[Sidenote: Law of nature]
Now, dear reader, if you have comprehended the foregoing, in which I
have tried to demonstrate to you that man is simply a machine, forced
into action by his environment—this I have learned through hypnosis,
which I consider merely a side issue to the Law of Suggestion, a crude
and tyrannical use of suggestion—we will go a step further and try to
understand the body of man, which is his closest environment. To do so
it will first be necessary to explain what you call the “law of nature”
or “hand of God.” After I have made you comprehend that, I shall then
be able to discuss mankind in general.
[Sidenote: Law of Suggestion]
If we drop a plum seed, peach seed, apple seed and a grape seed in six
square inches of earth what will grow from them? Each of its kind.
Why? One says the “law of nature,” another says the “hand of God.” I
ask what is meant by these terms, as neither has affected me through
my senses, and a sickly smile comes on your lips, and you say, “Don’t
you know?” I plead ignorance and reply, “No,” then you won’t talk with
me because I fail to know something that you do not know. Then you
ask _me_ why, and I tell you the “Law of Suggestion.” You say,
“Why, there must be an intelligence to respond to that law.” As it is
impossible to conceive of anything happening without an intelligence
(associated action) to guide it, every action of all matter is guided.
[Sidenote: All matter contains mind]
NOTE.—I will state that all matter contains mind (which
word will be used from now on without the quotation marks), and
all mind gives expression in matter. Matter is the expression of
mind—transformed mind—the utterance of mind; it is the material
reproduction of mind; there can be no matter without mind, no mind
without matter. _Other than matter is incomprehensible._
[Sidenote: All changes are advancement]
This intelligence is acted upon by suggestion. There is mind in the
rock, otherwise the rock would not disintegrate (respond to the
suggestion of the elements). There is mind within wood. You say, “No,
water rots wood.” Water does not rot wood. It forces (suggests) a
latent (memory) action in wood to produce or transform into rot. As
long as the suggestion is kept from the wood, that action will not take
place; the moment the suggestion is applied, the intelligence within
the wood responds. All changes are an advancement and good (natural
response).
[Sidenote: Maturity]
[Sidenote: Mind defined]
All suggestions are transformed. You of the “law of nature” and the
“hand of God” claim that intelligence is external and everywhere; I
claim it to be internal and everywhere, that all matter contains within
itself intelligence (mind). Then you ask me what is mind and in turn
I ask you this question: What is maturity? When does a boy become a
man, a girl become a woman, and when is fruit ripe? When the seed is
accomplished. As the seed is the last thing accomplished to complete
the entirety of all attributes required, all of the preceding actions,
_i. e._, responses to suggestion of the development of the tree
that has taken place are registered within the seed. Therefore, the
complete memory must be in the last thing accomplished—the seed; and I
will define mind to be _the consensus of all actions acquired during
gestation_, not a so-called reasoning intelligence, but a memory of
response to suggestion, as to heat, cold, different elements of the
earth, to guide the commingling into the reproduction of its kind.
If the natural suggestions do not occur, a _reproduction_ is an
impossibility.
[Sidenote: Suggestion in lower life]
To illustrate, if plenty of sunshine is required and the suggestion of
sunshine is lacking, the entire fulfillment of the suggestion required
cannot or will not be accomplished. If iron or some certain element
in the soil is necessary to force a certain action, and is lacking,
the response necessary will not take place. In the spring time, when
warmth, et cetera, surrounds the trees, the buds are forced out. If
frosts occur, contraction takes place and the buds are pinched off,
the entire action of the tree being in accordance with the environment
(suggestion). To the degree of the suggestion is the degree of
response, identical with the action of man.
Genesis, Chapter XXX, 37-40, reads as follows:
[Sidenote: Jacob knew of the law]
37. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
38. And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the
gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when they came to drink.
39. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle
ringstraked, speckled and spotted.
[Sidenote: Darwin]
[Sidenote: As of their environment]
This simple law, the law of environment (suggestion), was in some
degree known to Jacob. Therefore, what is, was, and always will be.
There is nothing new in the world, only new to our comprehension.
Darwin showed us that animals most like their environment, or
those which responded closest to (were part of) their environment
survived, while the others were destroyed. Man, being a creature of
his environment, survives to the degree he responds to or is part of
that environment. In the Arctic region animals are white as of their
environment; in the reeds they are striped, therefore look like the
reeds and are not easily distinguishable from them; up in the tree tops
they are spotted. The negro from exposure to the sun was made black. If
the white man goes into the sun he becomes what we call “tanned”; that
tan can, in time, become very dark. The negro, therefore, is black only
as a result of his environment.
