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420:1go from one part to another, for Truth destroys disease. There is no metastasis, no stoppage of harmonious 3
True government
of man
action, no paralysis.
Truth not error, Love not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man. If students do not readily heal themselves, they should 6early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid them. If they are unwilling to do this for themselves, they need only to know that error cannot produce this 9unnatural reluctance.
Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims, for if they will only accept Truth, they can resist disease 12
Positive
reassurance
and ward it off, as positively as they can the temptation to sin.
This fact of Christian Science should be explained to invalids when they are in a 15fit mood to receive it, when they will not array themselves against it, but are ready to become receptive to the new idea. The fact that Truth overcomes both disease 18and sin reassures depressed hope. It imparts a healthy stimulus to the body, and regulates the system. It increases or diminishes the action, as the case may require, 21better than any drug, alterative, or tonic.
Mind is the natural stimulus of the body, but erroneous belief, taken at its best, is not promotive of health 24
Proper
stimulus
or happiness.
Tell the sick that they can meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize that divine Love gives them all power over every physical 27action and condition.
If it becomes necessary to startle mortal mind to break its dream of suffering, vehemently tell your patient that 30
Awaken the
patient
he must awake.
Turn his gaze from the false evidence of the senses to the harmonious facts of Soul and immortal being. Tell him that he suffers 421:1only as the insane suffer, from false beliefs. The only difference is, that insanity implies belief in a diseased 3brain, while physical ailments (so-called) arise from the belief that other portions of the body are deranged. Derangement, or disarrangement, is a word which conveys 6the true definition of all human belief in ill-health, or disturbed harmony. Should you thus startle mortal mind in order to remove its beliefs, afterwards make known 9to the patient your motive for this shock, showing him that it was to facilitate recovery.
If a crisis occurs in your treatment, you must treat 12the patient less for the disease and more for the mental
How to
treat a crisis
disturbance or fermentation, and subdue the symptoms by removing the belief that this 15chemicalization produces pain or disease.
Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside 18Him. There is no disease. When the supposed suffering is gone from mortal mind, there can be no pain; and when the fear is destroyed, the inflammation will sub21side. Calm the excitement sometimes induced by chemicalization, which is the alterative effect produced by Truth upon error, and sometimes explain the symptoms 24and their cause to the patient.
It is no more Christianly scientific to see disease than it is to experience it. If you would destroy the sense 27
No
perversion of
Mind-science
of disease, you should not build it up by wishing to see the forms it assumes or by employing a single material application for 30its relief.
The perversion of Mind-science is like asserting that the products of eight multiplied by five, and of seven by ten, are both forty, and that their combined 422:1sum is fifty, and then calling the process mathematics. Wiser than his persecutors, Jesus said: If I by Beelze3bub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
If the reader of this book observes a great stir through6out his whole system, and certain moral and physical
Effect of
this book
symptoms seem aggravated, these indications are favorable.
Continue to read, and the book 9will become the physician, allaying the tremor which Truth often brings to error when destroying it.
Patients, unfamiliar with the cause of this commotion 12and ignorant that it is a favorable omen, may be alarmed.
Disease
neutralized
If such be the case, explain to them the law of this action. As when an acid and alkali 15meet and bring out a third quality, so mental and moral chemistry changes the material base of thought, giving more spirituality to consciousness and causing it to depend 18less on material evidence. These changes which go on in mortal mind serve to reconstruct the body. Thus Christian Science, by the alchemy of Spirit, destroys sin 21and death.
Let us suppose two parallel cases of bone-disease, both similarly produced and attended by the same symptoms. 24
Bone-healing
by surgery
A surgeon is employed in one case, and a Christian Scientist in the other. The surgeon, holding that matter forms its own conditions and 27renders them fatal at certain points, entertains fears and doubts as to the ultimate outcome of the injury. Not holding the reins of government in his own hands, he 30believes that something stronger than Mind namely, matter governs the case. His treatment is therefore tentative. This mental state invites defeat. The belief 423:1that he has met his master in matter and may not be able to mend the bone, increases his fear; yet this belief 3should not be communicated to the patient, either verbally or otherwise, for this fear greatly diminishes the tendency towards a favorable result. Remember that the 6unexpressed belief oftentimes affects a sensitive patient more strongly than the expressed thought.
