The Inner Life

“It is generally admitted, not only that miracles did not exist, but that they could not exist. Such is still the attitude of most physiologists and physicians. However, in view of the facts observed during the last 50 years, this attitude cannot be sustained. The most important cases of miraculous healing have been recorded by the medical bureau of Lourdes (France).

“Our present conception of the influence of prayer upon pathological lesions is based on observation of patients who have been cured almost instantaneously of various afflictions, such as peritoneal tuberculosis . . . and cancer. The process of healing changes little from one individual to another. Often acute pain, then a sudden sensation of being cured. In a few seconds, a few minutes, at the most a few hours, the wounds are cicatrized. (Healed over with a scar.)

“Prayer is the only condition indispensable to the occurrence of the phenomenon. But there is no need for the patient himself to pray, or even to have any religious faith. It is sufficient that someone around him be in a state of prayer.”

“Those endowed with this power grasp the secret thoughts of other individuals without using their sense organs. They also perceive events more or less remote in space and time. This quality is exceptional. It develops in only a small number of human beings. But many possess it in a rudimentary state. A clairvoyant reads the thoughts of other people as easily as he examines the expression of their faces . . . Telepathic communications occur frequently . . . it is certain that thought may be transmitted from one individual to another, even if they are separated by long distance.”