[Sidenote: Energy]
[Sidenote: Energetic waves]
[Sidenote: Life]
[Sidenote: Death]
Man, not being a perpetual motion machine, must obtain energy elsewhere
than through or from his food as our scientists (?) tell us. The energy
required to digest the food must be greater than all the energy in the
food, otherwise it could not overcome the resistance; therefore, it is
self-evident that our energy does not come from the food. Any condition
that overcomes resistance sends out an energetic wave; every time we
breathe, blink our eye, talk or move, we send out an energetic wave,
which can be transmitted only through matter. _Life is energy_,
always moving and being reinforced as it passes through new matter; and
I believe those energetic waves are received in the spleen, passed to
the solar plexus and from the solar plexus passed to the extremities
through the Sympathetic System. It is through the absorption of
this energy—which is life—that keeps man going. When a man dies the
machinery of his body—the Sympathetic System—fails to respond, to
receive, to exert, or transform the energy.
[Sidenote: Ovum of the female]
[Sidenote: Element of the male]
The first part of a child formed is the Sympathetic System. A girl has
reached maturity when she can reproduce; _i. e._, when she monthly
gives forth an egg. In that egg is a memory action of building the
Sympathetic System, when fertilized by an element of the male. Bear in
mind that the element of the male is only a _fertilizer_.
The Sympathetic System centers are developed at the end of eight weeks.
(See Gray.)
[Sidenote: Building of mind in man]
Now each ganglion acquires a specific memory from the same ganglion of
the mother, and out of the blood of the mother builds over itself the
form of the child. Therefore, when the child is born it contains within
itself the intelligence that built it; _i. e._, mind. Every six
months this intelligence rebuilds the entire tissues of the body.
[Sidenote: No cerebral knowledge]
The child when born has no cerebral knowledge. It must learn to
see, hear, smell, feel and taste. It has no reflexes other than of
contraction. All other actions are acquired after birth. The heart
action was learned from the mother; also the respiration, which action
can very easily be changed. It must learn to take the breast. It has
no control over its bowels or bladder. The pupil of the eye does not
dilate, contract, nor blink at light. The child’s limbs will not draw
away from heat or irritation. If the rectal sphincter be severely
dilated a response in the throat will occur. This same action can
always be repeated with a chloroformed patient, showing that the noise
is simply a response at the other end of the nerve.
[Sidenote: All things are learned]
From the taking of the breast the child must learn to digest food, to
respond to its environment. The moment a child readily does so, it is
said to have displayed intelligence.
Physicians differ as to the length of the period after children
are born into the world before they can see, hear, smell, feel and
taste. There is much discussion, and many volumes have been written
as to the length of time after a child is born before its senses are
established. After much reading, I finally ask what is meant by seeing,
hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting; and none of the writers have
comprehensively answered. Therefore, why this discussion? What are they
talking about?
[Sidenote: Definition of the senses]
I will define the senses to be the correlation of the different
nerve-end stimuli. Give a new-born child soft, sweet, soothing
sound-stimulus, then harsh, discordant sound-stimulus, and the moment
a memory of these two extreme nerve-end contacts with sound waves is
established, the child will be able to give expression to the degrees
of all subsequent stimuli of the auditory nerve-ends. The same with
smelling, tasting, et cetera. Sight, unless associated with feeling,
conveys no form expression. A child, to be taught the meaning of round,
must not only see it but feel it. The same with other forms. The child
is now learning to respond to its environment.
[Sidenote: Mind a tenant]
Mind is the tenant of the house it lives in—the body. That house is
always wasting; mind rebuilding it. When mind rebuilds correctly, we
have a healthy body; when incorrectly, we have what is called sickness.
Mind can only build as of itself, as it responds to its environment,
and consequently must be a reproduction of that environment, modified
by the acquired memory learned from the mother. Therefore, the house in
which it dwells is the exact representation of its tenant—matter being
the expression of mind.
[Sidenote: Food]
Food is taken into the body to rebuild the house. If a man takes
possession of a new brick house and starts in to replace with bad
bricks as it wastes away, at the end of six or seven months he will
live in a bad brick house. If he replaces with rotten lumber he will
live in a rotten lumber house at the end of a period. Hence, man
partakes of the nature of the food he eats.
Now, if mind be worried so that he builds awry, his house will be awry;
and if his house be awry and he finds his error and corrects it, he
will re-establish the symmetry of his dwelling. (Rational treatment—the
orificial surgeon and personal suggestion.)
