| XII. | No one can shun evils as sins, so as inwardly to hold them in aversion, except by combats against them. |
| XIII. | Man ought to shun evils as sins, and fight against them, as from himself. |
| XIV. | If a man shuns evils for any other reason than because they are sins, he does not shun them, but only prevents their appearing before the eyes of the world. |
It seems unnecessary to enter further into the Doctor's affirmations and denials. When he proceeds to speak of "Disease and Its Cure," he speaks much more in harmony with the teachings of Swedenborg than with the idealism of his preceding pages. He says the cause and cure of disease are always spiritual, and operate by Correspondence.
"The cause and cure of disease are always mental. The apparent external causes of disease are emblems or correspondences of the real interior and spiritual causes. When the external is applied, it is really the internal which acts. Ipecac does not produce vomiting because men think it does, or because it has any vital property whatever, but because it corresponds to the sphere of disgust, loathing and rejection, which is spiritual vomiting."—Page 38.
He might have said that the "sphere of disgust, loathing and rejection " is its vital property by Correspondence. As was shown in the general doctrine, all poisonous things
