I I BL 2780 D28 No, 4. APPETITES AND PASSIONS: I Their Origin, and How to Cast Them Out, A LECTURE, BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, At Dodworth's Hall, N. If., Sunday Morning, Jan. 25, 1S63. | PHONOGRAPHICALLY EEPOETKD BY ROBERT S. MOORE. ' Fetter strong madness with a silken thread, Cure ache with air, and agony with words." A. J. DAVIS & CO., OFFICE OF THE HERALD OF PROGRESS, 274 Canal Street, New York. APPETITES AND PASSIONS : THEIK ORIGIN, AND HOW TO CAST THEM OTIT. "Fetter strong madness with a silken thread, Cure ache with air, and agony with words." It is customary to use old words to put new truths into, though in doing so I think we have failed some- what. Old bottles impart an old flavor to new wine. Therefore I prefer new words for new thoughts. An- cient peoples used the terms "Devil," "Demon," and " Hell," to express (in as strong language as possible,) the play and seat of the appetites and passions. Those who heard these words frequently failed to understand and comprehend their interior import. The Jews adopted these words, Christians thought a personal Devil was meant, and soon believed in a place where countless demons dwell. Modern Christians flounder on the same shoals on account of a misapprehension of terms. It is my present purpose to give you a plan by which you may cast out these educational devils which exist in and haunt the mind through association. Unitarian and Universalist criticisms prove that orthodoxy is the same as was the mythology of the an- cients. The terms " Demons" and " Devils" do not sustain the interpretation which popular orthodoxy UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA APPETITES AND PASSIONS. r >^*V" 3 gives them. The creed-world goes on its way, not re- joicing, but sadly believing in the literal interpreta- tion of ancient words. They have not heard the har- monious songs of the universe, nor the " tidings of great joy that shall be unto all people," or they would ascend the mountain summits and gladly contemplate the per- petual beams of divine love and wisdom crowning the surrounding scenery through all the eternity to come. Not having heard these songs nor received these "glad tidings," orthodox Christians have made the journey all the way from Calvary to America a. dark and dismal procession. Many of them require ambulances; for they are patients who have in their minds the sickly dregs of mythology. These creed-riden patients cannot walk; they are rich, and must be taken to church in carriages. On the outside of these fashionable ambu- lances sit drivers who are beautifully clothed, and who wait until the divinity doctor inside the orthodox hos- pital gives the final dose of texts with his sugar-coated benediction. Those who have not joined this melancholy ortho- dox procession, are born into the present. They partake of the fruits of the trees that grow and flourish to-day. Bitterness to some, but joy and peace to most. Reli- gion misapplied and not digested, or taken in parts and without conglomeration, persecutes its receivers. Great truths dawn gradually. Most minds need sun- light tempered to their short-sighted spiritual eyes. In the Bible we read of Sheol. (I am now biblical.) " Sheol" typifies the human brain. All human minds live in Sheol. All are bilious, and each descends into 4 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. Hades the Liver. A. human bei-ng, when bilious, dies more than once. The liver is the prepared hell for such. Others go down into Gehenna the Bowels; others to Tartarus the Stomach. Gehenna is the low- est valley a place for the deposition of that which is gross and corrupt. Evils live in all these " hells" in the human body. Unhappy persons know that there are " unclean spirits" in all these corporeal hells. Swedenborg, for the most part, wrote philosophi- cally before he became a Spiritualist. He claims to have received an interior notification from the Lord that he was " over-eating " The notice was served upon him just as he was entering upon his spiritual de- velopment. He states that the Lord said unto him: " Eat not so much." Is it not astonishing that a phi- losopher a man who had written the " Economy of the Animal Kingdom" should have furnished the necessity of receiving such a notice ! The Bible speaks of " unclean spirits." Jesus cast them out. So, also, did George Combe. Emerson, Parker, and others, cast out devils. Dr. Trail, of this city, also does something in the line of exorcism. So do all reformers in diet and drink. Few men possess the true amulet the will-power of the immortal spirit by which personal evils are over-mastered and exorcised. If you do not carefully control your appe- tites you will surely live in some one or more of these bodily hells With the fearful privilege or with the ne- cessity of making frequent visits to the others ! There is a lesson in a child's imaginative description of a Satan. Once I inquired of a little girl : " Susy, APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 5 can you tell me how a Devil looks?" And her. replj was: "A man without his head, but with the head of a hog." Another child, little Freddy, said that a Satan was a " serpent with four wings and a man's head." In descriptive imagery, in crude conception of a painful truth, this is not exceeded by Swedenborg, and even the New Testament contains nothing that exceeds the child's figure. Mary, a sweet little girl, described Satan as a " little, shott, fat man." Another said Satan was a man " with a head somewhat like a horse." Another described it as a " flying animal that gives sicknesses to people." One said Satan is a " dragon, with power to become invisible, or to transform itself into a black cat, a butterfly, or other beautiful shapes, always trans- mitting