0.0 – Christian Science S&H with Key to the Scriptures – 1910 Edition – Subtitles

  25  Therefore I say unto you,
  	Take no thought for your life,
  	what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink;
  ...	nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. 
  	Is not the life more than meat,
  	and the body than raiment? — Jesus. 

 1	    Physiology is one of the apples from "the tree
  	of knowledge." Evil declared that eating this fruit
 3	would ...open man's eyes and make him as a god. Instead
  	of so doing, it closed the eyes of mortals to man's God-
  	given dominion over the earth. 

6	    To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the
  	brain and strength by the exercise of muscle, is to
  	subj...ugate intelligence, to make mind mor-	                    Man not
 9	tal, and to place this so-called mind at the	                    structural 
  	mercy of material organization and non-intelligent
  	matter. 
12	    Obedience to the so-called physical laws of health has
  	not checked sickness. Diseases have multiplied, since
  	man-made material theories took the place of spiritual
15	truth. 

  	    You say that indigestion, fatigue, sleeplessness, cause
  	distressed stomachs and aching heads. Then	           ...        Causes of
18	you consult your brain in order to remember	                           sickness 
  	what has hurt you, when your remedy lies in forgetting
 1	the whole thing; for matter has no sensation of its own,
  	and the human mind is all that can produce pain. 
 3	    As a man thinketh, so is he. Mind is all that feels,
  	acts, or impedes action. Ignorant of this, or shrinking
  	from its implied responsibility, the healing effort is made
 6	on the wrong side, and thus the conscious control over the
  	body is lost. 

  	    The Mohammedan believes in a pilgrimage to Mecca
 9	for the salvation of his soul. The popular doctor believes
  ...	in his prescription, and the pharmacist believes	                 Delusions
  	in the power of his drugs to save a man's	                         pagan and
12	life. The Mohammedan's belief is a religious	                         medical 
  	delusion; the doctor's and pharmacist's is a medical
  	mistake. 

15	    The erring human mind is inharmonious in itself. 
  	From it arises the inharmonious body. To ignore
  	God as of... little use in sickness is a mistake. 	                       Health from
18	Instead of thrusting Him aside in times of	                       reliance on
  	bodily trouble, and waiting for the hour of	                       spirituality 
  	strength in which to acknowledge Him, we should learn
21	that He can do all things for us in sickness as in
  	health. 
  	    Failing to recover health through adherence to physi-
24	ology and hygiene, the despairing invalid often drops
  	them, and in his extremity and only as a last resort, turns
  	to God. The invalid's faith in the divine Mind is less
27	than in drugs, air, and exercise, or he would have resorted
  	to Mind first. The balance of power is conceded to be
  	with matter by most of the medical systems; but when
30	Mind at last asserts its mastery over sin, disease, and
  	death, then is man found to be harmonious and
  	immortal. 
 1	    Should we implore a corporeal God to heal the sick
  	out of His personal volition, or should we understand the
 3	infinite divine Principle which heals? If we rise no higher
  	than blind faith, the Science of healing is not attained, and
  	Soul-existence, in the place of sense-existence, is not com-
 6	prehended. We apprehend Life in divine Science only
  	as we live above corporeal sense and correct it. Our pro-
  	portionate admission of the claims of good or of evil de-
 9	termines the harmony of our existence, — our health, our
  	longevity, and our Christianity. 

  	    We cannot serve two masters nor perceive divine Sci-
12	ence with the material senses. Drugs and hygiene cannot
 ... 	successfully usurp the place and power of the	                    The two
  	divine source of all health and perfection. If	                            masters 
15	God made man both good and evil, man must remain
  	thus. What can improve God's work? Again, an error
  	in the premise must appear in the conclusion. To have
18	one God and avail yourself of the power of Spirit, you
  	must love God supremely. 

  	    The "flesh lusteth against the Spirit." The flesh and
21	Spirit can no more unite in action, than good can coin-...
  	cide with evil. It is not wise to take a halt-	                       Half-way
  	ing and half-way position or to expect to work	               success 
24	equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error. There
  	is but one way — namely, God and His idea — which
  	leads to spiritual being. The scientific government of the
27	body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is im-
  	possible to gain control over the body in any other way. 
  	On this fundamental point, timid conservatism is abso-
30	lutely inadmissible. Only through radical reliance on
  	Truth can scientific healing power be realized. 
  	    Substituting good words for a good life, fair seeming
  1	for straightforward character, is a poor shift for the weak
  	and worldly, who think the standard of Christian Science
 3	too high for them. 

  	    If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single
  	weight from either scale gives preponderance to the... oppo-
 6	site. Whatever influence you cast on the side	                            Belief on the
  	of matter, you take away from Mind, which	                            wrong side 
  	would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates
 9	against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the
  	side of health. When sick (according to belief) you rush
  	after drugs, search out the material so-called laws of
12	health, and depend upon them to heal you, though you
  	have already brought yourself into the slough of disease
  	through just this false belief. 

15	    Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
  	sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with
  ...	the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are	                                The divine
18	we to believe an authority which denies God's	                        authority 
  	spiritual command relating to perfection, — an authority
  	which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the
21	Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called
  	material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law
  	of Mind. 

24	    I have discerned disease in the human mind, and rec-
  	ognized the patient's fear of it, months before the so-ca...lled
  	disease made its appearance in the body. Dis-	                       Disease
27	ease being a belief, a latent illusion of mortal	                               foreseen 
  	mind, the sensation would not appear if the error of belief
  	was met and destroyed by truth. 

30	    Here let a word be noticed which will be	                      Changed
  	better understood hereafter, — chemic...alization. 	              mentality 
  	By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal
     1	mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a
  	material to a spiritual basis. 

 3	    Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred
  	through mental chemicalization, I have seen the mental
  	sig...ns, assuring me that danger was over, before	                     Scientific
 6	the patient felt the change; and I have said	                             foresight 
  	to the patient, "You are healed," — sometimes to his dis-
  	comfiture, when he was incredulous. But it always came
 9	about as I had foretold. 
  	    I name these facts to show that disease has a mental,
  	mortal origin, — that faith in rules of health or in drugs
12	begets and fosters disease by attracting the mind to the
  	subject of sickness, by exciting fear of disease, and by dos-
  	ing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in
15	these things should find stronger supports and a higher
  	home. If we understood the control of Mind over body,
  	we should put no faith in material means. 

18	    Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as
  	mental, but it also declares that all disease is cured b...y
  	divine Mind. There can be no healing ex-	                         Mind the
21	cept by this Mind, however much we trust	                         only healer 
  	a drug or any other means towards which human faith
  	or endeavor is directed. It is mortal mind, not mat-
24	ter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may
  	seem to receive from materiality. But the sick are never
  	really healed except by means of the divine power. 
27	Only the action of Truth, Life, and Love can give
  	harmony. 

  	    Whatever teaches man to have other laws and to
30	acknowledge other powers than the divine	                      ...    Modes of
  	Mind, is anti-Christian. The good that a	                                  matter 
  	poisonous drug seems to do is evil, for it robs man of 
b1	reliance on God, omnipotent Mind, and according to be-
  	lief, poisons the human system. Truth is not the basis of
 3	theogony. Modes of matter form neither a moral nor a
  	spiritual system. The discord which calls for material
  	methods is the result of the exercise of faith in material
 6	modes, — faith in matter instead of in Spirit. 

  	    Did Jesus understand the economy of man less than
  	Graham or Cutter? Christian ideas certainly present
 9	what ...human theories exclude — the Principle	                    Physiology
  	of man's harmony. The text, "Whosoever	                            unscientific 
  	liveth and believeth in me shall never die," not only con-
12	tradicts human systems, but points to the self-sustaining
  	and eternal Truth. 
  	    The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the
15	body through Mind. The best interpreter of man's needs
  	said: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,
  	or what ye shall drink." 
18	    If there are material laws which prevent disease, what
  	then causes it? Not divine law, for Jesus healed the
  	sick and cast out error, always in opposition, never in
21	obedience, to physics. 

  	    Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered,
  	for more than all others spiritual causation relates... to
24	human progress. The age seems ready to	                            Causation
  	approach this subject, to ponder somewhat	                            considered 
  	the supremacy of Spirit, and at least to touch the hem
27	of Truth's garment. 
  	    The description of man as purely physical, or as both
  	material and spiritual, — but in either case dependent
30	upon his physical organization, — is the Pandora box,
  	from which all ills have gone forth, especially despair. 
  	Matter, which takes divine power into its own hands and
 1	claims to be a creator, is a fiction, in which paganism and
  	lust are so sanctioned by society that mankind has caught
 3	their moral contagion. 

  	    Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of ma-
  	teriality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will
 ...6	reopen with the key of divine Science the gates	                     Paradise
  	of Paradise which human beliefs have closed,	                     regained 
  	and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free,
 9	not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either
  	of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brain-
  	ology to learn how much of a man he is. 

12	    Mind's control over the universe, including man, is
  	no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science. 
...  	Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the	                           A closed
15	power of immortal Mind by healing sickness	                           question 
  	and sin and destroying the foundations of death. 

  	    Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to
18	be combined matter and Spirit. He believes that Spiri...t
  	is sifted through matter, carried on a nerve, ex-	                      Matter
  	posed to ejection by the operation of matter. 	                              versus Spirit 
21	The intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, — yea, the image
  	of infinite Mind, — subject to non-intelligence! 
  	    No more sympathy exists between the flesh and Spirit
24	than between Belial and Christ. 
  	    The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false be-
  	liefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind
27	is not. These false beliefs are the procuring cause of all
  	sin and disease. The opposite truth, that intelligence and
  	life are spiritual, never material, destroys sin, sickness,
30	and death. 
  	    The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man
  	is a material outgrowth and that the cognizance of good
 1	or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, con-
  	stitutes his happiness or misery. 

3	    Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms
  	to monkeys and from monkeys into men	                        ...      Godless
  	amounts to nothing in the right direction and	                              evolution 
 6	very much in the wrong. 
  	    Materialism grades the human species as rising from
  	matter upward. How then is the material species main-
 9	tained, if man passes through what we call death and
  	death is the Rubicon of spirituality? Spirit can form
  	no real link in this supposed chain of material being. 
12	But divine Science reveals the eternal chain of existence
  	as uninterrupted and wholly spiritual; yet this can be
  	realized only as the false sense of being disappears. 

15	    If man was first a material being, he must have passed
  	through all the forms of matter in order to become man.... 
  	If the material body is man, he is a portion of	                           Degrees of
18	matter, or dust. On the contrary, man is the	                           development 
  	image and likeness of Spirit; and the belief that there is
  	Soul in sense or Life in matter obtains in mortals, alias
21	mortal mind, to which the apostle refers when he says
  	that we must "put off the old man." 

  	    What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the
24	material structure? If the real man is in the material
  	b...ody, you take away a portion of the man when	                    Identity
  	you amputate a limb; the surgeon destroys	                            not lost 
27	manhood, and worms annihilate it. But the loss of a limb
  	or injury to a tissue is sometimes the quickener of manli-
  	ness; and the unfortunate cripple may present more no-
30	bility than the statuesque athlete, — teaching us by his
  	very deprivations, that "a man's a man, for a' that." 

  	    When we admit that matter (heart, blood, brain, acting
 1	through the five physical senses) constitutes man, we f...ail
  	to see how anatomy can distinguish between	                      When man
 3	humanity and the brute, or determine when	                              is man 
  	man is really man and has progressed farther than his
  	animal progenitors. 

 6	    When the supposition, that Spirit is within what it
  	creates and the potter is subject to the clay,	           ...                  Individualization 
  	is individualized, Truth is reduced to the level
 9	of error, and the sensible is required to be made manifest
  	through the insensible. 
  	    What is termed matter manifests nothing but a material
12	mentality. Neither the substance nor the manifestation
  	of Spirit is obtainable through matter. Spirit is positive. 
  	Matter is Spirit's contrary, the absence of Spirit. For
15	positive Spirit to pass through a negative condition
  	would be Spirit's destruction. 

  	    Anatomy declares man to be structural. Physiology
18	continues this explanation, measuring human	                ...   Man not
  	strength by bones and sinews, and human life	                   structural 
  	by material law. Man is spiritual, individual, and eter-
21	nal; material structure is mortal. 
  	    Phrenology makes man knavish or honest according to
  	the development of the cranium; but anatomy, physiology,
24	phrenology, do not define the image of God, the real im-
  	mortal man. 
  	    Human reason and religion come slowly to the recogni-
27	tion of spiritual facts, and so continue to call upon
  	matter to remove the error which the human mind alone
  	has created. 
30	    The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health
  	and longevity than are the idols of barbarism. The idols
  	of civilization call into action less faith than Buddhism
 1	in a supreme governing intelligence. The Esquimaux
  	restore health by incantations as consciously as do civi-
 3	lized practitioners by their more studied methods. 
  	    Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that
  	man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to
 6	baths, diet, exercise, and air? Nothing save divine
  	power is capable of doing so much for man as he can
  	do for himself. 

  9	    The footsteps of thought, rising above material stand-
  	points, are slow, and portend a long night to the trav...eller;
  	but the angels of His presence — the spiritual	                       Rise of
12	intuitions that tell us when "the night is far	                               thought 
  	spent, the day is at hand" — are our guardians in the
  	gloom. Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is
15	a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for gen-
  	erations yet unborn. 
  	    The thunder of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount
18	are pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in
  	their course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of
  	heaven on earth. Truth is revealed. It needs only to
21	be practised. 

  	    Mortal belief is all that enables a drug to cure mortal
  	ailments. Anatomy admits that mind is somewhere in
24	...man, though out of sight. Then, if an indi-	                           Medical
  	vidual is sick, why treat the body alone and	                           errors 
  	administer a dose of despair to the mind? Why declare
27	that the body is diseased, and picture this disease to the
  	mind, rolling it under the tongue as a sweet morsel and
  	holding it before the thought of both physician and pa-
30	tient? We should understand that the cause of disease
  	obtains in the mortal human mind, and its cure comes
  	from the immortal divine Mind. We should prevent the
 1	images of disease from taking form in thought, and we
  	should efface the outlines of disease already formulated in
 3	the minds of mortals. 

  	    When there are fewer prescriptions, and less thought is
  	given to sanitary subjects, there will be better	     ...                   Novel
 6	constitutions and less disease. In old times	                                diseases 
  	who ever heard of dyspepsia, cerebro-spinal meningitis,
  	hay-fever, and rose-cold? 
 9	    What an abuse of natural beauty to say that a rose,
  	the smile of God, can produce suffering! The joy of its
  	presence, its beauty and fragrance, should uplift the
12	thought, and dissuade any sense of fear or fever. It is
  	profane to fancy that the perfume of clover and the breath
  	of new-mown hay can cause glandular inflammation,
15	sneezing, and nasal pangs. 

  	    If a random thought, calling itself dyspepsia, had
  	tried to tyrannize over our forefathers, it would have
18	b...een routed by their independence and in-	                       No ancestral
  	dustry. Then people had less time for self-	                       dyspepsia 
  	ishness, coddling, and sickly after-dinner talk. The ex-
21	act amount of food the stomach could digest was not
  	discussed according to Cutter nor referred to sanitary
  	laws. A man's belief in those days was not so severe
24	upon the gastric juices. Beaumont's "Medical Experi-
  	ments" did not govern the digestion. 

  	    Damp atmosphere and freezing snow empurpled the
27	plump cheeks of our ancestors, but they never indulged
  	in t...he refinement of inflamed bronchial tubes. 	                    Pulmonary
  	They were as innocent as Adam, before he ate	                    misbeliefs 
30	the fruit of false knowledge, of the existence of tubercles
  	and troches, lungs and lozenges. 

  	    "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," says
 1	the English poet, and there is truth in his sentiment.... The
  	action of mortal mind on the body was not so injurious
 3	before inquisitive modern Eves took up the	                              Our modern
  	study of medical works and unmanly Adams                      	      Eves 
  	attributed their own downfall and the fate of their off-
 6	spring to the weakness of their wives. 
  	    The primitive custom of taking no thought about
  	food left the stomach and bowels free to act in obedi-
 9	ence to nature, and gave the gospel a chance to be seen
  	in its glorious effects upon the body. A ghastly array of
  	diseases was not paraded before the imagination. There
12	were fewer books on digestion and more "sermons in
  	stones, and good in everything." When the mechanism
  	of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, self-
15	ishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their
  	foothold. 
  	    Human fear of miasma would load with disease the
18	air of Eden, and weigh down mankind with superimposed
  	and conjectural evils. Mortal mind is the worst foe of
  	the body, while divine Mind is its best friend. 

21	    Should all cases of organic disease be treated by a
  	regular practitioner, and the Christian Scientist try
  	t...ruth only in cases of hysteria, hypochon-	                          Diseases
24	dria, and hallucination? One disease is no	                          not to be
  	more real than another. All disease is the	                          classified 
  	result of education, and disease can carry its ill-effects
27	no farther than mortal mind maps out the way. The
  	human mind, not matter, is supposed to feel, suffer, en-
  	joy. Hence decided types of acute disease are quite as
30	ready to yield to Truth as the less distinct type and chronic
  	form of disease. Truth handles the most malignant con-
  	tagion with perfect assurance. 

  1	    Human mind produces what is termed organic dis-
  	ease as certainly as it produces hysteria, and it must re-
 3...	linquish all its errors, sicknesses, and sins. 	                            One basis for
  	I have demonstrated this beyond all cavil. 	                            all sickness 
  	The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and abso-
 6	lute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own
  	existence. 

  	    Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without
 9	the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind. 
...  	Matter, or body, is but a false concept of mor-	                   Mental and
  	tal mind. This so-called mind builds its own	                           physical
12	superstructure, of which the material body is	                           oneness 
  	the grosser portion; but from first to last, the body is a
  	sensuous, human concept. 

15	    In the Scriptural allegory of the material creation,
  	Adam or error, which represents the erroneous theory
  	o...f life and intelligence in matter, had the                         	        The effect
18	naming of all that was material. These names	                        of names 
  	indicated matter's properties, qualities, and forms. But
  	a lie, the opposite of Truth, cannot name the qualities and
21	effects of what is termed matter, and create the so-called
  	laws of the flesh, nor can a lie hold the preponderance
  	of power in any direction against God, Spirit and
24	Truth. 

  	    If a dose of poison is swallowed through mistake, and
  	the patient dies even though physician and	             ...                 Poison
27	patient are expecting favorable results, does	                              defined
  	human belief, you ask, cause this death? Even	                      mentally 
  	so, and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally
30	taken. 
  	    In such cases a few persons believe the potion swal-
  	lowed by the patient to be harmless, but the vast ma-
 1	jority of mankind, though they know nothing of this par-
  	ticular case and this special person, believe the arsenic,
 3	the strychnine, or whatever the drug used, to be poi-
  	sonous, for it is set down as a poison by mortal mind. 
  	Consequently, the result is controlled by the majority of
 6	opinions, not by the infinitesimal minority of opinions in
  	the sick-chamber. 
  	    Heredity is not a law. The remote cause or belief
 9	of disease is not dangerous because of its priority and
  	the connection of past mortal thoughts with present. 
  	The predisposing cause and the exciting cause are
12	mental. 
  	    Perhaps an adult has a deformity produced prior to his
  	birth by the fright of his mother. When wrested from
15	human belief and based on Science or the divine Mind, to
  	which all things are possible, that chronic case is not
  	difficult to cure. 

18	    Mortal mind, acting from the basis of sensation in
  	matter, is animal magnetism; but this so-called mind,
  	fr...om which comes all evil, contradicts itself,	                             Animal
21	and must finally yield to the eternal Truth, or	                             magnetism
  	the divine Mind, expressed in Science. In pro-	                     destroyed 
  	portion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are
24	freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or ani-
  	mal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power
  	in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status
27	of immortal being. 
  	    Ignorant of the methods and the basis of metaphysical
  	healing, you may attempt to unite with it hypnotism,
30	spiritualism, electricity; but none of these methods can
  	be mingled with metaphysical healing. 
  	    Whoever reaches the understanding of Christian Science
 1	in its proper signification will perform the sudden cures
  	of which it is capable; but this can be done only by
 3	taking up the cross and following Christ in the daily
  	life. 

