Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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sense, the sick say how can mind have caused disease,
sense, the sick say how can mind have caused disease,
"I never thought of the disease until it appeared on
my body." But mind is first, and causation; nothing
commences in matter; the plant springs from the eternal
Intelligence before we call it matter; but our mortal
blindness and its sharp consequences, prove our need
to understand the action of mind and its effects; we
should study mind more and matter less, if we would
avail ourselves of Soul in its control over sense. We
can destroy sickness, the same as sin, by learning its
origin and nature in mind, instead of body, and finding
the belief that occasions it.
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You can prevent or cure scrofula, hereditary disease,
You can prevent or cure scrofula, hereditary disease,
etc., in just the ratio you expel from mind a belief in
the transmission of disease, and destroy its mental
images; this will forestall the disease before it takes
tangible shape in mind, that forms its corresponding
image on the body. The science of being destroys the
errors of sense with the Truth of man, and this is "cast-
ing out devils and healing the sick." Unconscious mat-
ter cannot dictate terms to conscious mind, causing
either pain or pleasure; and matter is unconscious.
The belief that our body forms conditions of its own,
independent of mind, is the error of mortal man that
makes him mortal.
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You say the body feels, but the fact that pain is not
You say the body feels, but the fact that pain is not
felt without mind, and can be removed through it,
proves mind the origin and cause of suffering. All the
diseases on earth, (and there are none in heaven), never
interfered for a moment with man's Life and its har-
monious phenomena. Man is the same after, as before
a bone is broken, or a head chopped off. Casualty
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has no reality to Soul; it exists only as belief, and is
has no reality to Soul; it exists only as belief, and is
apparent only to personal sense. Accidents are un-
known to God. If the science of Soul was reached,
immortality would be gained, and there would be no
chance for suffering. Soul and body are inseparable
and eternal; if one is indestructible, so is the other.
Understanding this, exempts man from disease and
death, that anatomy and physiology regard positive
claims on Life. Denying the Truth of being, measur-
ably prevents its benefits on the body, by hindering its
action in mind. It is not faith, but understanding, we
need in science, and, "whosoever shall deny me before
men, him will I also deny before the Father." This
beautiful text refers not to a person, but the Principle
of man that embraces the Truth of being, that casts
out error and heals the sick. Reason discounts on
revelation when it denies God the things that are His,
and contradicts the omnipotence of Soul over sense;
but whoso reasons aright on this point, and hesitates
not to declare his views, i.e., "to confess me before
men," becomes harmonious. When reason accords with
the declaration of Scripture that man has dominion
over earth, we shall recognize this, and turn in triumph
from the seemingly impossible, to "all things are possi-
ble," and demonstrate this.
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"He that denieth me before men," refers to a denial,
"He that denieth me before men," refers to a denial,
or an open acknowledgment of our honest convictions
that effectually hinders or aids man's progress. Be-
cause the science of being is not yet understood, and
the age is not yet awake to this subject, if we but half
desire to understand it, and conceal this desire, we
shall be unable to demonstrate it. A hypocrite or liar