Indestructible life of man

The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake

402:9 its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when im-

mortal Mind and its formations will be appre-

hended in Science, and material beliefs will

402:12 not interfere with spiritual facts. Man is indestructible

and eternal. Sometime it will be learned that mortal

mind constructs the mortal body with this mind's own

402:15 mortal materials. In Science, no breakage nor dislocation

can really occur. You say that accidents, injuries, and

disease kill man, but this is not true. The life of man is

402:18 Mind. The material body manifests only what mortal

mind believes, whether it be a broken bone, disease, or sin.

The evil of mesmerism

We say that one human mind can influence another and

402:21 in this way affect the body, but we rarely remember that

we govern our own bodies. The error, mes-

merism - or hypnotism, to use the recent term

402:24 - illustrates the fact just stated. The operator would

make his subjects believe that they cannot act voluntarily

and handle themselves as they should do. If they yield

402:27 to this influence, it is because their belief is not better

instructed by spiritual understanding. Hence the proof

that hypnotism is not scientific; Science cannot produce

402:30 both disorder and order. The involuntary pleasure or

pain of the person under hypnotic control is proved to be

a belief without a real cause.

Wrong-doer should suffer

403:1 So the sick through their beliefs have induced their own

diseased conditions. The great difference between vol-

403:3 untary and involuntary mesmerism is that vol-

untary mesmerism is induced consciously and

should and does cause the perpetrator to suffer, while self-

403:6 mesmerism is induced unconsciously and by his mistake

a man is often instructed. In the first instance it is under-

stood that the difficulty is a mental illusion, while in the

403:9 second it is believed that the misfortune is a material effect.

The human mind is employed to remove the illusion in

one case, but matter is appealed to in the other. In real-

403:12 ity, both have their origin in the human mind, and can be

healed only by the divine Mind.

Error's power imaginary

You command the situation if you understand that

403:15 mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the

truth of being. Mortal mind is constantly

producing on mortal body the results of false

403:18 opinions; and it will continue to do so, until mortal

error is deprived of its imaginary powers by Truth,

which sweeps away the gossamer web of mortal illusion.

403:21 The most Christian state is one of rectitude and spir-

itual understanding, and this is best adapted for heal-

ing the sick. Never conjure up some new discovery from

403:24 dark forebodings regarding disease and then acquaint

your patient with it.

Disease-production

The mortal so-called mind produces all that is unlike

403:27 the immortal Mind. The human mind determines the

nature of a case, and the practitioner improves

or injures the case in proportion to the truth

403:30 or error which influences his conclusions. The mental

conception and development of disease are not under-

stood by the patient, but the physician should be familiar

404:1 with mental action and its effect in order to judge the case

according to Christian Science.

Appetites to be abandoned

404:3 If a man is an inebriate, a slave to tobacco, or the special

servant of any one of the myriad forms of sin, meet and

destroy these errors with the truth of being, -

404:6 by exhibiting to the wrong-doer the suffering

which his submission to such habits brings, and by con-

vincing him that there is no real pleasure in false appe-

404:9 tites. A corrupt mind is manifested in a corrupt body.

Lust, malice, and all sorts of evil are diseased beliefs, and

you can destroy them only by destroying the wicked

404:12 motives which produce them. If the evil is over in the

repentant mortal mind, while its effects still remain on the

individual, you can remove this disorder as God's law is

404:15 fulfilled and reformation cancels the crime. The healthy

sinner is the hardened sinner.

Temperance reform

The temperance reform, felt all over our land, results

404:18 from metaphysical healing, which cuts down every tree

that brings not forth good fruit. This con-

viction, that there is no real pleasure in sin,

404:21 is one of the most important points in the theology of

Christian Science. Arouse the sinner to this new and

true view of sin, show him that sin confers no pleasure,

404:24 and this knowledge strengthens his moral courage and

increases his ability to master evil and to love good.

Sin or fear the root of sickness

Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and

404:27 the same thing in Christian Science. Both cures require

the same method and are inseparable in Truth.

Hatred, envy, dishonesty, fear, and so forth,

404:30 make a man sick, and neither material medi-

cine nor Mind can help him permanently, even in body,

unless it makes him better mentally, and so delivers him

405:1 from his destroyers. The basic error is mortal mind.

Hatred inflames the brutal propensities. The indulgence

405:3 of evil motives and aims makes any man, who is above the

lowest type of manhood, a hopeless sufferer.

