Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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gy, drugs, mesmerism, etc.; it is the Truth of being op-
gy, drugs, mesmerism, etc.; it is the Truth of being op-
posed to its error, by which man goes up higher in the
scale of being; other methods are error opposing error,
that have a temporary advantage only. Belief is on
their side to be sure, for error coincides with error,
strengthens it and weighs against the science of Life;
but this has no advantage in the scale of Truth. The
perception of man's possibilities enlarges his being, giv-
ing higher aims and broader scope to manhood. If
there were no other and higher motives for acquaint-
ing ourself with God, the Principle of man, than to be
rid of sickness, this would seem sufficient.
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A student once said, "this science has made me all
A student once said, "this science has made me all
I am," and that was saying more, perhaps, than he was
aware. There is infinite room in the science of man, for
here the limits of personality confine not Intelligence.
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Disease is one of the beliefs of personal sense that
Disease is one of the beliefs of personal sense that
Truth finally destroys. No scientific work can treat
of disease as an identity, or power. Any allusion to
disease, or confession that you are sick, should be avoid-
ed, as you would shun telling ghost stories to children
in the dark. Shut out from the light, a child suffers
from thoughts of danger, and so does the adult who
comprehends not his own being; the child must be
taken out of darkness to get rid of his fear, and the
suffering it occasions, and so must the man. The
universal belief that suffering is physical, and not a
creation of mind, produces suffering, owing to our ig-
norance of its origin. That Life is not dependent on
matter we prove when Life goes on and matter is de-
stroyed. Spiritually, I cannot perceive sickness, sin
or death; and recognize these only as beliefs of matter.
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Sickness is error, its remedy Truth; and the science of
Sickness is error, its remedy Truth; and the science of
being reveals that our body is sensationless, and that
Spirit sees, hears, feels, acts, and enjoys, but cannot
suffer; and this makes Soul and body harmonious and
immortal. To conclude our body is Life, Substance, or
Intelligence, and this body matter, that sees, hears, feels,
acts, enjoys and suffers, makes sickness, sin and death
autocrats over Soul, and man a slave to personal sense.
To Soul there is neither matter, sickness, sin, or death;
but to personal sense these are realities, that even govern
Spirit; what a mistake! we know this is error, and error
a belief, destitute of understanding; and change the
belief, the error changes, destroy it, and the error is
gone. You see through solid walls, hear without sound,
walk over water, and have your body with you in clair-
voyance; but in the opposite belief of sense, your body
remains in statu quo, and your mind goes without a
body. Let the mesmerizer experience what we term the
fears of personal sense, its pains or its pleasures, and his
subject has those same sensations, which proves they
are produced by mind and not matter, and are beliefs
instead of the reality of things. Sickness is not imagina-
tion; it is more than this, it is a belief, a conviction of
mind instead of a fancy. One animal looking another
in the eye may cause a quarrel; but notice the superi-
ority of Soul over sense, when the eye of man fastened
fearlessly on the beast, starts him away with terror.
This illustrates the effect of Spirit looking disease
steadfastly in the face to destroy it, compared with our
physiological drills, drugs, and mesmerism, which is
the quarrel between beasts. When we submit to per-
sonal sense that we admit is the author of sickness, sin