eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put

healed them, and del

tions.

is one of the app

il declared that

n's eyes and make h

osed the eyes of m

nion over

t stru

tellectual capacity

h by the exercise

elligence, to

o place this so-

l organization a

tt

the so-called physic

ess. Diseases hav

theories took the

15 t

of si

estion, fatigue, s

machs and achi

lt your brain in

when your remedy

g; for matter has no

nd is all that c

keth, so is he. Min

ction. Ignorant of

sponsibility, the h

de, and thus the cons

is

pagan an

elieves in a pil

on of his soul. The p

ion, and the pha

of his drugs

Mohammedan's beli

tor's and pharmac

st

reliance on

human mind is inha

the inharmoniou

e use in sickne

f thrusting Him

, and waiting

to acknowledge H

do all things for u

al

r health through

iene, the despairing

tremity and only as

d's faith in the d

air, and exercise, or

e balance of powe

st of the medical

asserts its mastery

man found to be

ort

plore a corporeal

volition, or shoul

Principle which heal

e Science of healing

he place of sense-ex

apprehend Life in

rporeal sense and c

n of the claims of

armony of our existe

and our C

wo ma

wo masters nor pe

material senses. Dr

urp the place a

f all health an

n both good and ev

mprove God's wor

st appear in the

vail yourself of the

e God su

way s

h against the Spi

more unite in actio

It is not wise

y position or t

Spirit and matter, T

namely, God and

being. The scientif

ttained through the d

ontrol over the bo

l point, timid con

ssible. Only through

tific healing p

words for a good

ward character, is a

hink the standard

o high f

n the wr

venly adjusted, the

scale gives prepond

ver influence you

u take away f

tweigh all else. Y

ealth, when it ought

en sick (according

h out the material

depend upon them to

ht yourself into t

st this fa

vine a

-made systems insi

uffers and dies, al

d, are we to b

eve an authority

relating to perfec

to be false? He d

led sickness in defia

in accordance with

M

se fo

rned disease in the

s fear of it, months

s appearance in

a belief, a latent

would not appear i

d destroye

ed me

a word be noti

d hereafter, - /

on I mean the pr

undergo in the cha

o a spirit

ific f

aggravation of sym

micalization, I ha

me that danger

t felt the chang

u are healed," - so

was incredulous.

t as I had

s to show that di

at faith in rules o

ters disease by attra

by exciting fear of

der to avoid it. T

should find stronger

stood the control

no faith in

he onl

nly reveals the orig

declares that all

There can be

this Mind, howe

er means towards

rected. It is mor

rings to the sick w

om materiality. Bu

cept by means of

tion of Truth, Lif

rm

of m

s man to have o

dge other power

-Christian. T

ms to do is evil,

d, omnipotent Mind,

uman system. Truth

es of matter form n

The discord which

lt of the exercise

ith in matter ins

ogy uns

tand the economy

Christian ideas

theories exclud

mony. The te

h in me shall never

systems, but points

ernal

ruth are spiritu

Mind. The best inter

ught for your life

ye shall

material laws which

ot divine law, fo

error, always in o

edience,

ion co

is the one questio

others spiritual c

ogress. The age

subject, to

pirit, and at leas

f Truth'