  	    Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their
 6	healers, as well as those present, since space is no ob-
...  	stacle to Mind. Immortal Mind heals what eye	                  Absent
  	hath not seen; but the spiritual capacity to ap-	                  patients 
 9	prehend thought and to heal by the Truth-power, is won
  	only as man is found, not in self-righteousness, but re-
  	flecting the divine nature. 

12	    Every medical method has its advocates. The prefer-
  	ence of mortal mind for a certain method creates a demand
...  	for that method, and the body then seems to re-	                           Horses
15	quire such treatment. You can even educate a	                           mistaught 
  	healthy horse so far in physiology that he will take cold
  	without his blanket, whereas the wild animal, left to his
18	instincts, sniffs the wind with delight. The epizootic is
  	a humanly evolved ailment, which a wild horse might
  	never have. 

21	    Treatises on anatomy, physiology, and health, sustained
  	by what is termed material law, are the pro-	         ...                         Medical works
  	moters of sickness and disease. It should not	                          objectionable 
24	be proverbial, that so long as you read medical works you
  	will be sick. 
  	    The sedulous matron — studying her Jahr with homoe-
27	opathic pellet and powder in hand, ready to put you
  	into a sweat, to move the bowels, or to produce sleep — 
  	is unwittingly sowing the seeds of reliance on matter,
30	and her household may erelong reap the effect of this
  	mistake. 
  	    Descriptions of disease given by physicians and adver-
 1	tisements of quackery are both prolific sources of sickness. 
  	As mortal mind is the husbandman of error, it should be
 3	taught to do the body no harm and to uproot its false
  	sowing. 

  	    The patient sufferer tries to be satisfied when he sees
 6	his would-be healers busy, and his faith in their effo...rts is
  	somewhat helpful to them and to himself; but	                               The invalid's
  	in Science one must understand the resusci-	                               outlook 
 9	tating law of Life. This is the seed within itself bearing
  	fruit after its kind, spoken of in Genesis. 
  	    Physicians should not deport themselves as if Mind
12	were non-existent, nor take the ground that all causation
  	is matter, instead of Mind. Ignorant that the human
  	mind governs the body, its phenomenon, the invalid may
15	unwittingly add more fear to the mental reservoir already
  	overflowing with that emotion. 

  	    Doctors should not implant disease in the thoughts of
18	their patients, as they so frequently do, by declaring d...is-
  	ease to be a fixed fact, even before they go to	                  Wrong and
  	work to eradicate the disease through the ma-	                  right way 
21	terial faith which they inspire. Instead of furnishing
  	thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent
  	element of mortal mind by the influence of divine Love
24	which casteth out fear. 
  	    When man is governed by God, the ever-present
  	Mind who understands all things, man knows that with
27	God all things are possible. The only way to this
  	living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science
  	of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ
30	Jesus. 

  	    To reduce inflammation, dissolve a tumor, or cure or-
  	ganic disease, I have found divine Truth more potent tha...n
 1	all lower remedies. And why not, since Mind, God, is
  	the source and condition of all existence? Before decid-
 3	ing that the body, matter, is disordered, one	                             The
  	should ask, "Who art thou that repliest to	                             important
  	Spirit? Can matter speak for itself, or does	                             decision 
 6	it hold the issues of life?" Matter, which can neither
  	suffer nor enjoy, has no partnership with pain and pleas-
  	ure, but mortal belief has such a partnership. 

 9	    When you manipulate patients, you trust in electricity
  	and magnetism more than in Truth; and for	             ...                  Manipulation
  	that reason, you employ matter rather than	                               unscientific 
12	Mind. You weaken or destroy your power when you re-
  	sort to any except spiritual means. 
  	    It is foolish to declare that you manipulate patients but
15	that you lay no stress on manipulation. If this be so, why
  	manipulate? In reality you manipulate because you are
  	ignorant of the baneful effects of magnetism, or are not
18	sufficiently spiritual to depend on Spirit. In either case
  	you must improve your mental condition till you finally
  	attain the understanding of Christian Science. 

21	    If you are too material to love the Science of Mind and
  	are satisfied with good words instead of effects, if y...ou
  	adhere to error and are afraid to trust Truth,	                           Not words
24	the question then recurs, "Adam, where art	                           but deeds 
  	thou?" It is unnecessary to resort to aught besides
  	Mind in order to satisfy the sick that you are doing some-
27	thing for them, for if they are cured, they generally know
  	it and are satisfied. 
  	    "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." 
30	If you have more faith in drugs than in Truth, this faith
  	will incline you to the side of matter and error. Any
  	hypnotic power you may exercise will diminish your
 1	ability to become a Scientist, and vice versa. The act
  	of healing the sick through divine Mind alone, of casting
 3	out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian
  	Scientist. 

  	    The demands of God appeal to thought only; but the
 6	claims of mortality, and what are termed laws of nature,
  ...	appertain to matter. Which, then, are we to	                               Physiology
  	accept as legitimate and capable of producing	                       or Spirit 
 9	the highest human good? We cannot obey both physi-
  	ology and Spirit, for one absolutely destroys the other,
  	and one or the other must be supreme in the affections. 
12	It is impossible to work from two standpoints. If we
  	attempt it, we shall presently "hold to the one, and
  	despise the other." 
15	    The hypotheses of mortals are antagonistic to Science
  	and cannot mix with it. This is clear to those who heal
  	the sick on the basis of Science. 

18	    Mind's government of the body must supersede the so-
  	called laws of matter. Obedience to material law pre-
  	...vents full obedience to spiritual law, — the law	                        No material
21	which overcomes material conditions and puts	                        law 
  	matter under the feet of Mind. Mortals entreat the di-
  	vine Mind to heal the sick, and forthwith shut out the aid
24	of Mind by using material means, thus working against
  	themselves and their prayers and denying man's God-
  	given ability to demonstrate Mind's sacred power. Pleas
27	for drugs and laws of health come from some sad incident,
  	or else from ignorance of Christian Science and its tran-
  	scendent power. 
30	    To admit that sickness is a condition over which God
  	has no control, is to presuppose that omnipotent power
  	is powerless on some occasions. The law of Christ, or
 1	Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-
  	called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and
 3	demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing
  	from the basis of one God, one lawmaker. To suppose
  	that God constitutes laws of inharmony is a mistake; dis-
 6	cords have no support from nature or divine law, however
  	much is said to the contrary. 
  	    Can the agriculturist, according to belief, produce a
 9	crop without sowing the seed and awaiting its germina-
  	tion according to the laws of nature? The answer is no,
  	and yet the Scriptures inform us that sin, or error, first
12	caused the condemnation of man to till the ground, and
  	indicate that obedience to God will remove this necessity. 
  	Truth never made error necessary, nor devised a law to
15	perpetuate error. 

