Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Reduction to system
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the age in which we live. This system enables the
the age in which we live. This system enables the
learner to demonstrate the divine Principle,
upon which Jesus' healing was based, and
the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of
disease.
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Late in the nineteenth century I demonstrated the divine
Late in the nineteenth century I demonstrated the divine
rules of Christian Science. They were submitted to the
broadest practical test, and everywhere, when honestly ap-
plied under circumstances where demonstration was hu-
manly possible, this Science showed that Truth had lost
none of its divine and healing efficacy, even though cen-
turies had passed away since Jesus practised these rules
on the hills of Judaea and in the valleys of Galilee.
Perusal and practice
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Although this volume contains the complete Science of
Although this volume contains the complete Science of
Mind-healing, never believe that you can absorb the whole
meaning of the Science by a simple perusal
of this book. The book needs to be studied,
and the demonstration of the rules of scientific healing
will plant you firmly on the spiritual groundwork of
Christian Science. This proof lifts you high above the
perishing fossils of theories already antiquated, and en-
ables you to grasp the spiritual facts of being hitherto
unattained and seemingly dim.
A definite rule discovered
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Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian heal-
Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian heal-
ing, and taught the generalities of its divine Principle to
his students; but he left no definite rule for
demonstrating this Principle of healing and
preventing disease. This rule remained to be discovered
in Christian Science. A pure affection takes form in good-
ness, but Science alone reveals the divine Principle of
goodness and demonstrates its rules.
Jesus' own practice
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Jesus never spoke of disease as dangerous or as difficult
Jesus never spoke of disease as dangerous or as difficult
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to heal. When his students brought to him a case they
to heal. When his students brought to him a case they
had failed to heal, he said to them, "O faithless gen-
eration," implying that the requisite power
to heal was in Mind. He prescribed no drugs,
urged no obedience to material laws, but acted in direct
disobedience to them.
The man of anatomy and of theology
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Neither anatomy nor theology has ever described man
Neither anatomy nor theology has ever described man
as created by Spirit, – as God's man. The former ex-
plains the men of men, or the "children of
men," as created corporeally instead of spir-
itually and as emerging from the lowest, in-
stead of from the highest, conception of being. Both
anatomy and theology define man as both physical and
mental, and place mind at the mercy of matter for every
function, formation, and manifestation. Anatomy takes
up man at all points materially. It loses Spirit, drops the
true tone, and accepts the discord. Anatomy and the-
ology reject the divine Principle which produces harmo-
nious man, and deal – the one wholly, the other primarily
– with matter, calling that man which is not the counter-
part, but the counterfeit, of God's man. Then theology
tries to explain how to make this man a Christian, – how
from this basis of division and discord to produce the con-
cord and unity of Spirit and His likeness.
Physiology deficient
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Physiology exalts matter, dethrones Mind, and claims
Physiology exalts matter, dethrones Mind, and claims
to rule man by material law, instead of spiritual. When
physiology fails to give health or life by this
process, it ignores the divine Spirit as unable
or unwilling to render help in time of physical need.
When mortals sin, this ruling of the schools leaves them
to the guidance of a theology which admits God to be
the healer of sin but not of sickness, although our great