Chapter VII - Physiology
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The so-called laws of health are simply laws of mortal
The so-called laws of health are simply laws of mortal
belief. The premises being erroneous, the conclusions
are wrong. Truth makes no laws to regulate sickness,
sin, and death, for these are unknown to Truth and should
not be recognized as reality.
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Belief produces the results of belief, and the penal-
Belief produces the results of belief, and the penal-
ties it affixes last so long as the belief and are insepara-
ble from it. The remedy consists in probing the trouble
to the bottom, in finding and casting out by denial the
error of belief which produces a mortal disorder, never
honoring erroneous belief with the title of law nor yield-
ing obedience to it. Truth, Life, and Love are the only
legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are
spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine
statutes.
Laws of human belief
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Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmoni-
Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmoni-
ous and eternal. Whatever is governed by a false belief
is discordant and mortal. We say man suffers
from the effects of cold, heat, fatigue. This
is human belief, not the truth of being, for matter cannot
suffer. Mortal mind alone suffers, – not because a law
of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this
so-called mind has been disobeyed. I have demonstrated
this as a rule of divine Science by destroying the delusion
of suffering from what is termed a fatally broken physical
law.
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A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always
A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always
breathed with great difficulty when the wind was from
the east. I sat silently by her side a few moments. Her
breath came gently. The inspirations were deep and nat-
ural. I then requested her to look at the weather-vane.
She looked and saw that it pointed due east. The wind
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had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her diffi-
had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her diffi-
culty in breathing had gone. The wind had not produced
the difficulty. My metaphysical treatment changed the
action of her belief on the lungs, and she never suffered
again from east winds, but was restored to health.
A so-called mind-cure
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No system of hygiene but Christian Science is purely
No system of hygiene but Christian Science is purely
mental. Before this book was published, other books
were in circulation, which discussed "mental
medicine" and "mind-cure," operating through
the power of the earth's magnetic currents to regulate life
and health. Such theories and such systems of so-called
mind-cure, which have sprung up, are as material as the
prevailing systems of medicine. They have their birth
in mortal mind, which puts forth a human conception
in the name of Science to match the divine Science of im-
mortal Mind, even as the necromancers of Egypt strove
to emulate the wonders wrought by Moses. Such theories
have no relationship to Christian Science, which rests on
the conception of God as the only Life, substance, and
intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual
factor in the healing work.
Jesus and hypnotism
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Jesus cast out evil and healed the sick, not only with-
Jesus cast out evil and healed the sick, not only with-
out drugs, but without hypnotism, which is
the reverse of ethical and pathological Truth-
power.
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Erroneous mental practice may seem for a time to bene-
Erroneous mental practice may seem for a time to bene-
fit the sick, but the recovery is not permanent. This is
because erroneous methods act on and through the ma-
terial stratum of the human mind, called brain, which is
but a mortal consolidation of material mentality and its
suppositional activities.
False stimulus
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A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed
A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed