Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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effects show us it exists, and the results are the same
effects show us it exists, and the results are the same
as if it existed consciously. Disease, originating in mind
before it can be manifested on the body, is arrested, or
ruled out of the latter, by destroying the belief that
occasioned it. Fear causes the face to grow suddenly
red, or pallid, proving the circulation of the blood is
controlled by this mental condition; the body becomes
weak, or suddenly strong, through fear, showing that
weakness or strength is the result of mind, instead of
matter. A mother, informed of the imprisonment of
her son, instantly falls dead; here organic action has
stopped from no other than a mental cause, and yet we
are so buried in the rubbish of supposed Life in matter,
we cannot, or do not, let this falling apple point to the
Principle it reveals. Fear changes the entire secretions
of the system; not only controls the functions of the
brain, but the internal vicera, and the entire mechan-
ism of the obedient body. Remove the fear of disease,
and disease will disappear; for the body is restored
through a change of mind; fear exists when the mind
is wholly unconscious of it, and produces disease invol-
untarily. We never knew the patient that did not
recover when the fear of his disease was utterly de-
stroyed. The stronger never yields to the weaker,
except through fear, or voluntary choice; and mind is
mightier than matter, and controls the body, whether
we do, or do not, admit this.
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The ills we fear are the only ones that conquer us.
The ills we fear are the only ones that conquer us.
The body becomes inharmonious through mind alone;
no law, outside of mind, governs the body. The law
of God is the only absolute or inevitable, and this law
never produces sickness, sin, or death, as its conse-
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quences. There is no pain without mind; matter can-
quences. There is no pain without mind; matter can-
not suffer or produce suffering. Disease is a fear ex-
pressed physically, not by the lips, but the functions
of the body. Mitigate the fear, and you relieve the
affected organ; destroy it, and the body regains its
healthy functions. However impossible this may ap-
pear to our educated views on this subject, it is, never-
theless, a fact in science that we have tested sufficiently
to declare it, as unhesitatingly as any other demonstra-
ble Truth. That man is unconscious of his fear, neither
changes its effects on the body nor the mental fact;
ignorance of the cause, or approach of disease, not in the
least militates against its mental origin. More or less
fear accompanies all ignorance; who that understands
the power of mind over body, its impelling force, and
how controlled, and this very ignorance, like walking
in darkness on the edge of a precipice, is an ever-pres-
ent involuntary fear.
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We say, my body suffers, and mind has nothing to do
We say, my body suffers, and mind has nothing to do
with it; this is simply impossible. The martyr, burn-
ing at the stake, conquers his body with mind, and
silences personal sense with Soul. So the opposite
extreme of stolidity meets his punishment with less
torture than a mind touched to finer issues. Death has
occurred from imaginary phlebotomy; individuals have
died of contagions, hydrophobia, etc., believing they
had been exposed to them, when such was not the case.
Many instances of the mind's control over body, produc-
ing death, prove this control absolute, instead of partial.
Physicians are ready to admit mind affects the body
somewhat; but this is but a small part of the fact;
science reveals all action produced and controlled by