Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

It is a common remark that if Jesus should appear on earth and could hear the explanations given to the remarks which He made eighteen hundred years ago--He never would imagine that He was in any way alluded to.

This may be true.

"Jesus" was as any other man--but "Christ" was Science (or God)--which Jesus tried to teach.

There never was--and never can be--a man who can express his thoughts without being governed, more or less, by The Scientific Man (or Christ).

And "the-masses" will receive the ideas as they receive food--and will pass judgment upon them according to their taste.

Different opinions will arise from the fact that often the writer is as ignorant of the "true meaning" of his ideas as his readers are. Not but that he knows what he says--but there is in each person a "hidden meaning" (or Truth) that he, as a man, does not know.

When one hears or reads anything, it awakens in him some new idea which perchance the author never thought of--yet the author feels as though he had a similar idea of its meaning.

It is the Christ in us that is making Itself known through the senses. And as the senses are the only medium the world acknowledges--Wisdom uses them to destroy the darkness which prevents us from knowing ourselves.

Thus it is when we read the works of the old authors. They have been misrepresented from the fact that the readers' minds have been so dull that there was not sufficient Light to penetrate through. 

So the "dark explanations" which are given become true ones, till the world becomes educated up to a higher point, when it shall see that the authors have been misrepresented--and that even some truths may have been conveyed in the writings which the author, himself, had no idea of.

Every person is, more or less, Clairvoyant--and is in two states of mind at the same time.

This is as it should be,
and the better it is understood,
the more it will bring about
the desired effect.

Watch the course of the Rebellion.

Almost every act of either side develops something beside that which was anticipated--and still it was just what they might have expected would follow the act.

Yet no one saw it.
Still, it was all right.

The Intelligence which is governing the world is as much in the dark to the actors as the plans of Generals are to the rank and file.

So the wisdom of our rulers is as much in the dark in regard to their own movements as the soldiers are of their own movements. 

Both are mediums of a Higher Wisdom--as much as a mesmeric subject is the medium of the operator.

Anyone who has any intelligent idea of mesmerizing is aware that the subject thinks he acts on his own responsibility--and so he does, in a measure--though he is also acted upon and controlled by others.

The Real Man is not seen at all, but is always acting upon Matter and never will consent to change his course, any more than the laws of Science--for Science is the Real Man--and although the Natural Man would like to have Science decide in his favor, he ought to know that it cannot act differently from Itself.

And if we act wrong--Science will expose us by making us expose ourselves. Let man understand this, and he will be more likely to act from a higher motive than he does now.

Every act or thought contains the Higher Science.
The Natural Man calls it “reaction,” but it is Wisdom.

If you put sufficient Wisdom in an act--it will see what the reaction will be.

You can hardly suppose a person so ignorant but what if he throws a stone into the air, he will know that it will come down again. If you put the wisdom in the stone, the stone would not know what the reaction would be--but if you put sufficient wisdom in the act that made the stone go up--that wisdom will know the stone will come down again with the same force that it went up.

Man's body is just as ignorant as a stone, but there are two motions which act upon it: one Ignorance and the other Science.

Give a child a looking glass. Before the child is educated (or receives the intellectual element of reason), its acts are governed by passion or desire--not knowing of reaction; for reaction is the higher element, and when that comes the child's eyes are opened to the Light of Wisdom. Until then, it would throw the glass on the floor. But when it sees the reaction, it is wiser--and this wisdom checks it the next time.

The sick expose their ideas of disease,
and I know by my feelings
what they know by their senses.

Now the reason of this is that disease is a disgrace, although people try to make it fashionable--but they show that they do not believe it so, from the fact that they try to rid themselves of it--as they would any bad habit.

Every person has acquaintances whom they would like to get rid of--yet they will put up with their company, rather than cause them to feel badly.

So with those who use tobacco.

You will hear them say, "I know it hurts me, and I wish I could leave off the habit, but I cannot."

Their wisdom is not equal to what it should be, or they would leave their friend--as they call it--but which is their enemy in disguise.