1, Female Child, 11/25/33

Then, in meeting the needs of the conditions for this body in the present, to be sure these
will require patience and persistence; but this may be done by those about the body.
Prayer, meditation, sincere desire, and the APPLICATION not as rote - that it is told thee
to do - but with the expectancy in the heart as the applications are made, that there will
come to this body the opportunity, the privilege, of its being more and more capable,
more and more able to function the nearer normal in its physical activities.

(Q) Please outline a sample diet.
(A) Has it not been given that this should be studied by those that are to give it? They
must do something themselves! As indicated, if the treatment is given as ROTE -
because it's told to be done, how much may be expected? Not a very great deal. Some
aid, yes; but do all with that EXPECTANCY of that which is desired to be accomplished
in this body - and it will come to pass.

(Q) Give a prayer for meditation that would be helpful.
(A) As the massage is given; not as rote, but as from the heart and from the soul:
FATHER, LET THAT BE DONE IN THIS BODY THAT THOU SEEST IT HAS
NEED OF, FOR ITS BEST MENTAL AND SOUL DEVELOPMENT, IN CHRIST
JESUS. [Paralysis]


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735-4, Female 8, 4/25/36

Let those that minister know that all healing, all force and power comes from the Infinite;
that these influences and powers that work in and through them, in making the
application, can, will, through those promises He has given, manifest health, strength,
vitality, for this body. [Paralysis]

1705-1, Male 53, 10/10/38

(Q) Will it be possible for him to become active again, after seven years of inactivity?
(A) If there is the prayerful attitude, the consistent application, the full trust put in the
SOURCES of light, life and GOOD - this may come about! According to thy faith, be it
unto you.

Read the twentieth of Exodus. Know that the promises are thine - not of old but today!

Read the admonitions in the thirtieth of Deuteronomy. KNOW that He is within thine
own purposes - if ye will but put your trust in HIM! [Paralysis]

5532-2, Female 17, 3/14/32

As has been given, this will require - from the physical viewpoint - patience, persistence,
on the part of the body and those that would administer those things, those outside
elements of the physical, and that there may be added those incentives for the creation of
- first - absorption of those affectations, and then the gradual growth of same, that there
may be more response and reflex action in that portion of the physical body so affected;
and there will be the necessity of the spiritual activity upon the applying of the treatments
for the physical and the reactions in same, as well as upon the part of the body, to that
consciousness that may see - in an imaginative first, in a subconscious second, in a
CONSCIOUSNESS third - the physical conditions taking place in the body.

As has been given, those things that would apply to the advent into the physical
experience in the present would be of interest AND aid to the body, AS this developing
and awakening takes place.

In the mental applications there should be those things carried in the mental mind of the
body of one making the application. This as an affirmation, or prayer, or meditation,
during the whole period:

THERE IS BEING CARRIED INTO MY PHYSICAL BODY THAT WHICH WILL
AID IN ENLIVENING TISSUE, THAT I MAY EXERCISE THE FACULTIES OF MY
BODY THE BETTER. THIS BEING CARRIED THROUGH CREATIVE FORCES AS
ARE FROM GOD'S STOREHOUSE. [Paralysis]


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2604-2, Female 12, 2/10/42

(Q) Will there be a toe drag in the left foot?
(A) If that's what is desired, if that's what is being sought, there will be! If there is being
sought, if there is being expected a COMPLETE RECOVERY, it will come - if there will
be done that as indicated!

(Q) Any spiritual advice?
(A) Keep that same constructive attitude; not only being good but good FOR something.

Let each thankfulness be made toward the applying of that received in aid to others.

Let the prayer oft be:

IN THE JOY OF THE LORD, IN THE JOY OF BEING HELPFUL TO OTHERS,
MAY I SING THE PRAISE OF THE MASTER. [Paralysis]

2619-1, Female 57, 11/16/41

In the mental and spiritual attitude, let the prayer of the body be, - not merely in words
but in the deeper feeling, put into the own words:

FATHER, GOD! IN THY LOVE, IN THY MERCY, REMEMBER THOU THY
SERVANT, AS SHE SEEKS TO KNOW THY FACE AND THY WAY WITH ME.
USE THOU, O GOD, MY POWER OF DISCERNMENT, MY ABILITIES IN THE
EARTH, IN THY SERVICE. BE THOU, O GOD, THE STRENGTH, THE HELP,
JUST NOW.

(Q) May these treatments be carried out better in any place other than in the home?
(A) Better in the home, for these need to be given not merely that they may be gotten
through with - that is, the rubs and the vibrations from the Appliance, and all of the
administrations but with love and care. For, all must be kept in that attitude of a search
for HIS purpose with each.

And let all know that as they minister, in love, in care, for one of His children, His
purpose with them - too - is for good. [Parkinsons Disease]


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Alcoholism

1427-1, Male 41, 8/21/37

EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, the conditions physical and mental, of
[1427].

In giving that as we find would be helpful, both the physical and the mental attitudes - as
well as conditions - must be considered.

And if there is the DESIRE on the part of the entity, the body, to rid self of the
disturbances, this may be done - provided the trust, the hope is put in the proper place;
and then worked at.

In most respects we find the body-physical is very good, near to normal from outward
appearance and from activities within; yet there ARE evidences of a weakness in the
PHYSICAL body through the desire for GRATIFYING of appetite that has blocked the
will of the mental forces by gratifying of a physical desire for the emotions of a mental
and physical experience; thus becoming a destructive influence to the physical and the
mental body.

Then, how have these activities so worked, so manifested themselves upon the physical
as to deplete that resistance which should manifest itself in a physically, materially,
WELL body?

In the gratifying of a desire, these become habit-forming; in the manner of the effect then
of the drug and the effects of alcohol upon the system weakening the will and thus
weakening the coordination between the manifestation of spiritual truth with material
gratification of flesh desires.

These we find manifest themselves upon the nervous system of the body, and give
expressions in the nerve system between the cerebrospinal AND the vegetative or
sympathetic nerve system.

Hence from the continual gratifying of an emotion or desire for those things that dull or
subdue, or put aside the effects of a mental reaction, we find that physically there are
pressures that exist in the ganglia of the upper dorsal and through the cervical areas, that
magnify then the desire for gratifying upon the cardiac and the secondary cardiac system.

Thus the craving, the gnawing in the gastric forces of the digestive system - or the liver
and heart activity in its ganglia - makes for the INORDINATE DESIRE!

So the body becomes physically overcome by the mental anguish produced by DESIRE
upon the system.


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Hence we find not only are there the effects of the desire but these are magnified by
associations, by environs; and there is then - in the nervous system, through those
pressures and in those areas indicated - the longing for gratification.

This then becomes the source and the very nature of the disturbances to be met.

How, then, may they be met?

The applications heretofore for the correction of these desires have been constantly
surrounded by those that make for the same character of impressions upon the mental self
as FIRST induced or caused the habit to become a part of the mental and physical body.

Then, WE would give that not only must the body-mind turn to the spiritual promises that
are a part of its mental and spiritual self, but the environment must be changed; so that
the spiritual promises may be put to active service and work to replace the habits with the
habits of doing GOOD, doing right, doing justice, being merciful.

These are naturally a part of the whole of the entity's self, and the harm comes to self
from only anxiety, shame and inordinate desires from those about the entity.

DO NOT - those, then, about the entity - CONDEMN; lest a worse fate befall thee!

For these conditions may be overcome with this body if the entity will turn first to the
spiritual self, and seek spiritual aid and guidance from within; then put self IN an
institution where all these phases of such experiences are understood and application
made for the REMOVAL of the pressures.

If the entity's mental self then KEEPS the seeking to the Christ-love, the Christ-spirit,
there WILL be the abilities to remove those things that have so easily beset the body.

Know this first and foremost: ALL HEALING of any nature must be of God; for God (in
Christ, to man) alone is life, is health, is good; and when applications are made of
mechanical means, electrical means, the vibratory influences of medication or what not,
the GOOD is the manifestation of Creative Forces or God!

Just as the blush of the rose, the beauty of the sunset, the dew upon the grass, the beauty
of love - all are to man's understanding, to man's spiritual self - upon the spiritual portion
of man's mind - a manifestation of God, that Creative Force, that everlasting Life.

Life alone is eternal because it is of God; and only in Him may it be RIGHTFULLY
sought!

Then, four weeks should be sufficient. Go to Macon, Missouri - Still-Hildreth; have
corrections made in the cerebrospinal system to produce coordination between the
sympathetic and the cerebrospinal system. (continued on the next page)


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During that whole period - pray and study to show thyself approved unto God, a
workman - not ashamed of the weaknesses but showing forth in thy daily life, that ye
walk and ye talk with Him; who has promised to be thy STRENGTH, thy might, if ye
will seek to do His biddings.

Let others seek with thee in prayer - not in unbelief. For indeed may ye in thine
experience PERSONALLY know that as He hath said, If ye will ask in my name,
BELIEVING, doing, ye may know the Lord that He is indeed good and cares for the
children of men.

Then seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened unto you.

We are through for the present.

2161-1, Male 38 (Auto Salesman), 4/5/40

Do not attempt to do one portion of the treatment without the other. If the body doesn't
make up its MIND to give God an opportunity, through an honest, sincere trial in the
manners indicated, then it will be as He indicated, of those who would offend one of the
little ones.

Ye have the opportunity, ye have those surroundings, ye have those opportunities for
making and becoming that which has been thy desire, thy hope. Give God a chance with
thy soul. For He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with every
temptation prepared a way, a manner. For as His promise has been, If ye call, I will
HEAR! and will answer speedily.

Forsake not that which is set before thee. Make thy paths straight. Ye CAN in Him.

And when this has been accomplished, within the next six to ten months, there will be
ways opened for thee to carry on in thy associations, thy activities with thy fellow man,
that will bring harmony and truth in thy life, thy home, thy associations.

1439-2, Male 38 (Car Salesman), 12/21/37

(Q) Can those assisting do anything to prevent the body from indulging in stimulants?
(A) They can pray like the devil!

And this is not a blasphemous statement, as it may appear - to some. For if there is any
busier body, with those influences that have to do with the spirit of indulgence of any
nature, than that ye call satan or the devil, who is it?

Then it behooves those who have the interest of such a body at heart to not only pray for
him but WITH him; and in just as earnest, just as sincere, just as continuous a manner as
the spirit of ANY indulgence works upon those who have become subject to such
influences either through physical, mental or material conditions!

