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Rh in nature are produced from corresponding principles in the hells. When ipecac, therefore, is introduced into the human system, the evil spirits who are in that principle to which it corresponds, communicate their sphere to mind in connection with the body and operate upon both mind and body.

The Doctor might have added that the angels and good spirits, inflowing into corresponding things in nature, operate by what we call natural laws, atmospheres, substances and forces external to the body, to keep intact this equilibrium of health, and to restore it when disturbed. The efficient causes are all spiritual, both for good and evil; but they operate both directly and indirectly, upon the mind and through corresponding things in nature; and thus through the mind into the body, and into nature and by reaction upon the body. As heaven conspires through the angels attendant upon man to