Chapter I - Natural Science
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we have proved by demonstration in hundreds of cases.
we have proved by demonstration in hundreds of cases.
Belief makes up the sum total of mortal man, but this
statement is confounded by those not understanding
science, blending the mortal and immortal, and making
man God, Intelligence, instead of its idea. Belief is all
there is to mortal man, and if this belief is wretched-
ness only, no circumstance can make it happiness,
and if happiness, no circumstance can change it, or
make it wretchedness, until the belief of the differ
ent conditions are changed; "for as error thinketh so is
it." The science of being is as necessary to those in
the belief of health as sickness, for a single change of
belief would make the well sick, when, if they under-
stood these conditions depended on mind, instead of
matter, they might continue to be well by grounding
their belief in the case and letting Intelligence be mas-
ter of the situation. Ignorance, pride and prejudice
close the door on all that contradicts the past or opens
it on things not stereotyped. When the science of Life
is understood every man will be his own physician, and
the doctor's occupation gone, hence materia medica will
fight it to the end. But why should the new be scorned
when the old has proved incapable of making man
healthy or harmonious in mind or body, and the new
commences at once to do this; the command remains,
"Be ye perfect even as your Father is perfect," and yet
we must be smitten for insisting on this demonstration.
The science of being, that alone can stay the progress
of disease and sin, and the atheism that unites matter
and God, will be called, in this century, anti-christian.
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The belief that man is intelligent matter, subject to
The belief that man is intelligent matter, subject to
birth and death would make Soul mortal, and governed
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by material laws, God in the things He has made, sin,
by material laws, God in the things He has made, sin,
sickness, and death blending with Truth and Life, and
the former having the mastery over the latter. There
is but one Spirit, even God, therefore no evil can be in
Spirit, there being nothing to make evil of. Jesus cast
out spirits, that is, beliefs in other Intelligences and
healed the sick with the Truth of being, – he admitted
no Intelligence in evil, hence his authority over it. If
Spirit sins it must die, for all error is mortal; Spirit is
God, and there is but one God; hence to talk of spirit's
is to believe in gods and demons. We reason wrong on
all points relating to God and man, Soul and body, when
we start from matter to draw conclusions of Spirit; this
renders it impossible for such conclusions to be correct.
Our present stand-point is body not Soul, personality
instead of Principle, hence our mistaken views and their
consequences in sin, sickness and death. We go into
ecstasies over a personal God with scarcely a spark of
Love in the heart, when God is Love; and with scarcely
a ray from Truth, when God is Truth; and without the
understanding of Life, when God is Life, and what is
the result? That we have no practical God to heal us;
and get out of sin and death only in belief, while they
still cling to mortal man; this is not science or the
Christianity that heals the sick and demonstrates the
harmony of Life. Evil and good never constituted man,
for man is the image of God, and all there is to him is
the good; evil is not the image and likeness of God,
or matter of Spirit; even reason would rescue man
from these errors of personal sense were it not silenced
by some fatal theory. Action produced by Intelligence
manifests harmony only, while action proceeding from