f man as purely p

tual, - but in eit

ical organization, -

s have gone forth,

s divine power int

creator, is a fiction

ned by society that

ir moral

ise r

nt of the spiritu

e way through Chri

the key of divin

ich human beli

elf unfallen, upri

onsult almanacs for th

he weather, not nee

n how much of

sed q

ol over the univers

question, but is d

ed the divine P

immortal Mind by

roying the found

/versus

in and nature, man

atter and Spirit. He

h matter, carrie

on by the opera

l, the moral, the spir

, - subject to n

exists between th

between Beli

of matter are not

gence and life are

false beliefs are the

e opposite truth, t

never material, de

0 and

ror lies in the su

rowth and that the

h he has through th

s happiness

ss Ev

bout man's develop

nd from monk

ing in the righ

y much in

s the human speci

w then is the mat

n passes through wh

con of spirituali

is supposed chain

ence reveals the eter

nd wholly spiritua

the false sense o

of dev

rst a material being

rms of matter in o

body is man, h

dust. On the con

of Spirit; and the

fe in matter obtain

to which the apostle

t "put off

ity n

in, heart, blood

cture? If the real m

away a portion

a limb; the s

orms annihilate it. B

ue is sometimes the

rtunate cripple ma

e statuesque athlete,

, that "a man's a

man i

matter (heart, bl

e physical senses) co

tomy can disti

and the brute,

/ and has progress

proge

idual

osition, that Spiri

potter is subj

d, Truth is redu

he sensible is requir

the in

ter manifests noth

ither the substance

able through matter

contrary, the abs

rit to pass through

pirit's de

t stru

man to be struc

this explanatio

nes and sinews

an is spiritual, i

aterial struc

man knavish or ho

the cranium; but

not define the image

tal

religion come slo

tual facts, and so c

the error which t

crea

civilization are far

are the idols of

l into action less

governing intelli

ncantations as cons

tioners by their m

nly a higher form

wn to a flesh-bru

exercise, and air?

of doing so much

r him

of th

of thought, rising a

d portend a long nig

of His presence

that tell us whe

at hand" - are o

ens the way in Ch

stranger, marking o

ns yet

inai and the Ser

and will overtake

error and proclai

Truth is revealed

be pr

cal

ll that enables a

y admits that mi

gh out of sight.

, why treat th

of despair to th

is diseased, and pict

nder the tongue as

the thought of bot

uld understand that

rtal human mind,

divine Mind. We

ease from taking fo

utlines of disease

minds of

l Di

er prescriptions,

y subjects, ther

ons and less dis

dyspepsia, cerebro

r, and r

of natural beauty

can produce suffer

uty and fragrance

dissuade any sense o

at the perfume of c

can cause glandu

zing, and n

stral d

ght, calling its

over our forefath

ed by their inde

eople had less

and sickly after-

f food the stomach

g to Cutter nor re

ief in those days

tric juices. Beaumo

ot govern th

ary mi

and freezing s

of our ancestors, bu

nt of inflamed

nnocent as Ada

lse knowledge, of the

s, lungs a

odern

s bliss, 'tis foll

t, and there is truth

ind on the body wa

uisitive modern

cal works and

wn downfall and th

o the weakness

ustom of taking

ach and bowels fre

, and gave the gospe

ects upon the body.

araded before the

ooks on digestion a

in everything." W

gives place to the

sin, disease and de

tho

asma would load

and weigh down manki

ils. Mortal mind i

divine Mind is

not to be

ases of organic dis

ner, and the Chri

cases of hyste

hallucination?

another. All

, and disease can c

than mortal mind m

tter, is supposed

types of acute di

to Truth as the less d

ruth handles the m

h perfect

s for al

produces what is

s it produces hyste

l its errors, sic

rated this bey

ivine Mind's heal

to me as certain as

ste

d physica

ody are one. Neit

both must be destro

, is but a fals

so-called min

ture, of which th

; but from first to

, human

fect o

tural allegory of t

ich represents th

telligence in

all that was mate

properties, quali

of Truth, cannot n

t is termed matter, a

nor can a lie hol

direction agains

24 T

defined

on is swallowed t

es even though

e expecting favor

ou ask, cause t

as if the poison h

30 t

ew persons believ

ent to be harmles

ind, though they kno

is special person,

e, or whatever the

set down as a pois

esult is controlled

y the infinitesimal m

ick-c

a law. The remot

not dangerous becaus

past mortal thou

cause and the e

12 m

as a deformity pro

ht of his mother.

nd based on Science o

re possible, that

ult to

agnetism

acting from the ba

magnetism; but t

s all evil, con

nally yield to the

, expressed in

rstanding of Christ

belief of heredity, of

we disarm sin of

r spiritual underst

f immort

ethods and the ba

attempt to unite

electricity; but none

ith metaphys

e understanding of

ignification will per

pable; but this c

cross and followin

i

t pat

the sick, who are

ll as those present,

. Immortal Min

ut the spiritual

t and to heal by the

nd, not in self-ri

the divin

s mis

l method has its ad

for a certain meth

, and the body

treatment. You c

r in physiology tha

, whereas the wild

ffs the wind with del

ailment, which a

er

orks obje

anatomy, physiology,

med material l

ess and disease

that so long as you

be

on - studying her

et and powder in ha

ove the bowels, or

ing the seeds of r

hold may erelong rea

st

sease given by phy

ckery are both prolifi

the husbandman of

the body no harm an

wi

alid's

er tries to be sat

lers busy, and his fai

ul to them and

must understa

ife. This is the seed

s kind, spoken

d not deport the

ent, nor take the gro

d of Mind. Ignora

ody, its phenomeno

d more fear to the me

g with tha

and ri

t implant disease

as they so frequently

xed fact, even

te the disease

which they inspire.