The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically 9that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the
Scientific
corrective
truth of being, to destroy the error.
This corrective is an alterative, reaching to every part 12of the human system. According to Scripture, it searches the joints and marrow,and it restores the harmony of man.
15The matter-physician deals with matter as both his foe and his remedy. He regards the ailment as weakened or
Coping with
difficulties
strengthened according to the evidence which 18matter presents.
The metaphysician, making Mind his basis of operation irrespective of matter and regarding the truth and harmony of being as superior to 21error and discord, has rendered himself strong, instead of weak, to cope with the case; and he proportionately strengthens his patient with the stimulus of courage and 24conscious power. Both Science and consciousness are now at work in the economy of being according to the law of Mind, which ultimately asserts its absolute supremacy.
27Ossification or any abnormal condition or derangement of the body is as directly the action of mortal
Formation
from thought
mind as is dementia or insanity.
Bones have 30only the substance of thought which forms them. They are only phenomena of the mind of mortals. The so-called substance of bone is formed first 424:1by the parent’s mind, through self-division. Soon the child becomes a separate, individualized mortal mind, 3which takes possession of itself and its own thoughts of bones.
Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, 6
Accidents
unknown
to God
and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense 9of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony.
Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection.
12In medical practice objections would be raised if one doctor should administer a drug to counteract the work
Opposing
mentality
ing of a remedy prescribed by another doctor.
15It is equally important in metaphysical practice that the minds which surround your patient should not act against your influence by continually expressing 18such opinions as may alarm or discourage, either by giving antagonistic advice or through unspoken thoughts resting on your patient. While it is certain that the 21divine Mind can remove any obstacle, still you need the ear of your auditor. It is not more difficult to make yourself heard mentally while others are thinking about your 24patients or conversing with them, if you understand Christian Science the oneness and the allness of divine Love; but it is well to be alone with God and the sick 27when treating disease.
To prevent or to cure scrofula and other so-called hereditary diseases, you must destroy the belief in these ills 30
Mind removes
scrofula
and the faith in the possibility of their transmission.
The patient may tell you that he has a humor in the blood, a scrofulous diathesis. His 425:1parents or some of his progenitors farther back have so believed. Mortal mind, not matter, induces this con3clusion and its results. You will have humors, just so long as you believe them to be safety-valves or to be ineradicable.
6If the case to be mentally treated is consumption, take up the leading points included (according to belief) in
Nothing to
consume
this disease.
Show that it is not inherited; 9that inflammation, tubercles, hemorrhage, and decomposition are beliefs, images of mortal thought superimposed upon the body; that they are not the truth 12of man; that they should be treated as error and put out of thought. Then these ills will disappear.
If the body is diseased, this is but one of the beliefs of 15mortal mind. Mortal man will be less mortal, when he
The lungs
re-formed
learns that matter never sustained existence and can never destroy God, who is man’s Life.
18When this is understood, mankind will be more spiritual and know that there is nothing to consume, since Spirit, God, is All-in-all. What if the belief is consumption? 21God is more to a man than his belief, and the less we acknowledge matter or its laws, the more immortality we possess. Consciousness constructs a better body when 24faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew. You will never fear again except to offend 27God, and you will never believe that heart or any portion of the body can destroy you.
If you have sound and capacious lungs and want 30
Soundness
maintained
them to remain so, be always ready with the mental protest against the opposite belief in heredity.
Discard all notions about lungs, tubercles, in426:1herited consumption, or disease arising from any circumstance, and you will find that mortal mind, when 3instructed by Truth, yields to divine power, which steers the body into health.
The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less 6difficult when she has the high goal always before her
Our footsteps
heavenward
thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it.
When the desti9nation is desirable, expectation speeds our progress. The struggle for Truth makes one strong instead of weak, resting instead of wearying one. If the belief in death 12were obliterated, and the understanding obtained that there is no death, this would be a tree of life,known by its fruits. Man should renew his energies and en15deavors, and see the folly of hypocrisy, while also learning the necessity of working out his own salvation. When it is learned that disease cannot destroy life, and that 18mortals are not saved from sin or sickness by death, this understanding will quicken into newness of life. It will master either a desire to die or a dread of the grave, 21and thus destroy the great fear that besets mortal existence.