evils and calamities to mankind through every- thing it touches." Now it is the same with nations as it is with children. Children, in their thoughts, repro- duce the germs and sometimes even the forms of the religions of the creed-world. The human bodily organs and functions are similar to a wilderness full of animals, passions, demons, and unclean spirits. Through our appetites we are all led into the wilderness to be tempted. Jesus was thus led into the wilderness. Do you remember what preceded it? Baptism! John, the zealous herald, went out pre- paring the way for something higher declaring that "the kingdom of heaven was at hand." All high coun- selors and practical principles that go through the human spirit, are John the Baptists. When one becomes fully prepared, physically, to enter upon the work of a new life, then the same temp- tations assail him that assailed Jesus. He is first 6 APPETITES AND PA88IONS. tempted to over-eat ! Jesus fasted. He kept from the common foods and drinks of the day. His fasting diet consisted of the simplest berries and most delicate fruit- products that grew about the wilderness. But the demon, Hunger, tempted him and suggested to him that " stones be made into bread." This called up the next demon, Impatience. In Genesis we find the first tale of spiritual truth. It is there stated substantially that a woman prepared the dinner and then the man partook. The first Devil began his infernal work by food. It was natural and strictly appropriate for Mrs. Eve to commence house- keeping with a commendable desire to select and pre- pare such viands as would adequately tempt Mr. Adam to eat and enjoy the original " Thanksgiving dinner." ' According to popular orthodoxy, Adam's poor pos- terity have been more or less fools ever since. The Devil of Appetite has clogged the functions of man's physical organization, and has sent great trouble to the hells to the bowels, liver, stomach, and brain. Grahamites go to the other extreme. Disgusted with the Satan of Appetite, they have left his company and traveled through heaven to a very cold place beyond. After a time they return. Suppose you draw a line, one end of which, desig- nated by A, should represent absolute evil, the center, B, a golden mean, and the other end, C, perfect good, it would, perhaps, illustrate the true life for man to lead. But one end is not absolute evil and the other absolute good. There is good at both extremes. Man stands enveloped in darkness, his head only looking heavenward. This is well illustrated by the garments APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 7 we wear, which surround all parts of the body except- ing the head. The head and face* are exposed to the light and air of heaven. Impatient persons in their haste to jump over chasms, and because of their wish to accomplish in an hour what may certainly require a week become iras- cible and angry. By their perturbed, nervous, and irritable conditions, they disturb and render unhappy those who live around them. Nature's sublime course is very different. All vast operations go on slowly. Men and women never become angels until the demon of Impatience is cast out of them. Next comes the Satan of Anger a mighty demon who disturbs and overturns the whole world. Behold illustrations all around. The development of this demoniac passion between boys at the street-corners, is parallel to what we read in the history of great and mighty nations. A misapprehension of words, for exam- ple, is succeeded by a quickened pulse, impatient ges- tures, angry looks, and then blows and a pitched battle. The spirit of Anger is instantaneously communicated from one to another, until a whole community are aroused and under the control of the demon. The de- mon of Impatience begets the demon of Anger. These satanic majesties become instantly manifest in the rush of blood, in the defiant attitude, and in the gleaming and savage expression of the eye. Man is truly demo- niac when the evil of anger is in the ascendant. The next evil spirit generated from an overloaded stomach and bad digestion isjrascibility. It is known by the absence of tranquillity and gentleness, and of sufficient patience to inquire into facts and positions ; 8 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. and this condition begets Pride, which forthwith as- sumes the responsibility, fearlessly indorses Anger, and gives unbounded approbation and support to the deeds of Impatience. Pride is the most powerful Satan we have to con- tend with. Men who have reached " the pinnacle of the temple" who stand committed and approved as the apex of some station among their fellow-men are slow to unlearn their errors and vices. The world is filled with professional characters, who are afraid to come down from the pinnacle of the commercial temple, to which they have ascended through their unrestrained Ambition. Such minds are possessed of the worst of evil spirits Pride ! The worldly ambitious man is the Prince of Darkness. He is full of unclean spirits and devils. Being afflicted with the demon of Pride, he internally declares that he would rather " rule in hell than serve in heaven." So appeareth the Prince of Rebellion in the eyes of all loyalists. Another evil spirit, the most apparently amiable of all a spirit of darkness appearing as an angel of light, if such a thing were possible is the ungoverned and extravagant love of Approbation. It is the desire of Praise from those about us in the world. Those who are infested with this evil spirit, with this amiable Devil, are always standing upon the brink of a social precipice. Such minds are liable at any moment to fall and be lost. In the life of Daniel Webster we have an illustration of what was sacrificed to this evil spirit. He would