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RATIONALE OF SPIRITUAL HEALING 137 "As long as someone is conversant with that figure only which is manifest to the eyes, he does not yet love the object which he sees; but when departing from it, he generates in himself, in his impartible (indivisible) soul, a form which is not an object of sense, then love springs forth.” (Plotinus, translated by Thomas Taylor, p. 92.) That is the love of the real person or thing. It is only by closing the eyes, or by freeing the soul from the trammels of the physical senses, that we see, in the interior light, things in themselves. Perhaps blind persons see more realities than we see, for the reason that what we call vision is but a veil drawn over our real sight. Jesus, the Christ, refers to this, when he says of the sensuous Jewish rabble, "that having eyes, they saw not, and having ears they heard not." The understandingthe intellectual soul-principle—is the true organ of vision. It is that which lies back of the eye, and is represented by the eye. “The light of the body," says Jesus, “is the eye” (intellect), if thine eye is simple, or not compound, that is, if we see with the intellect alone without the external organ, our whole body, or soul, is full of light. The whole soul becomes an organ of vision, and all the five senses are reduced to a unity, an indefinable perception of ideas, the spiritual and real side of things.
What men call disease has a spiritual side to it, an ideal reality. The external is the apparent and phenomenal, the shadow and not the substance. If the spiritual idea of it is the real side of it, and if we can