  	    The supposed laws which result in weariness and dis-
  	ease are not His laws, for the legitimate and only possib...le
18	action of Truth is the production of harmony. 	                                 Laws of nature
  	Laws of nature are laws of Spirit; but mortals	                                 spiritual 
  	commonly recognize as law that which hides the power of
21	Spirit. Divine Mind rightly demands man's entire obe-
  	dience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made
  	for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man
24	power and strength. Submission to error superinduces
  	loss of power. 

  	    Truth casts out all evils and materialistic methods
27	with the actual spiritual law, — the law which gives
  	...sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, voice	                         Belief and
  	to the dumb, feet to the lame. If Christian	                         understanding 
30	Science dishonors human belief, it honors spir-
  	itual understanding; and the one Mind only is entitled to
  	honor. 
 1	    The so-called laws of health are simply laws of mortal
  	belief. The premises being erroneous, the conclusions
 3	are wrong. Truth makes no laws to regulate sickness,
  	sin, and death, for these are unknown to Truth and should
  	not be recognized as reality. 
 6	    Belief produces the results of belief, and the penal-
  	ties it affixes last so long as the belief and are insepara-
  	ble from it. The remedy consists in probing the trouble
 9	to the bottom, in finding and casting out by denial the
  	error of belief which produces a mortal disorder, never
  	honoring erroneous belief with the title of law nor yield-
12	ing obedience to it. Truth, Life, and Love are the only
  	legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are
  	spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine
15	statutes. 

  	    Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmoni-
  	ous and eternal. Whatever is governed by a false belie...f
18	is discordant and mortal. We say man suffers	                      Laws of
  	from the effects of cold, heat, fatigue. This	                              human belief 
  	is human belief, not the truth of being, for matter cannot
21	suffer. Mortal mind alone suffers, — not because a law
  	of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this
  	so-called mind has been disobeyed. I have demonstrated
24	this as a rule of divine Science by destroying the delusion
  	of suffering from what is termed a fatally broken physical
  	law. 
27	    A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always
  	breathed with great difficulty when the wind was from
  	the east. I sat silently by her side a few moments. Her
30	breath came gently. The inspirations were deep and nat-
  	ural. I then requested her to look at the weather-vane. 
  	She looked and saw that it pointed due east. The wind
 1	had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her diffi-
  	culty in breathing had gone. The wind had not produced
 3	the difficulty. My metaphysical treatment changed the
  	action of her belief on the lungs, and she never suffered
  	again from east winds, but was restored to health. 

 6	    No system of hygiene but Christian Science is purely
  	mental. Before this book was published, other books
  	we...re in circulation, which discussed "mental	                              A so-called
 9	medicine" and "mind-cure," operating through	                      mind-cure 
  	the power of the earth's magnetic currents to regulate life
  	and health. Such theories and such systems of so-called
12	mind-cure, which have sprung up, are as material as the
  	prevailing systems of medicine. They have their birth
  	in mortal mind, which puts forth a human conception
15	in the name of Science to match the divine Science of im-
  	mortal Mind, even as the necromancers of Egypt strove
  	to emulate the wonders wrought by Moses. Such theories
18	have no relationship to Christian Science, which rests on
  	the conception of God as the only Life, substance, and
  	intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual
21	factor in the healing work. 

	    Jesus cast out evil and healed the sick, not only with-
  	out drugs, but without hypnotism, which is	             ...                    Jesus and
24	the reverse of ethical and pathological Truth-	                                 hypnotism 
  	power. 
  	    Erroneous mental practice may seem for a time to bene-
27	fit the sick, but the recovery is not permanent. This is
  	because erroneous methods act on and through the ma-
  	terial stratum of the human mind, called brain, which is
30	but a mortal consolidation of material mentality and its
  	suppositional activities. 

  	    A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed
 1	only by removing the influence on him of this mind, by
...  	emptying his thought of the false stimulus	                             False
 3	and reaction of will-power and filling it with	                             stimulus 
  	the divine energies of Truth. 
  	    Christian Science destroys material beliefs through the
 6	understanding of Spirit, and the thoroughness of this work
  	determines health. Erring human mind-forces can work
  	only evil under whatever name or pretence they are em-
 9	ployed; for Spirit and matter, good and evil, light and
  	darkness, cannot mingle. 

  	    Evil is a negation, because it is the absence of truth. 
12	It is nothing, because it is the absence of something.... It
  	is unreal, because it presupposes the absence	                         Evil negative
  	of God, the omnipotent and omnipresent. 	                                 and self-
15	Every mortal must learn that there is neither	                                 destructive 
  	power nor reality in evil. 
  	    Evil is self-assertive. It says: "I am a real entity, over-
18	mastering good." This falsehood should strip evil of all
  	pretensions. The only power of evil is to destroy itself. It
  	can never destroy one iota of good. Every attempt of evil
21	to destroy good is a failure, and only aids in peremptorily
  	punishing the evil-doer. If we concede the same reality to
  	discord as to harmony, discord has as lasting a claim upon
24	us as has harmony. If evil is as real as good, evil is also as
  	immortal. If death is as real as Life, immortality is a myth. 
  	If pain is as real as the absence of pain, both must be im-
27	mortal; and if so, harmony cannot be the law of being. 

  	    Mortal mind is ignorant of self, or it could never be
  	self-deceived. If mortal mind knew how to be better, it
...30	would be better. Since it must believe in some-	                         Ignorant
  	thing besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity. 	                         idolatry 
  	The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning,
 1	having other gods and believing in more than the one
  	Mind. 
 3	    As mortals do not comprehend even mortal existence,
  	how ignorant must they be of the all-knowing Mind and
  	of His creations. 
 6	    Here you may see how so-called material sense creates
  	its own forms of thought, gives them material names, and
  	then worships and fears them. With pagan blindness,
 9	it attributes to some material god or medicine an ability
  	beyond itself. The beliefs of the human mind rob and
  	enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive
12	personification, named Satan. 

