Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Disease mental
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and body are myths. To be sure, they sometimes treat
and body are myths. To be sure, they sometimes treat
the sick as if there was but one factor in the case; but
this one factor they represent to be body, not
mind. Infinite Mind could not possibly create
a remedy outside of itself, but erring, finite, human mind
has an absolute need of something beyond itself for its
redemption and healing.
Intentions respected
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Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of
Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of
the higher class of physicians. We know that if they un-
derstood the Science of Mind-healing, and were
in possession of the enlarged power it confers
to benefit the race physically and spiritually, they would
rejoice with us. Even this one reform in medicine would
ultimately deliver mankind from the awful and oppres-
sive bondage now enforced by false theories, from which
multitudes would gladly escape.
Man governed by Mind
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Mortal belief says that death has been occasioned by
Mortal belief says that death has been occasioned by
fright. Fear never stopped being and its action. The
blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing
to do with Life, God. Every function of the
real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human
mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no con-
trol over God's man. The divine Mind that made man
maintains His own image and likeness. The human
mind is opposed to God and must be put off, as St. Paul
declares. All that really exists is the divine Mind and
its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found har-
monious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to
see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and
follow the leadings of truth.
Mortal mind dethroned
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That mortal mind claims to govern every organ of the
That mortal mind claims to govern every organ of the
mortal body, we have overwhelming proof. But this so‑
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called mind is a myth, and must by its own consent yield
called mind is a myth, and must by its own consent yield
to Truth. It would wield the sceptre of a monarch, but
it is powerless. The immortal divine Mind
takes away all its supposed sovereignty, and
saves mortal mind from itself. The author has endeavored
to make this book the AEsculapius of mind as well as of
body, that it may give hope to the sick and heal them,
although they know not how the work is done. Truth
has a healing effect, even when not fully understood.
All activity from thought
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Anatomy describes muscular action as produced by
Anatomy describes muscular action as produced by
mind in one instance and not in another. Such errors
beset every material theory, in which one
statement contradicts another over and over
again. It is related that Sir Humphry Davy once ap-
parently cured a case of paralysis simply by introducing
a thermometer into the patient's mouth. This he did
merely to ascertain the temperature of the patient's body;
but the sick man supposed this ceremony was intended
to heal him, and he recovered accordingly. Such a fact
illustrates our theories.
The author's experiments in medicine
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The author's medical researches and experiments had
The author's medical researches and experiments had
prepared her thought for the metaphysics of Christian
Science. Every material dependence had
failed her in her search for truth; and she can
now understand why, and can see the means
by which mortals are divinely driven to a spiritual source
for health and happiness.
Homoeopathic attenuations
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Her experiments in homoeopathy had made her skep-
Her experiments in homoeopathy had made her skep-
tical as to material curative methods. Jahr, from
Aconitum to Zincum oxydatum, enumerates
the general symptoms, the characteristic
signs, which demand different remedies; but the drug