Part 34 (1/2)
230:1 If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true, it is a part of Truth. Would you attempt with drugs, 230:3 or without, to destroy a quality or condition of Truth?
But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, 230:6 holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the for- ever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the sal- 230:9 vation which comes through G.o.d, the divine Principle, Love, as demonstrated by Jesus.
G.o.d never inconsistent
It would be contrary to our highest ideas of G.o.d to 230:12 suppose Him capable of first arranging law and causation so as to bring about certain evil results, and then punis.h.i.+ng the helpless victims of His vo- 230:15 lition for doing what they could not avoid doing. Good is not, cannot be, the author of experimental sins. G.o.d, good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can 230:18 cause evil and health occasion disease.
Mental narcotics
Does wisdom make blunders which must afterwards be rectified by man? Does a law of G.o.d produce sick- 230:21 ness, and can man put that law under his feet by healing sickness? According to Holy Writ, the sick are never really healed by drugs, hygiene, or any 230:24 material method. These merely evade the question.
They are soothing syrups to put children to sleep, satisfy mortal belief, and quiet fear.
The true healing
230:27 We think that we are healed when a disease disap- pears, though it is liable to reappear; but we are never thoroughly healed until the liability to be 230:30 ill is removed. So-called mortal mind or the mind of mortals being the remote, predisposing, and the exciting cause of all suffering, the cause of disease 231:1 must be obliterated through Christ in divine Science, or the so-called physical senses will get the victory.
Destruction of all evil
231:3 Unless an ill is rightly met and fairly overcome by Truth, the ill is never conquered. If G.o.d destroys not sin, sickness, and death, they are not de- 231:6 stroyed in the mind of mortals, but seem to this so-called mind to be immortal. What G.o.d cannot do, man need not attempt. If G.o.d heals not the sick, 231:9 they are not healed, for no lesser power equals the infinite All-power; but G.o.d, Truth, Life, Love, does heal the sick through the prayer of the righteous.
231:12 If G.o.d makes sin, if good produces evil, if truth results in error, then Science and Christianity are helpless; but there are no antagonistic powers nor laws, spiritual or 231:15 material, creating and governing man through perpetual warfare. G.o.d is not the author of mortal discords.
Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have 231:18 only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy.
Superiority to sickness and sin
To hold yourself superior to sin, because G.o.d made 231:21 you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love and the divine Science of being in man's rela- 231:24 tion to G.o.d, - to doubt His government and distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior to sickness and death is equally wise, and is in accordance 231:27 with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend G.o.d and know that they are no part of His creation.
231:30 Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, - planted on the Evangelist's statement that ”all things were made by Him [the Word of G.o.d]; and without 232:1 Him was not anything made that was made,” - can triumph over sin, sickness, and death.
Denials of divine power
232:3 Many theories relative to G.o.d and man neither make man harmonious nor G.o.d lovable. The beliefs we com- monly entertain about happiness and life 232:6 afford no scatheless and permanent evidence of either. Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science.
232:9 Scripture informs us that ”with G.o.d all things are possible,” - all good is possible to Spirit; but our prev- alent theories practically deny this, and make healing 232:12 possible only through matter. These theories must be untrue, for the Scripture is true. Christianity is not false, but religions which contradict its Principle are 232:15 false.
In our age Christianity is again demonstrating the power of divine Principle, as it did over nineteen hun- 232:18 dred years ago, by healing the sick and triumphing over death. Jesus never taught that drugs, food, air, and ex- ercise could make a man healthy, or that they could de- 232:21 stroy human life; nor did he ill.u.s.trate these errors by his practice. He referred man's harmony to Mind, not to matter, and never tried to make of none effect the sen- 232:24 tence of G.o.d, which sealed G.o.d's condemnation of sin, sickness, and death.
Signs following
In the sacred sanctuary of Truth are voices of sol- 232:27 emn import, but we heed them not. It is only when the so-called pleasures and pains of sense pa.s.s away in our lives, that we find unquestion- 232:30 able signs of the burial of error and the resurrection to spiritual life.
Profession and proof
There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error 233:1 of any sort. Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power.
233:3 These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of 233:6 progress, and progress is the law of G.o.d, whose law de- mands of us only what we can certainly fulfil.
Perfection gained slowly
In the midst of imperfection, perfection is seen and 233:9 acknowledged only by degrees. The ages must slowly work up to perfection. How long it must be before we arrive at the demonstration of scien- 233:12 tific being, no man knoweth, - not even ”the Son but the Father;” but the false claim of error con- tinues its delusions until the goal of goodness is a.s.sidu- 233:15 ously earned and won.