Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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sick argue for their own suffering, by admitting its
sick argue for their own suffering, by admitting its
reality; they are ignorant of this fact, however, or that
their mental position is what produces the physical,
and their friends often strengthen this error and quarrel
with you for trying to help them out of it.
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Mind, and not matter, embraces all suffering; we
Mind, and not matter, embraces all suffering; we
prove this when removing the suffering on this basis, or
through mind. This Principle heals the sick, therefore
it produces a better physical effect than the opposite
views that make sickness; then why not adopt it, or
judge of it by our Master's rule, the "fruits." If you
understood the science of being, your body would be
harmonious and immortal. The balance adjusted by
science falls on the side of happiness and Life.
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Delirium tremens embraces error of two sorts; the
Delirium tremens embraces error of two sorts; the
plea of personal sense for strong drink, and the belief
that it diseases the brain. Both these mental positions
are mastered with metaphysical science; first, because
there is no pleasure in intoxication, or produced by
matter, and secondly, that matter, or the brain, is not
inflamed. The belief of pain is more easily eradicated
than an appetite, or belief of pleasure, owing to the
strong desire the patient has to be rid of one, and his
reluctance to part with the other; both of which are
the self-inflicted positions of mind, and not matter.
Disputing the grounds of personal sense, that alcoholic
drinks intoxicate the brain, giving pleasure or pain to
matter, and rising above this error, Soul, versus sense,
gets the case and relieves the patient. But the severer
task is to destroy the belief of the inebriate with regard
to the so-called pleasure of sense in drunkenness, while
this is all that will reform him. Destroy the belief that
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pleasure is derived from intoxicating drink, and the
pleasure is derived from intoxicating drink, and the
habit yields at once, but until this is done, it intermits
and lingers, proving intoxication a mental, and not a
physical error. Here are two points we desire you to
note; first, the moral advantage this healing has over
other methods, and the falsity of the arguments of per-
sonal sense, assuming drunkenness enjoyment. This
admission, however, is not more false than to conclude a
liquid distilled from matter is capable of destroying
body and mind.
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The belief that pain and pleasure, good and evil,
The belief that pain and pleasure, good and evil,
God and devil, fraternize, is a hoary mistake meeting us
at every point. Pleasure or pain in matter is a self‑
evident falsehood. Lifting yourself, somewhat, to the
understanding of the Life that is Wisdom, Love, and
Truth, you will break the spell of personal sense. The
Truth of being, coming to their consciousness, opens
the prison doors to the sick and affects the body as
nothing else can. One mind, partly rid of the errors
of personal sense, touches another with the science of
being that reproduces harmony, causing what we term a
chemical change in the body that goes on to form a new
basis of being; even as when an acid and alkali meet
that form a neutral salt. But remember, the opposites
that destroy each other are without spiritual affinity.
To admit the positions of personal sense, would never
destroy them. To reform the drunkard, or heal the
sick, or turn the sinner from his way, we must argue
against their positions; nothing else destroys them.
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That mind controls matter, is the fundamental
That mind controls matter, is the fundamental
strength of morality, for it gives man control over sin,
sickness, and death, whereas the old systems take it