in nature are produced from corresponding principles in the hells. When ipecac, therefore, is introduced into the human system, the evil spirits who are in that principle to which it corresponds, communicate their sphere to mind in connection with the body and operate upon both mind and body.
"An evil sphere is a concrete atmosphere of falsities, as real as our terrestrial atmosphere, emanating from souls or spirits who are in evil conditions. A similar sphere emanates from every one of us, so far as we are in evil, and the whole race would be simultaneously plunged into sickness, insanity and death, if angels and good spirits were not adjoined to us, whose spheres of goodness and truth counteract the evil spheres, and hold us in the equilibrium of health and rationality."—Page 40.
The Doctor might have added that the angels and good spirits, inflowing into corresponding things in nature, operate by what we call natural laws, atmospheres, substances and forces external to the body, to keep intact this equilibrium of health, and to restore it when disturbed. The efficient causes are all spiritual, both for good and evil; but they operate both directly and indirectly, upon the mind and through corresponding things in nature; and thus through the mind into the body, and into nature and by reaction upon the body. As heaven conspires through the angels attendant upon man to
