If you seek to help the brain which is becoming deranged, take care likewise of the stomach which is suffering. "A sound mind in a sound body" — was a tenet of the culture of antiquity.

And no one will have sound thinking without good digestion.

Óbviously we are not referring here to abuses of food, but to the frugal and pure meal which maintains physical health.

Let us not, therefore, forget the obligation of satisfying the basic needs of our fellowman that we may be able to give him the message of our faith, not merely the excess of bread which results in disease and deterioration.

Nor merely systematic discourse which results in demagoguery and rhetoric.

Guidance for the mind and help for the stomach.

Example and lesson, attitude and the spoken word.

Nourishment and shelter, medicine and consolation.

Study which edifies. Kindness which comforts, the dining hall which restores.

The school which illumines.

Through the New Testament, in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles, we are informed that in the first century of Christianity in Jerusalem there were some who provided for those who were thirsting for light and some served those who were starving for bread.

the pulpit and the table were conjoined, as were truth and love for the victory of light.

That being so, in the spiritualist apostolate which revitalizes the divine ministry of Our Lord, let us not forget the afflictions of the soul and the body. Let us assist the victims of ignorance, not forgetting the creatures who lie under the fetters of physical calamities.

The brain depends on the stomach for governing organic life. The stomach depends on the brain to nourish it.

Both require attention and affection. Perhaps that is why the Divine Wisdom separated them, placing the heart between them as an intermediary.

Scheilla