Mental Therapeutics or Healing Suggestions. Christian Science. Mental Science. Faith Healing, Etc.
As stated in a former chapter, every system of so-called mental healing being practiced in these States or elsewhere today, whether it calls itself Christian Science, Mental Science, Divine Healing, New Thought, Suggestive Therapeutics, or whatever, is but an effort—with more or less understanding—to utilize the law of electric vibration.
Mrs. Eddy says in “Science and Health,” page 292, “Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness.” “Electricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which counterfeits the true essence of spiritual truth.” (So simple, isn’t it?) “The vapid fury of mortal mind expressed in earthquakes, wind, waves, lightning, fire and bestial ferocity shows the so-called mind to be self-destructive.”
There is one synthetical substance, or truth, in the universe. You may name it to suit yourself. It will smell just as sweet and act just the same under whatever name you may give it. It has a habit of remaining just what it is yesterday, today and forever. We call it[52] Electricity. It is the one mind, the one substance, the all and in all. From it is evolved matter in all its various forms. The unit of all force is electrical; the two impulses of which account for the variety of forms in which it manifests itself. It creates, preserves, destroys, and the various manifestations, such as earthquake, floods, fire, lightening are but results of these two impulses, and simply show the absence of any intelligent PURPOSE whatever; and forces us to see that there can be no such thing as a Supreme Being—or supreme intelligence in the universe. That this great omnipresent energy which evolved the meaningless phrases and sentences of Mrs. Eddy’s “Christian Science” was acting neither less nor more “intelligently” than when it produced a Beethoven sonata or a Dante’s Inferno.
Man seems to have been able to a certain extent to control this force and harness it to his use, and has materially lessened its destructive tendency by devices such as the lightening-rod and various insulating methods. This is an evidence of intelligent purpose evolved by the vibratory forces of this intelligent substance.
Man has subjected this force to his usage upon his own organism and the results are astounding. Every day some new application is being made. In the field of Electro-Therapeutics[53] there are so many new developments, so many wondrous actions on various diseases that the medical profession has to constantly revise its text books, in order to keep step with this stately energy that is marching on to disclose to those attuned to receive them the great secrets of nature.
We have the phonograph, which deposits the vibrations of the human voice—or any other vibration, upon the wax cylinder, which can be preserved almost indefinitely and reproduced at will. From whence came the vibratory impulse or suggestion that invented the phonograph? The within is as the without. The above is as the below. The macrocosm is as the microcosm. Is there not in the laboratory of the universe some cyclical or cylindrical formation (as all electric force—which is all the force there is—is spherical) that receives, and preserves, and reproduces the impressions of all thoughts, words and deeds, the brain specifically attuned receiving its specific vibration, or thought? Does it require any great effort to grasp the thought that the electri............