Part 63 (1/2)

Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected; 437:15 Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a criminal though recommended to mercy; the helpless innocent body tor- tured, - these are the terrible records of your Court of 437:18 Error, and I ask that the Supreme Court of Spirit reverse this decision.

Here the opposing counsel, False Belief, called Chris- 437:21 tian Science to order for contempt of court. Various notables - Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Scho- lastic Theology, and Jurisprudence - rose to the ques- 437:24 tion of expelling Christian Science from the bar, for such high-handed illegality. They declared that Christian Sci- ence was overthrowing the judicial proceedings of a regu- 437:27 larly const.i.tuted court.

But Judge Justice of the Supreme Court of Spirit over- ruled their motions on the ground that unjust usages 437:30 were not allowed at the bar of Truth, which ranks above the lower Court of Error.

The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the 437:33 supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the 438:1 Rights of Man, remarking, that the Bible was better au- thority than Blackstone: -

438:3 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion.

Behold, I give unto you power ... over all the power 438:6 of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to 438:9 be a perjurer. Instead of being a ruler in the Province of Body, in which Mortal Man was reported to reside, Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false 438:12 claims to office and bearing false witness against Man.

Turning suddenly to Personal Sense, by this time silent, Christian Science continued: -

438:15 I ask your arrest in the name of Almighty G.o.d on three distinct charges of crime, to wit: perjury, treason, and con- spiracy against the rights and life of man.

438:18 Then Christian Science continued:

Another witness, equally inadequate, said that on the night of the crime a garment of foul fur was spread over 438:21 him by Morbid Secretion, while the facts in the case show that this fur is a foreign substance, imported by False Be- lief, the attorney for Personal Sense, who is in partners.h.i.+p 438:24 with Error and smuggles Error's goods into market with- out the inspection of Soul's government officers. When the Court of Truth summoned Furred Tongue for examina- 438:27 tion, he disappeared and was never heard of more.

Morbid Secretion is not an importer or dealer in fur, but we have heard Materia Medica explain how this fur is 438:30 manufactured, and we know Morbid Secretion to be on friendly terms with the firm of Personal Sense, Error, & 439:1 Co., receiving pay from them and introducing their goods into the market. Also, be it known that False Belief, the 439:3 counsel for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, is a buyer for this firm. He manufactures for it, keeps a furnis.h.i.+ng store, and advertises largely for his employers.

439:6 Death testified that he was absent from the Province of Body, when a message came from False Belief, command- ing him to take part in the homicide. At this request 439:9 Death repaired to the spot where the liver-complaint was in process, frightening away Materia Medica, who was then manacling the prisoner in the attempt to save him. True, 439:12 Materia Medica was a misguided partic.i.p.ant in the misdeed for which the Health-officer had Mortal Man in custody, though Mortal Man was innocent.

439:15 Christian Science turned from the abashed witnesses, his words flas.h.i.+ng as lightning in the perturbed faces of these worthies, Scholastic Theology, Materia Medica, 439:18 Physiology, the blind Hypnotism, and the masked Per- sonal Sense, and said: -

G.o.d will smite you, O whited walls, for injuring in your 439:21 ignorance the unfortunate Mortal Man who sought your aid in his struggles against liver-complaint and Death.

You came to his rescue, only to fasten upon him an offence 439:24 of which he was innocent. You aided and abetted Fear and Health-laws. You betrayed Mortal Man, meanwhile declaring Disease to be G.o.d's servant and the righteous 439:27 executor of His laws. Our higher statutes declare you all, witnesses, jurors, and judges, to be offenders, awaiting the sentence which General Progress and Divine Love will 439:30 p.r.o.nounce.

We send our best detectives to whatever locality is re- ported to be haunted by Disease, but on visiting the spot, 439:33 they learn that Disease was never there, for he could not 440:1 possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors, when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic 440:3 disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machina- tions of the counsel, False Belief, whom Truth arraigns before the supreme bar of Spirit to answer for his crime.

440:6 Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason before sacrificing mortals to their false G.o.ds.

Mortal Minds were deceived by your attorney, False Be- 440:9 lief, and were influenced to give a verdict delivering Mortal Man to Death. Good deeds are transformed into crimes, to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice 440:12 can render disobedience to the so-called laws of Matter disobedience to G.o.d, or an act of homicide. Even penal law holds homicide, under stress of circ.u.mstances, to be 440:15 justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed have, than that it is for the good of one's neighbor? Where- fore, then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence 440:18 Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellow-man in obedience to divine law? You cannot trample upon the decree of the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man has his appeal 440:21 to Spirit, G.o.d, who sentences only for sin.

The false and unjust beliefs of your human mental legis- lators compel them to enact wicked laws of sickness and so 440:24 forth, and then render obedience to these laws punishable as crime. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, stand- ing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine 440:27 statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal Sense.

I ask that he be forbidden to enter against Mortal Man any more suits to be tried at the Court of Material Error.

440:30 I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been deprived.

Charge of the Chief Justice

440:33 Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing 441:1 presence, comprehending and defining all law and evi- dence, explained from his statute-book, the 441:3 Bible, that any so-called law, which under- takes to punish aught but sin, is null and void.

He also decided that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, be 441:6 not permitted to enter any suits at the bar of Soul, but be enjoined to keep perpetual silence, and in case of temptation, to give heavy bonds for good behavior. He 441:9 concluded his charge thus: -

The plea of False Belief we deem unworthy of a hearing.

Let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into 441:12 oblivion, ”unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.” Accord- ing to our statute, Material Law is a liar who cannot bear witness against Mortal Man, neither can Fear arrest Mortal 441:15 Man nor can Disease cast him into prison. Our law refuses to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him to be for- ever in the image and likeness of his Maker. Reversing the 441:18 testimony of Personal Sense and the decrees of the Court of Error in favor of Matter, Spirit decides in favor of Man and against Matter. We further recommend that Materia 441:21 Medica adopt Christian Science and that Health-laws, Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Oriental Witchcraft, and Esoteric Magic be publicly executed at the hands of our sheriff, 441:24 Progress.