Part 55 (2/2)

Fevers the effect of fear

Fevers are errors of various types. The quickened pulse, coated tongue, febrile heat, dry skin, pain in the 379:27 head and limbs, are pictures drawn on the body by a mortal mind. The images, held in this disturbed mind, frighten conscious thought. Unless 379:30 the fever-picture, drawn by millions of mortals and im- aged on the body through the belief that mind is in matter and discord is as real as harmony, is destroyed through 380:1 Science, it may rest at length on some receptive thought, and become a fever case, which ends in a belief called 380:3 death, which belief must be finally conquered by eternal Life. Truth is always the victor. Sickness and sin fall by their own weight. Truth is the rock of ages, the head- 380:6 stone of the corner, ”but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”

Misdirected contention

Contending for the evidence or indulging the demands 380:9 of sin, disease, or death, we virtually contend against the control of Mind over body, and deny the power of Mind to heal. This false method 380:12 is as though the defendant should argue for the plaintiff in favor of a decision which the defendant knows will be turned against himself.

Benefits of metaphysics

380:15 The physical effects of fear ill.u.s.trate its illusion. Gaz- ing at a chained lion, crouched for a spring, should not terrify a man. The body is affected only with 380:18 the belief of disease produced by a so-called mind ignorant of the truth which chains disease. Noth- ing but the power of Truth can prevent the fear of 380:21 error, and prove man's dominion over error.

A higher discovery

Many years ago the author made a spiritual discov- ery, the scientific evidence of which has acc.u.mulated to 380:24 prove that the divine Mind produces in man health, harmony, and immortality. Gradu- ally this evidence will gather momentum and clearness, 380:27 until it reaches its culmination of scientific statement and proof. Nothing is more disheartening than to believe that there is a power opposite to G.o.d, or good, and that 380:30 G.o.d endows this opposing power with strength to be used against Himself, against Life, health, harmony.

Ignorance of our rights

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern 381:1 man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, G.o.d.

Ignorant of our G.o.d-given rights, we submit to unjust 381:3 decrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery. Be no more willing to suffer the illusion that you are sick or that some disease is develop- 381:6 ing in the system, than you are to yield to a sinful temp- tation on the ground that sin has its necessities.

No laws of matter

When infringing some supposed law, you say that 381:9 there is danger. This fear is the danger and induces the physical effects. We cannot in reality suffer from breaking anything except a moral or 381:12 spiritual law. The so-called laws of mortal belief are destroyed by the understanding that Soul is immortal, and that mortal mind cannot legislate the times, periods, 381:15 and types of disease, with which mortals die. G.o.d is the lawmaker, but He is not the author of barbarous codes.

In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor 381:18 death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite G.o.d.

G.o.d-given dominion

Think less of the enactments of mortal mind, and you 381:21 will sooner grasp man's G.o.d-given dominion. You must understand your way out of human theories relating to health, or you will never believe 381:24 that you are quite free from some ailment. The har- mony and immortality of man will never be reached without the understanding that Mind is not in matter.

381:27 Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, - G.o.d's law. It is man's moral right to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never 381:30 inflicted by divine authority.

Begin rightly

Christ Jesus overruled the error which would impose penalties for transgressions of the physical laws of 382:1 health; he annulled supposed laws of matter, opposed to the harmonies of Spirit, lacking divine au- 382:3 thority and having only human approval for their sanction.

Hygiene excessive

If half the attention given to hygiene were given to the 382:6 study of Christian Science and to the spiritualization of thought, this alone would usher in the millen- inium. Constant bathing and rubbing to alter 382:9 the secretions or to remove unhealthy exhalations from the cuticle receive a useful rebuke from Jesus' precept, ”Take no thought ... for the body.” We must beware 382:12 of making clean merely the outside of the platter.

Blissful ignorance

He, who is ignorant of what is termed hygienic law, is more receptive of spiritual power and of faith in one 382:15 G.o.d, than is the devotee of supposed hygienic law, who comes to teach the so-called igno- rant one. Must we not then consider the so-called law 382:18 of matter a canon ”more honored in the breach than the observance”? A patient thoroughly booked in medi- cal theories is more difficult to heal through Mind than 382:21 one who is not. This verifies the saying of our Master: ”Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of G.o.d as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.”

382:24 One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the senses had engulfed him, wrote to me: ”I should have died, but for the glorious Principle you teach, 382:27 - supporting the power of Mind over the body and show- ing me the nothingness of the so-called pleasures and pains of sense. The treatises I had read and the medicines I 382:30 had taken only abandoned me to more hopeless suffering and despair. Adherence to hygiene was useless. Mortal mind needed to be set right. The ailment was not bodily, 383:1 but mental, and I was cured when I learned my way in Christian Science.”

A clean mind and body

383:3 We need a clean body and a clean mind, - a body rendered pure by Mind as well as washed by water.

One says: ”I take good care of my body.”

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