Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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ory what you are blotting out, and describe how badly
ory what you are blotting out, and describe how badly
her child was hurt; or how much disease she has, etc.,
little knowing the effect of this is like fire to a burn.
We should inquire only into our fears and beliefs
regarding sickness, and disregard all else.
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Matter cannot give testimony, therefore we should
Matter cannot give testimony, therefore we should
not believe personal sense; mind alone reports physical
conditions and produces them. The sick argue against
themselves by saying, "I am sick"; the physical affirm-
ative should be met with a mental negative; all discord
is error, insomuch as harmony is the only Truth of
being; we must take a mental position, the very oppo-
site of the physical one, to control the body to a change
of action. We inform the muscles how to move, and
they act in obedience to the mind, or there would be
no action; so does the entire system. The sick are
frightened, whether they do, or do not understand this,
and the body, like a frightened man, runs too fast or
too slow, partially palsied, or inflamed with fear, the
action is naturally increased or diminished.
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To advance in the understanding of Truth, we must
To advance in the understanding of Truth, we must
live up to our present perceptions of it; and improving
the present, we need take no thought for the morrow,
for the morrow will take thought for us, and afford
more light as we advance toward the light. When you
know already, dishonesty is error, discipline yourself
to meet consequences rather than do wrong or hide a
wrong. Truth is nearly worthless to him who seldom
uses it.
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When physical action is inflammatory, mind is the
When physical action is inflammatory, mind is the
cause; some fear has taken possession of you, although
this fear is not recognized by the sick, yet the physical
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effects show us it exists, and the results are the same
effects show us it exists, and the results are the same
as if it existed consciously. Disease, originating in mind
before it can be manifested on the body, is arrested, or
ruled out of the latter, by destroying the belief that
occasioned it. Fear causes the face to grow suddenly
red, or pallid, proving the circulation of the blood is
controlled by this mental condition; the body becomes
weak, or suddenly strong, through fear, showing that
weakness or strength is the result of mind, instead of
matter. A mother, informed of the imprisonment of
her son, instantly falls dead; here organic action has
stopped from no other than a mental cause, and yet we
are so buried in the rubbish of supposed Life in matter,
we cannot, or do not, let this falling apple point to the
Principle it reveals. Fear changes the entire secretions
of the system; not only controls the functions of the
brain, but the internal vicera, and the entire mechan-
ism of the obedient body. Remove the fear of disease,
and disease will disappear; for the body is restored
through a change of mind; fear exists when the mind
is wholly unconscious of it, and produces disease invol-
untarily. We never knew the patient that did not
recover when the fear of his disease was utterly de-
stroyed. The stronger never yields to the weaker,
except through fear, or voluntary choice; and mind is
mightier than matter, and controls the body, whether
we do, or do not, admit this.
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The ills we fear are the only ones that conquer us.
The ills we fear are the only ones that conquer us.
The body becomes inharmonious through mind alone;
no law, outside of mind, governs the body. The law
of God is the only absolute or inevitable, and this law
never produces sickness, sin, or death, as its conse-