Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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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
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sense, the sick say how can mind have caused disease,
sense, the sick say how can mind have caused disease,
"I never thought of the disease until it appeared on
my body." But mind is first, and causation; nothing
commences in matter; the plant springs from the eternal
Intelligence before we call it matter; but our mortal
blindness and its sharp consequences, prove our need
to understand the action of mind and its effects; we
should study mind more and matter less, if we would
avail ourselves of Soul in its control over sense. We
can destroy sickness, the same as sin, by learning its
origin and nature in mind, instead of body, and finding
the belief that occasions it.
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You can prevent or cure scrofula, hereditary disease,
You can prevent or cure scrofula, hereditary disease,
etc., in just the ratio you expel from mind a belief in
the transmission of disease, and destroy its mental
images; this will forestall the disease before it takes
tangible shape in mind, that forms its corresponding
image on the body. The science of being destroys the
errors of sense with the Truth of man, and this is "cast-
ing out devils and healing the sick." Unconscious mat-
ter cannot dictate terms to conscious mind, causing
either pain or pleasure; and matter is unconscious.
The belief that our body forms conditions of its own,
independent of mind, is the error of mortal man that
makes him mortal.
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You say the body feels, but the fact that pain is not
You say the body feels, but the fact that pain is not
felt without mind, and can be removed through it,
proves mind the origin and cause of suffering. All the
diseases on earth, (and there are none in heaven), never
interfered for a moment with man's Life and its har-
monious phenomena. Man is the same after, as before
a bone is broken, or a head chopped off. Casualty