Part 14

But few male Jews have consumption, although they are improperly circumcised. Circumcise all consumptives, both male and female, and see how quickly you will achieve a result.

I will show a genital lesion in every woman with an undeveloped bust. Amputate the labia minora of a young woman and see how quickly her bust will develop and her respiration be facilitated—a marked result in less than two weeks.

I treat all eye trouble by removing the irritation from the other end of the nerve. It is a rare case where the cause and effect are at the same place. The fool ideas offered as to light, printing, et cetera, in our schools, being the cause of so much bad eyesight among the students, is all rot. Circumcise them, our mothers are breeding a sexually irritated generation of both sexes. If the Jews had properly circumcised their women there now would be no necessity of doing so with the men.

Moses insisted on two laws. The Jews to-day cannot tell you why those laws are enforced. As to the pork I will explain later, as to the circumcision they have not been able to offer a rational explanation.

Why is it there are so few Jews in the penitentiaries, insane asylums, who are cancerous or consumptive among the males? Why are the Jews a money-making race? Oh, they inherit it. No. A Jew is but a human being, he is the same as you and I; he is ruled by the same Law of Suggestion. It is first, because he is circumcised, secondly, because he is clean, and third, his Abdominal Brain (mind) is not worried or irritated. Consequently, he is full of life and energy, and his brain works in a “normal” manner. He eats clean food, producing the same result and, therefore, is equipped to do business with a “normal” mind, he is free from the “abnormal,” therefore, not a criminal, not a candidate for the insane asylum; his thoughts are healthful and therefore he looks forward to a long life, to a large family, to the care of them, and to the necessity of acquiring the means whereby they can live: he is nearly “normal.” The law of Moses, although unexplained by his followers, was a law of health; a healthy mind is always the result of a healthy body, or a healthy body is the result of the healthy mind, impossible to find one each way.

When food is impure, the ganglia whose duty it is to transform and make pure blood, is working awry, and nothing done to the blood will purify it as to the health of man. Inasmuch as the ganglia will continue to make bad blood, why treat the blood?

A man’s bowels are constipated and the doctor gives him a drug. Does the drug empty the bowel? No, the drug does not. Why is the bowel not working properly? Because the ganglia that control secretion and peristalsis are not doing their duty, and nothing but those ganglia can empty the bowel. Therefore, the drug is simply a suggestion that stimulates these ganglia and causes them to renew their action of secretion and peristalsis. Catarrh, asthma, heart trouble, rheumatism and functional diseases are all a result of irritation at the other end of the nerve. The idea of trying to drug or treat the heart for its imperfect action is ridiculous.

My intelligent reader now asks where the other end of these nerves are? How is it the doctor has not discovered them? I will tell you why, my good reader.

Our doctors have failed to discover the end of the nerve, inasmuch as they are “scientific” and do not know how to “think.” They reason deductively, which is not reasoning. From a true premise no deduction should be necessary, inasmuch as the cause and effect are perceptible. Reasoning, so-called, is required when only an effect is perceptible, and one has to go back to the cause. The moment the cause is found no more reasoning is required. The cause and effect are so closely associated that when we comprehend the cause, we must comprehend the effect. Inductive reasoning is the only true reasoning, and our scientists (?) know nothing of this, they much prefer to assume a cause and force a deduction to fit the effect known. How many inductive reasoners has the world produced? Not fifty, and I include all great thinkers in the fifty. Our doctor is a good, clean (?) man; his patients are good, clean (?) people, and they greatly dislike to think of anything that is “naughty,” forgetting that all “naughty” things are a perversion of good things; and that the being who appears the most “nice,” at heart is the worst. Little children are taught that it is awful to hear anything mentioned about their privates. In many states physiology is barred from the public schools, as it is something awful for man to understand himself. As everything suggests positive for or positive against, the real modest person is simply the positive opposite to the real vulgar person, both having the same thought, only one gives action in blushing, et cetera—alleged modesty—while the other gives action in vulgar expressions. The truly pure being would be neutral—no ideas associated as to bad.

Dear reader, one can have no thought without its expression (for that is all a thought is), and alleged modesty deceives no one, least of all one versed in human nature.

In all my years of experience (and I can read a face like a book—I know my nerve-ends), I have met but three really healthy women, and they were Southerners; and no healthy men.

Some one speaks in public of a woman’s leg, many cast their eyes down and others blush; some laugh. The sexual look appears in the eyes of others. Let us analyze the thoughts of these four classes of people. When “leg” is mentioned, the first party would not cast his eyes down unless he had “bad” ideas associated; the second would not have blushed if he had good ideas associated; the third would not have laughed, nor the sexual look have appeared in the eyes of the fourth, had they not all proportionately associated the same ideas. Now, the ideas are mostly acquired,—particularly in the first three—by the parents telling them not to think of this, not to do that, and the entirely false thought of modesty, or something “bad” was associated and placed in their minds through their “bad” mother telling them they must not do or think of these things. Remember, all things in the world are good, and man has created the bad. Life keeps moving onward, which is good, and no matter which way it moves it is always onward and always good, and the “bad” is produced by the “not’s,” the “don’t’s,” and the “mustn’t’s.” Therefore, I define “bad” to be perverted good.

The nerve-ends of all the upper orifices and the heart and lungs, terminate in the genitals and the rectum. You will rarely find only one orifice of the head responding to nerve-end irritations. I always find two—the eyes and ears, eyes and nose, et cetera.

I have cured stutterers, all classes of eye trouble, all kinds of nervousness in both sexes by removing the sexual irritation; but as this book is written simply to give the reader a general idea of suggestion, I will keep this subject for a book to be written later, intended for doctors and mothers only.