[Sidenote: Error]
Thus mind rules and builds the body, but a time may come when the body
becomes so awry that it rules the tenant. In health, mind rules; after
severe illness the body may. Mind cannot choose to correct its error,
it can only respond; the suggestion must change. Error can only be
distinguished, when _known_, in comparison with good. Unhealthy
surroundings must be changed. The closest environment—the body, may
require the knife.
[Sidenote: Mind rules]
It is inconceivable for anything to happen without an intelligence
to guide it. I have shown the intelligence that built the body—that
keeps rebuilding the body—but our learned (?) physicians seem to think
that the body of man is a dunghill in which seed may be sown and foul
vegetation grow, forgetting that nothing in the body can happen without
an intelligence to guide it—that the body is a result, and there is
_no cause within the tissue itself_.
[Sidenote: Nerve-ends]
_Every nerve has two ends._ When there is an irritation at one
end, there is a response, or so-called reflex, at the other. Oh! why
has this thought never occurred to our “learned authorities?” Our
worthy doctors are forever trying to remove the effect, never reaching
the cause. If a man’s blood is out of order, does the bad blood cause
illness, or is the illness and bad blood the result of the imperfect
transforming of food by the intelligence whose duty it is to perform
such functions?
[Sidenote: Three pulsations]
When I first showed my ability to produce in a hypnotized subject three
pulsations at one time, the doctors declared it to be a trick; that
it was an impossibility; that the heart _only_ controlled the
circulation. If our most learned (?) men would only think (and such
a thing were possible), they would readily see the futility of such
claims. If I am rightly informed, there are several miles of vascular
piping in the body, and the heart of itself is not strong enough to
pump the blood that distance; if it were, the frame of the body is not
strong enough to maintain the resistance to such an action. The truth
of the matter is, that the heart is simply the governor, _i. e._,
regulator, that starts the rhythm of the pumping, and different nerve
centers (mind) take up and carry on the action. Our doctors tell us
that a man dies because the heart stops beating. No, he dies because
the intelligence that forces the heart to beat stops working.
[Sidenote: Man a tube]
Man is a tube lined with a series of insulated electric wires. These
wires run from orifice through ganglia of Abdominal Brain to orifice.
Every nerve has two ends; irritate one end and through the action of
its ganglia a response will occur at the other. Our doctors treat the
response, paying no attention to the cause, although they talk nothing
but cause.
[Sidenote: Body rebuilt every six months]
From a series of experiments that I have made, I am satisfied that the
body is rebuilt every six or seven months. The Abdominal Brain in the
embryonic child is complete at the end of _two_ months; and, as
the child is born at the end of _nine_ months, the first attempt
of the Sympathetic System, the Abdominal Brain (mind) built a complete
child in _seven_ months; although a child born at eight months
is seemingly complete. If mind in its first attempt can build a child
in seven months, why should it take longer to build a second time,
particularly when it has a freer hand and environment to work in?
[Sidenote: “Bugs”]
[Sidenote: Rebuilding]
Our doctors start on the premise that man’s eyes, lungs, heart and
all vital organs live forever, unless bugs get in and destroy them. I
cannot accept any such statement. For the sake of argument we will say
that all organs and tissue are rebuilt every six months. I care not if
every six years, but we will assume that they are rebuilt every six
months, constantly wasting and constantly being replaced. The doctors
will tell us that a cataract _grows_ on our eye. I deny that,
maintaining that the eyes are replaced every six months, and when
there is a cataract, the ganglion of the Abdominal Brain (mind) is so
irritated that it builds an imperfect eye, an eye with a cataract.
The doctor with his knife removes the cataract, and ninety-nine times
out of a hundred _it grows (?) back_. The Mental Scientists, the
Christian Scientists, the Faith Curists and the Hypnotists remove the
cataract. How? By causing the mind to stop building the cataract and
resume its previous building of a healthy eye. I have cured dozens of
cases of astigmatism and myopia, and several cases of cataract simply
through personal suggestion and orificial surgery.
Many people come to me saying “Mr. Santanelli, I have been wearing
eye-glasses for a year. Can you cure me?”
“Yes.”
“How many hypnoses will it take?”
“None.”
“Why, what will you do?”
“I will take you to my surgeon, and have the proper orificial work
performed.”
“And will that cure me?”
“Certainly.”
Another comes to me and says, “Mr. Santanelli, can you cure me?”
“How long have you been wearing glasses?”
“Ten years.”
“How old were you when you began wearing glasses?”
“Twenty years.”
“Yes, I can cure you.”
“How long will it take?”
“I do not know.”
“What will you do with me?”
[Sidenote: Nerve habit]
“I will send you first to an orificial surgeon and have the cause
removed. Then I will break up the nerve habit.”
