Part 54 (2/2)

Brain not intelligent

372:1 Remember, brain is not mind. Matter cannot be sick, and Mind is immortal. The mortal body is only an erro- 372:3 neous mortal belief of mind in matter. What you call matter was originally error in solu- tion, elementary mortal mind, - likened by Milton to 372:6 ”chaos and old night.” One theory about this mortal mind is, that its sensations can reproduce man, can form blood, flesh, and bones. The Science of being, in which 372:9 all is divine Mind, or G.o.d and His idea, would be clearer in this age, but for the belief that matter is the medium of man, or that man can enter his own embodied thought, 372:12 bind himself with his own beliefs, and then call his bonds material and name them divine law.

Veritable success

When man demonstrates Christian Science absolutely, 372:15 he will be perfect. He can neither sin, suffer, be subject to matter, nor disobey the law of G.o.d. There- fore he will be as the angels in heaven. Chris- 372:18 tian Science and Christianity are one. How, then, in Christianity any more than in Christian Science, can we believe in the reality and power of both Truth and error, 372:21 Spirit and matter, and hope to succeed with contraries?

Matter is not self-sustaining. Its false supports fail one after another. Matter succeeds for a period only by 372:24 falsely parading in the vestments of law.

Recognition of benefits

”Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” In Chris- 372:27 tian Science, a denial of Truth is fatal, while a just acknowledgment of Truth and of what it has done for us is an effectual help. If pride, super- 372:30 st.i.tion, or any error prevents the honest recognition of benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student.

Disease far more docile than iniquity

373:1 If we are Christians on all moral questions, but are in darkness as to the physical exemption which Christian- 373:3 ity includes, then we must have more faith in G.o.d on this subject and be more alive to His promises. It is easier to cure the most 373:6 malignant disease than it is to cure sin. The author has raised up the dying, partly because they were willing to be restored, while she has struggled long, and perhaps in 373:9 vain, to lift a student out of a chronic sin. Under all modes of pathological treatment, the sick recover more rapidly from disease than does the sinner from his sin.

373:12 Healing is easier than teaching, if the teaching is faithfully done.

Love frees from fear

The fear of disease and the love of sin are the sources 373:15 of man's enslavement. ”The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” but the Scriptures also declare, through the exalted thought of John, that 373:18 ”perfect Love casteth out fear.”

The fear occasioned by ignorance can be cured; but to remove the effects of fear produced by sin, you must 373:21 rise above both fear and sin. Disease is expressed not so much by the lips as in the functions of the body. Es- tablish the scientific sense of health, and you relieve the 373:24 oppressed organ. The inflammation, decomposition, or deposit will abate, and the disabled organ will resume its healthy functions.

Mind circulates blood

373:27 When the blood rushes madly through the veins or languidly creeps along its frozen channels, we call these conditions disease. This is a misconception.

373:30 Mortal mind is producing the propulsion or the languor, and we prove this to be so when by mental means the circulation is changed, and returns to that standard 374:1 which mortal mind has decided upon as essential for health. Anodynes, counter-irritants, and depletion never 374:3 reduce inflammation scientifically, but the truth of being, whispered into the ear of mortal mind, will bring relief.

Mind can destroy all ills

Hatred and its effects on the body are removed by 374:6 Love. Because mortal mind seems to be conscious, the sick say: ”How can my mind cause a disease I never thought of and knew nothing about, 374:9 until it appeared on my body?” The author has an- swered this question in her explanation of disease as origi- nating in human belief before it is consciously apparent 374:12 on the body, which is in fact the objective state of mortal mind, though it is called matter. This mortal blindness and its sharp consequences show our need of divine meta- 374:15 physics. Through immortal Mind, or Truth, we can destroy all ills which proceed from mortal mind.

Ignorance of the cause or approach of disease is no 374:18 argument against the mental origin of disease. You con- fess to ignorance of the future and incapacity to preserve your own existence, and this belief helps rather than 374:21 hinders disease. Such a state of mind induces sickness.

It is like walking in darkness on the edge of a precipice.

You cannot forget the belief of danger, and your steps 374:24 are less firm because of your fear, and ignorance of mental cause and effect.

Temperature is mental

Heat and cold are products of mortal mind. The body, 374:27 when bereft of mortal mind, at first cools, and after- wards it is resolved into its primitive mortal elements. Nothing that lives ever dies, and 374:30 _vice versa_. Mortal mind produces animal heat, and then expels it through the abandonment of a belief, or in- creases it to the point of self-destruction. Hence it is 375:1 mortal mind, not matter, which says, ”I die.” Heat would pa.s.s from the body as painlessly as gas dissipates 375:3 into the air when it evaporates but for the belief that in- flammation and pain must accompany the separation of heat from the body.

Science _versus _hypnotism

375:6 Chills and heat are often the form in which fever mani- fests itself. Change the mental state, and the chills and fever disappear. The old-school physician 375:9 proves this when his patient says, ”I am better,”

but the patient believes that matter, not mind, has helped him. The Christian Scientist demonstrates 375:12 that divine Mind heals, while the hypnotist dispossesses the patient of his individuality in order to control him.

No person is benefited by yielding his mentality to any 375:15 mental despotism or malpractice. All unscientific mental practice is erroneous and powerless, and should be under- stood and so rendered fruitless. The genuine Christian 375:18 Scientist is adding to his patient's mental and moral power, and is increasing his patient's spirituality while restoring him physically through divine Love.

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