Mental conspirators

Christian Science commands man to master the pro-

405:6 pensities, - to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness,

to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with

charity, and to overcome deceit with hon-

405:9 esty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you

would not cherish an army of conspirators against

health, happiness, and success. They will deliver you

405:12 to the judge, the arbiter of truth against error. The

judge will deliver you to justice, and the sentence of

the moral law will be executed upon mortal mind and

405:15 body. Both will be manacled until the last farthing

is paid, - until you have balanced your account with

God. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also

405:18 reap." The good man finally can overcome his fear of

sin. This is sin's necessity, - to destroy itself. Im-

mortal man demonstrates the government of God, good,

405:21 in which is no power to sin.

Cumulative repentence

It were better to be exposed to every plague on earth

than to endure the cumulative effects of a guilty con-

405:24 science. The abiding consciousness of wrong-

doing tends to destroy the ability to do right.

If sin is not regretted and is not lessening, then it is

405:27 hastening on to physical and moral doom. You are con-

quered by the moral penalties you incur and the ills they

bring. The pains of sinful sense are less harmful than its

405:30 pleasures. Belief in material suffering causes mortals to

retreat from their error, to flee from body to Spirit, and

to appeal to divine sources outside of themselves.

The leaves of healing

406:1 The Bible contains the recipe for all healing. "The

leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."

406:3 Sin and sickness are both healed by the same

Principle. The tree is typical of man's divine

Principle, which is equal to every emergency, offering

406:6 full salvation from sin, sickness, and death. Sin will

submit to Christian Science when, in place of modes and

forms, the power of God is understood and demonstrated

406:9 in the healing of mortals, both mind and body. "Per-

fect Love casteth out fear."

Sickness will abate

The Science of being unveils the errors of sense, and

406:12 spiritual perception, aided by Science, reaches Truth.

Then error disappears. Sin and sickness will

abate and seem less real as we approach the

406:15 scientific period, in which mortal sense is subdued and

all that is unlike the true likeness disappears. The moral

man has no fear that he will commit a murder, and he

406:18 should be as fearless on the question of disease.

Resist to the end

Resist evil - error of every sort - and it will flee from

you. Error is opposed to Life. We can, and ultimately

406:21 shall, so rise as to avail ourselves in every direc-

tion of the supremacy of Truth over error, Life

over death, and good over evil, and this growth will go

406:24 on until we arrive at the fulness of God's idea, and no

more fear that we shall be sick and die. Inharmony of

any kind involves weakness and suffering, - a loss of

406:27 control over the body.

Morbid cravings

The depraved appetite for alcoholic drinks, tobacco,

tea, coffee, opium, is destroyed only by Mind's mastery

406:30 of the body. This normal control is gained

through divine strength and understanding.

There is no enjoyment in getting drunk, in becoming a

407:1 fool or an object of loathing; but there is a very sharp

remembrance of it, a suffering inconceivably terrible to

407:3 man's self-respect. Puffing the obnoxious fumes of to-

bacco, or chewing a leaf naturally attractive to no crea-

ture except a loathsome worm, is at least disgusting.

Universal panacea

407:6 Man's enslavement to the most relentless masters -

passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge - is con-

quered only by a mighty struggle. Every

407:9 hour of delay makes the struggle more severe.

If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush

out happiness, health, and manhood. Here Christian

407:12 Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the

weakness of mortal mind, - strength from the immortal

and omnipotent Mind, - and lifting humanity above

407:15 itself into purer desires, even into spiritual power and

good-will to man.

Let the slave of wrong desire learn the lessons of Chris-

407:18 tian Science, and he will get the better of that desire

and ascend a degree in the scale of health, happiness,

and existence.

Immortal memory

407:21 If delusion says, "I have lost my memory," contra-

dict it. No faculty of Mind is lost. In Science, all

being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmoni-

407:24 ous in every action. Let the perfect model be

present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized op-

posite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light,

407:27 and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your

consciousness.

Sin a form of insanity

There are many species of insanity. All sin is insan-

407:30 ity in different degrees. Sin is spared from

this classification, only because its method of

madness is in consonance with common mortal belief.

408:1 Every sort of sickness is error, - that is, sickness is

loss of harmony. This view is not altered by the fact

408:3 that sin is worse than sickness, and sickness is not ac-

knowledged nor discovered to be error by many who are

sick.

