The Edinburgh lectures on mental science / by T. Troward.

  • Thomas Troward
Date:
1914
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    in the individual. That it is impersonal in itself is shown by its readiness to assume any personality the hypnotist chooses to impress upon it; and the unavoidable inference is that its realization of per- sonality proceeds from its association with the par- ticular objective mind of its own individuality. Whatever personality the objective mind impresses upon it, that personality it assumes and acts up to; and since it is the builder of the body it will build up a body in correspondence with the personality thus impressed upon it. These two laws of the sub- jective mind form the foundation of the axiom that our body represents the aggregate of our beliefs. If our fixed belief is that the body is subject to all sorts of influences beyond our control, and that this, that or the other symptom shows that such an uncon- trolable influence is at work upon us, then this belief is impressed upon the subjective mind, which by the law of its nature accepts it without question and proceeds to fashion bodily conditions in accordance with this belief. Again, if our fixed belief is that certain material remedies are the only means of cure, then we find in this belief the foundation of all medi- cine. There is nothing unsound in the theory of medicine; it it the strictly logical correspondence with the measure of knowledge which those who rely on it are as yet able to assimilate, and it acts accu- rately in accordance with their belief that in a large