  	    The valves of the heart, opening and closing for the pas-
  	sage of the blood, obey the mandate of mor-	        ...                        Action of
15	tal mind as directly as does the hand, ad-	                                mortal mind 
  	mittedly moved by the will. Anatomy allows the mental
  	cause of the latter action, but not of the former. 
18	    We say, "My hand hath done it." What is this my but
  	mortal mind, the cause of all materialistic action? All
  	voluntary, as well as miscalled involuntary, action of the
21	mortal body is governed by this so-called mind, not by
  	matter. There is no involuntary action. The divine Mind
  	includes all action and volition, and man in Science is gov-
24	erned by this Mind. The human mind tries to classify
  	action as voluntary and involuntary, and suffers from the
  	attempt. 

27	    If you take away this erring mind, the mortal material
  	body loses all appearance of life or action, and this s...o-
  	called mind then calls itself dead; but the hu-	                            Death and
30	man mind still holds in belief a body, through	                            the body 
  	which it acts and which appears to the human mind to
  	live, — a body like the one it had before death. This body
 1	is put off only as the mortal, erring mind yields to God,
  	immortal Mind, and man is found in His image. 

 3	    What is termed disease does not exist. It is neither
  	mind nor matter. The belief of sin, which has grown
  	te...rrible in strength and influence, is an uncon-	                       Embryonic
 6	scious error in the beginning, — an embryonic	                       sinful
  	thought without motive; but afterwards it	                               thoughts 
  	governs the so-called man. Passion, depraved appetites,
 9	dishonesty, envy, hatred, revenge ripen into action, only to
  	pass from shame and woe to their final punishment. 

  	    Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in
12	matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is lik...e
  	the dream we have in sleep, in which every one	                        Disease
  	recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of	                        a dream 
15	mind. In both the waking and the sleeping dream, the
  	dreamer thinks that his body is material and the suffering
  	is in that body. 
18	    The smile of the sleeper indicates the sensation pro-
  	duced physically by the pleasure of a dream. In the
  	same way pain and pleasure, sickness and care, are
21	traced upon mortals by unmistakable signs. 
  	    Sickness is a growth of error, springing from mortal
  	ignorance or fear. Error rehearses error. What causes
24	disease cannot cure it. The soil of disease is mortal
  	mind, and you have an abundant or scanty crop of disease,
  	according to the seedlings of fear. Sin and the fear of
27	disease must be uprooted and cast out. 

  	    When darkness comes over the earth, the physical
  	senses have no immediate evidence of a sun. 	                ...         Sense yields to
30	The human eye knows not where the orb of	                                 understanding 
  	day is, nor if it exists. Astronomy gives the
  	desired information regarding the sun. The human or
 1	material senses yield to the authority of this science, and
  	they are willing to leave with astronomy the explanation of
 3	the sun's influence over the earth. If the eyes see no sun
  	for a week, we still believe that there is solar light and
  	heat. Science (in this instance named natural) raises
 6	the human thought above the cruder theories of the
  	human mind, and casts out a fear. 
  	    In like manner mortals should no more deny the power
 9	of Christian Science to establish harmony and to explain
  	the effect of mortal mind on the body, though the cause
  	be unseen, than they should deny the existence of the sun-
12	light when the orb of day disappears, or doubt that the sun
  	will reappear. The sins of others should not make good
  	men suffer. 

15	    We call the body material; but it is as truly mortal
  	mind, according to its degree, as is the material brain
 ... 	which is supposed to furnish the evidence	                         Ascending
18	of all mortal thought or things. The human	                         the scale 
  	mortal mind, by an inevitable perversion, makes all
  	things start from the lowest instead of from the highest
21	mortal thought. The reverse is the case with all the
  	formations of the immortal divine Mind. They proceed
  	from the divine source; and so, in tracing them, we con-
24	stantly ascend in infinite being. 

  	    From mortal mind comes the reproduction of the
  	species, — first the belief of inanimate, and then of ani-
27...	mate matter. According to mortal thought,	                              Human
  	the development of embryonic mortal mind	                              reproduction 
  	commences in the lower, basal portion of the brain, and
30	goes on in an ascending scale by evolution, keeping always
  	in the direct line of matter, for matter is the subjective
  	condition of mortal mind. 
 1	    Next we have the formation of so-called embryonic
  	mortal mind, afterwards mortal men or mortals, — all this
 3	while matter is a belief, ignorant of itself, ignorant of what
  	it is supposed to produce. The mortal says that an inani-
  	mate unconscious seedling is producing mortals, both body
 6	and mind; and yet neither a mortal mind nor the immortal
  	Mind is found in brain or elsewhere in matter or in mortals. 

  	    This embryonic and materialistic human belief called
 9	mortal man in turn fills itself with thoughts	           ...                 Human
  	of pain and pleasure, of life and death, and	                            stature 
  	arranges itself into five so-called senses, which presently
12	measure mind by the size of a brain and the bulk of a
  	body, called man. 

  	    Human birth, growth, maturity, and decay are as the
15	grass springing from the soil with beautiful green blades,...
  	afterwards to wither and return to its native	                              Human
  	nothingness. This mortal seeming is temporal;	                      frailty 
18	it never merges into immortal being, but finally disap-
  	pears, and immortal man, spiritual and eternal, is found
  	to be the real man. 
21	    The Hebrew bard, swayed by mortal thoughts, thus
  	swept his lyre with saddening strains on human existence:

  	       As for man, his days are as grass:
24	       As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
  	       For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
  	       And the place thereof shall know it no more. 

27	When hope rose higher in the human heart, he sang:

  	       As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness:
  	       I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.
                   .              .              .              .              .              .              .
30	       For with Thee is the fountain of life;
  	       In Thy light shall we see light. 

 1	    The brain can give no idea of God's man. It can take
  	no cognizance of Mind. Matter is not the organ of infi-
 3	nite Mind. 
  	    As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than
  	one Mind, more than one God, man in God's likeness will
 6	appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness
  	no material element. 

  	    As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a
 9	misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine
...  	Principle of man dawns upon human thought,	                    The immortal
  	and leads it to "where the young child was,"	                            birth 
12	 — even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual
  	sense of being and of what Life includes. Thus the whole
  	earth will be transformed by Truth on its pinions of light,
15	chasing away the darkness of error. 

  	    The human thought must free itself from self-imposed
  	materiality and bondage. It should no longer	            ...                Spiritual
18	ask of the head, heart, or lungs:  What are	                            freedom 
  	man's prospects for life? Mind is not helpless. Intelli-
  	gence is not mute before non-intelligence. 
21	    By its own volition, not a blade of grass springs up, not
  	a spray buds within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its fair
  	outlines, not a flower starts from its cloistered cell. 
24	    The Science of being reveals man and immortality as
  	based on Spirit. Physical sense defines mortal man as
  	based on matter, and from this premise infers the mor-
27	tality of the body. 

