All so-called miracles of the saints have their only origin in ascetics, and are to-day impossible but for the reason that, although much praying is done, no fasting is adhered to. This is the only solution of this quarrel. We have no more miracles because we have no more saints, i.e., sanctified and healed by ascetics and fastings. The saints were self-shining, expressed in modern language: medial or radioactive, but only because through ascetics they were "godly" healthy, and not "by special grace." I just wish to mention here that I myself have succeeded in visible, electric effluences, but only by external and internal sun-energies- (sun-baths and food from the "sun-kitchen," fruit.)

The entire world is quarreling now regarding these questions and miracles. And here is the solution on the basis of experiments which everybody can repeat if he is brave enough. But it is apparently easier to write books, preach and pray, or to say that I am an exception. This is true, but only as far as pluck and understanding are concerned. Physiologically all men are equal, and whoever cannot be moderate may learn it from me if he wishes to be a real searcher. If a man eats little and is healthy he can digest for quite a length of time the most absurd food, meat and starch (mucus), i.e., he can again excrete it; naturally, he becomes and remains still more perfect and clean if he eats but little fruit, and of this he needs the least because it is the most perfect food. This eternal truth by natural law man of today will and cannot admit, and has a well-founded fear of it, because he is built up of dead-boiled food and his cells die off and are excreted as soon as he takes sun-baths, fasts or eats the living cells of fruit. But this cure must be done with the greatest care. Medicine has, as long as this is possible, to protect man from a breakdown of his cells, to hold him above water, only to make him then die of the disease so much more promptly and quickly, which to-day is fervently wished for. Vegetarianism cannot deny that the consumers of meat and alcohol can also boast of much health and great deeds and high age, but taken individually and as a people, only so long as but little is eaten and no over-nourishment caused. The "too much" takes less revenge in case of meat-eating because meat contains proportionally less "mucus" than the starch-containing, i.e. "mucus" vegetaric food and the celebrated vegetaric dinners with so and so many dishes daily. I myself have not cared for many years for any meals; I eat only when I have appetite and then so little that it does not cause any harmful effect, if, on account of an experiment, I am obliged to eat something which in itself is not entirely free from objection.

If the most serious diseases can be cured by fasting-- which has been proven in thousands of cases--and if by this way of living one gets even stronger "if it is done right," then the most energetic food, the fruit, should cause one so much the more to become strong and healthy. This has been also scientifically proven by the merited Dr. Bircher. It is true, the science of cure by nature has recognized the fact that something must get out of the sick organism, but it has so far ascribed the greatest importance to physical stimulations and ignored entirely the real natural moment of the process of cure; the abstaining from food and the fruit-diet, or at least only tried to substitute it by an alcohol and meatless diet. This does not mean much in the face of my "mucus -theory." And what is this mucusless alcohol not accused of to-day! It will soon be made the scape-goat of all diseases, because here and there is found a depraved one who, consuming it in enormous quantities, ends in delirium. Just compel a drinker to fast a few days or to eat nothing but fruit--I can bet that the best glass of beer will have lost its taste for him. This shows that the entire "civilized" mess, from beefsteak down to the apparently harmless oatmeals, creates the desire for these detested antidotes: alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco. Why? Because much-eating paralyzes and only the use of stimulants restores.

Here is the true and fundamental reason for the increase of alcohol consumption: the over-nourishment, especially with meat. Prof. Dr. Graham says in his "Physiology of Nourishment"; "A drinker can reach a high age, a glutton never." This is true, because the acute alcohol acting as a stimula nt, especially the modern beer, is less harmful in the long run than the chronic stuffing-up of the digestive channel with mucus food.

I now ask: what appeals more to reason--to wipe out the masses of mucus, piled up since childhood and having infected the cellular tissues of the body right there (symptoms of illness), by sweating, baths, artificial cold (kneipp cures), massage, sport, etc., at the expense of vitality (especially of the heart) and the duration of life . . . or simply to stop the further supply of mucus? Or is there anybody who wants to prove to me that even the best chef or confectioner is capable of producing something better than an apple, a grape or banana? If nourishment by mucus and over-eating is the true fundamental cause of all diseases without exception, which I can prove to anybody on his own body, then there can exist but one natural remedy, i.e., fasting and fruit-diet. That every animal fasts in case of even the slightest uneasiness, is a well-known fact and to culture and thanks to man feeding them, have lost their sharp instinct for the right kind of food and the natural hours of feeding--and therewith their proper state of health and acuteness of sense,--they will nevertheless, when sick, accept only the most necessary food; they fast themselves back to health. Poor, sick man, however, must under no circumstances live on short rations for more than 1 or 2 days, for fear that he may "lose strength."

Already have physicians called the fasting: wonder cures, cure of the uncured, cure of all cures, etc. Certain charlatans have brought this infallible, but at the same time dangerous cure, to discredit. I have done in fasting the most significant thing in centuries: 49 days, world -record (see "Vegetarische Warte," 1909, book 19, 20, 22, 1910, book 1 and 2). Furthermore I am the only one who combines this cure with systematically and individually adapted fruit -diet, which makes it astonishingly easier and absolutely harmless. We are, therefore, undoubtedly put in a position to heal diseases which the school-medicine designates as incurable. On the basis of my detection that this mucus coming from cultured food, is the fundamental cause and main factor in the nature of all diseases, symptoms of age, obesity, falling out of the hair, wrinkles, weakness of nerves and memory, etc., there is justified hope for the creation of a new phase of development of the progressive healing methods and biological medicine.