Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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were vain to attempt, mentally, to remove another's
were vain to attempt, mentally, to remove another's
fear or disturbed condition; as soon attempt to destroy
heat with fire. To succeed in the science of Life, you
must be found in it, having not on a belief, but the
garment of Truth, and this will give you self-possession,
and ability to bring out the full amount of the Life
that is Christ healing the sick. Eschewing the belief
you are Intelligent matter, you gain the capabilities of
Spirit and the freedom of the sons of God.
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Men of business have said this science was of great
Men of business have said this science was of great
advantage from a secular point of view. It not only
enhanced their physical and mental endurance, but con-
trol of man and perception of character. They have
told us they could meet better the exigencies of busi-
ness, by meeting mind on its own grounds, perceiving
thoughts and their relation to men's acts. The science
of Life not only brings out latent possibilities and ca-
pacities, but extends the atmosphere, or aroma of
mind, giving man vent in broader and higher being.
An odor, confined by a stopper, is not so benevolent as
when the stopper is removed and it scents the room.
Remove the belief of Intelligence beneath a skull bone,
of Soul in body, and matter the master of man, and
there quickly follows more of a man or woman, because
they understand themselves and others better. Getting
outside the evidence of personal sense to judge of men
and things, is a vast gain to manhood and Godhood.
We are suffocated by beliefs and 'isms, whereas a liv-
ing Soul is liberty and Life; understanding can grasp
even the infinite idea. We are conscious of intelligent
Spirit; then away with the dream of intelligent mat-
ter, or that Intelligence dwells in non-intelligence.
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Soul and body are different, but concordant, and one
Soul and body are different, but concordant, and one
cannot be lost and the other left. To apprehend com-
pleteness and perfection, we must reach them, and bring
out our model thus. Thinking of sin, sickness and
death is not the method to conquer them, and form
your model of Life; destroy them in mind and they are
gone forever; get rid of the fear of sickness, or the
love of sin, and you are rid of these errors in physical
manifestation. Action should proceed from Principle,
not idea, from Soul, and not personal sense, and mind
instead of matter; when this is so, we shall govern our
bodies and bring out harmony. Principle controls its
idea harmoniously, governed alone as it is by the su-
preme Intelligence, but for this, 'ology or 'ism would
make a sick globe. The belief that Spirit dwells in
matter, and that matter has Intelligence, causes all
discord; man is not sick; for mind is not sick, and
matter cannot be; a belief is the tempter and tried, the
sin and sinner, disease and its cause, death and the dying.
Shock this belief by some expression, or impression, of
Truth, start it from its fixed centre, and it will relieve
the body at once. A tooth ceases to pain you before the
forceps, a greater fear having silenced, for a moment,
the lesser, showing the effects of mind on the body, and
that "our greater evils medicine the less."
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A bigot's circumference of mind is very small; per-
A bigot's circumference of mind is very small; per-
sonality and matter he believes in, but talk to him
beyond these, of Principle and idea, and you get no
response. Ignorance is the greatest foe to metaphysical
science.
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Never converse on sickness, watch its symptoms,
Never converse on sickness, watch its symptoms,
recommend matter remedies, or seek to learn its cause