Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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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
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must be admitted in mind before it appears as matter;
must be admitted in mind before it appears as matter;
for body manifests only what mind embraces, whether
it be fever, consumption, or theft. The doctor tells his
patients their symptoms are feverish, and they vibrate
between this opinion and its belief, until the physician
says the fever is established; then the sick are con-
firmed, and go into confinement and serve out this men-
tal sentence executing the body, more surely than
the sentences of our courts.
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Because science contradicts personal sense and sick-
Because science contradicts personal sense and sick-
ness, you have no more moral right to dispute the proof
that science is right, than of a rule of mathematics;
and yet you will, for such is the case with all new
discoveries. Cures wrought in science, are naturally
misconstrued by sense, imputed to something besides
the Principle producing them; hence, they must be
understood to be appreciated. We may understand,
perfectly well, how we heal the sick, but because others
do not, they may interpret our cure on some other
basis; and this not only works against the recovery of
the sick, because it is antagonistic to Truth, but pre-
vents their perception of it.
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Jesus, wiser than his persecutors, said, "If I by Beel-
Jesus, wiser than his persecutors, said, "If I by Beel-
zebub cast out devils, by whom did your fathers cast
them out?" knowing they acknowledged the prophets,
but not the carpenter; this question was difficult to
answer because the prophets healed as he did, and he
introduced the comparison on account of this. Those
calling the demonstration of the science of being de-
moniac over eighteen centuries ago, might to-day tone
down the judgment to imposition. Jesus, reasoning
clearly on this subject, although misapprehended by