Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

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DISEASE:

CURES OUTSIDE OF THE
MEDICAL FACULTY
Dec. 9, 1861

The fact that some cures are made outside of the medical faculty is not denied by any person, but how they are done is the problem to be solved. I say they are done by the mind, which is acted upon by some wisdom outside of itself.

There never was a cure performed unless some wisdom superior to the cause was brought to act upon the mind.

Now I have given over twenty years of my life to the subject and feel confident that my method of curing is entirely new to the world; that it has never been practiced, intelligently, by any living man. I am the first of my practice, while all others are the last of theirs.

All will admit that the allopathic practice is the oldest, except spiritualism - if you please to call it a practice. If spiritualism is admitted to be a mode of practice, it is older than the allopathic practice, for there were certain men eighteen-hundred years ago that practiced curing and casting out devils by this power.

There was one man who called it the power of the good.

Jesus called it the power of the devil.

He admitted that there were some cures made, for when his disciples told him they saw persons casting out devils in his name, and forbade them, he said, "Forbid them not, for those that are with us, are not against us, and those that are not with us, scatter abroad."

Now here were persons making cures, that were not with Jesus, and it was hard to convince the people that Jesus' cures were not made in the same way in which the spiritualists of his day made theirs.

This false idea of spirits, is the foundation of disease, and gives rise to all kinds of practice. Until spiritualism can be explained, the world must be “humbugged” in some way, either by the medical faculty, or by some of the other “humbugs” of the day.

To deny that a cure was ever made by the above, is to deny the Bible, and all ancient history.