have made a g^eat and noble President over the country an office to which he could have been elected had the motive of his acts been a desire to do APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 9 right for the sake of Right and Freedom. He was lost by his worldly efforts to win the golden opinions of too many citizens. There are instances of " sudden conversion," where individuals have emerged from the rule of these demo- niac spirits. These sudden conversions are sometimes accompanied with contortions of the countenance and writhings of the whole body. A drunkard sometimes .goes suddenly to bed, driven by his great suffering. After long agony he may come out a converted and so- bered sinner. Some people suppose that, on gaining the spirit-world, they will receive the baptism of abso- lute purification. Such are destined to sore-hearted disappointment. Those who return, teach us that all the misspent hours of life all the seasons that have been given up to the reign of personal evils in body and mind oppress their spirits with regrets and pain- ful memories. Meanwhile, others, who have lived truer lives and more faithfully, walk on the shores of beautiful streams, and listen to " the tidings of great joy." . Passions and Appetites do not continue into the Summer-Land, but the effects thereof remain as adher- ing spheres and substances ; and the post-mundane experiences arising from such imperfections are very sad. When you arrive where clean and beautiful gar- ments are required, you may find that your wardrobe is either spotted or deficient; you may appear unlike the multitudes of those around you, and you may suffer from contrast, from a sense of unworthiness, and thus begin to realize that you have not lived out your aspirations. 10 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. To CAST OUT DEVILS. Commence in the first place, and at once, to live in obedience to the laws written within and upon your constitution. Some men seek to cast demons out by and through the observance of phy- siological laws. Never expect to receive much mental happiness through observance of mere physiological laws ; neither attempt nor expect to be physically happy by observing and complying with mentsl laws sim- ply. Never be absurd. Learn philosophy. Apply means legitimately to the ends to be attained. Do not seek to be angelic before your time. Let all desire only the ripeness of full earthly progress. Wait until stones can be pulverized into soil. Let dull earth be matured, through all intermediate gradations, into fruit. And, above all, never become Impatient and fret because stones are not changed into bread. Obedience to laws of the stomach and other organs to live as does a good fish, horse, or other animal, if pursued ex- clusively, even if self is all devoted to it will not produce happiness in man. That partial obedience does not complete the requirements of your being. You pos- sess soul, spirit, love, intellect. It will not even suffice to cultivate your intellect exclusively, or to inform yourself upon the spiritual literature of the day, or to seek enlarged conceptions and to fellowship ennobling thoughts. Neither of these will bring true happiness. What is needed is Equilibrium Balance! To pur- chase a farm for cultivation, you do not go either to Nova Zembla or Patagonia. You seek naturally a clime within the temperate belt. Never live in ex- tremes ! Seek rather a place which comprehends and involves both extremes ! A spirit demon cannot long APPETITES AND PASSION8. 11 remain with you, or disturb your organs, when your body and soul are truly balanced. You may be tempt- ed. But you will quickly recover and be restored to your golden position that of a philosophical angel, a recognized Brother among the hosts of redeemed, while yet in the body. Philosophers do not believe that man- kind are infested and made angry by spirits without the body. The true man knows he has the will-power to place his foot upon the head of every appetite, that he can overcome and crush, all demons, within his constitution. Spiritual truths come beautifully to teach us that we can purify all the chambers of hell ; that the individual can cast out all that is evil, and un- fold that spiritual harmony which shall cause his bodily wilderness to blossom as the rose. FALSE OPINIONS. The Churches hold that the abode of evil spirits is an external empire, and they teach that demons are persons. But the Spiritualism of the nine- teenth century, as well as that of Jesus of Nazareth, brings out the clear and beautiful gospel that man con- tains within himself the powers of recuperation and regeneration, and teaches that the abode of unclean spirits is within. There are many who even implore protection for their appetites, and claim and expect sympathy for the condition in which they are brought by the demons that haunt them. The human organism is full of passions and internal conflicts. The means of casting out the real demona are not prescribed in Churches or in the Medical Col- leges, and yet it is a subject of far more importance than theological or simply moral teachings. \i 4 j Many and various inventions are contrived for the 12 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. extinction of these devils ! The Jewish religion adopts a course of strict personal and national discipline. Moses seemed to see that many evils come from Tarta- rus, the stomach, and he laid down laws with regard to food. Discipline was the sovereign remedy. His rules were not always the laws of God, although they were given forth with the indorsement of the spirit-heaven, which he deeply realized while writing them and giving them to the people. Curbing passions and appetites, and rigorously fol- lowing Law, is what the Jews do to-day, the