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For the POWER of prayer is NOT met even by satan or the devil himself.

Hence with that attitude of being as persistent as the desire for indulgence, or as
persistent as the devil, ye will find ye will bring a strength. But if ye do so doubting, ye
are already half lost.

For the DESIRES of the body are to do RIGHT! Then aid those desires in the right
direction; for the power of right EXCEEDS - ever and always.

Do that, then.

Like the devil himself - PRAY!

(Q) Is it believed that there is any inclination in the body here to cooperate and correct
these conditions?
(A) As just given, it is NOT the real DESIRE of the body to commit self to the
inclinations. There IS the desire, then, to cooperate.

Hence there has been given the way to overcome - through the PHYSICAL manner, the
MENTAL manner; and the ATTITUDES.

Then let the body cooperate by putting behind self those things that easily beset. And
look - LOOK - to the strength and the power of the Christ-Consciousness - the light
WITHIN; and be able to say NO! - and mean it!

486-1, Male 55, 1/14/34

HLC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the
conditions you find at the present time, giving the cause of the existing conditions; also
the treatment for the cure of this body especially in reference to his strong desire for
drink. You will answer the questions which I will ask.

EC: Yes, we have the body here, [486].

Now, as we find, there have been those conditions that have disturbed the better physical
forces of the body. These in the form of poisons have affected the digestive system, and
with the addition of the things to allay the disorder there has been brought about the
desire in the body for, and the use of, those things or conditions that would allay the pain.
And there has been made the desire to keep from such a pain until the PAIN and the
desire, bringing their fruits, have made for this inordinate desire for drink - until the
condition has reached such as may be termed possessed with the spirit of both rum AND
the sedatives to keep the satisfying of these influences.

The poisons that distress the muscular forces of the body physically, that have made for
that which has been called neurotic or neuritis in the extremities, (continued on next page)

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arise from a prolapsus in the colon area. This is from a strain in the early portion of the
life that, had it been brought to normalcy when the body was developing - or when those
conditions were in a position before the system had adjusted itself, would have been easy.
In the present it will require time, patience, persistence, and the character of adjustments
and treatments that will be applications from within, with the high enemas or colonic
irrigations, and with the proper adjustments in the cerebrospinal system as to not only
break up the lesions that have been formed, but to make for sufficient vitality stored in
system to maintain the position for the transverse and the ascending colon.

In meeting the needs of the conditions in the present, as we find, it will require not only a
desire for the awakening of forces within self that may combat evil influences in the inner
life, but the maintaining of those conditions in the body for the period that will allow
PHYSICALLY the spiritual forces to exert themselves.

Either, then, through applications of subjugating the conscious mind through hypnosis or
through those treatments that may be accorded in those places where both drink AND
sedatives may be taken FROM the body in such a manner that will allow the physical to
exert itself. For, unless there is the arousing, under such conditions, for the WILL of the
body to maintain, to gain control, LITTLE may be accomplished.

The Willett Institution in Nashville [Tennessee] is the better, the more appropriate for this
particular body, as we find, to undertake; or that maintained in Macon - the Still-Hildreth
Institution, [Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium, Macon, Mo.] where there would not
only be the correction of the desire but also the correction of the physical condition in the
digestive system and the breaking up of those conditions that have disturbed the body-
physical. We would make the effort through these channels.

Ready for questions.

(Q) Is it possible for his wife or mother to do anything to help him be relieved of this
condition?
(A) Only in aiding or in persuading or insisting that this application be made.

(Q) Over what area should the osteopathic treatments be given to relieve the colon
condition?
(A) First, as will be seen in the institution, there will be the cleansing of the system; not
only of the poisons by the irrigations but by the diet and by the manner in which there
would be the applications for the relief of the PHYSICAL desire in the body itself. Then
the MANIPULATIONS would extend from corrections in the 8th and 9th dorsal to the
lower lumbar area and sacral area; of course, keeping the alignments in the upper cervical
but the corrections in the upper dorsal and lumbar area.

As may be well gained by many, habit and desires are akin. Habit, however, is a physical
reaction to the senses of the body, while desire is both mental, physical AND spiritual,
and when INORDINATE desire has been created by the use of those forces that make for
the activities in all the sensory forces of the body, it becomes as the possession of those

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forces from without and from within that create, without the cleansing influence of the
spiritual entering in from without, that which is hard to cope with.

WE would prefer the Still-Hildreth. Costs more, but the whole correction would be for
body-physical, body-mental, and the opportunity for the will to be so acted upon by the
associations and surroundings - though, for the moment, it may be corrected through the
purely PHYSICAL in Willett's.

(Q) Does he use dope at this time?
(A) As indicated.

(Q) Any other suggestions for the body or for the family?
(A) Pray ye that ye enter not into such temptation so aroused within selves and in those
surroundings of selves, that there may come the cleansing influence which may only
come in making self and selves' life in keeping with the influences of the Christ-
Consciousness within; knowing that the powers that be are within His force to use as is
for the better development for the soul forces of each individual. Trust in Him, yet - as
He has given - If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. If ye love Him, then
show forth in that which is known that may aid in bringing for this soul the opportunity
for its regeneration in this experience, that there may not be those forces that would
CONDEMN thyself or him.

We are through.

1183-3, Female 56, 1/22/38

(Q) Is there any chance of him ever overcoming the drinking habit?
(A) Not if there's given the least excuse for his continuation in same!

But kindness, gentleness and prayer has saved many a soul!

(Q) What causes him to lose control of himself?
(A) Possession!

(Q) Is there any way I can help him?
(A) Kindness, gentleness and prayer. These offer the channels through which the greater
help may come at this
time. So live, so act in self that there are NOT regrets!


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Arthritis

3078-1, Male 60 (Steno-Typist, Junior Clerk), 7/2/43

In giving that as may be helpful for this body, we find that many things must be taken
into consideration.

While there is the attempt at times for the entity or body to seek spiritual influences, these
- spiritual forces - those tenets and truths - are not merely as laws or cloaks that may be
put on and taken off.

For, as indicated, there are physical disturbances in the body. To be sure, these may be
healed by divine forces. But, as given by Him who is the law, who is the healer of ALL
disease, He that saith he loveth the Lord and hateth his brother is a liar and the truth is
not in him.

He that loveth not then the ways of the Lord - not merely as applied to self but as self
may apply to those the body meets day by day - need not expect the law of grace to be
effective in his experience. Ye cannot hate, or doubt, or fear those things about self, or
those things that would be used by others, and expect the law of love to be effective in
thee. For, the condemnation of self in others falls on self! And, as the entity will and
does find, as the psalmist gave, That which I hated has come upon me.

Then there is little need for attempting to heal an ill body unless the mind, the purpose,
the ideal of the entity is set in Him who is peace, life, hope and understanding. For He is
indeed the way and the truth and the light.

If the entity will apply in self that it KNOWS to do - not as something that applies to self
alone, but that applies to self in its relationships to others - the results will be apparent.
Ye APPLY thy love, if ye would have others love thee! Ye do trust others and ye ARE
the trust and the hope, if ye would have hope or expect others to have hope and trust in
thee!

For as ye know, as ye interpret in thine own experience, as in the life of Him who -
though without fault - was hated of others. If the world hate me, it does and it will hate
thee. But if ye hate the world, if ye dislike those with whom ye are associated, then HIS
death, His love, His promise becomes of none effect in thee!

For the WORLD hath hated Him without a cause. Ye feel within thyself that ye are
distrusted, that ye are hated without a cause. But if ye do the same in return, His promise
becomes of none effect in thee - ye are of the world and not of Him.


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In thy body, - ye find body, mind, soul; or the spiritual, mental and material body. The
misapplication of truth in thy mind, in not interpreting the spirit in self, may - as in thine
own experience - bring the lack of proper elimination of drosses from thy body.

It is true that ye may in the spiritual, in the mental, in the material, make applications of
that cleansing that may aid the body in eliminating same from the physical, from the
mental, from the spiritual. The spirit is ever willing, and it remains the same yesterday,
today and forever. For it is the eternal spiritual law.

First, then, the mental attitude towards self, towards the world, towards others, must be
changed. For, if ye recognize in self the truth, that which is and was manifested in the
Christ-Consciousness, ye will change thy mental attitude - towards self, towards others,
towards conditions about thee. THEN ye may see change in the physical results or
manifestations in self. Then ye, too, as He gave of old, will wash and be clean every
whit!

For as the tendons, muscles in the extremities have become leadened, as it were, with the
effect of drosses in the body, - if the mental attitude is changed towards those things that
hinder physically, - we would then begin with these: [recommendations given].

In the diets, do include daily the raw vegetables. This is nature's way of keeping the body
clean.

But begin with the self, the mind - and these done, we will bring better influences, better
forces about the body.


(Q) Should the series of Atomidine and Epsom Baths be repeated?
(A) If there is not the entire elimination. Just as breaking self from any other habit, - if ye
break over, try again! In the try, help will come. In the application there may be
established the knowledge of the truth and the way, and help may come physically,
mentally, spiritually. For, if ye know the truth - and apply it not, it is sin. And if sin lies
at thy door, can ye have peace with self or with others?

1211-2, Male 37, 2/25/37

This would be the manner then of the attitude, that the will of the Father may be done.
For he knoweth what each hath need of, even before we ask; but by the attuning of the
vital forces of the body by those energizing experiences of the metals in the Radio-Active
appliance we attune the Infinite within self to the Infinite without. Then the words of the
meditation and prayer create that vibration, the emotions so that the influences that may
be applied externally, internally, through the diet, through all portions of the activities,
may bring coordination, cooperation in the physical forces of the body.


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849-27, Male 31, 6/4/38

If we will do these - if we will be consistent and most of all, if we will be prayerful - we
may rejuvenate and rebuild this body.

Let thy meditation be:

GOD, HERE AM I! USE ME AS THOU SEEST I MAY BEST SERVE THEE! LET
THE HEALING AS MAY COME TO ME AND MY BODY, THROUGH THE
PROMISES IN THE CHRIST, THY SON, BE OF SUCH A NATURE THAT IT MAY
PREPARE MY BODY, MY MIND, FOR A GREATER SERVICE TO THEE!

3285-1, Female 26, 10/11/43

Keep regular periods for prayer and meditation, and we should find a great deal of
improvement by the end of the second or third series of these treatments.