hey should try to co

mind by the influe

ch casteth

erned by God, t

nds all things, m

ngs are possible.

heals the sick, is

taught and demon

30 J

ortant

ation, dissolve a

ve found divine Tru

edies. And why not,

dition of all exis

e body, matter, i

ho art thou th

tter speak for

sues of life?" Matte

as no partnership w

belief has suc

tion uns

ulate patients, you

more than in

ou employ matt

aken or destroy you

except spi

clare that you mani

o stress on manipulat

ality you manipul

neful effects of m

piritual to depend on

our mental conditi

rstanding of Ch

rds bu

o material to love t

good words instea

and are afraid

ion then recurs,

cessary to resort

tisfy the sick that

, for if they are cur

are sat

re is, there will

re faith in drugs tha

to the side of ma

ou may exercise

ome a Scientist, and

through divine Min

Truth, shows your p

ent

logy o

od appeal to tho

ality, and what are

atter. Which,

imate and capab

human good? We can

for one absolutely

er must be supreme

ible to work from t

hall presently "

pise th

to Science and cannot mix with it. This is clear t

teria

nment of the body m

tter. Obedience t

ence to spiritua

comes material co

eet of Mind. Morta

he sick, and forthw

ing material means,

eir prayers and d

emonstrate Mind's

laws of health come f

nce of Christian Sc

ent p

t sickness is a con

to presuppose tha

ome occasions. Th

ll things possible t

er would render Spi

ce to materialistic

one God, one law

s laws of inharmony

support from nature

aid to th

rist, according t

owing the seed and a

the laws of nature

res inform us that

ndemnation of man to

ence to God will re

rror necessary, no

erpetuat

nature s

which result in

ws, for the legitim

Truth is the prod

are laws of Spi

as law that which

e Mind rightly deman

and strength. No

yalty. Obedience

rength. Submission

of

nd under

ll evils and mate

ual spiritual law,

ind, hearing to

eet to the lam

honors human belie

; and the one Mind

no

laws of health are s

ses being erroneo

uth makes no laws t

these are unknown

cognized

es the results of b

so long as the beli

emedy consists in

in finding and cast

ich produces a mor

belief with the tit

to it. Truth, Life,

ernal demands on

s, enforcing obedi

5 sta

f huma

divine intelligenc

hatever is governe

ant and mortal. W

s of cold, heat

t the truth of bein

l mind alone suffers

transgressed, but b

been disobeyed. I

of divine Science by d

hat is termed a fat

a

hom I cured of co

at difficulty whe

lently by her side

ently. The inspirati

sted her to look a

w that it pointed

but her thought of it

had gone. The win

y. My metaphysical

f on the lungs, and

winds, but was r

lled mi

hygiene but Christi

is book was publi

ation, which d

and "mind-cure,"