“What is that,—the nerve habit?”
[Sidenote: Greatest use for hypnotic suggestion]
“Why, I mean this, that until you were eighteen, your ganglia (mind)
built good eyes, when, through an irritation, it developed into
building a pair of bad eyes, called astigmatism, myopia, et cetera.
You get two pairs of eyes a year, in eighteen years you get thirty-six
pairs of eyes; and up to that time the ganglia (mind) has the memory
of building good eyes, in twelve years it builds twenty-four pairs of
eyes; after the cause of building bad eyes is removed, I must force the
memory of thirty-six to overcome the memory of twenty-four, which is
not a very difficult task; but if you came to me ten years later, it
would be nearly impossible for me to cause a memory of thirty-six to
overcome a memory of forty-four. Where the nerve habit or new memory is
not too pronounced, through personal suggestion I can readily revive
the first memory. It is through the lack of knowing how to overcome
this that our orificialists fail in many cases. This is the greatest
use of so-called hypnotic suggestion—the breaking up of nerve habits.”
The same argument holds good as to the lungs, and in all early stages
of heart trouble, et cetera.
[Sidenote: Consumption]
The doctors tell us that when we have consumption, bugs are nesting
in and eating our lungs; but why, most wise (?) gentlemen? Life is
indestructible, and if you will use microscopes powerful enough you
will always find life (bugs). When man is most dead (?) and burned to a
handful of ashes, drop a little acetic acid on them and you will find
there is life, movement; and life is simply energy.
I maintain that man gets a new pair of lungs every six months, and when
the ganglion that controls the building of the lungs transforms the
food into healthy lungs, we lack consumption; that when it makes an
imperfect transformation we have the so-called diseased lung, the germ,
which is the mal-transformation of food containing life or energy.
[Sidenote: Circumcision]
But few male Jews have consumption, _although they are improperly
circumcised_. _Circumcise all consumptives, both male and
female_, and see how quickly you will achieve a result.
[Sidenote: Undeveloped bust]
I will show a genital lesion in every woman with an undeveloped bust.
Amputate the labia minora of a young woman and see how quickly her
bust will develop and her respiration be facilitated—a marked result in
less than two weeks.
I treat all eye trouble by removing the irritation from the other
end of the nerve. It is a rare case where the cause and effect are
at the same place. The fool ideas offered as to light, printing, et
cetera, in our schools, being the cause of so much bad eyesight among
the students, is all rot. Circumcise them, our mothers are breeding a
sexually irritated generation of both sexes. If the Jews had properly
circumcised their women there now would be no necessity of doing so
with the men.
[Sidenote: Law of Moses]
Moses insisted on two laws. The Jews to-day cannot tell you why those
laws are enforced. As to the pork I will explain later, as to the
circumcision they have not been able to offer a rational explanation.
[Sidenote: Jews]
Why is it there are so few Jews in the penitentiaries, insane asylums,
who are cancerous or consumptive among the males? Why are the Jews a
money-making race? Oh, they inherit it. _No._ A Jew is but a human
being, he is the same as you and I; he is ruled by the same Law of
Suggestion. It is first, because he is circumcised, secondly, because
he is clean, and third, his Abdominal Brain (mind) is not worried or
irritated. Consequently, he is full of life and energy, and his brain
works in a “normal” manner. He eats clean food, producing the same
result and, therefore, is equipped to do business with a “normal”
mind, he is free from the “abnormal,” therefore, not a criminal, not
a candidate for the insane asylum; his thoughts are healthful and
therefore he looks forward to a long life, to a large family, to the
care of them, and to the necessity of acquiring the means whereby they
can live: he is nearly “normal.” The law of Moses, although unexplained
by his followers, was a law of health; a healthy mind is always the
result of a healthy body, or a healthy body is the result of the
healthy mind, impossible to find one each way.
[Sidenote: Bad blood]
When food is impure, the ganglia whose duty it is to transform and make
pure blood, is working awry, and nothing done to the blood will purify
it as to the health of man. Inasmuch as the ganglia will continue to
make bad blood, why treat the blood?
[Sidenote: Drugs are suggestions]
A man’s bowels are constipated and the doctor gives him a drug. Does
the drug empty the bowel? No, the drug does not. Why is the bowel
not working properly? Because the ganglia that control secretion and
peristalsis are not doing their duty, and nothing but those ganglia
can empty the bowel. Therefore, _the drug is simply a suggestion_
that stimulates these ganglia and causes them to renew their action of
secretion and peristalsis. Catarrh, asthma, heart trouble, rheumatism
and functional diseases are all a result of irritation at the other end
of the nerve. The idea of trying to drug or treat the heart for its
imperfect action is ridiculous.