408:6 There is a universal insanity of so-called health, which

mistakes fable for fact throughout the entire round of the

material senses, but this general craze cannot, in a scien-

408:9 tific diagnosis, shield the individual case from the special

name of insanity. Those unfortunate people who are

committed to insane asylums are only so many distinctly

408:12 defined instances of the baneful effects of illusion on mor-

tal minds and bodies.

Drugs and brain-lobes

The supposition that we can correct insanity by the use

408:15 of purgatives and narcotics is in itself a mild species of

insanity. Can drugs go of their own accord

to the brain and destroy the so-called inflam-

408:18 mation of disordered functions, thus reaching mortal

mind through matter? Drugs do not affect a corpse, and

Truth does not distribute drugs through the blood, and

408:21 from them derive a supposed effect on intelligence and sen-

timent. A dislocation of the tarsal joint would produce

insanity as perceptibly as would congestion of the brain,

408:24 were it not that mortal mind thinks that the tarsal joint is

less intimately connected with the mind than is the brain.

Reverse the belief, and the results would be perceptibly

408:27 different.

Matter and animate error

The unconscious thought in the corporeal substra-

tum of brain produces no effect, and that condition of

408:30 the body which we call sensation in matter

is unreal. Mortal mind is ignorant of it-

self, - ignorant of the errors it includes and of their

409:1 effects. Intelligent matter is an impossibility. You

may say: "But if disease obtains in matter, why do

409:3 you insist that disease is formed by mortal mind and

not by matter?" /Mortal mind /and body combine as

one, and the nearer matter approaches its final state-

409:6 ment, - animate error called nerves, brain, mind, - the

more prolific it is likely to become in sin and disease-

beliefs.

Dictation of error

409:9 Unconscious mortal mind - /alias /matter, brain - can-

not dictate terms to consciousness nor say, "I am sick."

The belief, that the unconscious substratum

409:12 of mortal mind, termed the body, suffers and

reports disease independently of this so-called conscious

mind, is the error which prevents mortals from knowing

409:15 how to govern their bodies.

So-called superiority

The so-called conscious mortal mind is believed to be

superior to its unconscious substratum, matter, and

409:18 the stronger never yields to the weaker, ex-

cept through fear or choice. The animate

should be governed by God alone. The real man is

409:21 spiritual and immortal, but the mortal and imperfect

so-called "children of men" are counterfeits from the

beginning, to be laid aside for the pure reality. This

409:24 mortal is put off, and the new man or real man is put

on, in proportion as mortals realize the Science of man

and seek the true model.

Death no benefactor

409:27 We have no right to say that life depends on matter

now, but will not depend on it after death. We cannot

spend our days here in ignorance of the Science

409:30 of Life, and expect to find beyond the grave

a reward for this ignorance. Death will not make us

harmonious and immortal as a recompense for ignorance.

410:1 If here we give no heed to Christian Science, which is

spiritual and eternal, we shall not be ready for spiritual

410:3 Life hereafter.

Life eternal and present

"This is life eternal," says Jesus, - /is/, not /shall be/;

and then he defines everlasting life as a present knowledge

410:6 of his Father and of himself, - the knowledge

of Love, Truth, and Life. "This is life eter-

nal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and

410:9 Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." The Scriptures

say, "Man shall not live by bread /alone/, but by every

word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," show-

410:12 ing that Truth is the actual life of man; but mankind

objects to making this teaching practical.

Love casteth out fear

Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger.

410:15 The more difficult seems the material condition to be

overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our

faith and the purer our love. The Apostle

410:18 John says: "There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love

casteth out fear. . . . He that feareth is not made per-

fect in Love." Here is a definite and inspired proclama-

410:21 tion of Christian Science.

MENTAL TREATMENT ILLUSTRATED

Be not afraid

The Science of mental practice is susceptible of no

410:24 misuse. Selfishness does not appear in the practice of

Truth or Christian Science. If mental prac-

tice is abused or is used in any way except to

410:27 promote right thinking and doing, the power to heal

mentally will diminish, until the practitioner's healing

ability is wholly lost. Christian scientific practice be-

410:30 gins with Christ's keynote of harmony, "Be not afraid!"

411:1 Said Job: "The thing which I greatly feared is come

upon me."

