Sickness and sin have ever had their doctors; but the question is, Have they become less because of them?
The longevity of our antediluvians would say, No! and the criminal records of today utter their voices little in favor of such a conclusion.

Not that we would deny to Caesar the things that are his, but that we ask for the things that belong to Truth; and safely affirm, from the demonstrations we have been able to make, that the science of man understood would have eradicated sin, sickness, and death, in a less period than six thousand years.

We find great difficulties in starting this work right.

Some shockingly false claims are already made to a metaphysical practice; mesmerism, its very antipodes, is one of them.
Hitherto we have never, in a single instance of our discovery, found the slightest resemblance between mesmerism and metaphysics.

No especial idiosyncrasy is requisite to acquire a knowledge of metaphysical healing; spiritual sense is more important to its discernment than the intellect; and those who would learn this science without a high moral standard of thought and action, will fail to understand it until they go up higher.