Do that.

Let the prayer be - in thine words; not merely as a routine but live it in thy meeting, in thy
associations, and most in thy thinking.

FATHER GOD! HEAR THE SUPPLICATION OF THY SERVANT WHO SEEKS TO
BE A CHANNEL OF BLESSINGS TO OTHERS HERE AND NOW. MAY THE
APPLICATION OF THOSE PROPERTIES GIVEN ME SUPPLY MY BODY, MY
MIND, MY BEING, WITH HELPFUL FORCES.


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Cancer

3439-1, Male 38 (Attorney, Assistant Prosecutor), 12/22/43

The body has not yet recuperated from the effect of anesthesia - or the shock to the
system. And unless there is a great deal of praying done, he won't be much better.

The conditions to be met are of such natures that operative measures may again be
necessary, yet these we do not find as being very helpful.

A gentle massage to quiet the body would be well, with prayer - and not by those who do
not live what they pray. Do not merely pray that he will be well, but well for what? Do
not pray for the body to be well for what the body can do for self but for those whom he
has aided and also hindered.

The use of the Ultra-Violet with the green light would be helpful, but prayer is needed
most. The massage will only quiet the body. Sedatives will have to be used at times.

Much depends upon keeping the body desirous of regaining health, and not making
promises or vows he wouldn't keep if these helpful forces were aroused to activity.

1403-1, Male 37, 7/10/37

As to the attitudes of those that wait upon the body - as to the attitudes of those to whom
the body is near and dear in material things:

Much might be said respecting the necessity of not only confidence in the activities of
those in charge but respecting the greater relying upon the spiritual forces that lend
impetus to influences and forces about a living organism; and the re-dedicating of self to
the spiritual activities, to those influences that arise from Creative Energies or God-force
and influence in the experience of every one. These we would adhere to, for those
assurances that have been given - as not willing that any soul shall perish but with each
temptation, with each weakness, there is the assurance of strength - if there is the
application of self in consecration of the efforts in material things.

Meditate, then, and leave it in the hands of Him.

2592-1, Male 57, 9/26/41

EC: Yes, we have the body, [2592].

As we find, this body is gradually growing untenable for the spiritual forces of this entity.

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While there is the expression of life there is hope, but here it has been abandoned by
those who might make administrations - for the lack of full comprehension.

We find that prayer, deep meditation, may HOLD together the body and soul, if it is so
desired by those close in body and mind to the entity.

There might be material administrations that would ease, which in a manner is attempting
to be accomplished through the sedatives. These cannot hold very long.

The administrations we would suggest would necessarily be life destructive, life
producing forces, - as from the Ultra-Violet Ray interposing the green light between same
and the body. This would be counteractive, but would only retain forces temporarily.

Hence, the choice as to doing this would be made by those who may administer for the
welfare physically of the body.

Else, with the administration of the narcotics to allay the suffering, there may only be the
prayer that there be the peace as may come to all who seek His face. In His promises He
has given that if we will call He will hear. He does not fail.

In the material for aid, the adding of the lights in the manner indicated would offer
temporary allaying - not cures.




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Deafness

3697-1, Female 22, 3/16/44

As we find, while conditions are rather specific in regard to the helpful forces desired, in
contemplating or in giving that which would be more beneficial to the body it is
necessary to take into consideration more than just the physical conditions.

For with the particular conditions that are preventing the hearing, we find that there is
much more than may appear upon the surface to be considered.

To what has the body attuned itself as to its hearing? Hearing is one of the senses of the
nervous systems of the body, and the nervous system of the sensory organism which is as
the passage between mental and spiritual aspirations of an individual entity.

True there are purely pathological conditions, yet these - if attuned to or centered upon
the spiritual things and spiritual desires - may indeed be helped so that, even with the loss
of auditory reaction there may be even greater hearing attuned by the body.

Have you considered the great artist as a pianist who accomplished his greater works
when little or no hearing was available of a physical nature? As to how the inner sense
was attuned to the infinite?

As the sensory forces or nerve centers are the passage of the finite to the infinite, why not
attune the body-forces of self to the beauties of the infinite and study to show thyself
approved unto God, a workman not ashamed? No, one not hindered even by the
handicap, as might be termed, of imperfect hearing.

True, catarrhal condition in the nasal passages and the throat, and the tendency of the boy
to disregard the existent conditions when there are periods of cold and congestion having
to do with the organs of generation in the body, have also contributed to the reckoning to
which the body is responding in the present.

Attune self to the divine within, using the abilities of every nature for the reconstruction
of self as well as that about self. For if you would have hearing, give it and make the
listening to something that the entity might accomplish be worthwhile - and ye will hear.

Then use finger surgery, osteopathically; correcting subluxations that exist in the 4th
lumbar, upper portion of 9th dorsal, 3rd and 4th dorsal and in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
cervical; preparing the body for finger surgery. Thus there may be gained physically fifty
per cent of the hearing, which is now existent only about sixty. So we may attain almost
to full hearing, or to at least ninety-four per cent.

Do that.

Do the first things first. Don't begin with the mechanical treatments. Begin first with self
and the correcting of body energies towards creative forces.

Do keep close to music.

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Epilepsy

543-4, Female 21 (Protestant), 11/1/30

(Q) What thing, or things, can body do to prevent or help prevent having said attacks or
spells?
(A) Being able to consciously hold within the conscious mind of self that source from
which all help MAY come, by making same active in the experience of self. As body has
held, does hold, that figure, that manifested form in a material plane, that is the
representative of ALL good, all health, all power, hold that image - become conscious of
that presence, and it will banish all of those forces as make for pain, sorrow, tears, and
misunderstandings.

(Q) How much longer a time should body remain at hospital before it will be ready for
such an operation?
(A) That must be dependent upon the response to the action of the physical forces to the
organs of the system, and MOST of all that of the ability to conquer in self the fear, and
THE ability to - or ACCOMPLISH the ability to - hold the image of the Saviour.

(Q) Body is not ready for operation at this time?
(A) This, as has been given. Hold to that, continuous in self, I am the way, the truth, the
light - He, or she, that abides IN me abides in the Father also, and I will in no wise allow
thee to see corruption; with that image held, that consciousness of that spirit in self,
ALL may be accomplished for self as is desired. Do that.
[Case continued in next reading]

543-5, Female 21, 11/10/30

(Q) How can body realize and notice various improvements in self?
(A) Ability to concentrate and to be interested in the various forms of spiritual
conceptions, as has been outlined. Being able to visualize and to hold that as is of the
divine, as held by self. [Case continued in next reading]

543-6, Female 22, 12/1/30

(Q) Would auto-suggestion be beneficial?
(A) As to that as should be held, this has been given - and would be most beneficial, were
this SINCERELY and SPIRITUALLY suggested. If it is to be just ROTE, don't do it!


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543-19, Female 25, 5/3/34

Also we would still maintain those periods of meditation and prayer, and look to the
awakening of those influences within self that make for the awareness within the inner
self of the abilities in the Creative Energies to so construct, so be active in the system as
to overcome these conditions that disturb the body in the form of repressions through the
influences of forces from without self, by associations of conditions that we have spoken
of.

These, as we find, would be the better conditions at the present for this body, though the
SPIRITUAL - through ALL - may be and should be maintained by the body.

2153-4, Female 12, 8/31/40

(Q) How can she play with children, when we are so afraid of these attacks coming?
(A) As indicated, the companions are to be chosen, - those that are sympathetic and who
understand, and who have high ideals themselves as the body has!

2153-7, Female 13, 12/7/40

(Q) Does the present condition of the body show an improvement over that indicated
before?
(A) Considering all of these things that have been indicated, - know that it is not wholly
an individual problem, but it is a part of the whole.

As we find indicated, if the attitudes and aptitudes are kept in accord with that indicated
for those about the entity, and there are the applications of those conditions given, the
body will recover entirely from these disturbances.

Then, in counsel to those about the entity:

Do not allow doubt and fear to enter in. KNOW the source of all that is good. KNOW
that there is the power within the body to associate the ideas, the purposes, the desires,
with the Infinite, to make it whole within; and this includes those about the body.

2153-10, Female 13, 8/8/41

(Q) Any other advice?
(A) Keep the spiritual attitudes also as a part of the whole. These are necessary. For,
know - as indicated in His promises - health as well as wealth comes from God. This
abused, or misused - the individuals MUST pay! For God is not mocked.

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567-5, Male 25, 11/5/34

(Q) Should the body keep a record of his turns?
(A) Forget em'! For you won't have any if you'll do these things! (continued next page)
Let it be rather someone else that would ever have to think of them, for you are going to
forget 'em, if you're going to act and do and be that which is thy birthright!

Let not the spiritual within thine self be neglected. Be purposeful in all that thou wouldst
do. Thou hast an obligation to many. Thou hast much to be given thee from many.
These, thou meet thine own part - and look to a Wise, All-Merciful God to do that within
THEE, within thine mind, within thine body, that will enable thee - as a child of the
living God - to make the WORLD a better place for THOU having lived in same. Keep
that before thee constantly:

I, [567], will so live my own life as to make the world, those about me, those I contact,
GLAD they have known [567]:

3302-1, Female 18, 10/19/43

Do these, and we will find better conditions if the attitude of mind, of body - not only of
the entity, but of those about it - is kept in accord with Creative Forces.

(Q) Is it possible for her to become normal?
(A) It is possible. The probability depends upon the sincerity. Don't grow weary of well-
doing in making the applications here suggested. Because it may require the whole
period of a cycle, don't grow weary with it but do it - and it'll be worthwhile for all.

Read oft the 30th of Deuteronomy, and the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th of John - those who
would attend this body.

3156-2, Male 8, 4/22/44

(Q) Is there hope for permanent cure?
(A) Are you praying about it? Are you living like that you would like for it to be? This
is the answer! Is there hope? So long as thy faith in the divine cannot be shaken, there is
hope! Life is the manifestation of God. He alone can forgive sins. Sin is in thine own
surroundings as well as the entity meeting itself. There is hope.

3133-1, Male 31, 7/17/43

As we find, we are in the middle of a cycle in body changes and body development. If
there continues to be the same reproductions in the body of that with which the mental
and spiritual began its process of manifestation in material flesh, we will find little or no
change in the reactions that occur in the mental and spiritual being of the physical body.


