Chapter X - Science Of Being
Belief an autocrat
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think they are so; and nothing can change this state, until
think they are so; and nothing can change this state, until
the belief changes. Mortal belief says, "You are happy!"
and mortals are so; and no circumstance can
alter the situation, until the belief on this sub-
ject changes. Human belief says to mortals, "You are
sick!" and this testimony manifests itself on the body as
sickness. It is as necessary for a health-illusion, as for
an illusion of sickness, to be instructed out of itself into
the understanding of what constitutes health; for a change
in either a health-belief or a belief in sickness affects the
physical condition.
Self-improvement
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Erroneous belief is destroyed by truth. Change the
Erroneous belief is destroyed by truth. Change the
evidence, and that disappears which before seemed real
to this false belief, and the human conscious-
ness rises higher. Thus the reality of being
is attained and man found to be immortal. The only
fact concerning any material concept is, that it is neither
scientific nor eternal, but subject to change and dis-
solution.
Faith higher than belief
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Faith is higher and more spiritual than belief. It is
Faith is higher and more spiritual than belief. It is
a chrysalis state of human thought, in which spiritual
evidence, contradicting the testimony of mate-
rial sense, begins to appear, and Truth, the
ever-present, is becoming understood. Human thoughts
have their degrees of comparison. Some thoughts are
better than others. A belief in Truth is better than a
belief in error, but no mortal testimony is founded on the
divine rock. Mortal testimony can be shaken. Until
belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual under-
standing, human thought has little relation to the actual
or divine.
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A mortal belief fulfils its own conditions. Sickness,
A mortal belief fulfils its own conditions. Sickness,