Naming diseases

411:3 My first discovery in the student's practice was this:

If the student silently called the disease by name, when

he argued against it, as a general rule the body

411:6 would respond more quickly, - just as a per-

son replies more readily when his name is spoken; but

this was because the student was not perfectly attuned to

411:9 divine Science, and needed the arguments of truth for

reminders. If Spirit or the power of divine Love bear

witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific

411:12 way, and the healing is instantaneous.

Evils cast out

It is recorded that once Jesus asked the name of a dis-

ease, - a disease which moderns would call /dementia/.

411:15 The demon, or evil, replied that his name was

Legion. Thereupon Jesus cast out the evil,

and the insane man was changed and straightway be-

411:18 came whole. The Scripture seems to import that Jesus

caused the evil to be self-seen and so destroyed.

Fear as the foundation

The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is

411:21 fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a

false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed.

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

411:24 The mental state is called a material state. Whatever

is cherished in mortal mind as the physical condition is

imaged forth on the body.

Unspoken pleading

411:27 Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear

of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemp-

tion from disease and danger. Watch the re-

411:30 sult of this simple rule of Christian Science,

and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every

disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the fear,

412:1 your patient is healed. The great fact that God lovingly

governs all, never punishing aught but sin, is your stand-

412:3 point, from which to advance and destroy the human fear

of sickness. Mentally and silently plead the case scien-

tifically for Truth. You may vary the arguments to meet

412:6 the peculiar or general symptoms of the case you treat,

but be thoroughly persuaded in your own mind concern-

ing the truth which you think or speak, and you will be

412:9 the victor.

Eloquent silence

You may call the disease by name when you mentally

deny it; but by naming it audibly, you are liable under

412:12 some circumstances to impress it upon the

thought. The power of Christian Science and

divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to un-

412:15 clasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death.

Insistence requisite

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth,

of divine Spirit, must break the dream of the material

412:18 senses. To heal by argument, find the type

of the ailment, get its name, and array your

mental plea against the physical. Argue at first men-

412:21 tally, not audibly, that the patient has no disease, and

conform the argument so as to destroy the evidence of

disease. Mentally insist that harmony is the fact, and

412:24 that sickness is a temporal dream. Realize the presence

of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the

body corresponds with the normal conditions of health

412:27 and harmony.

The cure of infants

If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs

to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently

412:30 or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian

Science. The Scientist knows that there can

be no hereditary disease, since matter is not intelligent

413:1 and cannot transmit good or evil intelligence to man, and

God, the only Mind, does not produce pain in matter.

413:3 The act of yielding one's thoughts to the undue contem-

plation of physical wants or conditions induces those very

conditions. A single requirement, beyond what is neces-

413:6 sary to meet the simplest needs of the babe is harmful.

Mind regulates the condition of the stomach, bowels, and

food, the temperature of children and of men, and matter

413:9 does not. The wise or unwise views of parents and other

persons on these subjects produce good or bad effects on

the health of children.

Ablutions for cleanliness

413:12 The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural

nor necessary than would be the process of taking a fish

out of water every day and covering it with dirt

413:15 in order to make it thrive more vigorously in its

own element. "Cleanliness is next to godliness," but

washing should be only for the purpose of keeping the

413:18 body clean, and this can be effected without scrubbing the

whole surface daily. Water is not the natural habitat of

humanity. I insist on bodily cleanliness within and with-

413:21 out. I am not patient with a speck of dirt; but in caring

for an infant one need not wash his little body all over each

day in order to keep it sweet as the new-blown flower.

Juvenile ailments

413:24 Giving drugs to infants, noticing every symptom of

flatulency, and constantly directing the mind to such

signs, - that mind being laden with illusions

413:27 about disease, health-laws, and death, - these

actions convey mental images to children's budding

thoughts, and often stamp them there, making it probable

413:30 at any time that such ills may be reproduced in the very

ailments feared. A child may have worms, if you say so,

or any other malady, timorously held in the beliefs con-

414:1 cerning his body. Thus are laid the foundations of the

belief in disease and death, and thus are children educated

414:3 into discord.

Cure of insanity

The treatment of insanity is especially interesting.

However obstinate the case, it yields more readily than

414:6 do most diseases to the salutary action of

truth, which counteracts error. The argu-

ments to be used in curing insanity are the same as in

414:9 other diseases: namely, the impossibility that matter,

brain, can control or derange mind, can suffer or cause

suffering; also the fact that truth and love will establish

414:12 a healthy state, guide and govern mortal mind or the

thought of the patient, and destroy all error, whether it is

called dementia, hatred, or any other discord.