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But, if there will be measures taken to correct these conditions, and thus in the main the
attitude of the individual, the body itself, turn to those things that are of the spirit
creative, we will help. In those periods of its physical and mental reactions when near
normal, let the entity manifest gentleness, kindness, longsuffering, brotherly love,
patience, fellowship, and the like. In the beginning, to be sure, these are as but attitudes
of mind to the individual, and may be expressed in the purpose of the entity, as in This I
do. And yet in the practical application of this we find very little of the true spiritual
concept in the body-mind of the entity.

Hence, these should be made to become realities in the activity of self, in such a way that
there are the reactions to the minds of those with whom the entity comes in contact; that
may bring not merely pity, but that real desire and hope, and hope expressed by a
material manifestation of desiring to do something - in the way of supplying the little
conveniences, the little niceties to make life easier for the body. Not in self-indulgence,
no. Not in self-indulgence in appetite or in the gratifying of appetites alone, but in the
spiritual aspirations, spiritual desires, spiritual purposes, as to lend the self in a
coordinated group of individuals for the betterment of general conditions of individuals
thus afflicted.

In the matter of the activities and the diet: Let the activities be in that way of helpful
forces; not pitying self nor seeking or asking pity of others, but cooperative forces as for
creative energies; that is, helpful influences in the lives of self and others to aid in
creating a better body and mind for the activity of the soul-forces of this body.

(Q) Any spiritual advice?
(A) Let thy spirit bear witness with His spirit.

2276-1, Male 39, 6/9/40

Doing these, we should find not even one - or not more than one - recurrence of the
spasmodic reaction.

In the rest of the system, as we find, there are those anxieties naturally that come from the
mental processes.

Let this be reactive in the body, - the prayer, meditation upon purposes, desires, hopes;
and let thy meditation and prayer be, though in thine own words:
Cleanse Thou Me, O Lord, From All That Would Hinder My Fulfilling That Purpose
Thou Hast With Me At This Time. Let My Desires, My Hopes, Be In The Way Thou, O
Lord, Would Have Me Go. I Know, Through The Promises In The Christ, That Thou
Canst Heal. Cleanse Me, Lord, In Thine Own Way.

Let that be ever present as the attitude in all thou doest, and in all the applications made
for corrections.

These may not be in keeping with some of thy thoughts, but know that the Lord in His
purpose and in His power CAN, WILL, DOES use EVERY means that man may be
aware of His love for each soul!

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Eye Ailments

2404-1, Male 19 (Student, Hebrew), 11/22/40

Know this, - that all healing of every nature - no matter what the physical application
may be - must come from the divine. It is then the attuning of the body, no matter what
the defects, no matter what the hindrances or the injuries may have been, - whether of a
very subtle nature at times (as indicated here), that may undermine the choices made
through the mental abilities of a body, or whether of a purely physical nature.

For instance, the general health here - though nominally good - is IRRITATED at times
by this feeling of being hindered, or an inferiority complex within the self.

Then, the conditions to be met, - but remember these things that have just been given.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, within; and all these things HE, thy father, thy God,
seeth ye have need of, may be added unto thee, and given thee. For it hath been declared
of old that perception, awarenesses that come to each soul through the organs of the
sensory system - vision, hearing, taste, smell, feeling - and the exercising of same - are
the gift of God; and that soul is either in attune with or interfering with God's purposes
for it.

The injury has caused a lesion in the vision itself; so that there is a spreading of the vision
of the injured optic.

And this, as we find, WITH the right attitude, WITH that purpose for which it may be
healed, may be used in those directions as to the glory of the divine! There may be
applied those material things that will attune this again to a vision, a use, an expression of
that which is found ONLY in Him. For, in Him ye live, ye move, ye have thy being; and
He hath promised, If ye will call, I will hear - and answer speedily!

Do not conceive that this is not thy individual promise! For He hath said, Whosoever
will may LEARN of me, may apply the virtues in his own experience in such a manner
that I will call him mine own, and will raise him in power, in might; that He may declare
the holy, the acceptable day of the Lord.

The lesion here was formed by an injury direct to the vision center, and is upon either
side; thus causing the vision to appear sidewise, rather than direct.

Now: There are those areas in the bodily forces from which each organ, each portion of
the system receives impulses for circulation; from which that assimilated in bodily
functions receives that which enables each portion of the body to rebuild itself - through
the glandular forces, through the lymph and the emunctory circulation of all portions of
the body.


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Here, these receive their greater impulses of nerve activity AND circulation from the 1st
and 2nd dorsal centers, through which impulses and nerve flexes react to the optic center
- IN the plexus of the vagus center at the base of the brain.

In the CERVICAL centers - as in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd - we have the impulse for the blood
supply, both the internal and the superficial; from the 2nd and 1st to the deeper
circulation, from the 3rd to the superficial.

Hence, by the proper consideration of that to be assimilated, and stimulating those areas
indicated in a manner as to cause greater flow of impulse of blood and nerve energy,
there may be brought new life, new influences upon those areas that have - through injury
- adhered in such a manner as to deflect, as to prevent vision being recorded upon the lens
of the eye itself. Portions of this lens itself has received injury, yet the body - as is
understood from the pathological angle - replenishes and rebuilds itself; but WITH that
pattern that is already set - or that as produced by exterior conditions as may become
existent.

Thus stimulation to areas that control the activity may alter, may aid; WITH a mind, with
a purpose, with a DESIRE that same be used ONLY in magnifying the goodness, the love
of the divine force; which may also bring to the consciousness of self the awareness of
the needs of the physical being.

Here again it will be best that the treatments be taken in series. Why? As we have
indicated through this channel, the body functions must attune themselves to changes
being wrought in the physical forces of the body.

Hence we would have periods of treatment, then periods of rest or relaxation from same,
see?[electrical treatments suggested.]

Have the periods of treatment, then the periods of general relaxation. And use such
periods as those in which the body itself gives thanks; not verbally alone, but thanks to
the Creative Forces or God for that being accomplished within self, - more by just being
kind, just being patient with others in thy dealings with thy fellow men.

In those things, those conditions ye seek to establish in thy relationships to others,
magnify rather the spirit OF the activity. For, the manner in which ye THINK, the
manner in which ye act TOWARD thy fellow man, thy home, thy friends, thy neighbors,
- yea, thy enemies, - it is the manner, the concept, the purpose thou hast toward thy
Maker!

Do these, then, - knowing that the greater power, the greater source of thy healing must
be WITHIN thine own SELF and thy reactions to thy circumstance, thy conditions about
thee.


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The abilities are of such natures as few are given. Hide them not. The BEAUTY of
expression is in nature, in making same a part of every individual's experience.

Aid others in appreciating the beauty, - even of mud, of snow, of nature, of trees, or the
ability to communicate one with another; the meanings of home, of environment, of
peace, of harmony.

And the God of thy fathers keep thee!

4757-1, Male 40, 1/28/31

EC: Yes. Now, we find there are conditions that are of a hindrance in the physical, and
there conditions that are as destructive in construction of the physical organism of the
body, affecting directly the sensory organism, especially as related to the eyes.

In giving even assistance, much might be said as respecting the conditions that brought
about this condition of destructive building, as to the mental, of life, of thought, of
experience, in the ENTITY'S program; as to that necessary for the entity's experience to
gain insight into the spiritual life, the differentiations between those of constructive
thought and those of destructive thought, those entering in from a material basis and
finding lodgement in the mind of the soul, as to become a hindrance in a physical sense,
with the abilities of awakening within the soul mind the continuity of forces - yet
physically, hindrances.

The conditions, however, that face the body for that of material help to the physical
forces of the body, enabling the body to again get hold of self, self's own physical
construction, as to create or enliven the forces in system as to over-come or to meet the
emergencies as they arise, to prepare self to meet the various contingencies that come
from the afflictions or the forces that manifest in the body:

In meeting these, there must be held and known that all healing, all resuscitating forces of
a body must come from the divine from within, and to some this may come only to those
who are enabled to gain such a consciousness from within that will make for
CONSTRUCTIVE forces, doing away with passiveness in even the physical by holding
to the divine, as to bring healing in the wings. These conditions, however, as we find,
may be aided by the use of forces external; for all force, all power, EMANATES from
one source. So, as has been given, that which makes up even the electronic energy - that
man knows as electrons or energy in electricity, which may be used as a convenience, as
a necessity for man's experience - is of God itself. In awakening dormant forces, then,
those forces in nature - of whatever radiation necessary to awaken within a physical being
that portion that will enable the individual to gain that vision, or to lay aside those things
that so easily beset in a physical consciousness and gather a vision of that from over the
way, that from the Beyond, that that dwells within; for think not who will ascend to bring
Him unto us, or who will go beyond the sea that we may know that He lives, but He is in
thine own heart, within every atom of thine own being, and that awakening from within

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will enable the individual to gain that consciousness, knowing that that committed unto
Him is safe, and He is able to keep that committed against every condition that may arise
within our own experience.

In the physical forces, then, that have been builded in this body, we find elements from
the central nerve system have been influenced by the pressures that exist in the 3rd and
4th dorsal, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 1st and 2nd cervical, that prevent an even flow of the nerve
energy to the optic forces, and a constant drying of these forces is producing atrophy - as
materially known - to the optic forces themselves. Then, to awaken same, to enliven
those forces from within, an application of that from without which will bring a
consciousness of the divine, of the LIVING God, of the LIVING forces, able to keep all
that may be committed in a way that, while we ourselves may not understand, Let thy
yeas be yea, and thy nays be nay; and as we build, little by little, line upon line, precept
upon precept, know that the Redeemer liveth in thee, and that thou sheddest abroad is as
the light that is gained by thee of that living force. If thine eye be single, if thine heart be
as one with Him, the issues of life may be brought to such an understanding that will
enable the individual to see, know, understand, those purposes for which the entity
entered into the world, that the world might be benefitted by that the entity itself is able to
shed as to the light. That maketh the world.

Apply, then, a radium emanation that may be had through the Degnen's lens. These
should be worn for one to twenty minutes two or three times each day, with the eyes
closed, seeing the forces that are thrown off becoming one with that necessary to sustain,
to rebuild, to replenish, and these will aid the body in maintaining and gaining a better
hold upon self.

At least once each week have those vibrations in CORRECTIVE forces through
manipulative measures, with first applying of HEAT direct, to the upper dorsal and
cervical region, that the alignments in the cerebrospinal centers themselves may be
released in such a manner as to aid the central circulation, also the nerve energies that
emanate through same.

