Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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regard to the case, and his state of mind is communicated
regard to the case, and his state of mind is communicated
to the patient, whether verbally or otherwise. While
we vainly suppose the sick feel the effects only of
thoughts expressed, they feel more surely the unex-
pressed fear, doubt, or anxiety, inasmuch as it is more
intense. The scientist, understanding how mind alone
forms every condition of matter, gives courage and
strength to the patient while imparting to his under-
standing the Truth of being that destroys error, and
restores the limb without stiffness, displacement, or
unnatural formations; whereas the surgeon's similar
case will terminate, if not fatally, in some unnatural
condition of the joint. Understanding the cause of dis-
ease wholly mental, a scientist will never for a moment
admit general opinions regarding it, or take physical
symptoms into account, except as mental conditions or
beliefs to be destroyed through mind.
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Personal sense and science clash, of course, in this
Personal sense and science clash, of course, in this
statement, for they are opposites and without affinity,
and this quarrel will wax warmer until it is over, and
sense yields to science. Pride, ignorance, prejudice or
passion will close the door on science until future cen-
turies open it wide to man, and he regains the harmony
of being. If Life and Intelligence depend on organiza-
tion, man is material; and stop the functions of the body,
or let the body be spiritual, and man is annihilated; and
there must be a new creation of man. If Life escapes
from matter it is not Spirit, and must return again to
matter, in which case there is no spiritual existence. If
material existence is real, the spiritual is unreal, and
vice versa; if Life is matter, or in matter, it cannot con-
tinue outside of matter; and material decomposition
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must reduce material man to dust. Even the worm
must reduce material man to dust. Even the worm
begotten of death, springing from corruption, we name
Life in matter; making Life a product of death and
death a product of Life. When will the age awake to
reason on being, as fairly as on other subjects.
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We should object to natural history leaping thus the
We should object to natural history leaping thus the
barrier of species. There is neither vegetable, animal,
nor organic Life, if Life is Spirit, and the testimony of
Scripture and demonstration of Life prove that it is.
Called to the bed of death – the Truth of being is your
only resource to restore health and raise up the so‑
called dying; on its basis alone can you recognize im-
mortality, and dispute personal sense or the apparent
fact of death, with Soul; man is not dying if Intelli-
gence is Life; man's being is mightier far than death,
for Truth is mightier than error. Your privilege is to
prove "He that believeth in me," i.e., understandeth
the Truth of being, "shall never see death." Under-
standing Life, destroys death. We have demonstrated
the effect of this statement of science on the sick suf-
ficiently to establish its practical value. Though we
admit man is immortal, we apprehend Life only as a
thing material, or escaping from the body; this is not
correct; personal belief and error is responsible for this
wrong statement of God. Death is but another phase
or belief of the dream of life in matter; and while
there is no reality in either, both will continue until
the science herein stated is understood. The obsequies
of the dead are a pitiful part of this dream, when we
remember Life has neither beginning nor end. The
so-called dead, although liberated from their belief that
Life has ended, or even changed to them, are separated