Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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"He that believeth in me shall never see death." The
"He that believeth in me shall never see death." The
little trust we have in Spirit, and the strong faith we
hold in matter, will meet us at this point with the in-
quiry, "Adam, where art thou," cherishing the belief
of Life in matter, or holding firmly on to Life that is
Spirit? and the answer we honestly give will show us
where we stand. The last enemy to be overcome is
death; therefore much is to be understood before we
gain this great point in science. Laying aside the be-
liefs that so easily beset us, we should not regard a con-
dition of matter able to destroy man, mind or body, for
both are immortal. A wasted form lies before you;
the doctor calls his disease consumption, but the scient-
ist finding no identity in discord, regards the disease a
belief, and cures it thus; for understanding in part the
Life that is Soul, he will destroy this belief of sense
with the science of being. Never consent to the death
of man, but rise to the supremacy of Spirit over matter,
and denying the claims of personal sense, prove what
it is to be a Christian whose Life is "hid with Christ
in God;" therefore wholly spiritual. What if the
lungs are ulcerated or decayed, mind has done this;
action is produced by mind and not matter; change,
therefore, your belief in the case, combat the error and
belief of Life in matter, with the Truth that Life is Soul
and not sense, and you will form the lungs anew, and
they will resume their healthy functions. We know this
to be true, and state it because we have proved it.
Disease is a belief, its origin mental instead of physical,
and it matters not what the body indicates, in reality
all is mind, there is no matter, and mortal things are be-
liefs, and not the science of man in which he is immortal.
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That pain or pleasure, Life or death, belongs to the
That pain or pleasure, Life or death, belongs to the
body, is but a belief. Immortal Soul is the producer
of all things, and never made out of itself, mortality, or
a suffering body. Speak to disease as one having
authority over it, having Soul, and not sense, on your
side, and you will master this belief; and immortality,
which is the Truth of man, will assert its claims over
mortality, and the sick recover. God, Spirit, is your
stronghold in this extremity, and you feel how vain a
thing is death pitted against the immortality of Soul
and body. Life is the law of Soul; and personal sense,
or matter, has no law. Holding on to the Truth of
being is your only hope whereby to destroy its error.
The science of being raises the dead; fear ye not,
therefore, death; you may raise up the dying if minds
around you are not strongly opposing this Truth, so
little understood to-day; and sometime over this wave
of the troubled sea, your God-being, that destroys all
error, sin and death, will walk fearlessly; showing how
real is Life, and how unreal, death. But there were
some people so bigoted or material they even hindered
the Master doing many mighty works because of their
unbelief.
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When healing the sick make your mental plea, or
When healing the sick make your mental plea, or
better, take your spiritual position that heals, silently
at first, until you begin to win the case, and Truth is
getting the better of error, then your patient is fit to
listen, and you can say to him, "Thou art whole," with-
out his scorn. Explain to him, audibly, sometimes, the
power mind has over the body, and give him a founda-
tion in the understanding to lean upon, that he may
brace himself against old opinions. The battle lies