The relinquishment of all faith in death and also of 24the fear of its sting would raise the standard of health
Christian
standard
and morals far beyond its present elevation, and would enable us to hold the banner of 27Christianity aloft with unflinching faith in God, in Life eternal.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. Man is immortal, and 30the body cannot die, because matter has no life to surrender. The human concepts named matter, death, disease, sickness, and sin are all that can be destroyed.
427:1If it is true that man lives, this fact can never change in Science to the opposite belief that man dies. Life is 3
Life not
contingent
on matter
the law of Soul, even the law of the spirit of Truth, and Soul is never without its representative.
Man’s individual being can no more 6die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for both are immortal. If man believes in death now, he must disbelieve in it when learning that there is no reality 9in death, since the truth of being is deathless. The belief that existence is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood 12and harmony obtained.
Death is but another phase of the dream that existence can be material. Nothing can interfere with the 15
Mortality
vanquished
harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science.
Man is the same after as before a bone is broken or the body guillotined. If man 18is never to overcome death, why do the Scriptures say, The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death? The tenor of the Word shows that we shall obtain the victory 21over death in proportion as we overcome sin. The great difficulty lies in ignorance of what God is. God, Life, Truth, and Love make man undying. Immortal Mind, 24governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.
Called to the bed of death, what material remedy has 27man when all such remedies have failed? Spirit is his
No death
nor inaction
last resort, but it should have been his first and only resort.
The dream of death must 30be mastered by Mind here or hereafter. Thought will waken from its own material declaration, I am dead,to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, There 428:1is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction.
3Life is real, and death is the illusion. A demonstration of the facts of Soul in Jesus’ way resolves the dark
Vision
opening
visions of material sense into harmony and 6immortality.
Man’s privilege at this supreme moment is to prove the words of our Master: If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. To divest 9thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear, this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep 12away the false and give place to the true. Thus we may establish in truth the temple, or body, whose builder and maker is God.
15We should consecrate existence, not to the unknown Godwhom we ignorantly worship,but to the eternal
Intelligent
consecration
builder, the everlasting Father, to the Life 18which mortal sense cannot impair nor mortal belief destroy.
We must realize the ability of mental might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them 21with the life which is spiritual, not material.
The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal. We must hold 24
The present
immortality
forever the consciousness of existence, and sooner or later, through Christ and Christian Science, we must master sin and death.
The evidence 27of man’s immortality will become more apparent, as material beliefs are given up and the immortal facts of being are admitted.
30The author has healed hopeless organic disease, and raised the dying to life and health through the understanding of God as the only Life. It is a sin to believe 429:1that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to light by the understand3
Careful
guidance
ing that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit.
We must begin, however, with the more simple demonstrations of control, and 6the sooner we begin the better. The final demonstration takes time for its accomplishment. When walking, we are guided by the eye. We look before our feet, and if 9we are wise, we look beyond a single step in the line of spiritual advancement.
The corpse, deserted by thought, is cold and decays, 12but it never suffers. Science declares that man is sub
Clay
replying to
the potter
ject to Mind.
Mortal mind affirms that mind is subordinate to the body, that the body is 15dying, that it must be buried and decomposed into dust; but mortal mind’s affirmation is not true. Mortals waken from the dream of death with bodies un18seen by those who think that they bury the body.
If man did not exist before the material organization began, he could not exist after the body is disintegrated. 21
Continuity
of existence
If we live after death and are immortal, we must have lived before birth, for if Life ever had any beginning, it must also have an ending, even ac24cording to the calculations of natural science. Do you believe this? No! Do you understand it? No! This is why you doubt the statement and do not demonstrate 27the facts it involves. We must have faith in all the sayings of our Master, though they are not included in the teachings of the schools, and are not understood gener30ally by our ethical instructors.
Jesus said (John viii. 51), If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. That statement is not con

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