Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVII. '.HE INFLUENCE OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD UPON MENTAL HEALTH AND DISEASE A Self-Evident Truth, -- The Law of Sympathy.-- How Jesus bore Men's Sicknesses. -- Obsession. -- Its Influence in causing Disease. -- How cured. -- Experiences of Sweden . borg. -- What is a Demon ? -- Psychological Laws stated.-- Scriptural Statements respecting Destroying Angels. --They could Save Life as well.-- The Medium through which Mind acts upon Matter. --- Ponderable Bodies moved by Spiritual Forces. -- The Release of Peter. -- Paul and Silas. -- The rolling away of the Stone at the Entrance of the Sepulcher. -- The Availability of such unseen Forces. -- Their Useful Employment. -- The Plates of Copper and Zinc. -- Positive and Negative Mental Forces.--Angelic Influence in the Care of disordered Spiritual States. -- The Nature of Goodness. -- The Angelic Ministry. -- Vital Connection with the other World. -- Nearness of the Unseen Realm -- Longfellow. THE SUBJECT introduced into the preceding chapter leads us naturally, and by an easy gradation, to the consideration of the laws that govern in the transmission of sanative spiritual influences, and psychological forces, from the inhabitants of the inner world, for the cure of pathological states of the body and mind. We take it to be self-evident, that all the effects that can be produced by one mind acting upon another in this world, can be produced, in a still higher degree, in accordance with the same laws, by the intelligences who have graduated to the superior range of life. But the question may be asked, Is it allowable and in agreement with the divine order, for good spirits to use the powers they manifestly possess for the relief of the sufferings of men? It is an axiomatic truth, that a..
