Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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A lady having an internal tumor, and greatly fearing
A lady having an internal tumor, and greatly fearing
a surgical operation, called on us. We conducted her
case according to the science here stated, never touched
her person, or used a drug, or an instrument; and
the tumor was wholly removed within one or two days.
We refer to this case to prove the Principle. We have
stated all is mind, but the distinction between what we
call substance and essence, is made by naming one mat-
ter, and the other mind.
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Christ understanding that Soul and body are Intelli-
Christ understanding that Soul and body are Intelli-
gence and its idea, destroyed the belief that matter is
something to be feared, and that sickness and death are
superior to harmony and Life. His kingdom was not
of this world, he understood himself, Soul, and not
body, therefore he triumphed over the flesh, over sin
and death. He came to teach and fulfill this Truth,
that established the kingdom of heaven, or reign of har-
mony on earth. The demonstration he made of this
Principle and Truth of being, is the strongest proof
that God is the only Intelligence that produces a perfect
man, and is the Life that is without death, and holiness
without sin. Only the science of being reveals the
possibility of meeting the command, "Be ye perfect
even as your Father in heaven," (the Principle of man)
"is perfect." Let us then yield the belief that man is
a separate Intelligence from God, and reach his uner-
ring Principle of being, and be governed by Life and
Love, outside of matter.
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As music is harmonious controlled by its Principle,
As music is harmonious controlled by its Principle,
so man governed by his Principle of being, by Soul and
not sense, is harmonious, sinless and immortal. The
error of belief regarding Soul and body, and God and
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man, introduces discord into the demonstration of man,
man, introduces discord into the demonstration of man,
even the sickness, sin and death of which we complain.
The idea of Life is obtained only from its perfect Prin-
ciple, and gained through science in which man is sin-
less and immortal.
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Sickness, sin and death belong not more naturally to
Sickness, sin and death belong not more naturally to
immortal man than to God, to body than to Soul, for it
is morally impossible that these should adhere to either,
and what gave Jesus authority over sickness, sin and
death was the understanding of his scientific being.
He stood boldly up in the face of all accredited evi-
dences of personal sense, Pharisaical creeds, etc., and
refuted them all with his healing. We never read of
his saying a creed or a prayer makes a Christian, or
searching into disease, to learn of discord if it was
acute or chronic, recommending laws of health, giving
drugs, etc., or even asking the will of God regarding
man's Life, for this he already understood. He reck-
oned sickness, sin and death, "liars from the begin-
ning," and destroyed them with the truth of being
that was self-evident to him and his only physician.
He kept the commandment, "Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me," and we must do likewise and
adopt this Truth of being before we obtain its harmony
or immortality.
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While Jesus rendered to Caesar the things that were
While Jesus rendered to Caesar the things that were
Caesar's, he also rendered to God the things that were
His, viz., Truth, Life and Love, and we, too, should
acknowledge these God, and sufficient to destroy every
discord of man. Jesus paid no homage to diplomas, to
forms of church worship, or the theories of man, but
acted and spake as he was moved by Spirit, the Princi-