My intelligent reader now asks where the other end of these nerves are?
How is it the doctor has not discovered them? I will tell you why, my
good reader.
[Sidenote: Too scientific]
[Sidenote: Reasoning]
[Sidenote: Clean (?) people]
[Sidenote: Modesty]
Our doctors have failed to discover the end of the nerve, inasmuch
as they are “scientific” and do not know how to “think.” They reason
_deductively_, which is not reasoning. From a true premise no
deduction should be necessary, inasmuch as the cause and effect are
perceptible. Reasoning, so-called, is required when only an effect
is perceptible, and one has to go back to the cause. The moment the
cause is found no more reasoning is required. The cause and effect
are so closely associated that when we comprehend the cause, we must
comprehend the effect. Inductive reasoning is the only _true_
reasoning, and our scientists (?) know nothing of this, they much
prefer to _assume_ a cause and force a deduction to fit the
effect known. How many inductive reasoners has the world produced? Not
fifty, and I include all great thinkers in the fifty. Our doctor is a
good, clean (?) man; his patients are good, clean (?) people, and they
greatly dislike to think of anything that is “naughty,” forgetting
that all “naughty” things are a perversion of good things; and that
the being who appears the most “nice,” at heart is the worst. Little
children are taught that it is awful to hear anything mentioned about
their privates. In many states physiology is barred from the public
schools, as it is something awful for man to understand himself. As
everything suggests positive for or positive against, the _real
modest_ person is simply the positive opposite to the real vulgar
person, both having the same thought, only one gives action in
blushing, et cetera—alleged modesty—while the other gives action in
vulgar expressions. The truly pure being would be neutral—no ideas
associated as to bad.
Dear reader, one can have no thought without its expression (for that
is all a thought is), and alleged modesty deceives no one, least of all
one versed in human nature.
In all my years of experience (and I can read a face like a book—I know
my nerve-ends), I have met but three really healthy women, and they
were Southerners; and no healthy men.
[Sidenote: Not] [Sidenote: “Bad” defined]
Some one speaks in public of a woman’s leg, many cast their eyes down
and others blush; some laugh. The sexual look appears in the eyes of
others. Let us analyze the thoughts of these four classes of people.
When “leg” is mentioned, the first party would not cast his eyes down
unless he had “bad” ideas associated; the second would not have blushed
if he had good ideas associated; the third would not have laughed,
nor the sexual look have appeared in the eyes of the fourth, had they
not all proportionately associated the same ideas. Now, the ideas are
mostly acquired,—particularly in the first three—by the parents telling
them _not_ to think of this, _not_ to do that, and the
entirely false thought of modesty, or something “bad” was associated
and placed in their minds through their “bad” mother telling them they
must _not_ do or think of these things. Remember, all things in
the world are good, and man has created the bad. Life keeps moving
onward, which is good, and no matter which way it moves it is always
onward and always good, and the “bad” is produced by the “not’s,”
the “don’t’s,” and the “mustn’t’s.” Therefore, I define “bad” to be
perverted good.
The nerve-ends of all the upper orifices and the heart and lungs,
terminate in the genitals and the rectum. You will rarely find only one
orifice of the head responding to nerve-end irritations. I always find
two—the eyes and ears, eyes and nose, et cetera.
I have cured stutterers, all classes of eye trouble, all kinds of
nervousness in both sexes by removing the sexual irritation; but as
this book is written simply to give the reader a general idea of
suggestion, I will keep this subject for a book to be written later,
intended for doctors and mothers only.
In 1895, while claiming in my lectures that we must have an
Abdominal Brain—otherwise there was no logical explanation as to
many of the conditions I was producing through hypnosis, in Lansing,
Michigan—Doctor William D. Cooper drew my attention to the wonderful
results Dr. E. H. Pratt, of Chicago (the father of orificial surgery),
was attaining by operating on the lower orifices, and intimated that
perhaps he was reaching the Abdominal Brain. This intimation prompted
me to visit Dr. Pratt and learn of his work, which in time resulted in
my believing that the Sympathetic System was my much sought Abdominal
Brain, and much study and experiment has resulted in the foregoing
synopsis.
[Sidenote: Environment]
[Sidenote: Sin (?) a disease]
If man is ruled by his environment, it naturally follows that his body
must be his closest environment; as the body is, so is the “mind;”
as is the “mind,” so the body. Therefore, blackguarding, sensuality
and prostitution are physical diseases. If man’s thoughts are forced
on him through his five senses, it follows that, if he has a sexual
irritation, sexual thoughts will always dominate. Therefore, instead of
passing laws against those “sins,” hospitals should be established and
convicted _invalids_ sent there to be properly treated.
