Chapter XII - Christian Science Practice
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A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick.
A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick.
Lurking error, lust, envy, revenge, malice, or hate will
perpetuate or even create the belief in disease. Errors
of all sorts tend in this direction. Your true course is
to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth,
and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone
are real and harmonious.
Relapse unnecessary
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If your patient from any cause suffers a relapse, meet
If your patient from any cause suffers a relapse, meet
the cause mentally and courageously, knowing that
there can be no reaction in Truth. Neither
disease itself, sin, nor fear has the power to
cause disease or a relapse. Disease has no intelligence
with which to move itself about or to change itself from
one form to another. If disease moves, mind, not mat-
ter, moves it; therefore be sure that you move it off.
Meet every adverse circumstance as its master. Ob-
serve mind instead of body, lest aught unfit for develop-
ment enter thought. Think less of material conditions
and more of spiritual.
Conquer beliefs and fears
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Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from
Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from
Truth, from immortal Mind, there is harmony; but mor-
tal mind is liable to any phase of belief. A
relapse cannot in reality occur in mortals or
so-called mortal minds, for there is but one
Mind, one God. Never fear the mental malpractitioner,
the mental assassin, who, in attempting to rule mankind,
tramples upon the divine Principle of metaphysics, for God
is the only power. To succeed in healing, you must con-
quer your own fears as well as those of your patients, and
rise into higher and holier consciousness.
True government of man
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If it is found necessary to treat against relapse, know
If it is found necessary to treat against relapse, know
that disease or its symptoms cannot change forms, nor
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go from one part to another, for Truth destroys disease.
go from one part to another, for Truth destroys disease.
There is no metastasis, no stoppage of harmonious
action, no paralysis. Truth not error, Love
not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man. If
students do not readily heal themselves, they should
early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid
them. If they are unwilling to do this for themselves,
they need only to know that error cannot produce this
unnatural reluctance.
Positive reassurance
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Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims,
Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims,
for if they will only accept Truth, they can resist disease
and ward it off, as positively as they can the
temptation to sin. This fact of Christian Sci-
ence should be explained to invalids when they are in a
fit mood to receive it, – when they will not array them-
selves against it, but are ready to become receptive to the
new idea. The fact that Truth overcomes both disease
and sin reassures depressed hope. It imparts a healthy
stimulus to the body, and regulates the system. It in-
creases or diminishes the action, as the case may require,
better than any drug, alterative, or tonic.
Proper stimulus
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Mind is the natural stimulus of the body, but erro-
Mind is the natural stimulus of the body, but erro-
neous belief, taken at its best, is not promotive of health
or happiness. Tell the sick that they can
meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize
that divine Love gives them all power over every physical
action and condition.
Awaken the patient
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If it becomes necessary to startle mortal mind to break
If it becomes necessary to startle mortal mind to break
its dream of suffering, vehemently tell your patient that
he must awake. Turn his gaze from the false
evidence of the senses to the harmonious facts
of Soul and immortal being. Tell him that he suffers