same as when Moses descended from Sinai with the tablets of stone. That people walk in the same old tracks, never allowing themselves to be thrown out of the grooves in which they have been running for centuries. This shows that physical and national discipline does not drive the demons out of men. The Jews are not broad- minded and liberal. Their system has not advanced them beyond the rest of mankind. The Jews of to-day are copies of the ancient people who lived in Palestine. Jesus came among the Jews and said that the Law or at least so much of it as did not accomplish the work of casting out demons must be put aside forever. He announced that the laws of Moses were to be filled full of new thoughts. A new method of treatment for individual and general sins was to be adopted. He was the first graduate of all the spiritual schools the first who really confounded the learned Doctors. Instanta- neous inspiration was soon adopted as a better mode of treatment. Jesus required perfect faith. He argued that such was the remedy. The early Christians still APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 13 required the work of Discipline, and Faith was the in- spiration by. which such discipline was to effect perma- nent cures. To the woman who came to him to be cured, he said, " Thy faith hath made thee whole." Faith was and is the central gospel of the Christian world. Now let us ask whether Faith, the sovereign .remedy prescribed by the Christian Church which has been nearly two thousand years in use has driven un- clean spirits and demonic passions out of the people ? The appliances of Faith have been made through Churches and other institutions at an expense beyond computation. The blood of innumerable martyrs has flowed in defense of Faith. And yet unclean spirits and demons continue to abound in men and women. Not many persons are healed by Faith. Church- members in business and in society, are the same aa persons who have not been relieved of unclean spirits. Discipline and Faith have led the world to where it now stands. Unclean spirits and demons continue to roam through mankind, bringing a horrible war upon the freest soil known on the globe. Neither Faith nor Discipline have brought men into Paradise. Both of them seem to lead large multitudes down to moral and physical damnation. To the incalculable benefifc which have grown out of Discipline and Faith I do not close my eyes. I am looking as I trust you are from the center. Medical systems have devised methods of relief, but they succeed only to a very small extent. Amusements are invented to lift men from the slough of despond- ency. With many Tobacco comes in as a palliative. Many say the happiest moments they experience in the 14 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. twenty-four hours, occur during the reverie excited by a fine cigar. Thus men seek to render .oblivious the influences of the evil spirits. They vainly think exter- nal appliances will relieve them from the sufferings of internal discord. Opium is used for the same purpose. This drug is an unclean spirit which sometimes closes the mouth of the other demons. Opium is a miserable, driveling, debasing character, who stands up and re- morsely controls the whole man or woman. Doctors cannot relieve; Churches cannot. What then is the true remedy ? In a reformed state of society do you suppose that drug-stores will exist? They are so many attempts at vicarious atonement for the unclean spirits which we create and multiply every time we overstep the bounds of eating, drinking, sleeping, conjugal love, or other limits which Nature has set up within our being. True reformers see that there is another method by which these evils can be exorcised. Formerly I was disposed to be somewhat opposed to ministers. Perhaps many of you may have been a little prejudiced against them. But now, I begin to think that after all they are about as good as mechanics. But they do not cure the sin- sick any more than do physicians. When a man is a little sick, he sends for a physician ; he grows worse, then he sends for a lawyer ; finally, when he gets very bad, the minister is called. But all these professional appliances are but vicarious atonements false in theory and worse in application beautiful and mysterious quackeries, and ought to be abandoned. There is a world of wisdom in a knowledge of inherent laws, written by the good Father and Mother APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 15 in this Book of Life the human body and mind. All that was said by Pythagoras, Plato, Moses, and Jesus, may be found here. Here we may find the original of all that has been sung, or painted, or chiseled. Pro- gress is the law the saving principle by which every end is accomplished. Men may become " masters of the situation." Mankind can overcome all the " unclean spirits" that roam through society, from bowels, liver, stomach, and brain. Persons who have arrived at that state are entitled to be styled Graduates, being prepared to enter into the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. Such should be recognized not as fanatics often are, by long beard and uncombed hair; but by their pure and shin- ing countenance, sweet breath, calm expression, and general balance of character ; for such minds, when in the midst of discord and stormy passions, could say, " Get thee behind me, Satan," and all the ugly devils would flee away from around them. This is the Redeemed Man the Spiritual Graduate a true " con- vert." This end is possible, and it is attainable in this life. Will you not try to attain it? It is an error to say that sin is a transgression of law. No natural or divine law is ever transgressed. Methods devised by men, and styled " laws," are not real Divine laws. Fundamental