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RATIONALE OF SPIRITUAL HEALING 139 actually exists in every person-an emanative sphere of our thoughts and feelings ; in other words, of our life. It is different in different persons, and in the same person at different times, as it is always in correspondence with our inward states. In all depressing mental conditions, as, for instance, in melancholy, this nimbus or sombre exhalation is to be removed by dispersive passes, which is one of the most effectual ways of changing the morbid mental condition of a patient, and of expunging from his mind the idea and misbelief which constitute the invisible side of his malady. This is the teaching of the ancient arcane science of magnetism, and the experience of many of thousands of years had placed it among established principles and demonstrated its efficiency. By removing the dark cloud or the odyllic emanation that surrounds the brain and it is as easily done as you can quench the flame of a candle with a sweep of the hand-you prepare the way for the reception of a higher and better influx. Just as when you brush away the air around your face with a fan, fresh air immediately flows in to take its place.
The principle is given with an actual experimental knowledge of its practical value, though to the modern materialistic science of medicine, it may seem of no importance. It has been said by someone that Jesus cured disease by purifying the atmosphere both within and without the patient." This He could do by the power of the inner Word and the Spirit, and
