their method so religious a significance. In his Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter XI, verse 1, Paul says: "Now faith is the Substance of things hoped for." Here he makes a distinction between the thought-out picture of hope, and faith that is derived from Substance. This is plain when we know that Substance is never seen by the human mind and the human soul, at its best, is but an emotional sense of it. It is this thought-out picture of faith in the form of human hope that has so long ensnared our faculties and kept us within the scope of its imagery. Here we learn that prayers impelled by the human mind and uttered by the human voice go no farther than the sound of the voice. Likewise mere human efforts to help or comfort others never go beyond the range of mechanically expressed energy. Whenever decay in the body has set in and has been arrested, this effect can be attributed to two causes; either the stimulation or excitement of the felt-out mind through chemical or human energy, or else the person who has been the instrument or agency through which help came unconsciously imparted to the patient some degree of Substance. However, in the last analysis help seemingly derived from chemical action, manipulation or human energy, was the result of Substance unconsciously communicated, for without Substance, which is the source of all action and power, there can be no action—not even chemical or human energy.

While it is not our intention to make this a pathological work, we are considering the origin of diseased species for the purpose of tracing them to their mental origin and thereby account for the origin of mental processes of healing disease. Moreover, the value of a healthy body and mind is obvious to all and is of vital interest to

1 Bible-Hebrews 11:1.

mankind. We do not, however, intend to let ourselves be drawn too far into this subject for it is our thesis that the study of health will produce health.

One would naturally suppose, and it is the claim of some schools of metaphysics that insanity would quickly respond to this method of normalizing the mental functions. This has not been sustained by practice. The cause of this we believe to be accounted for by much insanity originating in the felt-out mind. Not, of course, those healthy physical specimens who suffer from forms of hallucinations, but we have reference more especially to those persons who are regarded as insane. What has been described as extreme nervousness bordering on insanity, I have seen respond quickly to mental processes. In fact, physicians who regard these new cults as nothing more than mental soothing syrups, are continually recommending them and admit the benefits received. But some forms of disease classified as mental have not responded to treatment as they should.

The reason for this, we have suggested, is the fact of their having their origin in the felt-out mind. We have explained that pain existing in the thought-out mind as a result of a diseased condition of the felt-out mind has been removed while the disease continued its consuming function. Likewise in these cases of insanity the cause is unremoved. To overcome such cases an understanding of Substance with its intensified potentialization of words is necessary. We might here mention that words are potentized just in proportion that they are deprived of their human meaning. In fact it has a striking resemblance to the theory of homeopathy in which the drug is believed to be made medicinally more effective by attenuation.

CHAPTER XV

PHYSIOLOGY

Since the human body is the most valuable thing we possess, necessarily the most useful application of science would be to this body. Furthermore, until the nature of the body is understood we will never know whether our treatment of the body is correct or incorrect. Besides, human life manifests a potency and an impotency which are appalling in both their positive and negative sufficiency.

Three questions must be answered before we can claim to have a scientific understanding of human beings: the first is, What is Life?-the second is, What dies?the third is, What is matter? When a body lies before us from which life has disappeared, we no longer talk to it, neither do we give it medicine or think about its comfort. However, the body is still there before us. The only conclusion to be reached from this illustration is that we were administering medicines, talking to, and comforting some activity of the body and not the body itself. If the body were the human being or factor in the problem, we should continue to talk to it, administer medicines to it, and comfort it.

The habit of treating with indifference or making flippant replies to questions and suggestions on this subject is inconsistent with our present knowledge of this subject. Humility is not a human trait, it is something higher. Yet humility is the only channel through which we can establish in ourselves the norm of progress. The

three vital questions must be answered and the only way to answer them is by example rather than precept.

The body possesses a mentality, or, according to the theory of the Origin of Mental Species, a mentality possesses the body and expresses itself through the actions of the body. While the thought-out mentality expresses itself through audible sounds, the mentality controlling the body never expresses itself except in action. It had its time, tides and seasons before the powers of thought in a human sense existed. Even under the influence of the thought-out mind or human consciousness it carries on its processes in spite of the most fervent desire for a cessation of some of its activities.

We must learn the origin and nature of this mental species which comes into existence whenever and wherever the conditions which constitute the law of Genesis generation becomes complete. Conditions by which this generation is made possible of necessity constitute a mentality which must have existed before organic or even inorganic activity, as we understand it, came into existence. We may extend this process backward or forward to the period of the utter extinction of material phenomena, and in spite of its self-consuming and dying processes there is an inexhaustible source of activity which transcends it all. The felt-out mind ceases to act and man dies but the power that generated that man will generate another. To understand physiology we must learn the nature of this mentality. Sometimes this mentality will linger for years in an imperfect state and suffer intense agony, sometimes it seems impossible to destroy it, and then again, without any apparent cause it will cease to act. If it were a law of itself existing by

virtue of its own self-contained and inherent power, it would not do this. The fluctuations, variations and peculiarities of this activity which feels its way through the period of its natural existence show conclusively that it is under the influence of some greater power of which it is but a satellite. No deduction ever made from this felt-out mentality has ever been reduced to a law. We will never understand this activity until we understand the power which makes it possible.

The law of action through an immaterial medium which constitutes the metaphysics of the theory of the Origin of Mental Species explains this. There is a connection through the medium of intelligence which does not depend on distance, space or matter. The men whom we have studied, and learned to think and feel with, through their teachings we reflect and are in touch with although we have never known them personally. We may have studied under teachers in early life and become separated from them; we may even have forgotten their names but the intelligence they imparted to us connects us with them. This medium is the one great Intelligence that each of us has become conscious of. This intelligence influences us, governs our lives and to the extent that we understand it we are controlled by it.

The name for the mental species which expresses itself through action and which the ethical writers have tentatively named felt-out mind, we have adopted in this work because it had gradually developed as a result of scientific research, and, what is still more important, the symbols or words used to express it have a generally understood meaning. This felt-out activity which as