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the subject brought the water to her lips than she exclaimed: 'Some one has just put pepper in my mouth.' As nobody knew of my having put pepper in my mouth the experiment was certainly conclusive."
The difference between the miracle of the boiled herb and the experiment of Dr. Coche is only one of degree, the intensity of the concentrated thought of a modern investigator being to that of Krishna as a spark to the Sun. Dr. Coche could affect only his subject' with his own taste, but the sovereign power of the Lord of Yoga manifested itself on a much larger scale.
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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
The views held by modern writers on Mental Sciences, concerning the miraculous healing performed by Jesus Christ, may be summed up in a few sentences. There is nothing supernatural in the miraculous cures effected by Jesus. On the other hand, mental healing is a science; and the power that heals resides in the patient. This was the doctrine taught by Jesus and epitomized in the expression, "thy faith hath made thee whole." The whole art of mental healing consists in inducing faith in the patient; and suggestion is the most potent means for that purpose. What Jesus did others can do also, as he himself declared :
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"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my father" (John, XIV. 12).
It will be foreign to our purpose to embark upon a minute investigation of the conclusions arrived at by modern authorities; suffice it to say that these ideas are now held by some of the ablest thinkers of modern times, and their accuracy has been guaranteed by all those agencies, and means, and tests, which science knows
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