_Prostitution is a curable disease._ The orificial surgeon can
remove the physical suggestion, and the hypnotist can break up the
_nerve habit_.
If we put a clean woman in a dirty house, and keep the house dirty for
a certain length of time, that woman will become disgusted and have no
desire to clean up. Put a dirty woman in a clean house, keep the house
clean for a period, and that woman will become ashamed and acquire
habits of neatness. So it is with the mind and the body. When the body
becomes foul, the mind degenerates and _vice versa_. The food is
the material out of which the body is made, and foul food builds a foul
body and “mind,” notwithstanding the false theories of our alleged
scientists.
[Sidenote: Food]
Man’s stomach is the hopper of a mill, made to grind and digest certain
foods. If man partakes of food to re-establish his body, his present
eating must be radically wrong, because at least three-fourths of the
food taken into the stomach is passed off through the bowels; if he ate
proper food, ninety-five per cent of it should be turned into tissue
and the waste should be correspondingly small. What fool man does
to-day is to put all kinds of indigestible food (?) into his hopper,
and when the mill tries to grind, it breaks down; he then sends for his
doctor and expects him—if he could—to repair the mill so that he can go
on trying to grind flint with machinery intended to grind wheat only.
[Sidenote: Flesh-eating]
Remember this, a child’s stomach is gradually taught to digest coarse
food. In other words, it must learn to transform the different foreign
elements passed into the stomach. No argument offered can substantiate
the necessity of flesh-eating. The strongest animals in the world,
proportionately, are the ox, the ass and the elephant, strict
vegetarians; and each and every pound of their flesh represents an
equal proportion of vegetable strength, a concentration of many times
its bulk of vegetable matter, and vegetable life was before animal
life. The vicious animals in the world are the lion, the tiger, and
all flesh-eating animals. In certain parts of the Orient are horses
that eat flesh, and are so vicious that only the most expert can handle
them. If you desire to make your dog vicious, chain him up and feed him
on flesh.
The life of modern man is one of confinement, and in every pound
of flesh he eats he takes into his system _a hundred times more
energy_ than it is possible for him to give voice to. Being
possessed of this concentrated energy, he can get rid of it only by
giving it a counter-irritant or energy absorber in the form of liquor,
sensuality and brutality.
During the Greco-Turkish war, the non-meat-eaters and abstainers from
alcohol paid but little attention to wounds similar to those that sent
the meat-eaters to the hospital. Similar wounds that sent them to the
hospital, caused the death of the others.
[Sidenote: The hog]
[Sidenote: All fat is filth]
The hog is a scavenger, living on filth and transforming filth into
its body, which is simply a concentrated form of filth. Lazy man takes
this filth into his stomach, transforms it into his flesh, and wonders
why he is syphilitic, cancerous, diseased, lazy and sluggish. I have
given health to many families by causing them to cut pork and lard
from off their bills of fare. _All fat is filth._ All four-legged
scavengers easily go to fat. Feed kine on “slops” and they go to fat.
The lady with the blotched face goes to her physician, and he advises
her to avoid eating pastry. For Heaven’s sake! What can be healthier
than flour and fruits? What, then, must be the only thing that is
detrimental? Why, the lard, the shortening in the pastry.
[Sidenote: Lazy]
My experience and investigations have shown me that the majority of the
poor people, who can barely get money enough together to buy a little
“sow-belly” and meal, are always the lazy, indolent, worthless class of
people, whose entire tissue is made up of hog meat, and consequently
have very sluggish brains. I have yet to meet a confirmed pork-eater
with an active mentality.
For three years I abstained from eating flesh, two years of which was
the most delightful existence I ever experienced. Having a clean tenant
in a clean house, my thoughts were pure, my actions pure; but found
I lacked the energy to keep up the race with the over-wrought, pell
mell, flesh-eating environment. I firmly believe that there is no case
of syphilis so severe but proper dieting will re-establish a healthy
condition.
[Sidenote: Fasting]
Since my experiments of putting subjects to sleep for seven days, many
dyspeptics have taken up the fast cure and have demonstrated beyond all
question that much good is consummated by total abstinence from food.
