Sometimes Jesus called a disease by name, as when he said to the epileptic boy,
Thou deaf and dumb spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
It is added that the spirit (error) cried, and rent him sore and came out of him and he was as one dead.- clear evidence that the malady was not MATERIAL @matter@
These instances show the concessions which Jesus was willing to make to popular ignorance of spiritual Life-laws.
Often he gave no name to the distemper he cured. To the synagogue ruler's daughter whom they called dead but of who He said,
She is not dead, but sleepeth, HE simply said,
Damsel, I say unto thee, arise!
To the sufferer with the withered hand He said,
Stretch forth thine hand, and it was restored whole like as the other.
Homeopathic remedies, sometimes not containing a particle of medicine, are known to relieve symptoms of disease.
WHAT produces the change?
It is the FAITH of the doctor and the patient, which reduces self-inflicted sufferings and produces a new effect upon the body.
In LIKE manner DESTROY the ILLUSION of pleasure in intoxication, and the. DESIRE for strong drink is gone.
Appetite and disease reside in mortal mind, not in MATTER.
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Our Master asked:
How can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?
In other words:
How can u heal the body without beginning with so-called mortal mind, which directly controls the body?
When disease is once destroyed in this so-called mind, the fear of disease is gone, and therefore the disaese is thoroughly cured.
Mortal mind IS the STRONG MAN which must be held in subjection before its influence upon health and morals can be removed. This error conquered, we can despoil the strong man of his goods - namely of sin and disease.
Mortals obtain the harmony of health, only as they forsake discord, acknowledge the supremacy of divine Mind, and abandon their MATERIAL beliefs.
Eradicate the image of disease from the perturbed thought before it has taken tangible shape in conscious thought, alias the body, and u prevent the development of disease.
This task becomes easy, If u understand that every disease is an error, and has no character nor type, except what mortal mind assigns to it.
By lifting thought above error, or disease, and contending persistently for TRUTH, you destroy error.
When we remove disease by addressing the disturbed mind, giving no heed to the body, we prove that thought alone creates suffering.
Mortal mind rules over all that is mortal.
We see in the body the images of this mind; even as in optics we see painted on the retina the image which become visible to the senses.
The action of so-called mortal mind must be destroyed by the Divine Mind to bring out the harmony of being.
Without Divine control there is discord, manifest as sin, sickness, and death.
The scriptures plainly declare the baneful influence of sinful thought on the body. Even our Master felt this. It is recorded in certain localities He did not many mighty works
Because of their unbelief
In Truth.
Any human error is its own enemy, and works against itself, it does nothing in the right direction and much in the wrong.
If so-called mind is cherishing evil passions and malicious purposes, it is not a healer, but it engenders disease and death.
If faith in the truth of being, which u impart mentally while destroying error causes chemicalization (as when an alkali is destroying an acid) it is because the truth of being must transform the error to the end of producing a higher manifestation.
This fermentation should not aggravate the disease, but should be painless as man as to a fluid, since matter has no sensation and mortal mind only feels and sees materially.
What I term chemicalization is the upheaval produced when immortal TRUTH is destroying erroneous mortal belief.
Mental chemicalization brings sin and sickness to the surface, forcing impurities to pass away, as in the case of a fermenting fluid.
The only effect produced by medicine is dependent upon mental action. If the mind parted from the body, could u produce any effect upon the brain or body by applying the drug to either? Would the drup remove paralysis, affect organization, or restore will and action to cerebrum or cerebellum?
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The tyme approaches when mortal mind will forsake its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when IMmortal Mind @iMost High God - ie Life, Love, Truth@ and its formations will be apprehended in (Christian) Science, and material beliefs will not interfere with spiritual FACTS.
Man is indestructible and eternal.
Sometyme it will be learned that mortal mind constructs mortal body with this mind's own mortal materials.
In Science, no breakage or dislocation can really occur. U say that accidents, injuries, and disease kill man, but this is not true.
The life of man is MIND.