Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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setting aside what, mind says in regard to this, as a
setting aside what, mind says in regard to this, as a
wheel, and to understand this point in science, will rest
you as hours of quiet would not. Make a scientific test
of this, if you please, and you will find it true; but in
order to do this, you must understand how to hold and
strengthen the mental argument against the physical,
and guard against the influence of other minds, that
embrace opposite beliefs. When through the Truth
of man you gain one victory over the error, it will
bring out a faint understanding of the Principle that
controls being harmoniously. A disposition is often
manifested to get rid of this physical part of science,
by saying the fatigue did actually occur, but you psy-
chologized the individuals to think they were not
weary; this argument, however, is weak in behalf of
the old positions regarding mind and body, for it admits
the power of mind over matter, and this is just what
you need to admit first, and next to understand its
Principle, and not to mesmerize a man to make him
wise, or yield to the error that belief is superior to
understanding. The difficulty to understand science is,
personal sense comprehends it not, but wars against it,
for belief will not and cannot accept a Principle under-
standingly. We hear a sweet melody, and not knowing
how it is produced, may explain it superstitiously,
and leave the thing in mysticism. The sick often
recover through the science of being; but not com-
prehending the Principle of their cure, misinterpret
it, and do not render to God the things that are God's;
but give them to Caesar, saying, medicine, a change
of air, or some supposed law of matter, did it. How
often have we seen, a chemicalization, produced by the
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introduction of the Truth of being, relating to disease,
introduction of the Truth of being, relating to disease,
given a misinterpretation by an ignorance of its real
cause. We look for cause and effect in matter; whereas
science finds all causation, mind; that which is produced
by the mind of Soul, harmonious, and by the so-called
mind of matter, inharmonious. The belief from infancy
to age, that muscles are tired and body inharmonious,
is error, and this error in the premises, leads to the
error in conclusion, viz., that they are tired. Admit-
ting fatigue a sensation of matter that belongs to mus-
cles and nerves, we find rest only in respite from toil,
thus admitting matter intelligent; but when we under-
stand a sense of fatigue is one of mortal mind's beliefs,
and not a sensation of matter, we begin to master it,
and can continue the exercise without the same fatigue
or injury.
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To gain entire immunity from suffering and sin, and
To gain entire immunity from suffering and sin, and
perfect control over the belief of personal sense, or our
bodies, we must be perfect in science; a thing not to
be looked for at this period; but if we abate the de-
mands and sufferings of personal sense, on the Principle
laid down, it is sufficient for a beginning. In doing
this even, it will be found that in science we cannot
multiply where we should divide, and the answer be
right; that we cannot say to muscles, you have strength,
and to nerves, you have sensation, and to matter, you
hold sway as well as Spirit, and then control our body,
with the opposite Principle of being; we must deny all
sensation or Intelligence to matter or the body, with
the understanding that Spirit is all that possesses In-
telligence, before we can demonstrate in harmony the
science of being. We are tired according to one belief,