These will bring an understanding, and better cooperative forces. Get a hold upon self.
Read, study, to know by heart, that given, In my father's house are many mansions.
Were it not so I would have told you, for I go to prepare a place, that where I am ye may
be also, and I - if I be lifted up - will draw ALL MEN unto me. Even as Moses lifted the
serpent in the wilderness, and he that looked was healed from within - he that looketh on
me, as I am lifted in that consciousness of the individual that the soul hangs upon that
clarifying of the life from ALL forces of the material forces, may be lifted up and
enlivened from within. Following these on, as was given, The way I go ye know, and
when thou hast attained the way into the inner consciousness, through the addition even
of the forces from without to enable the individual to raise the consciousness in the
various forces from oppression from without and from within, allowing the full force of
life itself to emanate, that necessary of the light for thine development in the spiritual
light is given. We are through.


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2193-1, Female Adult, 10/20/32

Through those that we have given, keep the body mentally in accord with those things
that may aid in giving the spiritual healing that brings hope and cheer, in knowing that all
is in Him, He IS the life, the light, and that all healing comes through those applications
of His power that is manifested in the various elements and forces that take hold upon the
system to enliven it and to make it at an at-oneness with Him, who gave Himself as the
ransom for many. [Cataracts]

841-1, Female 21, 2/23/35

And pray oft. And know that as there is brought into thine activity the results, these must
be purposeful in their relationships to thy fellow man.

(Q) Please give the thought for the body to hold for self.
(A) Let there be created in me, O Father-God, that which will make me more and more
aware of Thy love for Thy children in the earth. Use Thou my life in such a way that I
may be a greater and better channel for manifesting Thy love in the
earth.


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Insanity

3765-1, Female Adult, 1921

It has been helped by the action of the spiritual force in the system, these the spiritual,
physical and mental, when we come to the basic principal, are one and the same, yet they
are separate in each individual body itself.

When any action comes to any that separates the physical, mental and spiritual within the
body we produce conditions as exist in this body here. This would be reached then
through this manner or form. The action of mental with spiritual to act with physical
conditions with the application of physical forces to replenish or connect absolute
connection between these forces in body. They are all one, of one and in one, yet they
act as separate organs of functioning organs of each system, physical, mental and
spiritual forces. [treatment given]

2478-2, Male 58, 6/12/41

As we find, conditions are rather serious. There are both physical and mental
disturbances. And most of the mental disturbances arise from self-condemnation, until -
through the abuse of self - it is given influence and power over the whole of the body.

We find that there MAY be help, - if there will be that coordination which will increase
that influence in the physical force as may aid in restoring the nerve forces in the body;
THEN directing same through the power of mind and suggestion, led by the spiritual
forces in those who would cooperate in bringing such influence into the experience of the
body.

2712-1, Female 22, 3/26/42

In giving the conditions as we find them here, this is a condition where - under the nerve
strain, and with those great expectations in the body-mind development, and then
receiving a shock - there was caused disassociation in the mental forces of the body.
Thus there was produced inharmony between the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic
impulses of the body.

Hence a condition of a pathological nature was produced in which there was nerve
deterioration, or in which the brain cell activity was disturbed in its associations - or the
harmony was disturbed.

Conditions show some better association in the present. These have come from outside
influences, or the effect of mind directed toward the creating of better associations of
harmony and mind in the body. (continued on the next page)

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Pathologically also it will be found, in the present, that most of the centers along the
cerebrospinal system - where there is the closer association of the ganglia of the
sympathetic AND cerebrospinal connections - show knots or lesions of a form. These are
the physical effects.

There are other disturbances pathologically, but these would respond if there would be
the application of those influences combined with the tentative force now apparent, to
bring greater harmony in the body-forces of this body, [2712].

In the present environ little credence might be given these suggestions. If there is the
opportunity for release, under the care of a competent nurse or companion, then we
would make THESE applications: [physical recommendations given].

And keep daily - yea, twice daily - the constant meditation or prayer for definite
determining activities for harmony.

Keep about the body the colors of purple and lavender, and all things bright; music that is
of harmony - as of the Spring Song, the Blue Danube and that character of music, with
either the stringed instruments or the organ. These are the vibrations that will set again
near normalcy, - yea, normalcy, mentally and physically, may be brought to this body, if
these influences will be consistently kept about this body.


(Q) What caused this shock, or what was the nature of it?
(A) An unexpected disappointment, and a fear of individuals.

Do these things, in prayer - regarding which much might be given; but do these, in faith,
in hope; using the opportunity for unity of purpose in Him who gives life.

5624-1, Female Adult, 5/25/29

3. We would, then, make those changes - and with these surroundings would be well that
there be those about the body continually that PHYSICALLY, materially, care for the
body's reactions to become nearer normal, or through those that, through the spiritual
insight of such forces may aid and abet in bringing the proper reactions for the physical
forces. Either those as of the nurse that would be well grounded either in that of science,
or known as Christian Science, or of direct thought, or of Unity.

899-1, Female 72, 4/20/35

In giving that as may be helpful to a physical body that has grown in the mental and in
the physical week, and often weary of the material surroundings, it is well that those who
have the ministrations and those that would aid know that the greater help, the greater aid

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that may be brought to one so soul-weary is the UNIFIED expression of that Christ-
Consciousness which may arise within the body through the awareness of that divinity in
all. This may bring the greater joy, the greater peace, the greater harmony in this soul's,
this entity's experience in the present.

As to the physical forces of this body, [899], we find:

There is very poor circulation at times, owing to the inability of the digestive and
assimilating forces to make for the proper coordinations in these directions. These, as we
find, would be materially aided if there would be given . . . [treatment suggested].

As to the mental capacities of the body, that have at times the periods of depression, the
lack of the coordination between the sympathetic and the cerebrospinal, these may be
much better aided by a gentle massage at such periods, when there are those reactions.
And at times the applications of the Radio-Active Appliance will make for a quieting of
the body without the continual using of those influences that have been resorted to at
times of sedimentary forces that arise from bromides, narcotics and hypnotics. But these
applications will make for a quieting in a measure and manner as to make the periods of
these distresses farther and farther apart, in the neurotic effect of nerves being as on fire
in portions of the body; QUIETING these conditions without making for the detrimental
effects in same.

But most of all, the greater applications would be in letting those who would aid in their
activities become more and more a channel of blessings to others by raising those
consciousnesses within self as may be sent out to such an one as [899]. In such a manner
there may be brought that awareness within self of the greater harmony of the physical
and mental and spiritual forces of the body.

As to the heart's action that becomes disturbed at times, these we find are the natural
reactions from a weakened mental and nerve reaction; not so much organic. Hence
prayer, meditation, with the gentler application of material things that only make for the
creating of a balance in the system - and that would bring those influences as indicated in
making that taken as food values become more helpful toward replenishing and
rebuilding the body. Also the use of the Radio-Active Appliance would cause the
impulses of the nerve reactions to become more coordinant between the mental and
physical and spiritual attributes of the body.

These, then, we would do; making occasionally the stimulations as indicated after the
meals, to make for an easing of those torments that at times disturb the body by the
inactivity through the coordinating forces of the assimilating system. Then, as the body
rests of evening, make those applications of the Radio-Active influences that will quiet
and rest the body.

And let those each day aid through those groups that would make such ministrations
through the spiritual influences within theirselves that make for cooperative forces and
themselves a channel. (continued on the next page)

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And we will make for the easing and the correcting of much that does disturb and has
disturbed the body, [899].

(Q) Is her condition due directly from a physical cause or a mental or emotional one?
(A) It is a combination of same. For those reactions in the physical forces have brought
about the mental incoordination, see? while the mental incoordination makes for more of
the nerve end reactions, that set the body on fire at times - as it were. But these
ministrations indicated will produce the quieting effect, as indicated, and especially more
so by the prayers of those that would be channels may there be brought aid and
harmonious conditions in the mental and physical body.

(Q) With the conditions and circumstances as they are, is it better for the body to remain
at the hospital?
(A) As we would find, if these are administered as indicated, it would be best at the
hospital for the immediate. But we should find in thirty to sixty days quite a difference,
and even sooner, so that the surroundings may be changed for the body if so desired.

(Q) How can the Christ-Consciousness be aroused within her?
(A) Through the cooperative forces of individuals who give themselves as channels for
such an activity.

(Q) Any other suggestions for the body at this time?
(A) These we would do in the present. And let the meditation and the prayer ever be, of
those that would aid:
RAISE THOU, O GOD, IN THIS BODY, THAT WHICH IS THE BEST AS THOU
SEEST FIT; THAT THERE MAY BE THE HARMONY THAT COMES IN THY
LOVE FOR THIS SOUL.

5274-1, Female 39, 5/17/44

As we find, there are disturbances, but whether these will respond to the applications that
may be suggested will depend a great deal upon the faith and hope and persistency of the
parents, for this has gone on for so long.

There are pressures in the coccyx end of the spine from an injury received thirty-seven
years ago. This has become static.

We would do this: [treatment suggested].

Thus we may get response if there are prayers and activities of those about the body in
the way of patience, persistency and consistency.


(Q) Should she be left in an institution or return to her home in ...?
(A) It cannot be done in an institution.

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(Q) What causes the hallucinations and the persisting in wearing a cardboard or metal pad
above her right eye?
(A) These are the reactions from former appearances of the same entity in the earth.

(Q) Why does she imagine she is being abandoned and tortured by people who dislike
her?
(A) This, again, is the impression from other appearances in the earth.

Do these that have been indicated. It will require long periods and patience.

Do have the corrections made osteopathically. Have them made in this manner:
[treatment continued].

Let the parents make the suggestions as the body sleeps, not as the body arouses or
awakens, but with the Appliance on as the body sleeps. Normalcy and love and care of
parents is due every child.

2241-1, Female Adult, 3/18/29

These, then, are the conditions as are to be met, that there may be brought discernment in
the mental, that it, the mental, may build in the physical conditions that to which the
body, through same, may attain. O that men and women would learn to discern the
manifestations of the Lord, as He in His goodness gives to men that which will - would
they but bring it to the gift of man - bring the discerning of the light, the life, and the love
as may be manifested among the Sons of men!