Our doctors are daily killing their patients by feeding them. When mind
requires food, food will be demanded. _There is never danger of a
patient starving to death._
[Sidenote: Small-pox]
Mind responds to the suggestion of matter. Our doctors tell us that
we are vast sewers, filled with bugs that are devouring one another;
that the more chemicals, the more putrid matter they can put into us
the better we are. First, they warn us to beware of the pus of a sore,
yet take the pus of cow-syphilis—cow-pox—and put it into the pure
body of a helpless babe to prevent its getting a harmless disease, a
disease that any first-class homeopath laughs at, small-pox—a disease
that is non-contagious, non-infectious, as is proven by vaccination,
which fails to produce small-pox—Oh! the scientists (?). This was
demonstrated beyond all question last summer by a physician in
Wisconsin eating the virus and spreading it all over his face; he fed
it to at least thirty of his patients and none contracted the disease.
_Small-pox decreases with the advancement of sanitation._
[Sidenote: Pointer for the doctors]
Strange to say, our doctors marvel at the increase of syphilitic
affections, of tubercular conditions of the body and of the bones,
of the prevalence of hip disease, yet fail to see that it comes from
the inoculation of these innocent children with cow-syphilis. I would
unhesitatingly kill any member of a board of health or any officer
who would enforce the inoculation of any of my family with this
syphilis, and the jury does not live that would convict me. The body
being rebuilt every six months, the so-called immunizing could only be
effective for that period. Now, my scientific (?) friends, as I have
taught you something that is irrefutable, have the boards of health
force a law that all shall be poxed every six months. What a lot of
idle doctors would be kept busy.
These philosophers (?), these scientists (?), fill horses with disease
and take the serum, fill it full of drugs to keep it from spoiling (?),
“shoot” it into the arms of helpless babes to cure them of diphtheria,
and when they die of lockjaw and other diseases produced by the poison
so injected into their blood, the doctors suddenly discover that
they got hold of the wrong toxin, otherwise the children would have
recovered. Never! A lie given to protect a fool theory.
[Sidenote: Germs]
[Sidenote: Remove the cause]
Now, as the body is rebuilt every six months, and there is an
intelligence building the body, an intelligence that is making the
blood, an intelligence than is transforming this blood so made into
tissue, what in the mischief have bugs to do with disease? The germ
is life; impossible to find life without germs or germs without
life, and the germ is simply a transformation of form of life; if
the intelligence within the body is surrounded with suggestions
of health, forcing it to perform its functions in a natural and
proper way, it will make the correct transformation which is known
as health; but if the rhythm of its work is interfered with, it will
make mal-transformations which are recognized as germs of this, that,
and the other disease. The removing of the germ is of no consequence,
inasmuch as the intelligence (mind) still builds more germs. Remove the
cause, allow the intelligence that built to rebuild correctly, and the
“specific” germs will disappear. Killing the germs is like to a man
who is annoyed by a hen laying an egg on his porch every morning, and
he sends the servant out to destroy the egg. If you want to stop the
laying of the egg on the porch, remove the hen.
[Sidenote: Body a result]
Good blood and bad blood are results of the building of the
intelligence (mind) that makes the blood, and any bugs or anything of
that kind you find in your blood are simply the badly or goodly made
blood. Our doctors seem to think that man is built and rebuilt without
an intelligence to guide that building; that he is a compost heap in
which seeds lie that in time develop and grow, overlooking that the
body is a result, that anything on or in the body is a result, and
that the entire result is guided by the all-wise intelligence of mind,
this mind being subservient to and part of the Law of Suggestion—its
environment.
=Mineral, vegetable, animal, human mind is the same (either singly
or collectively); i. e., a conditional reproduction of its environment
(suggestion). (1), The primitive element (environment), forces
(suggests) a reproduction in (2), vegetable result; 1 and 2 forces
(suggests) a result (3),—animal life; and 1 plus 2 plus 3 forces
(suggests) a result (4),—man. Thus the Law of Suggestion keeps up an
individual and combined transformation, always progressing yet ever in
variable form, resulting from the individual changes in the several
attributes (suggestion) back of or lower than itself.=
=“Man is made in the image of his Creator.” Yes; but, dear reader,
not as you interpret it. Man is the interpretation, the consensus, the
result of the transforming of his environment, the exemplification of
the Law of Suggestion; he is good, God. Mind, the intelligence within,
learned from the mother, responds to the external forces, suggestion,
the all, God, that forces material life ever onward into something
else. We are but one of the MANY forms of God, good, the Law of
Suggestion that embraces ALL. Remove from or add one atom to this world
and it will end, a thing incomprehensible. What is, was, and always
will be.=
[Sidenote: Blister test]
[Sidenote: Only memory actions can be revived]
I place a cantharides plaster on the left arm of a man and blister him.
