Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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decides in favor of Intelligence, and that no law outside
decides in favor of Intelligence, and that no law outside
of mind can punish man. Your personal judges of the
Mental Court of Common Pleas are chimeras, your
attorney, Belief, an imposter persuading Mortal Minds
to return a verdict contrary to law and Gospel, while
your plaintiff, Personal Sense, is recorded in our Book
of books, a perjurer. Our Teacher of spiritual juris-
prudence said of him, "You were a liar from the begin-
ning." We have no trials for Disease at the tribunals
of Spirit, and man is adjudged innocent of transgress-
ing physical laws, because there is no spiritual statute
relating thereto. The law of Christ, Truth, is our only
code, and "will not the judge of the whole earth do
right?"
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The plea of Science closed, and the jury of Immortal
The plea of Science closed, and the jury of Immortal
Mind agreed at once upon a verdict, and there resounded
throughout the vast audience chamber of Soul, "NOT
GUILTY"; then the prisoner (patient) rose up strong,
free, and glorious. We noticed as he shook hands with
his counsel, Science of Life, all sallowness and debility
had disappeared, his form was erect and commanding,
his countenance beaming with health and happiness;
dominion had taken the place of fear, and man no longer
sick and in prison walked forth, "whose feet were
beautiful upon the mountains."
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The above allegory illustrates the effect of mind
The above allegory illustrates the effect of mind
on the body, how the testimony of personal sense
and the plea of belief would punish man; while the
plea of Science commutes the sentence of error, with
Truth.
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When symptoms of sickness are present, meet them
When symptoms of sickness are present, meet them
with the resistance of mind against matter, and you will
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control them. Life, that is Soul, must triumph over
control them. Life, that is Soul, must triumph over
sense at some time, and it is wise to-day to learn this
of scientific being. Silently or audibly, according to the
circumstances, you should dispute the reality of disease
on the basis of the explanations herein given; when
healing mentally call each symptom by name, and con-
tradict its claims, as you would a falsehood uttered to
your injury. Here is a phenomenon I will state just as
I discovered it; if you call not the disease by name
when you address it mentally, the body will no more
respond by recovery, than a person will reply whose
name is not spoken; and you cannot heal the sick by
argument, unless you get the name of the disease; but
the higher method of healing in Christian science is, so
to live that your Life, "hid with Christ in God," is the
Life of Soul that destroys the errors of sense. Agree
not with sickness, meet the physical condition with a
mental protest, that destroys it as one property destroys
another in chemistry; understanding this in science,
your mind will neutralize the disease, destroy the fear,
and the system will regain its equilibrium.
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I have seen a dose of Truth, regarding disease, pro-
I have seen a dose of Truth, regarding disease, pro-
duce stronger physical effects than ever I witnessed
from a dose of drugs. The opposite negative neutral-
izes the affirmative of disease, and thus destroys it.
We have before told you all is mind; therefore, what
you term physical effects, are purely mental ones. The
mental admission produces what is named the physical
effect; hence the fatal results of treatises, admitting,
describing, or locating disease. Diagnosing symptoms
physical, to learn the actual cause of bodily discord,
when mind is the only causation, is error, proved