In 1895, while claiming in my lectures that we must have an Abdominal Brain—otherwise there was no logical explanation as to many of the conditions I was producing through hypnosis, in Lansing, Michigan—Doctor William D. Cooper drew my attention to the wonderful results Dr. E. H. Pratt, of Chicago (the father of orificial surgery), was attaining by operating on the lower orifices, and intimated that perhaps he was reaching the Abdominal Brain. This intimation prompted me to visit Dr. Pratt and learn of his work, which in time resulted in my believing that the Sympathetic System was my much sought Abdominal Brain, and much study and experiment has resulted in the foregoing synopsis.

If man is ruled by his environment, it naturally follows that his body must be his closest environment; as the body is, so is the “mind;” as is the “mind,” so the body. Therefore, blackguarding, sensuality and prostitution are physical diseases. If man’s thoughts are forced on him through his five senses, it follows that, if he has a sexual irritation, sexual thoughts will always dominate. Therefore, instead of passing laws against those “sins,” hospitals should be established and convicted invalids sent there to be properly treated.

Prostitution is a curable disease. The orificial surgeon can remove the physical suggestion, and the hypnotist can break up the nerve habit.

If we put a clean woman in a dirty house, and keep the house dirty for a certain length of time, that woman will become disgusted and have no desire to clean up. Put a dirty woman in a clean house, keep the house clean for a period, and that woman will become ashamed and acquire habits of neatness. So it is with the mind and the body. When the body becomes foul, the mind degenerates and vice versa. The food is the material out of which the body is made, and foul food builds a foul body and “mind,” notwithstanding the false theories of our alleged scientists.

Man’s stomach is the hopper of a mill, made to grind and digest certain foods. If man partakes of food to re-establish his body, his present eating must be radically wrong, because at least three-fourths of the food taken into the stomach is passed off through the bowels; if he ate proper food, ninety-five per cent of it should be turned into tissue and the waste should be correspondingly small. What fool man does to-day is to put all kinds of indigestible food (?) into his hopper, and when the mill tries to grind, it breaks down; he then sends for his doctor and expects him—if he could—to repair the mill so that he can go on trying to grind flint with machinery intended to grind wheat only.

Remember this, a child’s stomach is gradually taught to digest coarse food. In other words, it must learn to transform the different foreign elements passed into the stomach. No argument offered can substantiate the necessity of flesh-eating. The strongest animals in the world, proportionately, are the ox, the ass and the elephant, strict vegetarians; and each and every pound of their flesh represents an equal proportion of vegetable strength, a concentration of many times its bulk of vegetable matter, and vegetable life was before animal life. The vicious animals in the world are the lion, the tiger, and all flesh-eating animals. In certain parts of the Orient are horses that eat flesh, and are so vicious that only the most expert can handle them. If you desire to make your dog vicious, chain him up and feed him on flesh.

The life of modern man is one of confinement, and in every pound of flesh he eats he takes into his system a hundred times more energy than it is possible for him to give voice to. Being possessed of this concentrated energy, he can get rid of it only by giving it a counter-irritant or energy absorber in the form of liquor, sensuality and brutality.

During the Greco-Turkish war, the non-meat-eaters and abstainers from alcohol paid but little attention to wounds similar to those that sent the meat-eaters to the hospital. Similar wounds that sent them to the hospital, caused the death of the others.

The hog is a scavenger, living on filth and transforming filth into its body, which is simply a concentrated form of filth. Lazy man takes this filth into his stomach, transforms it into his flesh, and wonders why he is syphilitic, cancerous, diseased, lazy and sluggish. I have given health to many families by causing them to cut pork and lard from off their bills of fare. All fat is filth. All four-legged scavengers easily go to fat. Feed kine on “slops” and they go to fat.

The lady with the blotched face goes to her physician, and he advises her to avoid eating pastry. For Heaven’s sake! What can be healthier than flour and fruits? What, then, must be the only thing that is detrimental? Why, the lard, the shortening in the pastry.

My experience and investigations have shown me that the majority of the poor people, who can barely get money enough together to buy a little “sow-belly” and meal, are always the lazy, indolent, worthless class of people, whose entire tissue is made up of hog meat, and consequently have very sluggish brains. I have yet to meet a confirmed pork-eater with an active mentality.

For three years I abstained from eating flesh, two years of which was the most delightful existence I ever experienced. Having a clean tenant in a clean house, my thoughts were pure, my actions pure; but found I lacked the energy to keep up the race with the over-wrought, pell mell, flesh-eating environment. I firmly believe that there is no case of syphilis so severe but proper dieting will re-establish a healthy condition.

Since my experiments of putting subjects to sleep for seven days, many dyspeptics have taken up the fast cure and have demonstrated beyond all question that much good is consummated by total abstinence from food. Our doctors are daily killing their patients by feeding them. When mind requires food, food will be demanded. There is never danger of a patient starving to death.

Mind responds to the suggestion of matter. Our doctors tell us that we are vast sewers, filled with bugs that are devouring one another; that the more chemicals, the more putrid matter they can put into us the better we are. First, they warn us to beware of the pus of a sore, yet take the pus of cow-syphilis—cow-pox—and put it into the pure body of a helpless babe to prevent its getting a harmless disease, a disease that any first-class homeopath laughs at, small-pox—a disease that is non-contagious, non-infectious, as is proven by vaccination, which fails to produce small-pox—Oh! the scientists (?). This was demonstrated beyond all question last summer by a physician in Wisconsin eating the virus and spreading it all over his face; he fed it to at least thirty of his patients and none contracted the disease. Small-pox decreases with the advancement of sanitation.