rth's magnetic curr

heories and such s

ich have sprung up,

s of medicine. Th

hich puts forth a

Science to match the

as the necromanc

ders wrought by Mo

onship to Christian S

God as the only Li

excludes the human

or in the h

and hy

l and healed the s

without hypno

e of ethical and

we

ractice may seem f

but the recovery is n

methods act on a

the human mind, ca

onsolidation of mater

ional ac

e st

e influence of mor

ng the influence on

hought of the

n of will-power a

e energie

destroys material

f Spirit, and the tho

. Erring human mi

atever name or pre

irit and matter, goo

, cannot

ve and self

, because it is th

because it is the ab

use it presuppo

mnipotent and

al must learn tha

r realit

ive. It says: "I am

." This falsehood sho

y power of evil is t

ne iota of good. Ev

is a failure, and onl

doer. If we concede

ny, discord has as

y. If evil is as real a

s as real as Life, i

as the absence of p

f so, harmony cannot

ant i

norant of self, o

mortal mind knew h

tter. Since it mus

elf, it enthrones

been an idolater

gods and believing

i

tal existence, how ignorant must they be of

see how so-called m

hought, gives them

fears them. With

o some material god o

e beliefs of the

n impute this resul

nification,

of mort

eart, opening and c

ood, obey the

as directly as d

the will. Anatom

ter action, but

and hath done it." W

ause of all materi

s miscalled /involun

s governed by this s

o involuntary acti

and volition, and ma

s Mind. The human m

and involuntary, a

te

and th

way this erring mind

arance of life or a

n calls itself

till holds in bel

which appears to

the one it had bef

as the mortal, errin

and man is foun

c sinful

d disease does not

The belief of sin

ngth and influen

r in the beginnin

ut motive; bu

led man. Passion,

, hatred, revenge ripe

and woe to their

se a

is a dream of pai

of sin, sickness, and

ve in sleep, in

ondition to be w

the waking, and the

his body is materi

that

the sleeper indicate

by the pleasure o

d pleasure, sick

on mortals by un

wth of error, spr

. Error rehearses

t cure it. The soil

an abundant or scan

eedlings of fear.

must be uproote

lds to un

mes over the ear

immediate evi

n eye knows not

it exists. Astr

on regarding the

yield to the authori

leave with astrono

ence over the earth.

l believe that ther

this instance na

ought above the cr

and casts

rtals should no m

cience to establish

al mind on the bod

y should deny the e

orb of day disappears,

sins of others sh

su

ing th

body material; but

its degree, as is

osed to furni

rtal thought or

n inevitable perv

the lowest instead

ht. The reverse is

immortal divine

urce; and so, in t

y ascend in i

reprod

d comes the rep

e belief of inanima

er. According to

nt of embryon

ower, basal portio

ascending scale by ev

of matter, for matt

n of mor

the formation of

ards mortal men or

a belief, ignorant of

roduce. The mortal

edling is producing

yet neither a mortal

in or elsewhere in m

n st

d materialistic h

in turn fills its

easure, of lif

o five so-called se

by the size of a bra

call

n fr

th, maturity, and

g from the soil with

ither and retur

is mortal seemi

es into immortal bei

l man, spiritual a

the re

bard, swayed by mo

saddening strains

his days a

r of the field, s

sseth over it,

thereof shall

se higher in the hu

behold Thy face

ed, when I awake,

.

Thee is the fo

ht shall w

an. It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matt

the delusion that

n one God, man in

s eternal man will in

erial

mortal

oretical life-basi

n of existence, the

an dawns upon

o "where the y

birth of a new-old

of what Life incl

formed by Truth on

away the dark

tual

must free itself

d bondage. It

e head, heart, o

r life? Mind is no

ute before non

, not a spray buds within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its

of being reveals ma

Physical sense de

nd from this premi

ality of

sical

s may fancy affini

ristian Science, T

. Mind has no aff

uth is able to c

God, sends forth t

of intelligence. Th

skull is mind is a

e, a mimic

ientists, only as w

false and grasp t

tists until we leave

piritual. They com

orporeality instea

ortal instead of fro

e from God. Sp

wer a bl

aterial belief, a b

f will and not of wisd

immortal. It

devouring flam

ightning and hurricane

shonest, a

e real

al might belong t

His fists;" and this

armony. In Sc

opposed to God

st give up their fal

epends upon the we

The good you do a

r obtainable. Evil i

h, which erelong b

s, never

e footsteps of Truth

f our Master in t

Christianity is th

holds human thought

s directly th

res hip

isit Mr. Clark in

bed six months with

en spike when quit

e I met his physic

dying. The phy

the hip, and said

ches. He even showed

nce of this conditi

r. Clark lay with

dew of death was on

few moments his

place to a natur

and the breathing b

ten minutes he op

a new man. My suf

n three and four o'c

is took

, dress himself, a

He did so. The next

I have not seen h

ork in two weeks.

