Part 32 (1/2)

216:3 Who shall say that man is alive to-day, but may be dead to-morrow? What has touched Life, G.o.d, to such strange issues? Here theories cease, and Sci- 216:6 ence unveils the mystery and solves the prob- lem of man. Error bites the heel of truth, but cannot kill truth. Truth bruises the head of error - destroys error.

216:9 Spirituality lays open siege to materialism. On which side are we fighting?

Servants and masters

The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that 216:12 there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense. This understand- 216:15 ing makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters. If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in sub- 216:18 mission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. The great mistake of mortals is to suppose that man, G.o.d's image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both good 216:21 and evil.

If the decision were left to the corporeal senses, evil would appear to be the master of good, and sickness to 216:24 be the rule of existence, while health would seem the exception, death the inevitable, and life a paradox. Paul asked: ”What concord hath Christ with Belial?” (2 Cor- 216:27 inthians vi. 15.)

Personal ident.i.ty

When you say, ”Man's body is material,” I say with Paul: Be ”willing rather to be absent from the body, 216:30 and to be present with the Lord.” Give up your material belief of mind in matter, and have but one Mind, even G.o.d; for this Mind forms its 217:1 own likeness. The loss of man's ident.i.ty through the understanding which Science confers is impossible; and 217:3 the notion of such a possibility is more absurd than to conclude that individual musical tones are lost in the origin of harmony.

Paul's experience

217:6 Medical schools may inform us that the healing work of Christian Science and Paul's peculiar Christian con- version and experience, - which prove Mind 217:9 to be scientifically distinct from matter, - are indications of unnatural mental and bodily conditions, even of catalepsy and hysteria; yet if we turn to the Scrip- 217:12 tures, what do we read? Why, this: ”If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death!” and ”Henceforth know we no man after the fles.h.!.+”

Fatigue is mental

217:15 That scientific methods are superior to others, is seen by their effects. When you have once conquered a diseased condition of the body through 217:18 Mind, that condition never recurs, and you have won a point in Science. When mentality gives rest to the body, the next toil will fatigue you less, for 217:21 you are working out the problem of being in divine meta- physics; and in proportion as you understand the con- trol which Mind has over so-called matter, you will be 217:24 able to demonstrate this control. The scientific and permanent remedy for fatigue is to learn the power of Mind over the body or any illusion of physical weariness, 217:27 and so destroy this illusion, for matter cannot be weary and heavy-laden.

You say, ”Toil fatigues me.” But what is this _me_!

217:30 Is it muscle or mind? Which is tired and so speaks?

Without mind, could the muscles be tired? Do the muscles talk, or do you talk for them? Matter is non- 218:1 intelligent. Mortal mind does the false talking, and that which affirms weariness, made that weariness.

Mind never weary

218:3 You do not say a wheel is fatigued; and yet the body is as material as the wheel. If it were not for what the human mind says of the body, the body, like 218:6 the inanimate wheel, would never be weary.

The consciousness of Truth rests us more than hours of repose in unconsciousness.

Coalition of sin and sickness

218:9 The body is supposed to say, ”I am ill.” The reports of sickness may form a coalition with the reports of sin, and say, ”I am malice, l.u.s.t, appet.i.te, envy, 218:12 hate.” What renders both sin and sickness difficult of cure is, that the human mind is the sinner, disinclined to self-correction, and believing that 218:15 the body can be sick independently of mortal mind and that the divine Mind has no jurisdiction over the body.

Sickness akin to sin

Why pray for the recovery of the sick, if you are with- 218:18 out faith in G.o.d's willingness and ability to heal them?

If you do believe in G.o.d, why do you sub- st.i.tute drugs for the Almighty's power, and 218:21 employ means which lead only into material ways of obtaining help, instead of turning in time of need to G.o.d, divine Love, who is an ever-present help?

218:24 Treat a belief in sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal. Resist the temptation to believe in matter as intelligent, as having sensation or power.

218:27 The Scriptures say, ”They that wait upon the Lord ... shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” The meaning of that pa.s.sage is not 218:30 perverted by applying it literally to moments of fatigue, for the moral and physical are as one in their results.

When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, 219:1 pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease. My 219:3 method of treating fatigue applies to all bodily ailments, since Mind should be, and is, supreme, absolute, and final.

Affirmation and result

219:6 In mathematics, we do not multiply when we should subtract, and then say the product is correct. No more can we say in Science that muscles give strength, 219:9 that nerves give pain or pleasure, or that matter governs, and then expect that the result will be harmony.

Not muscles, nerves, nor bones, but mortal mind makes 219:12 the whole body ”sick, and the whole heart faint;” whereas divine Mind heals.