A long, careful study of healing as a spiritual condition rather than a mechanical one. Hall traces the metaphysics of medicine from the earliest witch doctor and the American Indian healer through the Asclepian cult and Hippocrates, the rise of Christian healing in the early centuries, the great healing traditions of the East, the Renaissance physicians, the Christian Science and New Thought movements, and the place of metaphysical healing in the modern world. Hall on the body as the visible portion of the soul.
Manly P. Hall
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