Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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to man, for I am Truth, without beginning and without
to man, for I am Truth, without beginning and without
end, for I am Life, supreme over all, for I am Intelli-
gence, and the Substance of all, because I AM.
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Does an M. D. examine the body, feel the pulse, and
Does an M. D. examine the body, feel the pulse, and
look at the tongue, to ascertain the condition of Soul,
the Life of man, or the condition of his body, alias mat-
ter, and according to signs material give his opinion of
Life, God, and the prospect for his continuing? If man
was before God, and matter superior to mind, such meth-
ods were consistent, but not otherwise. Mind, instead
of body is the fount of all suffering; but we forget this
in sickness, when the mental condition is not regarded
and wholly unknown to patient or physician, while its
physical effect alone is taken up. Opinions and the-
ories have so misguided judgment on these points, the
Truth of being is lost sight of, and illusion taken for
fact. However much the schools insist that discord
rules harmony, and laws of matter govern the Life of
man; science reveals Life otherwise, and gives an oppor-
tunity for this proof. Laws of God were never known
to kill man, for this would destroy immortality. Man
is the image and likeness, therefore the reflex shadow
of God, and if one is mortal, why not the other? If
man is lost his Principle is lost, and God is not left.
Doctors fasten disease on the body, mapping it out in
mind; when the mental picture is complete the patient
will be sick. A belief of disease is liable to be made
manifest at any time on the body.
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If disease is Intelligence that produces results of
If disease is Intelligence that produces results of
itself, or the body can make its own conditions, despite
the mental protest, we will admit the superiority of
disease over man, and its power to make him sick, or
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kill him, but not otherwise. Mind produces all effects
kill him, but not otherwise. Mind produces all effects
on the body; personal sense has neither pleasure nor
pain except to belief, which is all there is to it. A men-
tal image of disease, fully formed, is already painted
on the body whereas another picture of mind we trans-
fer to canvas; 'tis the patient's fear that draws the
picture, and the artist, mind, executes it fully on the
body, but the patient is ignorant of his fear, or what
mind's images are, until they are drawn on the body.
If no mental image of disease was formed, there could
be no manifestation of disease. The belief that disease
is a power or Intelligence superior to man, is ever
ready to reproduce some image of disease before the
mind, and this image causes the fear, and the fear
quickens or retards action, producing inflammation or
whatever the nature or type of disease that prevails in
the general thought, and comes to you entirely unbid-
den, and with no particular association to call it up.
Again, disease comes through association, even as
thoughts appear. For instance, your mental condi-
tion is a fixed belief, that, exposed to severe cold or
dampness, you take cold; hence, the circumstance being
this, you suffer the effects of a belief through associa-
tion. If fevers are abroad, you say, I am liable to have
them; and this mental condition, through association,
produces the result.
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Disease comes after the manner that one thought
Disease comes after the manner that one thought
calls up another. If her child is exposed to conditions
deemed dangerous, the mother says, my child will be
sick, and her belief reaches her offspring to this very
end; but she calls it the circumstances. You say, I
have eaten too much, and shall find it difficult to di-