In this condition here, as is seen with [2241] - that of neglect in discernment as
concerning the fruits of self's own aggrandizement in the flesh; for while the spirit is
willing, the flesh is weak, and the will of man may make for hardships or for blessings in
the lives of those that are as gifts in the world - as known in a spiritual and physical and
material manifestation of those elements as make up the forces of the universe.

In this condition, then, to aid and to bring about, there should be the care and attention as
will come from CALLING on the name of the Lord while He may be found, and this
awakened in the heart, the mind, the soul of the body in such a way as to bring the proper
understanding of ITS relations to the universe, individuals, self, and to the Creator.

Only, then, seeking close to the throne of grace may THIS understanding come for those
who would administer in the present experience that necessary for a betterment of the
condition of the body now known as [2241].


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Melancholia

3207-1, Male 38, 9/11/43

As we find, unless there can be the persuasion through suggestion in or from the spiritual
approach, little may be done to arouse this body from the lethargy into which it has
purposely driven itself.

To be sure there are pathological disturbances, but these arise more from the
psychological or psychopathic conditions than from the purely physical condition. To be
sure there are incoordinations between the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic systems.
These are nerve lapses. And these may be aided. But the real basis of the aid must come
from spiritual suggestion.

While ordinarily they would not combine, these two sources offer the greater help that
may be obtained - and all should learn the lesson that the law of the Lord is perfect, the
Lord is one.

Suggestions should be made from purely the spiritual angle, in conjunction with purely
mechanical applications. These, if practiced in this particular case would bring relief.

Also have a Christian Science Reader with the body as an attendant, a companion, who
would continue to make suggestions; first for the awakening to possibilities in the
outdoors, in nature, in things of Creative activity.

And we will find we may supply the breaking up of the nerve forces in this body. This
will prevent the deterioration or the regular conditions that ordinarily arise when such
melancholy becomes a part of the experience.

1452-1, Female 38, 10/9/37

While there are physical disturbances, these as we find have been produced as much by
the mental attitude - to self, to conditions, to surrounding influences.

And these then need not only a physical but a spiritual approach to the applications for
relief and help to be brought the body.

As is SOMETIMES understood, the physical will deteriorate through MENTAL
suggestions to self.

And the self-condemnation has produced in those portions of the cerebrospinal system
such activity upon the nervous system as to produce a reaction that is contrary to the
activities of the nervous body.


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Hence those periods of melancholia, those periods when there is the determination for
self-effacement in one manner or another.

This has produced in SPECIFICALLY the centers in the upper dorsal and through the
cervical, and especially in the vagus area, such reactions that there becomes an
incoordination between the cerebrospinal and sympathetic or vegetative nerve systems of
the body.

Then, under the VARIED activity, this produces disturbances in the reaction of the
organs that become involved by the too much flow of impulse to the system.

Thus we find there are those overflows often to the ducts that magnify and manifest
sadness, sorrow, and self-effacement; in that the condemnations which arise make for the
dislike of activities that are necessary for the expression of any NORMAL, cooperating,
balanced system of the spiritual activities in a physical body.

In the approach then, first as we find, from the very nature of the reactions, medications -
as medical reactions, in the form of any bromides, or those that would make for a
degeneration of the feelings to the system - would only allay; but produce those
conditions where softening of the reflexes from brain forces to the activities through the
system would set up in such natures as to become WHOLLY destructive to the physical
body and its reactions.

Then, this should be rather the physical approach:

We find that the body should be in such an environment, and with such applications as
may be had in an institution such as Still-Hildreth; or the applications such as may be
received there to stimulate activity in associations with a constructiveness in the mental
reactions.

These would necessarily come slowly at first, until there is the arousing of the mental
reactions to the body that there are those individuals who DO care!

Then the spiritual realization that God IS and that He cares; even though the darkness of
hate overshadows thee, even though there are the determinations of those that may create
surroundings that become heart-rending.

As an individual, as an active force within self it may be aroused to an activity in which
there may come yet those awarenesses of His presence abiding IN thee AS an individual;
and that the physical activities of self - physically, mentally, materially - must be such as
to give expressions to those influences that applied in the experience of each soul bring
the consciousness of well-being and not of degeneration in ANY sense physically,
mentally or spiritually.

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In such an attitude, then, let there be sought those environs such as indicated [Still-
Hildreth]; and keep self in accord with a study and an application of that studied as to the
development of the soul through any given experience.

For, He has not willed that any soul should perish but has with every trial, every sorrow,
prepared a way, a means of overcoming.

And instead of the conditions that exist in the environs physically, mentally and
spiritually, becoming stumbling-stones to thee, they may become stepping-stones to a
larger, a more abundant life of service in His Name.

(Q) Any special treatment that would be suggested at Still-Hildreth's?
(A) That there may be those applications of the mechanical nature for making the better
associations and connections through the areas indicated, for a more perfect NERVE
reaction; and that the activities physically and mentally be directed in constructive and
spiritual study AND application.



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Mind Retarded

5533-1, Male 29, 11/3/31

In meeting the needs of the conditions, as we would find, that would bring aid, or would
be of beneficial effects to the body - as is understood, from the age, or from the
conditions as they have developed within the body, these being of long standing must
necessarily mean there must be patience and persistence, and prayer, and the proper
attitudes of those that would minister to the needs of the body to bring that which will
make for those coordinations of those reliefs that are to bring to the active forces of this
mental being, as well as to those of the physical forces, that which will make impulses for
a normalcy.

(Q) Why the sudden outbursts of laughter for no apparent reason?
(A) Were the body able to express those visions that are experienced under such
conditions, it is - what simpletons the others about him are!

(Q) What is best for body to become interested in, and how can this be gone about?
(A) As has been indicated, there has been an outline here, where we MUST begin! As to
just how these are to react will be seen by the application of, or the use of, those things as
are being - or to be - applied. Then, as these react, as has been given, there may be
GIVEN that which may bring for the best interests, mentally AND physically, for the
DEVELOPMENTS as they are made. There SHOULD be remembered, in the
applications as are outlined, patience and persistence must be the key to that as would
bring aid; and forget not that seeking through those sources from which all life must
come! Make the THRONE of mercy be a place of refuge for those that apply mechanical
and mental forces for the body. As these are done, there may be given then the
MATERIAL things that will bring about proper coordination. Let's BEGIN! THEN we
may aid!


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Poliomyelitis

2968-1, Female 19, 4/21/43

Now these, as we find, may be materially aided. It will require time, patience,
persistence, expectancy on the part of the body, and prayerful application of those things
suggested that may create in the body-forces that necessary for creating a greater number
of energies or elements in the energies of the body that are attuned to the divine
conscience.

First, know this - in thy inner self:

YE CAN be a channel of blessings to others, whatever may be thy physical state, -
provided there is the application of that which is known within self of the divine
manifesting through a material chamber.

Thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. Hold to that. By might and main of the
mind, attempt to make the best, the most beautiful, the most acceptable temple according
to thy concept of a living Christ-Consciousness. Hold to that. Let no one, in any manner,
take that from you.

Then apply, in an expectant manner, those measures which will aid the body-forces to
create within self those influences necessary for this building of the body to a beautiful
temple to thy God.

The world and the earth, and all that is in it, are the Lord's. Use those forces, then, in
physics, in pathology, in ALL forces pertaining to body building.

That nerves have been crushed, that they might be made to work against existent
conditions, is rather crude - considered in the light of that given. It is self-evident that it
will not be possible in the beginning to release those nerves that are pinched, where
curvatures exist in the spine. But these may be GRADUALLY changed. For each cycle,
every element, every condition must renew itself; else there becomes or is set up greater
deterioration than creation. And each element, each organ, each functioning of the body
throughout, is capable of reproducing itself. How?

Not merely from the ability of the glands to take from that assimilated those elements
needed, but in each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is that ye worship as God.

If God be with you, and you choose to use those elements in His creation that cause each
atom, each corpuscle, to become more and more aware of that creative influence, there
may then be brought resuscitation. May there not be created, then, health rather than
disease, disorder, confusion?


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To be sure, choices must be made by the body. All of this suggested treatment may be
administered at home, if it is the desire of the mother to take care of these conditions - not
as disregarding what has been done, but know thy Redeemer liveth, and He is in every
atom as ye think it. For, with what think ye? Not your brain, but with life itself!

(Q) Will it be possible for me to be well enough by September to attend university?
(A) By February it will, at least - if there is the consistent use of these suggestions for
treatments that we have made here, and the changes - of course - that we will indicate as
progress is made. [Case continued in next reading]

2968-2, Female 19, 6/30/43

As we find, there has NOT been sufficient of the Appliance applications to materially
change the effects in the body. These should be followed more closely, the outlines as to
the preparation of the Appliance for its use, as well as the character of massages
following same.

If these are done consistently, we should see definite changes for betterment of the body
by the time there has been the second or third recharging of the Appliance.

Do not allow pessimistic remarks to keep the body from receiving all those things
suggested.

Do that - prayerfully, consistently - we WILL find help.

If there is the giving up - well, you needn't to expect results.


(Q) If I follow instructions religiously, could it be at all possible for me to start school in
September instead of February?
(A) February, as we find, will be possible - better than undertaking to do it in September.
But do it as given. Do not get the idea that if it is suggested for an hour that two hours
would make it better - it'll make it worse! DO it as indicated.

Do those things outlined, AS outlined. Be consistent, be prayerful, if you would get
results. [Case continued in next reading]

2968-3, Female 20, 9/7/43

From the very nature of the disturbance there should not be expected too quick or too
sudden changes to be brought about in the body. For this, like faith, hope and
understanding, is only RELATIVE to the whole process of body-developments.

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But if there is kept the constant, - that is, consistent, - application of those things
suggested, we should find peace and happiness for this body.

This has not hampered, or handicapped even, the reactions of the body. And because it is
slow, don't become impatient with self or with the administrations that are being made.

(Q) Is it possible that I will be completely normal?
(A) Nothing is impossible. This depends upon the faith and the expectancy of the body.
Not that doubts don't arise, but more and more eliminate the doubts and use the body
itself in administering good unto those not equal to the situations, and this may shorten
the period considerable.

(Q) Any other advice?
(A) Keep the faith in the self, keep the purpose in God, and do the right.

887-4, Female 25 (Singer, Hebrew), 10/12/35

And KEEP that faith that ye express, that ye manifest in thy Creator, as:

THY will, O God, be done IN and THROUGH me, as THOU seest that I, Thy child,
have need of. Thy love I claim, Father, that I may be the greater manifestation among thy
children at this time.

