Chapter VII - Physiology
168:1
for straightforward character, is a poor shift for the weak
for straightforward character, is a poor shift for the weak
and worldly, who think the standard of Christian Science
too high for them.
Belief on the wrong side
168:4
If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single
If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single
weight from either scale gives preponderance to the oppo-
site. Whatever influence you cast on the side
of matter, you take away from Mind, which
would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates
against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the
side of health. When sick (according to belief) you rush
after drugs, search out the material so-called laws of
health, and depend upon them to heal you, though you
have already brought yourself into the slough of disease
through just this false belief.
The divine authority
168:15
Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with
the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are
we to believe an authority which denies God's
spiritual command relating to perfection, – an authority
which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the
Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called
material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law
of Mind.
Disease foreseen
168:24
I have discerned disease in the human mind, and rec-
I have discerned disease in the human mind, and rec-
ognized the patient's fear of it, months before the so-called
disease made its appearance in the body. Dis-
ease being a belief, a latent illusion of mortal
mind, the sensation would not appear if the error of belief
was met and destroyed by truth.
Changed mentality
168:30
Here let a word be noticed which will be
Here let a word be noticed which will be
better understood hereafter, – chemicalization.
By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal