Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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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
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has no part in the science of Life; whosoever over-
has no part in the science of Life; whosoever over-
looks moral honesty for worldly policy, has not gained
an insight into science sufficient to heal through it.
If he has learned its rules, he has not understood them,
and must have gained them of one whose experiences
have gone up higher.
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For a broken bone, or dislocated joint, 'tis better to
For a broken bone, or dislocated joint, 'tis better to
call a surgeon, until mankind are farther advanced in
the treatment of mental science. To attend to the
mechanical part, a surgeon is needed to-day, but let the
scientist see that inflammation, or long confinement, do
not ensue. The time cometh when science will be our
only surgeon, but, "suffering these things to be so now,"
let a bone be set, after the manner of men, then let
science facilitate the knitting process, and re-construct
the body without pain or inflammation as much as pos-
sible in these days of ignorance.
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The time approaches when mind alone will adjust
The time approaches when mind alone will adjust
joints, and broken bones, (if such things were possible
then), but in the present infancy of this Truth so new
to the world, let us act consistent with its small foot-
hold on the mind. We greatly mistake the nature of
being to conclude that which is real, is inharmonious
or mortal. Sickness is not real, from the very fact it is
discord and mortality, and these, errors and beliefs,
things of sense that constitute the dream of Life in mat-
ter, but have no reality to God, the Soul of man. Meet
discord and death with the opposite Truth of being,
and it wakens, in part, from the dream of Life, to the
realization of Life whereby we learn all discord is illu-
sion. We say sickness is something to be feared; but
this belief regarding it is what does the harm. Disease