Music is the rhythm of head and heart. Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either harmony or discord, as the hand that sweeps over it is human or divine.
Whatsoever inspires with Wisdom, Truth, or Love — be it song, sermon, or Science — blesses the human family with crumbs of comfort that fall from the Master's table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty. Spiritual draughts are healing, while material lotions interfere with Truth, even as ritualism and creed hamper the Spirit. If we trust one we distrust the other.
Physics act against metaphysics, and vice versa. When mortals leave the lower for the higher basis of action, medicine loses its power to heal. It has no innate power. Unsupported by the faith of illusion, it becomes powerless.
Mortal mind conceives of the liquid or the solid, and then classifies its thoughts materially. Their immortal and spiritual facts exist above and beyond this mortal and material belief. Good is self-existent and self-expressed, though indefinable as a whole, and every step towards goodness is a departure from the material basis and a tendency toward Spirit. Material theories, creeds, and codes partially paralyze this attraction toward Spirit — the infinite, harmonious, and eternal — by an opposite attraction towards the personal, finite, temporary, and discordant.
Footsteps of progress and spiritualization greet us on every hand. Systems of drugging are losing their hold on matter, and so letting in the higher stratum of mortal mind. Homœopathy, a step in advance of allopathy, is
