the Gospel that, on Mount Tabor, Moses and Elias came to Christ, and it is
evident that this was not a material meeting. It was a spiritual condition
which is expressed as a physical meeting.

The other sort of converse, presence and communications of spirits is but
imagination and fancy, which only appears to have reality.

The mind and the thought of man sometimes discover truths, and from this
thought and discovery signs and results are produced. This thought has a
foundation. But many things come to the mind of man which are like the
waves of the sea of imaginations; they have no fruit, and no result comes
from them. In the same way, man sees in the world of sleep a vision which
becomes exactly realized; at another time, he sees a dream which has
absolutely no result.

What we mean is that this state, which we call the converse and
communications of spirits, is of two kinds: one is simply imaginary, and
the other is like the visions which are mentioned in the Holy Book, such
as the revelations of St. John and Isaiah and the meeting of Christ with
Moses and Elias. These are real, and produce wonderful effects in the
minds and thoughts of men, and cause their hearts to be attracted.

72: HEALING BY SPIRITUAL MEANS

Question.--Some people heal the sick by spiritual means--that is to say,
without medicine. How is this?

Answer.--Know that there are four kinds of curing and healing without
medicine. Two are due to material causes, and two to spiritual causes.

Of the two kinds of material healing, one is due to the fact that in man
both health and sickness are contagious. The contagion of disease is
violent and rapid, while that of health is extremely weak and slow. If two
bodies are brought into contact with each other, it is certain that
microbic particles will pass from one to the other. In the same way that
disease is transferred from one body to another with rapid and strong
contagion, it may be that the strong health of a healthy man will
alleviate a very slight malady in a sick person. That is to say, the
contagion of disease is violent and has a rapid effect, while that of
health is very slow and has a small effect, and it is only in very slight
diseases that it has even this small effect. The strong power of a healthy
body can overcome a slight weakness of a sick body, and health results.
This is one kind of healing.

The other kind of healing without medicine is through the magnetic force
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