Chapter VII - Physiology
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repliest to Spirit? can matter speak for itself, or has it
repliest to Spirit? can matter speak for itself, or has it
the issues of Life? Pain or pleasure belongs to mind
alone. Matter has no partnership with Spirit. The
head cannot ache, but believing it does, "as a man
thinketh so is he." Mind is all that feels, that produces
action or impedes it; but, ignorant of this, or shrinking
from its responsibility, you throw the burden on matter,
and lose conscious control over your body. Adjust a
balance, and a single weight removed from one of the
scales gives preponderance to the opposite one; so with
body and mind; what you cast into the scale of matter
to weigh for or against health, you take away from In-
telligence, and its power to hold the balance against
matter. Your belief weighs against your health while it
ought to weigh for it. When the body is sick according
to a belief of matter, you trust in drugs, laws of health
and matter to heal it, when you have got yourself into
the difficulty through these very beliefs of Intelligent
matter. Disease is caused and cured by mind alone;
matter never did it; this you do not understand now,
but must before you are immortal. To lay aside our
God-being as of little use in sickness, seems anomalous;
to depend on matter then and put Truth aside for the
hour of health, is to learn it can not do as much for you
then as in sickness.
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Because materia medica and physiology say man is
Because materia medica and physiology say man is
sick and useless, suffering, or dying, in obedience to
laws of God, are we to believe this? despite his laws
to the contrary are we to believe what Jesus proved
false? he surely did the will of the Father and healed
sickness instead of producing it. The demands of God
relate to mind alone, but the claims of physiology
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and what are termed laws of nature, rest upon the body
and what are termed laws of nature, rest upon the body
only. Which, then, are we to accept as legitimate and
capable of producing most harmony? We cannot obey
them both, for one works against the other, and will
be supreme in the affections. Spirit and matter are
opposites, and we cannot work from the standpoints of
both; attempt it and we shall find ourself cleaving to
one and forsaking the other.
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Heal your body with the science of being if you can,
Heal your body with the science of being if you can,
adhering to the old regimen, taking drugs, or yielding
your mental control to laws of matter. Obedience to
what you call material law, prevents obedience to the
spiritual law that enables you to handle deadly serpents
unharmed, and put matter under your feet. Like a
barrister that would strengthen his plea, introducing
the text, "Wo unto you, lawyers, for you shut up the
kingdom of heaven against man;" you plead for recov-
ery of God, and then shut out the aid of Spirit through
your material means; thus working against yourself,
and suffocating your own strength and ability. The
plea for matter, medicine, laws of health, etc., goes
against the science of mind over matter, and vice versa.
There is this clause in the statutes of Truth to which
we call your attention at such times, viz., that sin,
sickness, and death are not governed by laws of God.
Error produces error, sin and sickness, for both are er-
rors of belief, and what causes disease cannot cure it,
unless it be the homoeopathic dose where matter is de-
stroyed and mind says this. Admitting sickness a con-
dition of matter over which God has no control, makes
Omnipotence, on some occasions, null and void. The
law of Christ, Truth, finds all things possible to Spirit;