Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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Science and Scripture declare this, "He that believeth
Science and Scripture declare this, "He that believeth
in me shall never see death"; we are exempt from
error or belief, and immortal only as we understand
God. Giving heed to inharmony is personal sense that
in its ignorance of God silences the voice of Soul; in
other words is "total depravity." Soul and personal
sense are antagonists, one disputes every position of
the other – which evidence do you accept? Reason
instructs us immortality is the friend of man. Hear
the opposite testimonies of personal sense and Soul.
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Sense;
Sense;
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I am intelligent matter, a body of sickness,
I am intelligent matter, a body of sickness,
sin and death that constitutes a mortal intelligence.
The lungs, with alarming resonance, repeat this warn-
ing; the fevered throbbing of arteries tells how fast the
sands of life are running; the failing pulse, that the
places once knowing man shall know him no more for-
ever; the inevitable law of Life is death; that aught
is beyond this who knoweth. The evidence changes –
mortal man is in health, at ease in his possessions, and
sense says, eat, drink, and be merry; what a happy
life is this. I am unjust, and no person knoweth it, take
vengeance on my fellow beings, cheat, lie, and propa-
gate this species; am brutish, but this is obedience to
the nature God hath given me. What a nice thing is
sin, what a joy, sense; my kingdom is of this world, and
I am at peace. But a touch, an accident, one wheel in
the mechanism stopped, all is lost, for I am mortal!
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Soul;
Soul;
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I am the Spirit of man that giveth understand-
I am the Spirit of man that giveth understand-
ing, beauty and Omnipotence, full of unutterable per-
fections, height upon height of holiness, the wonder of
being, imperishable glory, for I am God, grasping, and
gathering in all bliss, for I am Love, giving immortality
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to man, for I am Truth, without beginning and without
to man, for I am Truth, without beginning and without
end, for I am Life, supreme over all, for I am Intelli-
gence, and the Substance of all, because I AM.
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Does an M. D. examine the body, feel the pulse, and
Does an M. D. examine the body, feel the pulse, and
look at the tongue, to ascertain the condition of Soul,
the Life of man, or the condition of his body, alias mat-
ter, and according to signs material give his opinion of
Life, God, and the prospect for his continuing? If man
was before God, and matter superior to mind, such meth-
ods were consistent, but not otherwise. Mind, instead
of body is the fount of all suffering; but we forget this
in sickness, when the mental condition is not regarded
and wholly unknown to patient or physician, while its
physical effect alone is taken up. Opinions and the-
ories have so misguided judgment on these points, the
Truth of being is lost sight of, and illusion taken for
fact. However much the schools insist that discord
rules harmony, and laws of matter govern the Life of
man; science reveals Life otherwise, and gives an oppor-
tunity for this proof. Laws of God were never known
to kill man, for this would destroy immortality. Man
is the image and likeness, therefore the reflex shadow
of God, and if one is mortal, why not the other? If
man is lost his Principle is lost, and God is not left.
Doctors fasten disease on the body, mapping it out in
mind; when the mental picture is complete the patient
will be sick. A belief of disease is liable to be made
manifest at any time on the body.
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If disease is Intelligence that produces results of
If disease is Intelligence that produces results of
itself, or the body can make its own conditions, despite
the mental protest, we will admit the superiority of
disease over man, and its power to make him sick, or