Chapter 140394–399

396 – If all remedies were really and in themselves efficacious and all medical theories sound, how would that console us for our lost natural health and vitality? The upas-tree is sound in all its parts, but it is still an upas-tree.

397 – The spirit within us is the only all-efficient doctor and submission of the body to it the one true panacea.

398 – God within is infinite and self-fulfilling Will. Unappalled by the fear of death canst thou leave to Him, not as an experiment, with a calm and entire faith thy ailments? Thou shalt find that in the end He exceeds the skill of a million doctors.

399 – Health protected by twenty thousand precautions is the gospel of the doctor; but it is not God’s evangel for the body, nor Nature’s.

The sovereignty of mind has made humanity the slave of doctors and their remedies. And the result is that illnesses are increasing in number and seriousness. The only true salvation for men is to escape from mental domination by opening to the Divine Influence which they will obtain through a total surrender.

15 March 1970 400 – Man was once naturally healthy and could revert to that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medical Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with ravening hordes of microbes.

401 – I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of