The term "Magnetic Healing" is applied to a form of treatment in which the operator uses his hands to make "passes" over the body of the patient, or to gently rub or stroke his flesh. It is the belief of those who use this method, that the magnetic force passes through the fingers of the operator into the body of the patient. This is erroneous, for the fingers and hands are but the servants of the brain, and simply act in response to the dictates of the mind; the power used operates through the mental organization.

We observe, that the carbon, as it burns in the electric lamp produces a bright fight, yet the light is neither produced by the carbon nor the lamp. These servants merely conduct and hold the force that is collected and sent through the wires to the lamp, to there fulfill its purpose. The power that stimulates to normal action the functions of the body, and thus dissipates disease, is collected by the brain from the mind (soul), and is sent in thought waves to the brain of the patient. The force which some people suppose penetrates through the arms, hands and fingers into the body of the patient, follows quite a different course. It passes from the brain of the operator to that of the patient and stimulates his mind to the normal action, and thus assists it in directing the organs of the body to perform their natural and normal functions. No ailment is ever cured by an external agent or force, nor by any foreign materials (drugs) or matter. To cure by such methods, it would be necessary to suspend the laws of Nature, and where is there a man who has the power to do this ? Such a man, did he exist would be greater than his Creator. The laws of Nature cannot and never have been controlled or suspended for as much as the thousandth part of a second. To credit any man with the power to curtail, check or suspend any of the laws of Nature, is to credit him with possessing powers greater than the maker of the Law. If man could control one of Nature's laws, it would cease to be automatic and infallible, and would therefore be no law.

Health and success are the result of keeping in harmony with the laws of Nature. Sickness and failure come only when we get out of harmony with people and the Law. Mentalism is the force used to cure, even though the credit is given to Magnetism. All action must take place through the mind, for the body has no independent power of action or locomotion. To attempt to cure disease by treating only the body, would be equal to trying to destroy a tree by cutting off the leaves. More leaves will grow on the tree unless one goes down to the very roots and exterminates the cause. Disease will appear again and again unless we go to the root of the cause and treat the mind.

"It is evident that there will eventually take place an integration by which all orders of phenomena will be combined and recognized as differently conditioned forms of one ultimate fact".

- Herbert Spencer.

"The transmission of a thought or an emotion from one person to another without visible means of contact." - Prof. Wm. Crooks.