Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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the materialistic age, introduced the following compar-
the materialistic age, introduced the following compar-
ison to explain his healing. "How can one enter into
a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he
first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his
goods." In other words, how can I cast out devils
without bearding error, attacking the beliefs that pro-
duce all this discord through ignorance of Soul and
body, and then are you sometimes "offended because
of me."
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Jesus employed neither technicalities, the logic of
Jesus employed neither technicalities, the logic of
the schools, nor formulas of medicine to heal; he knew,
if others did not, Soul's superiority over matter, to heal
the body, and that harmony is reached, only as we
understand its real basis, Spirit, and not matter, Soul,
not sense; and acknowledge the supremacy of Intelli-
gence. Personal sense is the strong man that the
Truth of being binds, before destroying error. It be-
ing impossible to heal on the Principle of science, and
admit the grounds taken by personal sense; therefore,
bind this strong man, hold sense in subjection to Soul,
and pain, as much under control of mind as a tempta-
tion to sin; then can you despoil his goods, i.e., prevent
sin and suffering.
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When the mental control we hold over our bodies
When the mental control we hold over our bodies
for good or evil, touching sickness, sin, and death, has
been preached one-hundredth part as long as man's
salvation through faith, we shall have men and women
approaching to the image and likeness of God. Until
personal sense is doubted, it will never be controlled.
The ages may go on, admitting personal sense and its
control over man, and fighting it with drugs, laws
of health, etc., when, instead of pleasure, it utters itself
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in pain, but this will only sustain disease in mind, and
in pain, but this will only sustain disease in mind, and
then it will show itself as matter. Man will not be
found harmonious until the belief of personal sense
yields to the science of Soul.
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Deplorable cases of passion mastering man, should
Deplorable cases of passion mastering man, should
arouse one to the responsibility of governing his body.
A person whom we snatched from this oblivion of Soul,
said to us, "I should have died, but for the Principle
you teach showing me the nothingness and falsity of
sense; medicine, and treatises on my case, only aban-
doned me to more hopeless sufferings, and slavery; ad-
herence to hygiene was of no avail, and I was cured
only when I learned my way in science."
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At present we must accept the statements of science
At present we must accept the statements of science
relative to personal sense, on the inductive method, ad-
mitting the whole, because a part, involving the entire
Principle is proved. Pains of the body, or matter, are
unreal, but not more so than its pleasures; both cheat
man into a belief of their reality, but only as the
mountain mirage that seemeth what it is not, or the
terrible incubus from which he finds it difficult to
awake. Admitting the entire grounds of the science
of being, it quickly follows our poor demonstration
looks us in the face; but to this we reply, enough has
been understood and proved, to reveal it science, and
to prove, measurably, the blessing it brings. When
speaking of this subject to others, instead of admitting
the proofs we have already given of its Truth, we are
often met with demands for more proof; therefore, we
recommend you to read carefully what we have writ-
ten, understand for yourselves, and establish your own
evidence through demonstration; at the same time the