The Quimby manuscripts

Ed. by Horatio W. Dresser.. Intro. by Ervin Seale.. Publishers' Note as it appeared in the 1921 edition orig. pub. by Thomas Y. Crowell Co.: 'The book as a whole contains an adequate statement of Quimby's original theory as found in his manuscripts, 1846-65. The volume also contains the writings hitherto inaccessible, which Mrs. Eddy borrowed during her stay in Portland as Quimby's patient. The editor is a son of Mrs. Julius A. Dresser, who was the most active of Quimby's followers at the time Mrs. Eddy was under treatment and who loaned Mrs. Eddy the copybooks which made her acquainted with the Quimby manuscripts.'

1 Biographical sketch. 2 History of the manuscripts. 3 Quimby's restoration to health. 4 The Mesmeric period. 5 The principles discovered. 6 The intermediate period. 7 Early writings. 8 Contemporary testimony. 9 Letters from patients. 10 Letters to patients. 11 Letters to patients and inquirers. 12 Mrs. Eddy: 1862-1875. 13 Questions and qanswers. 14 Christ or science. 15 The world of the senses. 16 Disease and healing. 17 God and man. 18 Religious questions. 19 Science, life, death. Appendix: List of Quimby's writings. The Quimby-Eddy Controversy

' Quimby discovered that man has two levels of mind or consciousness and that his thoughts are active in the upper level but his beliefs are active in the lower level and that these beliefs have a life and an authority of their own. So he said, "Man is made up of truth and belief." Whichever one is active at a given moment determines the conduct and the experience and the misery or happiness of the person. Quimby discovered the subconscious mind and its action, though he did not name it such.' --Introduction, pp. 10-11

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