  	    The illusive senses may fancy affinities with their op-
  	posites; but in Christian Science, Truth never mingles...
30	with error. Mind has no affinity with matter,	                          No physical
  	and therefore Truth is able to cast out the ills	                          affinity 
  	of the flesh. Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit,
 1	the atmosphere of intelligence. The belief that a pulpy
  	substance under the skull is mind is a mockery of intelli-
 3	gence, a mimicry of Mind. 
  	    We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance
  	upon that which is false and grasp the true. We are not
 6	Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ. Human
  	opinions are not spiritual. They come from the hearing
  	of the ear, from corporeality instead of from Principle,
 9	and from the mortal instead of from the immortal. Spirit
  	is not separate from God. Spirit is God. 

  	    Erring power is a material belief, a blind miscalled force,
12	the offspring of will and not of wisdom, of the mo...rtal mind
  	and not of the immortal. It is the headlong	                              Human power
  	cataract, the devouring flame, the tempest's	                              a blind force 
15	breath. It is lightning and hurricane, all that is selfish,
  	wicked, dishonest, and impure. 

  	    Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds
18	the "wind in His fists;" and this teaching accords with
...  	Science and harmony. In Science, you can	                             The one
  	have no power opposed to God, and the physi-	                     real power 
21	cal senses must give up their false testimony. Your in-
  	fluence for good depends upon the weight you throw into
  	the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you
24	the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a
  	mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness
  	and falls, never to rise. 
27	    We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by follow-
  	ing the example of our Master in the understanding of
  	divine metaphysics. Christianity is the basis of true heal-
30	ing. Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed
  	love, receives directly the divine power. 

  	    I was called to visit Mr. Clark in Lynn, who had been
 1	confined to his bed six months with hip-disease, caused ...by
  	a fall upon a wooden spike when quite a boy. On enter-
 3	ing the house I met his physician, who said that	                        Mind cures
  	the patient was dying. The physician had just	                        hip-disease 
  	probed the ulcer on the hip, and said the bone was carious
 6	for several inches. He even showed me the probe, which
  	had on it the evidence of this condition of the bone. The
  	doctor went out. Mr. Clark lay with his eyes fixed and
 9	sightless. The dew of death was on his brow. I went to
  	his bedside. In a few moments his face changed; its
  	death-pallor gave place to a natural hue. The eyelids
12	closed gently and the breathing became natural; he was
  	asleep. In about ten minutes he opened his eyes and
  	said: "I feel like a new man. My suffering is all gone." 
15	It was between three and four o'clock in the afternoon
  	when this took place. 
  	    I told him to rise, dress himself, and take supper with
18	his family. He did so. The next day I saw him in the
  	yard. Since then I have not seen him, but am informed
  	that he went to work in two weeks. The discharge from
21	the sore stopped, and the sore was healed. The diseased
  	condition had continued there ever since the injury was
  	received in boyhood. 
24	    Since his recovery I have been informed that his physi-
  	cian claims to have cured him, and that his mother has
  	been threatened with incarceration in an insane asylum
27	for saying: "It was none other than God and that woman
  	who healed him." I cannot attest the truth of that
  	report, but what I saw and did for that man, and what
30	his physician said of the case, occurred just as I have
  	narrated. 
  	    It has been demonstrated to me that Life is God
 1	and that the might of omnipotent Spirit shares not its
  	strength with matter or with human will. Review-
 3	ing this brief experience, I cannot fail to discern the
  	coincidence of the spiritual idea of man with the divine
  	Mind. 

 6	    A change in human belief changes all the physical symp-
  	toms, and determines a case for better or for	        ...                         Change of
  	worse. When one's false belief is corrected,	                                 belief 
 9	Truth sends a report of health over the body. 
  	    Destruction of the auditory nerve and paralysis of the
  	optic nerve are not necessary to ensure deafness and blind-
12	ness; for if mortal mind says, "I am deaf and blind," it
  	will be so without an injured nerve. Every theory op-
  	posed to this fact (as I learned in metaphysics) would
15	presuppose man, who is immortal in spiritual under-
  	standing, a mortal in material belief. 

  	    The authentic history of Kaspar Hauser is a useful hint
18	as to the frailty and inadequacy of mortal mind. It
  ...	proves beyond a doubt that education consti-	                   Power of
  	tutes this so-called mind, and that, in turn,	                           habit 
21	mortal mind manifests itself in the body by the false
  	sense it imparts. Incarcerated in a dungeon, where
  	neither sight nor sound could reach him, at the age of
24	seventeen Kaspar was still a mental infant, crying and
  	chattering with no more intelligence than a babe, and
  	realizing Tennyson's description:

27	           An infant crying in the night,
  	           An infant crying for the light,
  	           And with no language but a cry. 

30	    His case proves material sense to be but a belief formed
  	by education alone. The light which affords us joy gave
 1	him a belief of intense pain. His eyes were inflamed by
  	the light. After the babbling boy had been taught to
 3	speak a few words, he asked to be taken back to his dun-
  	geon, and said that he should never be happy elsewhere. 
  	Outside of dismal darkness and cold silence he found no
 6	peace. Every sound convulsed him with anguish. All
  	that he ate, except his black crust, produced violent
  	retchings. All that gives pleasure to our educated senses
 9	gave him pain through those very senses, trained in an
  	opposite direction. 

  	    The point for each one to decide is, whether it is mortal
12	mind or immortal Mind that is causative. We	        ...                          Useful
  	should forsake the basis of matter for meta-	                                  knowledge 
  	physical Science and its divine Principle. 
15	    Whatever furnishes the semblance of an idea governed
  	by its Principle, furnishes food for thought. Through as-
  	tronomy, natural history, chemistry, music, mathematics,
18	thought passes naturally from effect back to cause. 
  	    Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observa-
  	tion, invention, study, and original thought are expansive
21	and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of it-
  	self, out of all that is mortal. 
  	    It is the tangled barbarisms of learning which we
24	deplore, — the mere dogma, the speculative theory, the
  	nauseous fiction. Novels, remarkable only for their
  	exaggerated pictures, impossible ideals, and specimens
27	of depravity, fill our young readers with wrong tastes
  	and sentiments. Literary commercialism is lowering the
  	intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to
30	meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for
  	improvement. Incorrect views lower the standard of
  	truth. 
 1	    If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. 
  	It is but a blind force. Man has "sought out many inven-
 3	tions," but he has not yet found it true that knowledge can
  	save him from the dire effects of knowledge. The power
  	of mortal mind over its own body is little understood. 

 6	    Better the suffering which awakens mortal mind from
  	its fleshly dream, than the false pleasures	              ...                  Sin destroyed
  	which tend to perpetuate this dream. Sin	                                through
 9	alone brings death, for sin is the only element	                        suffering 
  	of destruction. 
  	    "Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body
12	in hell," said Jesus. A careful study of this text shows
  	that here the word soul means a false sense or material
  	consciousness. The command was a warning to beware,
15	not of Rome, Satan, nor of God, but of sin. Sickness,
  	sin, and death are not concomitants of Life or Truth. 
  	No law supports them. They have no relation to God
18	wherewith to establish their power. Sin makes its own
  	hell, and goodness its own heaven. 

