The Finger Of God Or Lessons In Spiritual Healing PDF Download

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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... the Master directed to those who came seeking healing at his hands, served to get the patient's mind and talk away from his symptoms and sensations and down to his actual need. The answers showed whether his mind functioned properly, and its ability or otherwise to come down to the real issue at once, and gave the healer ground for an intelligent diagnosis, as to the nature and gravity of the trouble, and the particular form of treatment to be administered, and to give a reasonable prognosis or forecast as to the progress of the cure. These questions of the Master during his healing work were in the nature of a confessional, and constituted in fact a self-revelation, essential to his own healing work, and for that matter indispensable in all rational healing procedure. It resolved itself into a sort of primitive Psycho-analysis without which healing becomes in most cases a mere chance, with the chances largely against success. Nervousness under its various designations of Neurasthenia, Psychasthenia, etc., all attended more or less by the hydra-headed phenomena of hysteria, has come to be a national disease. There is the menace of a race of neurasthenics. The various functional and nervous disorders can usually be traced to wrong mental habits, to shock, to strain of long continued application without proper diversion, to pre-natal influences, to repressed impulses and other similar causes. These all leave a deep impressionon the subconscious side of the mind, and some time sooner or later, under conditions favoring them, they rise up into an expression whose strangeness of form makes them unrecognizable, and whose origin is forgotten, and they assume large proportion and power through the very mystery with which they are clothed. Many...