Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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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
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already the procurer, instead of destroyer of disease.
already the procurer, instead of destroyer of disease.
I never presume on statements diametrically opposed
to personal sense, unless I have proved their Truth
beyond a doubt. I have tested this mode of healing
with scientific certainty, in many cases, and in no case
has it failed to prove a benefit to the sick. The task,
herculean, of introducing a science has before been
tested by patient discoverers; but when the Truth of
being is learned, it will be proved. It was said to us,
"The whole world feels you, and why are you not
more widely known? "Could they have seen the little
time we have to be known, and how our work is done,
in the closet with the door shut, "seen by Him who
seeth in secret," they would have understood why.
To make a specialty of healing is really impossible for
us, when our time, means, and health are required for
the fuller investigation of this subject; to teach, write,
establish practices for students, or halt, perhaps, at
measures to be adopted, because of persecution. None
should reject Truth because it exposes some past pov-
erty of opinion, or requires the surrender of present
beliefs. Indifference to Christian science surprises one
when we know it is the eternal right in which God
holds the scales, and adjusts all harmonious balances.
Even doctrines and beliefs are to-day reaching forth
their hands for the science of being; and that which
reveals Truth ought not to be misjudged because of
ignorance or prejudice.
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Some of our present readers may wish to tone down
Some of our present readers may wish to tone down
the radical points in this work, others to cast them
overboard; yet science will reproduce itself, and as
mind changes base from matter to Spirit, there will be