  	    Such books as will rule disease out of mortal mind, — 
21	and so efface the images and thoughts of dis-	       ...                  Dangerous
  	ease, instead of impressing them with forcible	                         shoals
  	descriptions and medical details, — will help  	                         avoided 
24	to abate sickness and to destroy it. 
  	    Many a hopeless case of disease is induced by a single
  	post mortem examination, — not from infection nor from
27	contact with material virus, but from the fear of the
  	disease and from the image brought before the mind; it
  	is a mental state, which is afterwards outlined on the
30	body. 

  	    The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and
  	diseases among the human family. It does this by giv-
 1	in...g names to diseases and by printing long descriptions
  	which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A
 3	new name for an ailment affects people like a	                         Pangs
  	Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one	                         caused by
  	hastens to get it. A minutely described dis-	                                 the press 
 6	ease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What
  	a price for human knowledge! But the price does not ex-
  	ceed the original cost. God said of the tree of knowledge,
 9	which bears the fruit of sin, disease, and death, "In the
  	day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." 

	    The less that is said of physical structure and laws, and
12	the more that is thought and said about moral	        ...               Higher
  	and spiritual law, the higher will be the stand-	                       standard
  	ard of living and the farther mortals will be re-	                       for mortals 
15	moved from imbecility or disease. 
  	    We should master fear, instead of cultivating it. It
  	was the ignorance of our forefathers in the departments
18	of knowledge now broadcast in the earth, that made them
  	hardier than our trained physiologists, more honest than
  	our sleek politicians. 

21	    We are told that the simple food our forefathers ate
  	helped to make them healthy, but that is a mistake. 
  	T...heir diet would not cure dyspepsia at this	                              Diet and
24	period. With rules of health in the head	                                      dyspepsia 
  	and the most digestible food in the stomach, there would
  	still be dyspeptics. Many of the effeminate constitutions
27	of our time will never grow robust until individual opin-
  	ions improve and mortal belief loses some portion of its
  	error. 

30	    The doctor's mind reaches that of his patient. The
  	doctor should suppress his fear of disease, else his belief...
  	in its reality and fatality will harm his patients even more
1	than his calomel and morphine, for the higher stratum of
  	mortal mind has in belief more power to harm man than
 3	the substratum, matter. A patient hears the	                             Harm done by
  	doctor's verdict as a criminal hears his death-	                     physicians 
  	sentence. The patient may seem calm under it, but he is
 6	not. His fortitude may sustain him, but his fear, which
  	has already developed the disease that is gaining the
  	mastery, is increased by the physician's words. 

 9	    The materialistic doctor, though humane, is an art-
  	ist who outlines his thought relative to disease, and then...
  	fills in his delineations with sketches from text-	                    Disease
12	books. It is better to prevent disease from	                            depicted 
  	forming in mortal mind afterwards to appear on the
  	body; but to do this requires attention. The thought of
15	disease is formed before one sees a doctor and before
  	the doctor undertakes to dispel it by a counter-irritant,
  	 — perhaps by a blister, by the application of caustic or
18	croton oil, or by a surgical operation. Again, giving an-
  	other direction to faith, the physician prescribes drugs,
  	until the elasticity of mortal thought haply causes a
21	vigorous reaction upon itself, and reproduces a picture
  	of healthy and harmonious formations. 
  	    A patient's belief is more or less moulded and formed
24	by his doctor's belief in the case, even though the doctor
  	says nothing to support his theory. His thoughts and his
  	patient's commingle, and the stronger thoughts rule the
27	weaker. Hence the importance that doctors be Christian
  	Scientists. 

  	    Because the muscles of the blacksmith's arm are
30	strongly developed, it does not follow that	                  ...         Mind over
  	exercise has produced this result or that a	                           matter 
  	less used arm must be weak. If matter were the cause
 1	of action, and if muscles, without volition of mortal
  	mind, could lift the hammer and strike the anvil, it
 3	might be thought true that hammering would enlarge
  	the muscles. The trip-hammer is not increased in size
  	by exercise. Why not, since muscles are as material as
 6	wood and iron? Because nobody believes that mind is
  	producing such a result on the hammer. 
  	    Muscles are not self-acting. If mind does not move
 9	them, they are motionless. Hence the great fact that
  	Mind alone enlarges and empowers man through its
  	mandate, — by reason of its demand for and supply of
12	power. Not because of muscular exercise, but by rea-
  	son of the blacksmith's faith in exercise, his arm becomes
  	stronger. 

15	    Mortals develop their own bodies or make them sick,
  	according as they influence them through mortal mind. 
  	...To know whether this development is produced	                       Latent fear
18	consciously or unconsciously, is of less impor-	                       subdued 
  	tance than a knowledge of the fact. The feats of the gym-
  	nast prove that latent mental fears are subdued by him. 
21	The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes
  	the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this
  	rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble
24	faith. 
  	    Had Blondin believed it impossible to walk the rope
  	over Niagara's abyss of waters, he could never have
27	done it. His belief that he could do it gave his thought-
  	forces, called muscles, their flexibility and power which
  	the unscientific might attribute to a lubricating oil. His
30	fear must have disappeared before his power of putting
  	resolve into action could appear. 

  	    When Homer sang of the Grecian gods, Olympus was
 1	dark, but through his verse the gods became alive in a
  	nat...ion's belief. Pagan worship began with muscularity,
 3	but the law of Sinai lifted thought into the	                         Homer and
  	song of David. Moses advanced a nation to	                         Moses 
  	the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and il-
 6	lustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed
  	by immortal Mind. 

  	    Whoever is incompetent to explain Soul would be wise
 9	not to undertake the explanation of body. Life is, always...
  	has been, and ever will be independent of	                          A mortal
  	matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea	                          not man 
12	of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not
  	subject to decay and dust. The Psalmist said: "Thou
  	madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy
15	hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet." 
  	    The great truth in the Science of being, that the real
  	man was, is, and ever shall be perfect, is incontrovertible;
18	for if man is the image, reflection, of God, he is neither
  	inverted nor subverted, but upright and Godlike. 
  	    The suppositional antipode of divine infinite Spirit
21	is the so-called human soul or spirit, in other words
  	the five senses, — the flesh that warreth against Spirit. 
  	These so-called material senses must yield to the infinite
24	Spirit, named God. 
  	    St. Paul said: "For I determined not to know any-
  	thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified."
27	(I Cor. ii. 2.) Christian Science says:  I am determined
  	not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and
         him glorified.