In time the blister heals. I afterward hypnotize him, put a postage
stamp on his left arm and tell him that it is a cantharides plaster,
and in twenty-four hours or less I have the blister. What made the
first blister? What made the second? Well, the first blister was made
by the cantharides plaster. No, sir; it was not. The first blister was
suggested by the plaster, which caused the ganglion that built the
tissue of that area of the arm to accomplish a condition called a
“blister,” that action, being associated with the cerebral memory of
the name “cantharides plaster,” was aroused in the hypnosis through
the word “plaster” and the ganglion built the second blister as it did
the first. Can I reproduce this blister on the right arm? No. Why not?
Because the ganglion of the right arm has no such memory. I can only
produce it on the place where the memory was established through its
proper channels, through feeling. Here is where the mistake has been so
often made by operators trying to perform the blister test; trying to
revive a memory where none exists.
[Sidenote: Reaching mind]
A man has a wart on his finger; the doctor says the wart grew there.
No, it did not grow there. It is a result. It is burned off with an
acid or caustic, and grows (?) back; then the doctor says he did not
get to the roots (?), that if he had taken the roots out, it would stop
growing. (Just as if a man was a well-manured heap, and you could grow
things in him.) An old woman comes along, cuts a few white hairs out of
a black cat’s tail, mutters some cabalistic words over it, and behold,
in time the wart disappears! Why? Because she reaches the mind. The
mind stopped building the wart and began building healthy tissue. The
doctor cuts it off, but seldom reaches the mind.
No result can be produced in the body until the mind is reached. Drugs
are nothing but suggestions. We will assume that a man’s bowels are
constipated and the doctor gives him a dose of calomel. Does the
calomel move the bowels? Yes. Good. If I put into a glass jar some
food with some calomel, will it “move”? What is constipation? Why,
it is lack of secretions, lack of peristalsis. Does the peristalsis
work of itself? Does the secretion work of itself, or is there an
intelligence that guides and makes the secretions, that guides and
forces the peristalsis? This being a fact, the intelligence that guides
or rules the secretions and peristalsis has ceased to do its work,
and the calomel simply irritates these ganglia or brain centers and
stimulates them to renew their _former action_. If they accept
this suggestion the patient is cured; if they fail to do so, more
suggestion must be given, and in many cases the ganglia refuse to
accept the suggestion at all and the doctor looks wise and gives you a
handful more of “stuff.”
[Sidenote: Mental science]
The Mental or Christian Scientist, or hypnotist can cure constipation.
How does he do it? Let us first analyze and find the attributes of
constipation. First, there is the cerebral attribute, its name,
constipation; associated with that are the two mind actions of
peristalsis and secretion. Those three are now associated in the
“mind” of man, and the law is that if I lock a thought in the “mind”
and start it in action, every one of its attributes in its proper
place is bound to act. Therefore, if I will lock into the mind of a
hypnotized subject the thought that his bowels are loose, or will move,
or arouse any thought there that has associated with it the action of
peristalsis and secretions, and hold that thought there long enough,
the result is certain. It is for this reason that a personal suggestion
or an inspiration in hypnosis has but little effect on a young child.
The moment it has cerebral attributes associated with sympathetic
attributes, and the operator knows how to emphasize them, he can get
the desired result.
[Sidenote: Christian scientists]
[Sidenote: Certainty of action]
The Christian Scientists tell the patient that he is not sick; then
if his mind could reason it would say, “If I am not sick, in what
condition am I?” But you should say to your patient, “You are sick, and
so and so will happen,” and if the memory is there to be aroused the
action will take place. Remember, in hypnosis or any mental treatment,
you can only revive memories, words of themselves mean nothing, hence
skill is required to force the proper thought; but just as certain as
the proper thought, _no matter how aroused_, is put in force just
that certain will the action take place.
[Sidenote: Cure for cancer]
I believe that the only cure for cancer is personal suggestion,
inasmuch as the cancer does not grow in the body of man, but the mind
that is building that area of the body is building cancerous, instead
of healthy, tissue; that a suggestion or an inspiration will be found
that will re-establish the original healthy building. Our doctor cuts
the cancer out and says it grows back. It does not _grow_ back.
[Sidenote: Attributes of a “mental healer”]
Personal suggestion, when attempted, must affect the _proper_
senses; in hypnosis the operator _names_ the sense-pictures. When
we _talk_ health to a patient, we must _look_ and _act_
health, as well as show it in our _tone_. If we doubt, we are
wasting our time, inasmuch as we can only _do_ as we think. Faith,
confidence and sincerity are the principal attributes of a “mental
healer.”