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QA 22 of 24. The subtitles for this question are listed below. 

1. Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it is to be healed?
2. Mental preparation
3. Mind destroys all ills
4. Love - Inexhaustible divine Love
5. Science - Reason and Science
6. Jesus - Followers of Jesus
7. Evil - Destruction of all evil
8. Trust - Steadfast and calm trust

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 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

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 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 
  	Answer. — The method of Christian Science Mind-heal-
12	ing is touched upon in a previous chapter entitled Christian
  	Science Practice. A full answer to the above	                                              Mental
  	question involves teaching, which enables the	                                      preparation 
15	healer to demonstrate and prove for himself the Principle
  	and rule of Christian Science or metaphysical healing. 
  	    Mind must be found superior to all the beliefs of the
18	five corporeal senses, and able to destroy all ills. Sick-
  	ness is a belief, which must be annihilated by	                                 Mind destroys
  	the divine Mind. Disease is an experience of	                                         all ills 
21	so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the
  	body. Christian Science takes away this physical sense
  	of discord, just as it removes any other sense of moral or
24	mental inharmony. That man is material, and that mat-
  	ter suffers, — these propositions can only seem real and
  	natural in illusion. Any sense of soul in matter is not the
27	reality of being. 
  	    If Jesus awakened Lazarus from the dream, illusion, of
  	death, this proved that the Christ could impro...ve on a false
30	sense. Who dares to doubt this consummate test of the
  	power and willingness of divine Mind to hold man forever
 1	intact in his perfect state, and to govern man's entire
  	action? Jesus said: "Destroy this temple [body], and
 3	in three days I [Mind] will raise it up;" and he did this
  	for tired humanity's reassurance. 
  	    Is it not a species of infidelity to believe that so great
 6	a work as the Messiah's was done for himself or for God,
  	who needed no help from Jesus' example to	                                      Inexhaustible
  	preserve the eternal harmony? But mortals	                                      divine Love 
 9	did need this help, and Jesus pointed the way for them. 
  	Divine Love always has met and always will meet every
  	human need. It is not well to imagine that Jesus demon-
12	strated the divine power to heal only for a select number
  	or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and
  	in every hour, divine Love supplies all good. 
15	    The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love. Jesus
  	demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the
  	infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring	                                       Reason
18	human sense to flee from its own convictions	                               and Science 
  	and seek safety in divine Science. Reason, rightly di-
  	rected, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but
21	sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the ex-
  	periences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Sci-
  	ence of man's eternal harmony breaks their illusion with
24	the unbroken reality of scientific being. 
  	    Which of these two theories concerning man are you
  	ready to accept? One is the mortal testimony, changing,
27	dying, unreal. The other is the eternal and real evidence,
  	bearing Truth's signet, its lap piled high with immortal
  	fruits. 
30	    Our Master cast out devils (evils) and healed the sick. 
  	It should be said of his followers also, that they cast fear
  	and all evil out of themselves and others and heal the sick. 
 1	God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is
  	governed by God. Truth casts out error now	                                             Followers
 3	as surely as it did nineteen centuries ago. All	                                             of Jesus 
  	of Truth is not understood; hence its healing power is not
  	fully demonstrated.
 6	    If sickness is true or the idea of Truth, you cannot
  	destroy sickness, and it would be absurd to try. Then
  	classify sickness and error as our Master did,	                                   Destruction
 9	when he spoke of the sick, "whom Satan hath	                                   of all evil 
  	bound," and find a sovereign antidote for error in the life-
  	giving power of Truth acting on human belief, a power
12	which opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and
  	sets the captive free physically and morally. 
   	    When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling
15	steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His
  	likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither	                                      Steadfast and
  	fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and	                              calm trust 
18	calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as
  	Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or
  	belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science,
21	instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of
  	being, and this understanding will supplant error with
  	Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis-
24	cord with harmony. 
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