This book review is reprinted from Volume 9, 2003 Edition of The American Homeopath with permission from The American Homeopath.
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Aphorisms and Precepts from Extemporaneous Lectures

By James Tyler Kent
Edited by Leonard Fox, with an Introduction by Jose Pacheco

Arcana Books, 2002, The Swedenborgian Association, ISBN 1-883270-21-9, 76 pages

Reviewed by Melanie Grimes

This little book comes to us from a Swedenborgian press. The introduction by Pacheco discusses the influence of Swedenborg on homeopathic philosophy. The book itself list 452 small paragraphs, or aphorisms. Some are specific to homeopathy, some to are more general. For instance:

Aphorism #138: "One cannot afford to be liberal with principle. "
or
Aphorism #284: "There is no cell or tissue so small that it does not keep its soul and life force in it. "

Specific to homeopathy, Kent says (Aphorism #129): "When Psora has become a complete ultimation of causes, it becomes contagious."

This small volume contributes a great deal to our understanding of one of our foremost American homeopaths. It lends insights to his medicine and beliefs.

Kent himself sums up this book best in Aphorism #3: "You cannot divorce medicine and theology. Man exists all the way down, from his innermost spiritual to our outermost natural."