which he knows nothing, except that its aid was once invoked in his behalf by some third person, namely, the healer. The result is that when the personality of the healer is removed, the patient begins to entertain doubts as to whether he may expect a continuance of the favor. Soon his doubts deepen into convictions, and when the expected unfavorable symptoms are felt, his convictions become certainties, and he feels that for some inscrutable reason he has forfeited the good-will of the healing agency. The result is a relapse. In one form or another this adverse factor is ever present with him who heeds not the words of the Master, but pins his faith upon some hypothetical healing power extraneous to himself, and whose favor he cannot command.

All this is, of course, in violent contrast to the true science of mental healing as it has been deduced from the immutable laws of nature recently discovered by modern scientists. Of the existence of those laws there can be no room for rational doubt. They have been demonstrated by thousands of the most careful scientific experiments by the ablest living psychologists. Their universal applicability to the phenomena of mental healing has also been demonstrated by careful observation and experimentation. That is to say, the existence of those psychological laws affords a scientific explanation of all the phenomena of mental healing. It shows why each and all methods are successful in the production of therapeutic results.

The fact remains that there can be but one correct method-or, to say the least, but one best method of applying the law to the uses of mental

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That method must necessarily be the one which is based upon demonstrable scientific uth; the method which eliminates all taint of fraud, Falsehood, and superstition; the method which appeals to the reason of both healer and patient. The faith of the patient being the primary mental condition sought, it is obviously more easily attained by an appeal to reason than to blind credulity. The effects are more permanent because there can never be a reaction against it caused by a discovery of fraud, deception, or a false suggestion. It is also more permanent because the science teaches man what he is. It reveals his inherent powers and points out his limitations. Most important of all in this connection is the fact that, in revealing man to himself, it teaches him that he can control the energy within himself which, in turn, controls his vital functions.

These remarks apply, of course, only to those who love truth better than falsehood or error, and who are mentally capable of exercising the discriminative power of induction; and they are not addressed to any other class of minds.

CHAPTER IV

THE DUPLEX MENTAL ORGANISM

Faith can be acquired by Study and Reasoning. — Thus acquired, it is perfect and permanent. It is essential that the Healer be grounded in the Fundamental Principles of his Science. - The Phenomena of Dreams point to the Theory of the Dual Mind. The Operations of the Dream Intelligence essentially different from those of Waking Consciousness. The Subjective, or Dream Intelligence incapable of Inductive Reasoning, and controlled by Suggestion. Rapidity of Subjective Mentation. - Hypnotism a Means by which Dreams can be induced, controlled, and experimented with. It is the Instrument for the Investigation of the Problems of Psychology.—It has found in Man a Soul, and revealed the Evidence of its Divine Origin. It has segregated the Phenomena of the Objective and Subjective Minds, and shown the Distinctive Powers and Limitations of Each.

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AVING now stated in general outline the fundamental principles of mental medicine, and shown the universality of the law of nature under which is made possible the healing of the nations, it remains to deal more in detail with the fundamental propositions which constitute the basis of scientific mental healing. This becomes necessary for the reason that success in mental healing by scientific methods is best promoted by first acquiring a clear understanding of the law under which the healing is effected. In other words, scientific methods require scientific knowledge for their successful application. It is scarcely necessary to

observe that this is in violent contrast to the conditions required for success in mental healing by the unscientific methods to which we have alluded in the preceding chapter. Obviously a knowledge of science, or a capacity to reason, would handicap a healer who practises by methods involving an unscientific theory of causation, especially one that involves the insensate denial of every fact of human experience.

Nevertheless, faith is as essential to success in healing by scientific methods as by any other. But there are three advantages in this regard which are incident to scientific methods. The first is that the requisite faith can be acquired by study and reasoning; the second is that the faith is perfect, for the reason that it is acquired through knowledge and confirmed by reason; and the third is that the faith thus acquired and sanctioned becomes at once a permanent possession, because there can arise no adverse auto-suggestions from the objective mind to weaken its potency.

It becomes, therefore, a matter of the first importance for the healer to be well grounded in the fundamental principles underlying the science which he proposes to utilize; for he should be able to instruct his patients in its fundamentals, to the end that he may be filled with the same kind and quality of faith that the healer possesses, the faith born of knowledge of the law, and not of blind credulity. Otherwise he would enjoy no advantage not possessed by the fetich worshipper.

I shall, therefore, dwell at some length upon the evidence demonstrative of the truth of each of the

terms of our hypothesis, and incidentally upon some of the practical uses of the law in affairs of everyday life.

First, then, of the duplex mental organism.

Every one who has had a dream has in some measure realized the duplex character of his own. mind. He knows that the brain is the organ of the mind of ordinary waking consciousness; but he knows that in sleep the brain is quiescent, that, in fact, sleep is the condition in which that organ rests and recuperates. Yet he realizes that during that period of brain rest there is a mental energy in evidence that seems to act independently of the mind with whose normal operations he is acquainted. He can sometimes trace a connection between his waking thoughts and his dreams; but he frequently realizes that the latter correspond to no possible human experience. At other times he becomes conscious of the presence of a mental energy which far transcends that of his normal experience or capacity, a mind which can solve mathematical problems that are beyond the compass of his normal powers. Again he becomes conscious that his dream intelligence is filled with the most sublime thoughts and is capable of clothing them in the most beautiful and appropriate language, -language that is far beyond his normal linguistic powers, thoughts which were strangers to his normal consciousness. Sometimes the key to the most profound secrets of nature are thus revealed to him, and are thus made available for normal uses and practical exploitation. Again, dreams often reveal an apparent independence, on the part of the dream intelligence, of the space and