Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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condemned, and morally impossible insomuch as it man-
condemned, and morally impossible insomuch as it man-
ifests a want of Wisdom that renders it null and void.
The only hope in sickness or sin, is to agree quickly
with thine adversary; that is, if tempted, or if disease
appears, to banish the temptation, or the disease, at
once from the mind, and suffer it not to plead in its
own behalf lest you fall a prey to your belief in the
case. On this mental basis, when the first symptoms
of disease appear, knowing they gain their ground in
mind before they can in body, "agree quickly with
thine adversary," i.e., dismiss the first mental admis-
sion that you are sick; dispute sense with science, and,
if you can annul the false process of law, alias your
belief in the case, you will not be cast into prison or
confinement. The sick must never plead guilty; in
other words, admit they are sick, for then are they sub-
ject to sentence and imprisonment, according to the
law of belief. Take the ground of science in the first
instance, never admit sensation in matter, or that the
body can be pained, or has any claims of its own, or
power to make man suffer; adhere to this scientific po-
sition and battle the old belief with it until you destroy
it, and you will get well.
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To agree quickly with thine adversary in the first
To agree quickly with thine adversary in the first
instance of sickness, is to take antagonistic grounds
to it, and prove your superiority over it. Not to ad-
mit disease, is to conquer it; and if you understood
the science of being, you would admit no reality to
aught but God and his idea. When you say, "I am
sick," you plead guilty, that is, you admit matter has
sensation and will be delivered to the judge, in other
words, into the hands of this belief that will deliver
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thee to the officer (disease), the ruler of mortal man
thee to the officer (disease), the ruler of mortal man
that casts him into prison and fetters his entire being.
But disease has no Intelligence of its own, or law,
whereby to do this. You sentence yourself unwit-
tingly, therefore, "agree with thine adversary quickly;"
meet every circumstance as its master, and watch your
belief, instead of your body; think less of laws mate-
rial, that you may appreciate better the spiritual law
of being, yea, the dominion of man over matter. Meet
every adverse circumstance with science, instead of the
beliefs of sense, and you will master it.
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Error is a coward before Truth, and death is but an-
Error is a coward before Truth, and death is but an-
other phase of the dream of Life in matter, wherein
we meet at every point the consciousness of continued
existence, with the same beliefs to conquer, and the
same errors of sense to master through science. We
must understand our way out of difficulties, or we never
in reality are out, and the harmony and immortality of
man are never understood until every error of sense is
destroyed. To apprehend the economy and capacity
of man's being, metaphysics must take the place of
physics, and mind, instead of matter, be consulted in
sickness. Fear, and its effects on the body are invol-
untary. Fear of disease and love of sin are the founda-
tions of man's enslavement; but for these he could tri-
umph over his body. Mind acts on the subject before
disease becomes apparent on the body; but the individ-
ual has no recognition of his belief producing disease
until it is developed physically. We look to personal
sense for the evidence of disease, but there is no per-
sonal sense, unless matter is intelligent and holds the
issues of Life. Because mind acts unconsciously to