Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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and proof are required, and no concessions made to
and proof are required, and no concessions made to
persons or opinions. The relation of Truth to man,
improving him physically and morally, we have stated
as we discovered it, and submit our statement to proof.
Having first convinced ourself through demonstration
of the Principle of our discovery and its ability to heal
the sick and bring out the harmony of being, we deem
it worthy the name of science. Healing disease on this
basis, we learned beyond a doubt, that mind governs the
body and is more potent than matter to heal the sick.
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To admit personal sense a source of pleasure is to
To admit personal sense a source of pleasure is to
deny it is a source of pain also, and vice versa, for "the
same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter
waters."
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Personal sense embracing both sin and happiness,
Personal sense embracing both sin and happiness,
sickness and health, Life and death, according to the
teachings of Jesus, contradicts itself, and therefore
destroys its own existence. Jesus cast out error and
healed the sick through his God-being, well-knowing
that harmony cannot produce discord; hence he denied
personal sense, and admitted but one Intelligence, and
this, not the author of evil. To suppose evil and good,
discord and harmony proceed from the same fountain,
is contrary to revelation. The common acceptation of
Truth is that whatever produces sin, is error. Then
wherefore admit that materia medica, physiology, anat-
omy, etc., are science when they take the opposite
ground that insists on personal sense governing man,
whence cometh all discord.
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God is not the author of sin; Soul is not the source
God is not the author of sin; Soul is not the source
of sickness, sin and death; rather does it destroy these
to make man immortal. The body defined as personal
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sense, is mortal; and that which is mortal is error.
sense, is mortal; and that which is mortal is error.
That sin proceeds from personal sense, we know, and
this proves the fountain evil, and the streams evil
also, therefore Wisdom never produced either; hence,
God is not the author of personal sense. We say food
sustains the Life of man; and again, that a heavy meal
kills him. Here the old theory that opposed Christ,
Truth, is reproduced in affirming the same fountain
sendeth forth sweet and bitter waters. If the All-wise
hath a law demanding food to preserve the Life of man,
He hath no law by which food can destroy him. We must
take the opposite ground of personal sense in regard to
sin, sickness and death, to fully destroy them; a physical
demand is not to be admitted, but destroyed, only the
demands of Soul are to be heard; the body cannot speak
for itself, being unintelligent.
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Is it mind or body that declares undigested food
Is it mind or body that declares undigested food
irritates the nervous tissues producing a terrible sense
of pain, faintness, oppression, etc., and that your rem-
edy is to expel the food, or digest it? This is mental
testimony, and there is none other, 'tis a law of belief,
mis-named a law of matter; the body cannot define
cause and effect.
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A case of extreme suffering from food, came under
A case of extreme suffering from food, came under
our observation. The lady had said, but a few moments
before we came to her assistance, "I shall die unless
the food is expelled," and in ten minutes thereafter was
rid of her sufferings, and when questioned in regard to
her feelings, replied, "I have no pain now, and would
like to eat again." By contending mentally against
a physical position you can change it and destroy it
through mind, even as you have produced it thus. The