Chapter VII - Physiology
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for straightforward character, is a poor shift for the weak
for straightforward character, is a poor shift for the weak
and worldly, who think the standard of Christian Science
too high for them.
Belief on the wrong side
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If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single
If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single
weight from either scale gives preponderance to the oppo-
site. Whatever influence you cast on the side
of matter, you take away from Mind, which
would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates
against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the
side of health. When sick (according to belief) you rush
after drugs, search out the material so-called laws of
health, and depend upon them to heal you, though you
have already brought yourself into the slough of disease
through just this false belief.
The divine authority
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Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with
the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are
we to believe an authority which denies God's
spiritual command relating to perfection, – an authority
which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the
Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called
material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law
of Mind.
Disease foreseen
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I have discerned disease in the human mind, and rec-
I have discerned disease in the human mind, and rec-
ognized the patient's fear of it, months before the so-called
disease made its appearance in the body. Dis-
ease being a belief, a latent illusion of mortal
mind, the sensation would not appear if the error of belief
was met and destroyed by truth.
Changed mentality
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Here let a word be noticed which will be
Here let a word be noticed which will be
better understood hereafter, – chemicalization.
By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal
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mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a
mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a
material to a spiritual basis.
Scientific foresight
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Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred
Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred
through mental chemicalization, I have seen the mental
signs, assuring me that danger was over, before
the patient felt the change; and I have said
to the patient, "You are healed," – sometimes to his dis-
comfiture, when he was incredulous. But it always came
about as I had foretold.
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I name these facts to show that disease has a mental,
I name these facts to show that disease has a mental,
mortal origin, – that faith in rules of health or in drugs
begets and fosters disease by attracting the mind to the
subject of sickness, by exciting fear of disease, and by dos-
ing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in
these things should find stronger supports and a higher
home. If we understood the control of Mind over body,
we should put no faith in material means.
Mind the only healer
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Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as
Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as
mental, but it also declares that all disease is cured by
divine Mind. There can be no healing ex-
cept by this Mind, however much we trust
a drug or any other means towards which human faith
or endeavor is directed. It is mortal mind, not mat-
ter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may
seem to receive from materiality. But the sick are never
really healed except by means of the divine power.
Only the action of Truth, Life, and Love can give
harmony.
Modes of matter
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Whatever teaches man to have other laws and to
Whatever teaches man to have other laws and to
acknowledge other powers than the divine
Mind, is anti-Christian. The good that a
poisonous drug seems to do is evil, for it robs man of