Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

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HOW DOES DR. QUIMBY STAND
TOWARDS HIS PATIENTS?

 How does Dr. Quimby stand towards his patients?

He stands as a lawyer stands to his client. He pleads their case before the court of Science (or Truth); his pleas are their medicine, their opinions are their crimes, the punishment is the disease, and the phenomenon is the prison. The medical men are the mouthpiece of public opinion (or error), and every phenomenon that takes place must first pass the fire of their batteries, and they must give an explanation to everything which is received as truth. So being blind guides, they lead the blind till they all fall into the ditch of error and wallow in their own filth.

To get them clear from this mire, which is opinions (or disease), is to show that part of them which is “diseased” is the cause of the misery, and the argument is the “medicine.” I will show you how the medicine works.

Disease is a “chemical change.” Take the infant, for example. When it is born, its ideas are its body - like the earth in its original state. As the ideas develop, the body develops, and the original seeds (or ideas) come forth. These are called “mother wit” or “natural sense.”

This is the earth spoken of in the Bible. Out of this earth, God (or truth) made man (or opinions) and ambition - or what is called the “natural man” without science.

It was not good that opinions should be alone, so out of opinions came a higher element. Science is not a natural production of error (or the earth, or child); but it is from a higher state called God (or Wisdom). As the child is the vineyard (or earth), the man (or opinion) is the husbandman, and the Science (or woman) is the wife. So opinions (or man) thinks he is the wisdom - while wisdom is the owner (or proprietor) of the whole earth.

The child is like the garden, and error (or opinions) is the man; and wisdom lets out the vineyard to man to cultivate the little ideas (or original growth of the earth). As new ideas are sown in the mind, they spring up in the form of reason - making the man; and the fruits are opinions etc. Out of this man comes the spiritual (or scientific) man. This man is not seen by the man of opinions - but he is the real man.

I will illustrate these two characters: A little tree grows up, blossoms, and bears fruit. This all comes to the natural sight. The fruit throws off an odor which cannot be seen, yet it is in the atmosphere and can be detected by the odor (or life).

This life sees in the odor the apple and all its peculiar properties. This is the spiritual senses (or the life) of the apple tree. So the natural man works out the real essence (or property) of God into the spiritual (or scientific) man that cannot be seen by the man of opinions - but is the real man.

To understand how I cure is to see yourself outside of the natural man (or your opinions), like the odor of the apple - with all your senses (or reason); then instead of you - that is, the essence being in matter - you will see that matter is in the essence.

It is often said that God is in everything. This makes God less than the thing He is in. Now make God the essence, with all the senses attached to it; then you have an eternal and everlasting essence, without matter or form; a point without magnitude, but eternal.

Call this eternal Wisdom the Father of all that exists out of matter. See this Wisdom by its will speak the idea matter into existence, and everything that man calls life. All these things are in the knowledge of this Wisdom - not the Wisdom in the things that are spoken.

It is the same with man. His wisdom is the living man. His opinions are the body (or natural man). To put his wisdom into his opinion is to make an opinion greater than a scientific truth.

Disease is an opinion. To put man's wisdom into it is to make the disease larger than the real man.

It is a common remark that after we shake off this mortal coil, the spirit will be set free. This is acknowledging that the body is larger than the mind (or wisdom). No wonder that with such a belief men pray to be delivered from this body of sin and death!

Thanks to this wisdom, I - my wisdom - can see myself outside of this earthly belief and afloat in the ocean of space, where opinions are like stones and pebbles that men throw at each other; while to me they have no weight at all.

All these are in me - that is, in my wisdom - and not wisdom in them. I stand in my wisdom to the sick who are in their opinions, trying to get out; and the harder they try, the deeper they get into the mire. So Wisdom pleads their case, and if I get their case, then opinion is destroyed and health resumes its sway.

If you understand this - you can cure.

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