Author: win r

"But, as we have said before, there are real and God-like healers, who, notwithsatnding all the malice and skepticism of their bigoted opponents, have become famous in the world's history. Such are the Cure d'Ars, of Lyons, Jacob, and Newton. Such, also, were Gassner, the clergyman of Klorstele, and the well-known Valentine Greatrakes, the ignorant [...]

"If a diseased person - medium or not - attempts to heal, his force may be sufficiently robust to displace the disease, to disturb it in the present place, and cause it to shift to another where shortly it will disappear; the patient, meanwhile, thinking himself cured. But, what if the healer be morally diseased? [...]

"But if the patient has no faith, what then? If he is physically negative and receptive, and the healer strong, healthy, positive, determined, the disease may be extirpated by the imperative will of the operator, which, consciously or unconsciously, draws to and reinforces itself with the universal spirit of nature, and restores the disturbed equilibrium [...]

"Healing, to deserve the name, requires either faith in the patient, or robust health united with a strong will, in the operator. With expectancy supplemented by faith, one can cure himself of almost any morbific condition. The tomb of a saint; a holy relic; a talisman; a bit of paper or a garment that has [...]