Healing by Faith, Or, Primitive Mind-Cure

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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV. RESURRECTION FROM THE BODY, OR THE LIBERTY OP THE SONS OF GOD. Accord1ng to Plato, there was once a winged race of men on the earth. Of course this is symbolical of a race who could emancipate themselves from the limitations and thraldom of the body, and who could rise in their thoughts above the plane of sense. According to Swedenborg's science of correspondence, wings denote spiritual truths, and to rise on eagles' wings signifies to be elevated by spiritual truths to celestial light. ("Arcana Celestia," 8764.) The great majority of mankind have lost their wings, and are grovelling in the dust. "Here man, fool man, inters celestial hopes, Without one sigh, and prisoner of earth, And pent beneath the moon, here pinions all His wishes, winged of God to fly at infinite, And reach it there where seraphs gather Immortality on life's fair tree, fast by The throne of God." The higher soul of man, imprisoned in the body and buried in the sepulchre of irrational sense, loses the use of its wings, and its angelic powers are latent and dormant. Instead of soaring into the heavens, it can at best only wade in the mud. The true wings of the soul are faith and love, or the perception of real truth and the pure emotional state its essential accompaniment. How to emancipate the soul from the body and the mind from the illusions of sense, so that we may attain to a truly spiritual mode of thought and feeling, and to the almost deific powers belonging to such a condition, is the great problem of religion and philosophy. Momentous consequences are involved in its solution. The importance and necessity of the resurrection of the soul from the body in order to the attainment of a spiritual life on earth is well stated by Sokrates in the ..".