Chapter VII - Physiology
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is governed by Spirit that understands all things, we
is governed by Spirit that understands all things, we
know Spirit is that to which all things are possible.
The approaches to this great affluence of Truth that
heals the sick, are made through the footsteps of our
Master. Christianity alone is its basis, and physiology,
that pins our trust to matter instead of God, its very
opposite. Ignorant of the footsteps and foundation of
this science, the world may call it mesmerism, trance,
mediumship, electricity, etc., but not one of these in
the least expresses it, and whoever reaches the science of
being in the high sense of its sudden cures, learns it is
by taking up the cross and following Christ. We are
scientific only as we let go material things, drugs,
manipulations, etc., for the spiritual, and leave all for
Christ, trusting only Truth to heal the sick. Our
beliefs are not spiritual, they are from the hearing of
the ear, from personal sight and sense.
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Spirit never believes in God because it understands
Spirit never believes in God because it understands
Him. Power is a belief of matter, a blind force, the
offspring of will and not Wisdom, of the mortal, and
not the immortal mind, – yea, of error, and not Truth.
The headlong cataract, the devouring flames, the tem-
pest's breath, the lightning and storm, together with all
that is selfish, dishonest, and impure, represent power.
Might belongs to Spirit, the very "winds are in His
fists;" and, controlled by Spirit and not matter, they
are harmonious. Error is the prototype of will; and
willing the sick to recover, or man to do this or that,
infringes on his rights; it is mesmerism capable of all
evil, instead of the science of being. Christ, Truth,
stills the tempest and is the "peace be still" to de-
structiveness or disease.
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To personal sense opposites affinitize; but not so in
To personal sense opposites affinitize; but not so in
science, the mind of Soul, where Truth never mingles
with error or the so-called mind of the body, and there-
fore is able to cast it out. Spirit is Intelligence; matter
is not; there is a mind of Soul, but not of body, of God,
but not man. The mind of Soul is the aroma of being,
the atmosphere of Intelligence thrown off by Spirit;
but the so-called mind of man is the belief that a pulpy
substance under the skull contains mind, yea, that mat-
ter is Intelligent, and this belief is false, the mocker of
Intelligence, even error calling itself Truth. This is
the scientific statement of mortal man, but man is im-
mortal, therefore this is not man, but a belief anatomized
metaphysically. To classify Spirit and matter thus,
that Spirit is distinct from matter but must pass through
it to be identified, is a mistake. The limitless would
destroy limits if it entered them, and Spirit cannot be
limited. It is a dream and illusion that Soul is in body
and matter the medium of Spirit. We are not aware
it is a dream, the terrible nightmare, that makes suffer-
ing or enjoyment just as the dream chances to run.
We would prefer the suffering that makes one willing
to be aroused from this dream, to the pleasure that
tends to hold it.
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We frequently heal the sick who are absent from us,
We frequently heal the sick who are absent from us,
without the least consciousness of it on their part, ex-
cept from their recovery. Now reverse the case, and
mathematical you prove that if mind eschewing laws
of health, dietetics, physiology, etc., restores the sick, an
opposite mind crammed with physiology, etc., might
make them sick. This proof we gain of our body, for
such mind causes us what are termed the physical