The gift of the spirit : a selection from the essays of Prentice Mulford.

  • Mulford, Prentice, 1834-1891.
Date:
[1903]
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Credit: The gift of the spirit : a selection from the essays of Prentice Mulford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a source as healthy thought, you drive out disease or lack of ease to the body. Your own healthy thought, aided by the healthy thought of others, is real sub- stance, and has the power to build up any organ which is sore or inflamed and wasting away through lack of some element necessary to it. All pain is owing to an absence of life-element in the part affected. The power is then lacking to send the blood through that part. Blood therefore collects and stagnates there. This you call inflammation. The blood is not the real life of the body but only the conductor of its real unseen life, or spirit; when that is wanting, the conductor or messenger of this life has no power to travel. It collects in some one place, and the effort of the spirit to drive it from that place is too much force concentrated in that one place, or organ, which causes lack of ease, or pain; and lack of ease, or pain, implies that the unseen force or spirit is no longer equally distributed throughout the body but is acting in excess in some one part of it, in which case every other organ or part feels the deficiency of this force, and is consequently weak. Healthy thought can revive and put strength into sick bodies; and that is the reason that you, if sick, feel so much better from the visit of a cheerful, hope- ful, vigorous person. Such a person imparts the life- element, and you from him or her receive and absorb it in thought: and if people and friends about sick- beds, and in the houses of the sick, would at least try to make their thought hopeful, strong, cheerful; if they would keep in mind that the spirit of the sick person is as strong as ever and that the throes of pain come only through the spirit’s effort to regain com-