The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909Besant, Annie
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The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909
Besant, Annie
Theosophy; Theosophy -- Study and teaching
But that is not the only door which is opening before medical science.
Doctors are beginning to realise the enormous value of the power of
mind in the treatment of disease. Along this line the way has been led
as usual by the great hosts of people who are banned as charlatans by
modern science—Christian Scientists, Mental Scientists, faith curers of
all sorts. These are the things that are leading the medical profession
slowly along sounder lines of cure, along safer methods of healing. Most
doctors will now admit that to get the mind of the patient with them is
to double the value of their drugs; most doctors will admit that the
use of the imagination by the patient is an immense help in the curing
of any disease. On every side you may see that these methods are being
taken up by medical men, and are being rendered more and more scientific.
What is the law that underlies them all? That the mind creates; that
the mind is the one great creative power in the universe, divine in the
universe, human in man; that as the mind can create, so can it restore;
that where there is injury, the mind can turn its forces to the healing
of the injury; that where harm has happened to the body, the mind can
bring a remedy and strengthen the action of the drugs that are given
by the physician. And I see now that in the Anglican Church there are
several guilds of healing by the action of prayer—which is concentrated
thought—by the touch of consecrated oil—which is a sacramental
function—and by the faith of the patient, which is the determination
of the mind to work in the direction which is desired by the sufferer.
Now there is nothing new in that, nothing that has not been known in
the world for thousands of years. It was pushed out of sight by a
science that depended only on material means; it is coming back with the
supremacy of mind over matter, and with the recognition which science
is now making, that it is life which is the evolver and the moulder of
matter. As medicine goes along that line instead of along the lines of
torture, the doctor will again become the healer instead of the poisoner
that he too often is to-day.
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