Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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Sickness is error, its remedy Truth; and the science of
Sickness is error, its remedy Truth; and the science of
being reveals that our body is sensationless, and that
Spirit sees, hears, feels, acts, and enjoys, but cannot
suffer; and this makes Soul and body harmonious and
immortal. To conclude our body is Life, Substance, or
Intelligence, and this body matter, that sees, hears, feels,
acts, enjoys and suffers, makes sickness, sin and death
autocrats over Soul, and man a slave to personal sense.
To Soul there is neither matter, sickness, sin, or death;
but to personal sense these are realities, that even govern
Spirit; what a mistake! we know this is error, and error
a belief, destitute of understanding; and change the
belief, the error changes, destroy it, and the error is
gone. You see through solid walls, hear without sound,
walk over water, and have your body with you in clair-
voyance; but in the opposite belief of sense, your body
remains in statu quo, and your mind goes without a
body. Let the mesmerizer experience what we term the
fears of personal sense, its pains or its pleasures, and his
subject has those same sensations, which proves they
are produced by mind and not matter, and are beliefs
instead of the reality of things. Sickness is not imagina-
tion; it is more than this, it is a belief, a conviction of
mind instead of a fancy. One animal looking another
in the eye may cause a quarrel; but notice the superi-
ority of Soul over sense, when the eye of man fastened
fearlessly on the beast, starts him away with terror.
This illustrates the effect of Spirit looking disease
steadfastly in the face to destroy it, compared with our
physiological drills, drugs, and mesmerism, which is
the quarrel between beasts. When we submit to per-
sonal sense that we admit is the author of sickness, sin
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and death, we do not govern our bodies; we must
and death, we do not govern our bodies; we must
turn to spiritual sense for happiness and immortality.
Thinking less of what we term substance-matter, and
more of substance in Spirit, we become a law to our
bodies of Life, and not death, of harmony instead of
discord, and of Truth instead of error.
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I pity him more who is sick than him who is a sinner,
I pity him more who is sick than him who is a sinner,
for we rely on God to help man in the latter, but not
the former case. If sense masters man in sickness, it
may in sin, and Soul is out of office. Because personal
sense reports you poor, it may tempt you to steal; or
exposed to fatigue, or cold, say you must be sick; but
should you believe it in one case more than in the other?
in both cases it misguides and deludes. The belief that
sickness is a necessity, or the master of man, disappears
in science where our normal control over the body
reappears. Bathing, friction, dietetics, air, exercise, elec-
tricity, etc., never yet made man harmonious; drug-
ging or pounding the poor body to make it sensibly feel
well, that ought to be insensibly well, is a sorry equiv-
alent for the control of Spirit over matter. Has brains,
blood, heart, lungs, stomach, bones, nerves, drugs, whis-
key or sin, reduced thee to the slave of matter; remem-
ber these are not as strong as thou, and rise to thy
God-given dominion; man is not the tool of personal
sense, the Truth of being declares this. Sickness, as
well as sin, is error, and can matter err? Sickness is a
jar, an abnormal action, inharmonious, and what is the
corrective of this? matter cannot resuscitate, without
mind, it cannot act of itself. We say it can; that cer-
tain combinations, gasses, secretions, acute or morbid
conditions of matter produce inharmony, and bodily