Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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are destroying the body. The scientist is a law to him-
are destroying the body. The scientist is a law to him-
self; he would not do wrong knowingly, and if he
has not reached this standpoint, he cannot give the
more wonderful demonstrations of healing. Whoso-
ever justifies an evil-doer, and does not expose his
iniquity, is a partaker of his sin, and will have his
reward. Whenever we have discovered a dishonest stu-
dent claiming to be scientific, we have first explained to
him his error, and next, rebuked him; and if neither
explanation nor rebuke are heeded, and he does not
reform, he becomes our enemy. The greatest hindrance
this science can meet will arise from backsliding stu-
dents, those claiming to practice it who do not adhere
to its moral obligations, who have not yet realized
until the fountain is purer, the stream will be turbid;
mind must be right or its action on others will be
inharmonious.
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A mental condition, or error of belief unknown to
A mental condition, or error of belief unknown to
both patient and physician, is not readily removed, and
to gain a scientific perception of it, or apprehend the
mental condition of the sick, you must hold the reins
over your own body. Our Master knew the thoughts of
others, solely because of his goodness and spirituality;
therefore, mind-reading, with him, was very far from
clairvoyance. To be able to discern the cause of sick-
ness after the scientific mode of our Master, depends on
your spirituality, obedience to your higher nature, af-
ter acquiring the rules of science that guide you aright.
If you are becoming spiritually minded, you will discern
the things that belong to Spirit; and in the ratio that
you are not carnally minded, and according as you sur-
render error, will your spiritual discernment increase.
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Mental healing may be done both right and wrong;
Mental healing may be done both right and wrong;
the wrong method is capable of evil, and is mesmerism,
of which the lowest natures are capable. The scientific
method is without power to do evil; it is Soul, not
personal sense, or manipulation that destroys belief and
fear and heals the sick, in which mind-reading is not
only found important to your success, but especially
characterizing the demonstration. When once you
understand disease has no identity, you will perceive
sickness is but a belief. You should instruct the sick
that Soul is Substance, and body its idea; that disease
is not in the idea of Soul or immortality, nor can it
exist in shadow, the body of Soul, therefore it has no
existence.
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The mental co-operation of the sick will promote
The mental co-operation of the sick will promote
their recovery. To move mind from its central error,
viz., that Intelligence and Life are in the body, and
matter is the master of man, is the great point in meta-
physical healing. Every invalid has an especial fear, in
which some disease and its approaching symptoms are
more alarming than others; not because the disease is
more dangerous, but more feared; remove the fear, and
the danger is gone, for mind will master the disease.
Physical phenomena epitomize the mental, in which a
fearful object troubles us until it is removed from our
observation. Disease is an image of mind, that must
be removed from mental sight, or the fear it occasions
will increase, and this will increase the inflammatory or
morbid symptoms. A belief is the seed within itself
that propagates all physical, because all mental discord.
We know this is difficult to admit before it is under-
stood, then the proof is ample; demonstration is all