Keep that as thy prayer, as thy meditation. These words will bring about thee that
influence, those forces, of HIS making.


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Tumors

3903-1, Female 34, 3/25/44

EC: Yes, we have the body here.

As we find, conditions are serious. While there is the consciousness that pertains to
body, mind and soul, this entity should make its peace with that the entity holds as its
ideal. For with those conditions that have existed, and do exist, there must come
gradually those dissociations of ideas and ideals. For as the pressure increases upon the
brain, from the growths there, the reflexes and the abilities for the body to control or to
use its extremities will gradually diminish.

The time has passed when these accumulations could have been removed by operative
measures without scar tissue being of such a nature as to leave the body still without
control of its activity in the nerves of the locomotories, or the voluntary reactions.

These might be undertaken in the present if such an one as Murphy of Chicago operated
upon the brain. This still might be removed and gradually with the use of electrical
forces after the healing, disintegration of accumulations in other portions of the body be
disseminated or so dissolved as to be eliminated.

It is best first that the body, though, make its peace with its higher self and its Maker.


(Q) Should I avoid exercise because of it?
(A) The avoiding of exercise, to be sure, insures longer or more lingering as to the
conditions.

We would either give way entirely to operative measures or to the spiritual unfoldment.

We are through with this reading.

1377-1, Female 63, 3/4/29

In giving the physical conditions then as respecting this body, they may be treated in an
entirely different manner from that as may be given concerning many an individual. Few
there be that bear their burdens with such compassion, knowing that in the fullness of
time the Great Healer may so make HIMSELF conscious in the vitals even of the
physical organs as to remove, as to take the place of those conditions as have and do
trouble and torment the body physical. Be of good cheer, for I will stand in the stead of
him who puts his trust in me, hath said the Lord, and He is able, and willing, and anxious
to do that for those who LOVE the coming of the consciousness of self's being emerged,
ruled, controlled, by His Spirit. Keep that thou hast kept in thine heart,

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and make this MANIFEST in the life. In the actions of the body, mental and physical,
will come the consciousness of this indwelling sufficient to take away those conditions
that have been as those crosses that all must bear in some form, that they too may know
that God is in His holy temple and is approached through His Son, who gave to man the
DIVINE access to that throne room, in that He - as man - suffered in the body, and in the
self being lost in service gave HIMSELF in that manner the ransom for those that would
come, in meekness of heart, knowing that that asked for in His name is done already,
even as the heart of self is in accord with that asked FOR for self IN others. Unto others,
then, in the action comes the consciousness of THAT as is gained through belief in His
name. Keep constant, then, in prayer, in supplication, and in believing, and acting as if
that sought is done already. Physical conditions often exist in the body wherein there is
given to many those of offices to perform to and for others, that they may understand that
not only he that believes, but he that would perform a service for ANOTHER must ALSO
believe. Keep, then, the body cleansed in thought, in deed, in the diet, in the eliminations
- as is ever made manifest in this material, mental, this physical world - and so conduct
the thoughts towards others as to radiate that as is being received, and the conditions will
become as naught. We are through.

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A PHILOSOPHY OF HEALING
From The Edgar Cayce Readings
by Meredith Ann Puryear
A.R.E. Journal, 1971, Vol. VI, No. 5

Oneness of Body, Mind, Soul

Hear, O Israel: The Lord, Our God is One Lord. (Deut. 6:4)
Oneness, of God and of man, is the central principle in all the clairvoyant readings
that came through Edgar Cayce, and is the most basic concept relating to healing.

Know that the Lord thy God is One Lord. That is of soul, of mind, and of body.
When the soul, that image of the Creator is attuned to the divine, you are on the road to
meeting thine own self, and all will be well with thee. 3174-1

Let us talk about health, then, not as an absence of dis-ease, an absence of
physical or mental symptoms of illness, but rather as total well-being, attunement, at-one-
ment, or balance of the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of man, i.e., wholeness or
oneness.

All souls were created in the beginning in the image of God to be companions and
co-creators with Him. As the souls came into the earth plane, the body was created as a
manifestation of the soul, that it might find its individual way to fulfill the purpose for its
(the soul's) creation.

All souls were created in the beginning, all spirit is of one spirit, Spirit of God, that
spirit manifest in flesh, that spirit manifest in all creation, whether of earthly forces or
Universal forces, all spirit being one spirit. All flesh not of one flesh. Flesh being that as has
merited by its development in its plane of existence. 900-70

We find the soul an entity having Mind, Will, and Spirit with which to work.

[ MIND]: That which is the active force in an animate object; that is the spark, or
image of the Maker. Mind is the factor that is in direct opposition of will. Mind being that
control of, or being the spark of the Maker, the WILL, the individual when we reach the
plane of man. Mind being and is the factor governing the contention, or the interlaying
space, if you please, between the physical to the soul, and the soul to the spirit forces within
the individual or animate forces. 3744-2

Changes only come by the activity of the will; that which is the birthright to each
soul from an All-Wise creator whose desire and will is that no soul shall be separated from
Him, but that all shall find their place in His oneness. 1129-2

And what the entity does about that free will is the heritage of each soul, as its
birthright - the WILL - makes for development or retardment; and nothing may separate
thee from the knowledge of the Father but thyself! 1219-1


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In seeking health, then, we should begin by taking stock of ourselves, to begin to
know ourselves even as we are known; to know from whence we have come and whither
we are going, and what it is we are presently about in the earth. We must seek to turn
from selfishness and self-centeredness, which were our downfall in the beginning and
which still plague us daily, to the Light of His Life and know that in seeking His Will we
will find freedom and release from all dis-ease and all pain. For, All illness comes from
sin! This everyone must take whether he likes it or not . . . It comes from sin . . . whether
it be of body, of mind, or of soul. (3174-1) We must learn to take care of these bodies
which we have created, for neglect is as much of a sin as anything else. We must learn to
feed, exercise, rest, cleanse, and recreate these bodies so that they may be attuned to the
high purposes of the souls that manifest through them.
We are not only responsible for the well-being of our bodies, but, as mentioned,
we have - through time - actually created them. Since we are one - body, mind, and soul -
the body is a reflection of what we have built at the mental level and what we have eaten
and experienced at the physical level. In a larger sense: The body-physical is an atomic
structure subject to the laws of its environment, its heredity, and its soul development.
(281-21) For the most part, the history of the soul's choices has led us to our biological
parents, and thus to our heredity and environment. Our soul development at the present is
a result of what we have done about the choices we have made.
The body reflects the soul development; however, the stage of development
cannot be judged by the immediate physical manifestation. For example, one may see
two crippled bodies - the soul occupying one, directionless and earth-bound, meeting
the apparent chaos of cumulative karma; the other - enlightened and purposeful, having
come back into a crippled body, by choice, because he has a lesson to learn or because he
has come to help others learn a much needed lesson. The logical question then is: How
can we judge which is purposeful and which is accidental? Both are karma; one is in
chaos, one is in freedom. The answer is: We cannot. We have been asked many times not
to judge, lest we be judged. Our opportunity is at any time to be of help when we can, to
any soul in any condition - for in as much as we do it unto the least of these, we do it unto
Him. (Matt. 25:40)

When there are karmic conditions in the experience of an individual, that as
designates those that have the Christ-like spirit is not only in praying for them, holding
meditation for them, but aiding, helping, in every manner that the works of God may
manifest in their lives, and every meditation or prayer: Thy will, O God, be done in that body
as Thou seest best. Would that this cup might pass from me, not my will but Thine be done!
281-4

We are continually building up or tearing ourselves and others down; others, by
what we think, say, and do; ourselves, by what we think and what we eat, i.e., digest
mentally and physically. Frank Laubach, in Prayer: the Mightiest Force in the World,
states unequivocally that we are either healing or hurting someone with every thought we
think. This is an implication of the fact of ESP, and the readings of Edgar Cayce concur
with this totally. Any condition that we have, we have built, either in the past or the
present (with a very few exceptions: birth injuries and other real accidents, but which the
soul accepts in order to continue this particular sojourn.)
Generally, we dynamically maintain karmic conditions, preferring at some level
to maintain them. Karma has been defined by some as memory. By this it isn't necessarily

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meant that we previously have had a specific condition or disease that we remember, and
thus have it again; but rather that we have built a pattern of behavior - which we retain in
our soul's memory, the manifest result of which is the present illness. Once that pattern of
behavior is released (at both the conscious and unconscious level), i.e., forgotten, then the
manifestation of the illness will also disappear.
We immediately proclaim that this isn't so! However, take any number of
examples: Someone slights us, and we can't wait to get even. We have an argument, then
go over this endlessly in our mind, becoming ever more angry. Someone hurts us, and we
may go so far as to say: I'll forgive them, but I'll never forget it. It is not forgiven until
it's forgotten. We have an illness or operation, the details of which we recount endlessly,
enjoying every pain once again.
All of these attitudes maintain or build further any condition that we have. We
enjoy the memory that is evoked, and thus we build into our body those conditions that
would be represented by them: Anger brings heart and liver trouble. Why? Because
poisons are created within the system and the liver can't flush them out. Resentment or
grudges which eat away at us, if held long enough, may result in cancer that literally eats
our body away. Some minor effects of resentment are inflammation and circulatory
difficulties and pancreas trouble. Things that we feed the mind that are unhealthy from
whatever source - books, magazines, movies, television - undermine and bring weakness
to our creative processes and may even bring a weak-minded child. Excessive
vehemence, such as I hate - drugs, alcoholism, etc., with no understanding, may bring
that very condition to rest within us or within our family; for that ye dwell upon, that ye
become, - just as that ye hate suddenly befalls thee. This is a natural law. (2034-1) Or
from Proverbs 10:24: What the wicked dreads will come upon him. Then never fear,
never doubt . . . For the SPIRIT maketh unafraid, and guideth in those directions that
keep one in that way. (2462-2)

All Healing Comes from Within

All healing comes from within the individual as we begin to reawaken to the
perfect pattern that is already present within ourselves. It begins with the desire to be well
and then with an effort -
conscious and/or subconscious - to bring a balance to the total system. Depending upon
our consciousness, i.e., how we have related through time to our creative source, one may
or may not need an external stimulus such as drugs, an operation, or prayer for healing.