laws are written within us by our true parents. Ministers apprehend sin to be a violation of statute or biblical laws. Did you ever violate a law of your being ? Never ! Then, why your sufferings ? If you understand that, then you un- derstand the remedy, and forthwith you may cast out your " demons." A Christian is converted. He is a believer in that to which he wag converted. He ' be- 16 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. i lieves and is baptized'' a beautiful psychological law, with a germ of spiritual truth in it. Christians believe that after conversion they will be happy ! Are they ? They need ministers more after conversion than before. They seem to be more sick than ever. Perhaps not a demon has been driven from either bowels, liver, stomach, or brain. A family may obey all the requisi- tions of the Church, still they need a physician. The convert is not in harmony with the requirements of the physical laws. Laws of digestion go on the same in a dyspeptic as they do when a man is in health. The law remains in perfect action. It cannot be trans- gressed. But a man may carry his system a part of it beyond the requirements of other parts, and the law of digestion protests, and at that point " unclean spirits" assemble, and then what an interesting condi- tion he is in for living ! A walking pandemonium in the midst of sunlight, stars, and clear skies ! Perhaps he has wealth, and offers one hundred dollars to his phy- sician to make him well ! Such a man cannot be made well by medicine. He cannot be placed where he will realize the requisitions of the law of digestion. He is the same miserable man notwithstanding he claims to have the "fellowship of the Holy Ghost." A good church-going farmer who does not understand agricul- ture, and who does not obey the requirements of the laws of seasons, cannot obtain large crops. No Christian fellowship, no priest, no prayers, can secure him a great harvest. Whilst one who never goes to church, if he comprehends and lives up to the laws of seasons, may secure bountiful supplies. If a man is not in relation to spiritual love, by APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 17 which he is enabled to see truths as they are, he is miserable. He attends to the law of business as well as to the laws that regulate social life, and he may suc- ceed both in business and socially. As a family man, who is a good provider, he is liked by the community. But if he does not harmonize with spiritual laws, and does not understand why truth is better for him than error, he is in a precarious position and calls for strength. If he does not harmonize with the law of conjugal love, but suffers the presence of the demon, and furnishes it with food and drink, and accepts the physician's prescription of indulgence as a remedy as most physicians advise and if he is spoken to from the pulpit in poetical strains and through symbolic figures, without receiving and comprehending the spiritual law, he goes to outer dark- ness, where he finds " weeping, and wailing, and gnash- ing of teeth." He has not violated the conjugal law. The mistake is, he did not come into harmony with it. Fourier taught the divinity of the passions ; that they are the voices of God : and that what they prescribe it is right for men to do. He meant, I think, just what I mean when I say " love ;" but as it is generally compre- hended, it means yielding to the passions the right to rule the individual. Now, here on the earth man is intended to be simply and only a healthy and happy human being : neither an animal nor an angel. The animal is past ; the angel is future. Be invariably considerate of the natural rights of others; live%t home and be human; and do all things for the benefit of those around you, and for the good of all the world. Live to a purpose, and it will give you 18 APPETITES AND PASSIONS. majesty of position and influence. Single men and women can only be half-persons, and the mischief is that so many in so-called married life are but ' half- persons," performing the comic drama of conjugal love, and continuing the vulgar farce of pretending to possess domestic happiness. In marriage, passion and impa- tience oftentimes become the destroying demons. Perhaps you have a desire to come into the relation of a parent: this is in accordance with the law of Pa- rental love. A full-grown person, who has not entered upon that relation, must love something which will be equivalent, for the time being, to a child. Many sub- stitutes are sought and tried, and sometimes a person will resort to that most miserable of all substitutes a poodle-dog. Those who do not harmonize with such laws have constant vague longings, and are frequently dissatisfied with life. If we do not develop Fraternal love, if we do not go out from our children to visit our neighbors, and that too for the sake of being useful to others, then we are still under the rule of some demon. Self-love brings in its painful limitations. These are the natural punishments which come to all who live for themselves alone. Very selfish persons are always miserable. Seek to know and truly love a Principle, and not give rein to your passions, which are demons. Each may be a sun which can shine effulgently on other orbs on a child, a sister, brother, neighbors, or on other per- sons about you and their reciprocations will be ever promotive of joy and spiritual satisfaction. The sure way to Grow is to come first into strict harmony with the laws that regulate the body, then APPETITES AND PASSIONS. 19 seek to fulfill those which regulate the mind. Com- mence with the stomach and do not over-eat. Learn that all that disturbs the physical nature disturbs the inward harmony. 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