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Rh is singular, general, and pervasive; and mankind, as well as trees, animals, and all phenomena, is simply the furniture of the universe, made for the use and convenience of universal Spirit. These sensationless bodies of Spirit were not very clearly defined, but in some places in her book Mrs. Glover said that they are "immortal" and "indestructible."

It follows that this sensationless body cannot, by any possibility, know, of and by itself, either sickness or health. It can have no sensation whatever, and in Mrs. Glover's system, this spiritual man, whose body is sensationless, is the only man that exists. Man, as we know him, a combination of brain, nerves, muscle, etc., is that false, hereditary image of physical life which we inherited from Adam. Along with our belief in this physical body, we have inherited a deeply-rooted conviction that this mythical body is capable of certain sensations, such as sight, hearing, etc., and is susceptible to the influences of the mythical physical conditions about it. This belief has given rise to other beliefs, and the result is that man has invented a very intricate and complicated system of physical life, giving names and attributes to various parts of his body, and clothing it and feeding it, in the belief that it requires clothes and food for comfort and nourishment. And, most remarkable of all, he has come to believe that his body can be sick, and can suffer from a derangement of its parts. Labouring under this delusion, man has imagined that, by administering certain remedies to his body, this mythical body will be pleased, and will often consent to get well. If not, if man believes very firmly that his body is very sick, and that it cannot get well, then the remedies do not please his body and it will not consent