Healing . . . whether from influences in nature that have been instilled for the
benefits of man throughout his activity in a material world, or whether moved by the spirit
of life itself that manifests in a consciousness of His presence abiding in and about the
individual activity, is all of the same source. 281-7

. . . any manner in which healing comes - whether by the laying on of hands, prayer,
by a look, by the application of any mechanical influence or any of those forces in materia
medica - must be of such a nature as to produce that necessary within those forces about the
atomic centers of a given body for it to bring resuscitating or healing.
The law, then, is compliance with the universal spiritual influence that awakens any
atomic center to the necessity of its concurrent activity in relationships to other pathological
forces or influences within a given body. Whether this is by spiritual forces, by any of the
mechanical forces, it is of necessity one and the same. 281-24

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We see, then, that depending upon the consciousness of the individual, we may
bring about a self cure, or be healed in a variety of other ways: through osteopathy,
chiropractic, drugs, surgery, bathing at Lourdes, laying on of hands, prayer and faith,
psychic surgery, etc. Efficacy need not be instantaneous. It depends upon what it takes to
stimulate the forces about the atomic centers of any given individual.
If we could only come to appreciate the fact that each individual is truly as unique
as his own fingerprints and begin to allow each soul the freedom to seek and find a
method of healing that will help bring him release, we would make a great stride toward
mental as well as physical health for our nation. We need to realize that people with the
same symptoms, for example - cancer - may have arrived at the same place through very
different roads; thus, it will take very different methods to help them.
We should conclude from this that the efficacy is not in the drug or the medicine,
but in the person's response to it. The `power' resides not in any method of healing, but in
the God force working through the method to the one seeking healing.
The healing brought about may be either symptomatic healing or true healing. If
the illness or disease is dealt with at only a superficial level, then the symptoms may
disappear temporarily only to reappear later in the same or some other form. If the illness
has truly been cured, then there is healing at the soul and mental level, as well as the
physical level. For there to be true healing, the one ill must be able to release the cause of
the illness; there must be a conscious and an unconscious unity of desire for healing and a
willingness to release the old pattern. If one picks up the old patterns of thought - desire,
resentment, self pity, or fear again, then he may find himself with a recurring condition.
And so, the question was frequently asked by the source of the Edgar Cayce readings:
What do you want to be healed for - just so you can go back to the same old patterns of
action and reaction, indulgence, and self-gratification?
Our real desire for health, wholeness, Oneness should be that He whom we
worship may be glorified in the earth through our service to our fellow man. Anything
less than this bespeaks of selfishness and self-centeredness.

Prayer and Meditation

The purpose for each soul being in the earth, as I understand it, involves
unbinding those things that we have bound to ourselves, with the ideal in mind that He
may be glorified in the earth. The process of unbinding or releasing ourselves and others
so that we may be free indeed may seem an almost impossible task, yet begin we, must
and from no other place than where we find ourselves at this very moment. The ground
on which we stand is holy ground.
In giving the readings that came to be known as the Prayer Group Readings
(series 281), Edgar Cayce emphasized that, whether you wanted to be a channel for
healing or wanted to be healed, the place to begin is with prayer and meditation.
Throughout all his readings, there is the emphasis that to know one's self, one must begin
with meditation. Prayer is communion with God; meditation is seeking stillness and light
so that one may be cleansed and filled with His Spirit. Meditation is not a technique, a
thing, a condition; rather, it is a process of daily seeking in silence to let go of all that
hinders or blocks His Spirit from rising through and permeating our very beings.

Ye all find yourselves confused at times respecting from whence ye came and
whither ye goeth. Ye find yourselves with bodies, with minds, - not all beautiful, not all

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clean, not all pure in thine own sight or in thy neighbor's. And there are many who care
more for the outward appearance than that which prompts the heart in its activity or in its
seeking.
But, ye ask, what has this to do with Meditation? What IS Meditation?
It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find your bodies made up of the
physical, mental, and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to
its spiritual source.
Many say that ye have no consciousness of having a soul, - . . . the Soul, - that which
was made in the image of thy Maker - not thy body, no, - not thy mind, but thy SOUL was
in the image of thy Creator.
Then, it is the attuning of thy physical and mental attributes seeking to know the
relationships to the Maker. That is true meditation. 281-41

As the body-physical is purified, as the mental body is made wholly at-one with
purification or purity, with the life and light within itself, healing comes, strength comes,
power comes.
So may an individual effect a healing, through meditation, through attuning not just
a side of the mind nor a portion of the body but the whole, to that at-oneness with the
spiritual forces within, the gift of the life-force within each body. 281-24

It lies, then, within the province of each soul to set his own ideals, goals, and
purposes, as well as limitations for this lifetime. For again we are told:

And remember, man - the soul of man, the body of man, the mind of man - is nearer
to limitlessness than anything in creation. 281-55

In Him there are no limitations. One only limits self by doubt or fear. 2574-1

If we begin to take meditation the least bit seriously, we can revolutionize our
own lives and those about us, not only by more creative deeds but also as channels for the
direction of healing power through our thoughts and prayers.

. . . were an anatomical or pathological study made for a period of seven years
(which is a cycle of change in all the body-elements) of one that is acted upon through the
third eye alone, we will find one fed upon spiritual things becomes a light that may shine
from and in the darkest corner. One fed upon the purely material will become a
Frankenstein [monster] that is without a concept of any influence other than material or
mental. 262-20

Thus we must choose, this day, each day, whom or what we will serve, to what
we will give our time and attention. The mind is the builder or the destroyer of our bodies
and of our world. We can only change the mind by changing the directions that we
choose to set it. It is difficult, if not impossible, to do this in the things that really count
by a sheer act of will.

The Will and the Ideal

We will to do one thing, but find even as Paul, that we do another. The
cumulative karma of the ages overwhelms our fleeting good intentions and the only
effective way to make any lasting change within ourselves is through the power of the
Spirit effecting step by step growth through daily meditation. It is then that what has been

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set as an ideal or goal becomes feasible and realizable. The more important, the most
important experience of this or any individual entity is to first know what IS the ideal -
spiritually. Who and what is thy pattern? (357-13) During meditation the ideal is
energized and set in the very fiber of our being, until we begin to find ourselves
becoming what we have prayed to be made.
To be truly effective at anything we attempt, we must come to know ourselves.
The first two steps in this process have already been mentioned: setting the ideal and
meditating. Another very helpful step is in the daily analysis of our dreams. Our dreams
give us a very instructive if not always pleasant look at ourselves, our actions and
attitudes that need to be changed, and reflections of our relationships with other people.
There are records of specific cases of individuals who through dreams have received
health guidance for themselves and their families, which was used, proven effective, and
later confirmed by physicians as being medically sound. Through dreams we may be
alerted to the physical, mental, and/or emotional needs of family, friends, business
associates, or acquaintances whom we may help first through prayer and frequently
through some action which may be indicated in the same dream.

Becoming Channels

It is vital to remember that we do affect others in a variety of ways, helpfully or
harmfully. The paradox is this: we should also remember that it is not we who bring
about the healing or the hurt.
. . . though chosen as a channel, thou of thyself may do nothing. The Spirit of Christ
working in and through thee will bring the fruits of the Spirit in the experience of those
thou would lead to the light. 281-19

Jesus said, in essence, time and again: It is not I who doeth the works, but the
Father in me. He had completely given Himself, His will, over to the Father; so must we
give ourselves, our wills, over to the Father, rather than to negative forces, attitudes, and
emotions. It is always God who gives the increase; we may plant and water the seed, but
He it is that brings forth the fruit. We must give our wills to Him, allowing what will
happen to happen whether in our own lives or in the lives of 'those about us. Frequently,
we demand that such and such should happen, or that so and so should be healed. We
must always remember that we can never see the whole picture. Death sometimes brings
healing; illness sometimes brings enlightenment or patience, and the lesson is learned.
This, too, is healing. We seldom know what it is that we and others need to learn; through
prayer and meditation we come to a better understanding. What is more important is that
through meditation, we become greater channels for the expression of the Divine energy
and capable of giving a specific direction to its flow. Our prayer must ever be: Thy will,
not mine.

Use that thou hast in hand day by day, for knowledge and understanding come with
the application and the experience of self in doing that which is known to be in accord with
His will. Example after example may be given in the experience of any individual. As they
apply that known, knowing in whom they have believed, with the comparisons of the ideal as
the standard, as the gauge and judge, they come to the knowledge of the forces that are
manifest from experience to experience, from day to day. 281-8


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The Basis of All Healing

There is only One Force and it manifests in vibration. We become aware of
distinct vibrations as we meditate; this is the life force rising through the body.
Vibration is, in its simple essence or word, raising the Christ Consciousness in self to
such an extent as it may flow out of self to him thou would direct it to. (281-7) As we
attune our bodies and this elan vitale joins with the universal forces, we become channels
for others, and because of our attunement and vibration, we can raise this in others. The
basis of all healing is raising the Christ Consciousness within self and others so that it
may do the healing.
According to the Edgar Cayce readings, this force manifested in the earth is
referred to in terms of the Christ. However, it should be emphasized strongly that it is the
expression of that Spirit of Love which is important and not the use of a specific
terminology - the connotations of which may limit the ability of the seeker.

The Christ consciousness is a universal consciousness of the Father Spirit. The Jesus
consciousness is that man builds as body worship. In the Christ consciousness, then, there is
the oneness of self, self's desires, selfs abilities, made in at-onement with the forces that may
bring to pass that which is sought by an individual entity or soul. 5749-4

. . . each finds self most in the application of that it knows concerning the Father's
and the Christ's ways in the hearts and lives of others. Not so much self-development, but
rather developing the Christ Consciousness in self, being selfless, that He may have HIS
way with thee, that He - the Christ - may direct thy ways, that He will guide thee in the
things thou doest, thou sayest.
In this manner may one give of self to others most. Not as self-exaltation, but as
glorifying the Christ that the Father may give those good gifts to those that love His ways.
[Rom. 8:28? Mat. 7:11?] 281-20

We can be of most help to ourselves and others

. . . by living that life [the Christ-like life] first in self and then sending it out in His
name to those that seek through the aid thou, with others, may be in fulfilling that which is
promised by Him, As ye ask in my name, believing, that will be done in thy experience that
the Father may be glorified in me and I in you.
In this manner may self be of service in the world. 281-20

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The foregoing article was previously published in the May 1971 issue of The
American Theosophist, by whose gracious permission it is here reprinted.

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