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Mind leads phenomena

Mind is the main factor and forerunner of all actions

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind,

Misery follows, as the cart follows the horse.

Phenomena are led by the mind.

Mind is the main factor and forerunner of all actions.

If one speaks or acts with pure mind,

Happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

—Dharmapada

The idea that the body can be healed by a suggestion of the mind, either one’s own or that of another, is an ancient one indeed. In Pharoahnic Egypt, where many place the origins of medicine,⁴² the soul and the mind act directly on the state of the body’s health. The Aesculapian temples of Alexandria utilized the same healing methodologies of the Mesmerists and even Jesus, predating them by some hundreds of years.

Old temple disciplines included purification, temple-sleep, and various hypnotic rest states. Bodily processes were aroused and focused through intensities of suggestion, through touching the patient, along with lifting the faith of one who was ill.⁴³

Such recommendations and cures have been found on Egyptian papyri dating as far back as 2000 BC. And they always speak of Thoth and Hermes.

Eventually all the great medical centers were located at the chief capitals along the Nile. These shrines were depositories of medical lore, and the ancient traditions are confirmed by the lists of diseases and their cures. Clement refers to forty-two Hermetic books at the temple of Hermopolis, of which six were medical texts giving formulas and remedies. On the walls of sanctuaries were inscriptions and tablets in commemoration of miraculous cures with statues and steles erected by former patients in grateful recognition of cures effected by the divinity.⁴⁴

The power of the mind as it relates to the higher mind of God is tantamount to Hermetic thought. And this is echoed in the teachings of Phineas Quimby: “Mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.” From The Quimby Manuscripts:

1. Mind is changeable “spiritual matter,” a receptive, moldable something, susceptible to numerous subtle influences, often erroneous opinions (operating even when one is not consciously thinking about them).

2. Man is spiritual and has spiritual senses.

3. “Spiritual man can become open to and use spiritual power.” That means that man is not to follow his own inclinations, but to pursue Wisdom’s way.

All matter is contained in the spiritual mind. The Hermetic God is a mind that is immanent throughout the cosmos. This is stated repeatedly throughout the Corpus Hermeticum. In the Corpus Hermeticum V we see this concept expressed even in its title, “That God is invisible and entirely visible.”

I [am Mind and] I see another Mind, the one that [moves] the soul! I see the one that moves me from pure forgetfulness. You give me power! I see myself! I want to speak! Fear restrains me. I have found the beginning of the power that is above all powers, the one that has no beginning. I see a fountain bubbling with life. I have said, my son, that I am Mind. I have seen! Language is not able to reveal this. For the entire eighth, my son, and the souls that are in it, and the angels, sing a hymn in silence. And I, Mind, understand.⁴⁵