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28 crop abundant or scanty, according to the seedlings in that soil, by whomsoever placed there.

Anatomy, physiology, treatises on health, — sustained by what is termed material law, — are the husbandmen of sickness and disease. It is proverbial that as long as you read medical works you will be sick. The sedulous matron — studying her Jahr, at hand with homœopathic pellet and powder, ready to put you into a sweat, to move the bowels, or to produce sleep — is sowing the seed of sickness day and night, and her household will erelong reap the reward of this error.

The descriptions of disease by clairvoyants and medical charlatans, quacks alike with mind and matter, are the prolific sources of sickness. They are the principal manufacturers of disease and death. They first help to form the image of illness in mortal minds, by telling patients that they have a disease; and then they go to work to destroy that disease. They unweave their own webs; while sufferers are satisfied to see their supposed curers busy, and to pay them for both making sickness and trying to heal it. This is “the seed within itself,” spoken of in the Bible, “bearing fruit after its kind.”

Doctors deport themselves generally as if there were no Mind, and they had taken the ground, contrary to metaphysics, that all is matter. Ignorant that the human mind governs the body through belief, they hesitate not to poison this fount of fear with more fear. They form disease in thought by declaring it a fixed fact, even before they go to work to eradicate it with the material faith which they inspire. They first poison the mortal thought with fear, and then would offset mind-poison with the poison of matter.