Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Question of precedence
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is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth de-
is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth de-
stroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day,
as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the
sick.
Methods rejected
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It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene,
It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene,
nor provide them for human use; else Jesus would have
recommended and employed them in his heal-
ing. The sick are more deplorably lost than
the sinning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and
the sinning can. The divine Mind never called matter
medicine, and matter required a material and human be-
lief before it could be considered as medicine.
Error not curative
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Sometimes the human mind uses one error to medi-
Sometimes the human mind uses one error to medi-
cine another. Driven to choose between two difficulties,
the human mind takes the lesser to relieve the
greater. On this basis it saves from starva-
tion by theft, and quiets pain with anodynes. You
admit that mind influences the body somewhat, but
you conclude that the stomach, blood, nerves, bones,
etc., hold the preponderance of power. Controlled by
this belief, you continue in the old routine. You lean on
the inert and unintelligent, never discerning how this de-
prives you of the available superiority of divine Mind.
The body is not controlled scientifically by a negative
mind.
Impossible coalescence
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Mind is the grand creator, and there can be no power
Mind is the grand creator, and there can be no power
except that which is derived from Mind. If Mind was
first chronologically, is first potentially, and
must be first eternally, then give to Mind the
glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due its
holy name. Inferior and unspiritual methods of healing
may try to make Mind and drugs coalesce, but the two will
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not mingle scientifically. Why should we wish to make
not mingle scientifically. Why should we wish to make
them do so, since no good can come of it?
If Mind is foremost and superior, let us rely upon Mind,
which needs no cooperation from lower powers, even if
these so-called powers are real.
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Naught is the squire, when the king is nigh;
Naught is the squire, when the king is nigh;
Withdraws the star, when dawns the sun's brave light.
Soul and sense
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The various mortal beliefs formulated in human philoso-
The various mortal beliefs formulated in human philoso-
phy, physiology, hygiene, are mainly predicated of matter,
and afford faint gleams of God, or Truth.
The more material a belief, the more obstinately
tenacious its error; the stronger are the manifestations of
the corporeal senses, the weaker the indications of Soul.
Will-power detrimental
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Human will-power is not Science. Human will belongs
Human will-power is not Science. Human will belongs
to the so-called material senses, and its use is to be con-
demned. Willing the sick to recover is not the
metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but
is sheer animal magnetism. Human will-power may in-
fringe the rights of man. It produces evil continually,
and is not a factor in the realism of being. Truth, and
not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to
disease, "Peace, be still."
Conservative antagonism
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Because divine Science wars with so-called physical
Because divine Science wars with so-called physical
science, even as Truth wars with error, the old schools
still oppose it. Ignorance, pride, or prejudice
closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped.
When the Science of being is universally understood,
every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be
the universal panacea.
Ancient healers
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It is a question to-day, whether the ancient inspired
It is a question to-day, whether the ancient inspired
healers understood the Science of Christian healing, or