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  	                                     DISEASE UNREAL 

 6	    Disease is more than imagination; it is a human error,
  	a constituent part of what comprise the whole of mortal
  	existence, — namely, material sensation and mental delu-
 9	sion. But an erring sense of existence, or the error of
  	belief, named disease, never made sickness a stubborn
  	reality. On the ground that harmony is the truth of be-
12	ing, the Science of Mind-healing destroys the feasibility
  	of disease; hence error of thought becomes fable instead
  	of fact. Science demonstrates the reality of Truth and
15	the unreality of the error. A self-evident proposition, in
  	the Science of Mind-healing, is that disease is unreal;
  	and the efficacy of my system, beyond other systems of
18	medicine, vouches for the validity of that statement. Sin
  	and disease are not scientific, because they embody not
  	the idea of divine Principle, and are not the phenomena
21	of the immutable laws of God; and they  do not arise
  	from the divine consciousness and true constituency of
  	being. 
24	    The unreality of sin, disease, and death, rests on the
  	exclusive truth that being, to be eternal, must be harmo-
  	nious. All disease must be — and can only be — healed
 
   
No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy                                                  5


 1	on this basis. All true Christian Scientists are vindicat-
  	ing, fearlessly and honestly, the Principle of this grand
 3	verity of Mind-healing. 
  	    In erring mortal thought the reality of Truth has an
  	antipode, — the reality of error; and disease is one of the
 6	severe realities of this error. God has no opposite in
  	Science. To Truth there is no error. As Truth alone is
  	real, then it follows that to declare error real would be to
 9	make it Truth. Disease arises from a false and material
  	sense, from the belief that matter has sensation. There-
  	fore this material sense, which is untrue, is of necessity
12	unreal. Moreover, this unreal sense substitutes for Truth
  	an unreal belief, — namely, that life and health are inde-
  	pendent of God, and dependent on material conditions. 
15	Material sense also avers that Spirit, or Truth, cannot
  	restore health and perpetuate life, but that material con-
  	ditions can and do destroy both human health and life. 
18	    If disease is as real as health, and is itself a state of
  	being, and yet is arrayed against being, then Mind, or
  	God, does not meddle with it. Disease becomes indeed a
21	stubborn reality, and man is mortal. A "kingdom divided
  	against itself is brought to desolation;" therefore the mind
  	that attacks a normal and real condition of man, is pro-
24	fanely tampering with the realities of God and His laws. 
  	Metaphysical healing is a lost jewel in this misconception
  	of reality. Any contradictory fusion of Truth with error,
27	in both theory and practice, prevents one from healing
  	scientifically, and makes the last state of one's patients
 
   
No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy                                                  6


 1	worse than the first. If disease is real it is not illusive,
  	and it certainly would contradict the Science of Mind-
 3	healing to attempt to destroy the realities of Mind in order
  	to heal the sick. 
  	    On the theory that God's formations are spiritual, har-
 6	monious, and eternal, and that God is the only creator,
  	Christian Science refutes the validity of the testimony of
  	the senses, which take cognizance of their own phenomena,
 9	 — sickness, disease, and death. This refutation is indis-
  	pensable to the destruction of false evidence, and the
  	consequent cure of the sick, — as all understand who
12	practise the true Science of Mind-healing. If, as the
  	error indicates, the evidence of disease is not false, then
  	disease cannot be healed by denying its validity; and this
15	is why the mistaken healer is not successful, trying to heal
  	on a material basis. 
  	    The evidence that the earth is motionless and the sun
18	revolves around our planet, is as sensible and real as the
  	evidence for disease; but Science determines the evidence
  	in both cases to be unreal. To material sense it is plain
21	also that the error of the revolution of the sun around the
  	earth is more apparent than the adverse but true Science
  	of the stellar universe. Copernicus has shown that what
24	appears real, to material sense and feeling, is absolutely
  	unreal. Astronomy, optics, acoustics, and hydraulics are
  	all at war with the testimony of the physical senses. This
27	fact intimates that the laws of Science are mental, not
  	material; and Christian Science demonstrates this. SHOW ALL