ped, and the sore wa

inued there ever s

ed in

overy I have been in

e cured him, and t

th incarceration i

It was none other th

I cannot attest

I saw and did for

said of the case, o

rat

onstrated to me

ight of omnipotent S

tter or with hum

experience, I canno

spiritual idea of

i

e of

man belief changes a

mines a case fo

e's false beli

a report of heal

auditory nerve an

necessary to ensur

ortal mind says, "I a

t an injured nerv

(as I learned in

an, who is immortal

mortal in ma

r of

ory of Kaspar Haus

ailty and inadequac

a doubt that e

alled mind, and

anifests itself in t

. Incarcerated i

sound could reach

par was still a ment

o more intelligen

ennyson's d

fant crying

crying for

o language

s material sense to b

. The light which

f intense pain. His

the babbling boy

rds, he asked to be

t he should never

darkness and cold

sound convulsed h

pt his black crus

gives pleasure to

through those very s

te dir

l kno

one to decide is, w

mmortal Mind tha

the basis of

ce and its div

nishes the semblanc

urnishes food for t

istory, chemistry,

es naturally from e

right sort are re

udy, and original t

omote the growth of

of all tha

d barbarisms of

e mere dogma, the sp

Novels, remarkab

es, impossible ide

fill our young read

terary commerciali

dard to accommoda

lous demand for amu

orrect views low

ut

ic knowledge is powe

force. Man has "so

has not yet found it

dire effects of kn

r its own body is

yed throug

ffering which awake

eam, than the

perpetuate t

s death, for sin

struc

s able to destroy

Jesus. A careful stu

soul means a fals

e command was a w

Satan, nor of God, b

e not concomitant

them. They have

establish their powe

oodness its

s shoals

l rule disease ou

ace the images an

f impressing th

d medical detai

e sickness and

se of disease is i

ination, - not fro

material virus, but

he image brought b

which is afterwar

30 b

used by

ingly sends fort

e human family. I

iseases and by print

s of disease disti

r an ailment affe

for a novel ga

it. A minutel

y a man his earthly

knowledge! But the

ost. God said of th

fruit of sin, diseas

est thereof thou

andard fo

id of physical stru

hat is thought an

w, the higher wi

d the farther mo

from imbecili

fear, instead of

of our forefathers

now broadcast in the

rained physiologis

ek poli

nd dys

that the simple foo

em healthy, but t

ld not cure dy

With rules of h

tible food in the

. Many of the effem

ll never grow robust

mortal belief loses

ro

ne by p

mind reaches that

ess his fear of dis

atality will harm hi

el and morphine, for

n belief more pow

atum, matter. A

t as a criminal

ent may seem calm

tude may sustain him

oped the disease

reased by the p

se de

stic doctor, though

s thought relative

ineations with s

is better to pr

l mind afterward

is requires attent

rmed before one sees

es to dispel it by

ster, by the appli

by a surgical operat

faith, the physicia

ity of mortal tho

tion upon itself, an

nd harmoniou

f is more or less

s belief in the case,

pport his theory.

e, and the stronge

the importance that

ent

over

cles of the bla

developed, it do

roduced this r

t be weak. If mat

d if muscles, witho

the hammer and st

ught true that ham

trip-hammer is no

ot, since muscles

? Because nobody be

ch a result

self-acting. If

e motionless. Hence

ges and empowers

son of its demand

ecause of muscular

th's faith in exerc

ong

fear

lop their own bodie

influence them t

r this develop

or unconsciously,

dge of the fact. Th

tent mental fears

of thought to an hon

ssible. Exceptions

failure is occasi

24 f

ved it impossible

yss of waters, he

elief that he could d

les, their flexibil

ght attribute to a

e disappeared before

o action co

and

of the Grecian g

ugh his verse the go

agan worship began

w of Sinai lifte

. Moses advan

in Spirit instead

grand human capaciti

morta

tal n

etent to explain

e the explanation of

ever will be

fe is God, and

ormed materially but

and dust. The Psa

ve dominion over

hast put all thin

the Science of be

r shall be perfect,

the image, reflection

verted, but upri

antipode of divi

led human soul or sp

the flesh that warr

erial senses must y

pirit, n

For I determined

ave Jesus Christ,

.) Christian Science

ng among you, save

glor