Unfortunately our modern life becomes less and less suited to such a way of doing things; everybody is in a hurry, some even die in a hurry; everyone wants to be cured quickly without regard to the natural vital processes. This is one of the great and fundamental causes of palliative medication and drug addictions.
In the last analysis it will be found that the mind of material mould grasps the idea of imponderables with difficulty; but recent advances of science are about to force the issue and it will not longer be possible to impugn the qualifications and motives of those who trust and use their powers with unrivalled success. Their advocates must of necessity persistently cultivate the habit of keen observation, correct reasoning, direct inquiry of nature and absolute honesty with themselves, and all will be well.
When we remember these things we should be more charitable toward many who differ from us in therapeutics; they mean well, but some don’t know, some don’t care and other can’t comprehend. After all is said and done it simply resolves itself into a matter of education; you must, first of all, educate away all prejudice and preconceived ideas. No man holding tenaciously to the idols of a cure by force, as generally understood, can be a good scientist or a clean homoeopath; there is no such thing. The power used comes from within and curing you draw it forth and guide it into the ways of health. This law is spiritual as well as material; it gradually emerges from one into the other; if you would be a whole man you must understand it and learn how to apply it, for by similars you are healed both mentally and physically.
No man can stand in your place; there is a great image after which your mind copies and a great image after which your body grows; it is a unit striving to bring itself into harmony with the All Father.
They are our best friends who make us think, albeit we may not fully agree with them. Now if I have shown you only one reason why the sick are cured by similars, you are thinking, and it is but a step of seeing that the highest potencies act for the same reason that the lower do. By the similarity of their time- pace they change the polarity of vital action and a cure follows.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies