Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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man, introduces discord into the demonstration of man,
man, introduces discord into the demonstration of man,
even the sickness, sin and death of which we complain.
The idea of Life is obtained only from its perfect Prin-
ciple, and gained through science in which man is sin-
less and immortal.
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Sickness, sin and death belong not more naturally to
Sickness, sin and death belong not more naturally to
immortal man than to God, to body than to Soul, for it
is morally impossible that these should adhere to either,
and what gave Jesus authority over sickness, sin and
death was the understanding of his scientific being.
He stood boldly up in the face of all accredited evi-
dences of personal sense, Pharisaical creeds, etc., and
refuted them all with his healing. We never read of
his saying a creed or a prayer makes a Christian, or
searching into disease, to learn of discord if it was
acute or chronic, recommending laws of health, giving
drugs, etc., or even asking the will of God regarding
man's Life, for this he already understood. He reck-
oned sickness, sin and death, "liars from the begin-
ning," and destroyed them with the truth of being
that was self-evident to him and his only physician.
He kept the commandment, "Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me," and we must do likewise and
adopt this Truth of being before we obtain its harmony
or immortality.
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While Jesus rendered to Caesar the things that were
While Jesus rendered to Caesar the things that were
Caesar's, he also rendered to God the things that were
His, viz., Truth, Life and Love, and we, too, should
acknowledge these God, and sufficient to destroy every
discord of man. Jesus paid no homage to diplomas, to
forms of church worship, or the theories of man, but
acted and spake as he was moved by Spirit, the Princi-
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ple of being. To the believing Rabbi and Pharisee he
ple of being. To the believing Rabbi and Pharisee he
said, "Even the publicans and harlots go into the king-
dom of heaven before you," not that he scoffed at
Christianity, but he knew there is neither Spirit, Life,
nor Truth in mere forms of religion, and that a man
can be baptized, partake of the sacrament, support the
clergy, observe the Sabbath day, and make long prayers
while yet a sensualist and hypocrite. Forms of personal
worship may not be voluntarily wrong, but involuntarily
so, inasmuch as they hinder the Spirit. To be a hypo-
crite in the science of Christianity is morally impossible,
for here Christianity is based on demonstration, or
proof, and yet many will come falsely in its name as
predicted. When God is understood, man will need
nothing besides God to make him healthy and harmo-
nious. Jesus established his church on this very un-
derstanding, and taught his followers it cast out error
and healed the sick. Instead of believing Christ a per-
son, he said, Christ is "Truth and Life," and "I and
the Father are one," thus claiming no separate Intelli-
gence, action or Life from God, and despite the perse-
cution and cross this earned from a Pharisee, he wrought
out on its Principle harmonious being.
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The question was then as now, at issue with mankind,
The question was then as now, at issue with mankind,
how did Jesus, through Christ, his God-being, heal the
sick? Jesus answered this question in the explanation
that the world rejects, when he appealed to his students,
thinking they would better understand him; and asked
"whom do men say that I am?" referring to the "I,"
that healed and cast out error, and they replied, "Some
say Elias, others Jeremias," etc.; but these men were
dead, therefore, their answer implied that some thought