Psychiasis: Healing Through the SoulMassachusetts New-church union, 1900 - 157 pages |
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Page 27 - John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 27 - And these Signs shall follow them that BELIEVE: In my Name shall they cast out devils ; They shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents, And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 115 - ... and when in such case the body could no longer minister to its internal man, or spirit, he would pass without disease out of his terrestrial body, into a body such as the angels have, thus out of the world immediately into heaven.
Page 55 - ... spiritual world, in this case therefore intuition from the acknowledgment of the LORD'S Omnipotence, which was the acknowledgment from which they were first to view the LORD, when a new church should be established by him; hence it may appear, what is there understood by faith: the third reason was, that all the diseases which the LORD healed, represented and thence signified spiritual diseases, to which natural diseases correspond, and spiritual diseases cannot be healed except by the LORD,...
Page 22 - But the mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body), is the desideratum.
Page 115 - It has been made known to me from much experience in the spiritual world, that from head to foot, that is from the primes in the head to the ultimates in the body, a man is such as his love is.
Page 106 - ... evil ; the reason is, because the all of the life of man is from the spiritual world ; wherefore if his spiritual life sickens, evil is also thence derived into the natural life, and becomes a disease there ; see what has been said from experience concerning the correspondence of diseases with evils, n.
Page 115 - This vitiation, when it increases, causes disease, and at length death. But if man had lived the life of good, in this case his interiors would be open to heaven, and through heaven to the Lord ; thus, also, the smallest and invisible vascula would be open also, and hence man would be without disease...
Page 106 - ... also are the origins of diseases : for the origins of diseases in common are intemperances, luxuries of various kinds, pleasures merely corporeal, also envyings, hatreds, revenges, lasciviousness, and the like, which destroy the interiors of man, and when these are destroyed, the exteriors suffer, and draw man into disease, and thus into death...
Page 90 - In Christian Science we learn that the substitution of the spiritual for the material definition of a Scriptural word often elucidates the meaning of the inspired writer. On this account this chapter is added. It contains the metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms, giving their spiritual sense, which is also their original meaning.