414:15 To fix truth steadfastly in your patients' thoughts, ex-

plain Christian Science to them, but not too soon, - not

until your patients are prepared for the explanation, -

414:18 lest you array the sick against their own interests by troub-

ling and perplexing their thought. The Christian Scien-

tist's argument rests on the Christianly scientific basis of

414:21 being. The Scripture declares, "The Lord He is God

[good]; there is none else beside Him." Even so, harmony

is universal, and discord is unreal. Christian Science de-

414:24 clares that Mind is substance, also that matter neither

feels, suffers, nor enjoys. Hold these points strongly in

view. Keep in mind the verity of being, - that man is

414:27 the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is

painless and permanent. Remember that man's perfec-

tion is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is

414:30 blameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine

Love.

Matter is not inflamed

Matter cannot be inflamed. Inflammation is fear, an

415:1 excited state of mortals which is not normal. Immor-

tal Mind is the only cause; therefore disease is neither a

415:3 cause nor an effect. Mind in every case is the

eternal God, good. Sin, disease, and death

have no foundations in Truth. Inflamation as a mor-

415:6 tal belief quickens or impedes the action of the system,

because thought moves quickly or slowly, leaps or halts

when it contemplates unpleasant things, or when the in-

415:9 dividual looks upon some object which he dreads. In-

flammation never appears in a part which mortal thought

does not reach. That is why opiates relieve inflammation.

415:12 They quiet the thought by inducing stupefaction and by

resorting to matter instead of to Mind. Opiates do not

remove the pain in any scientific sense. They only ren-

415:15 der mortal mind temporarily less fearful, till it can master

an erroneous belief.

Truth calms the thought

Note how thought makes the face pallid. It either re-

415:18 tards the circulation or quickens it, causing a pale or

flushed cheek. In the same way thought in-

creases or diminishes the secretions, the action

415:21 of the lungs, of the bowels, and of the heart. The mus-

cles, moving quickly or slowly and impelled or palsied by

thought, represent the action of all the organs of the hu-

415:24 man system, including brain and viscera. To remove

the error producing disorder, you must calm and instruct

mortal mind with immortal Truth.

Effects of etherization

415:27 Etherization will apparently cause the body to dis-

appear. Before the thoughts are fully at rest, the limbs

will vanish from consciousness. Indeed, the

415:30 whole frame will sink from sight along with

surrounding objects, leaving the pain standing forth as

distinctly as a mountain-peak, as if it were a separate

416:1 bodily member. At last the agony also vanishes. This

process shows the pain to be in the mind, for the inflam-

416:3 mation is not suppressed; and the belief of pain will

presently return, unless the mental image occasioning

the pain be removed by recognizing the truth of being.

Sedatives valueless

416:6 A hypodermic injection of morphine is administered

to a patient, and in twenty minutes the sufferer is qui-

etly asleep. To him there is no longer any

416:9 pain. Yet any physician - allopathic, homoe-

opathic, botanic, eclectic - will tell you that the trouble-

some material cause is unremoved, and that when the

416:12 soporific influence of the opium is exhausted, the pa-

tient will find himself in the same pain, unless the belief

which occasions the pain has meanwhile been changed.

416:15 Where is the pain while the patient sleeps?

The so-called physical ego

The material body, which you call /me/, is mortal mind,

and this mind is material in sensation, even as the body,

416:18 which has originated from this material sense

and been developed according to it, is mate-

rial. This materialism of parent and child is only in

416:21 mortal mind, as the dead body proves; for when the

mortal has resigned his body to dust, the body is no

longer the parent, even in appearance.

Evil thought depletes

416:24 The sick know nothing of the mental process by

which they are depleted, and next to nothing of the

metaphysical method by which they can be

416:27 healed. If they ask about their disease, tell

them only what is best for them to know. Assure them

that they think too much about their ailments, and

416:30 have already heard too much on that subject. Turn

their thoughts away from their bodies to higher ob-

jects. Teach them that their being is sustained by

417:1 Spirit, not by matter, and that they find health, peace,

and harmony in God, divine Love.

Helpful encouragement

417:3 Give sick people credit for sometimes knowing more

than their doctors. Always support their trust in the

power of Mind to sustain the body. Never

417:6 tell the sick that they have more courage

than strength. Tell them rather, that their strength

is in proportion to their courage. If you make the sick

417:9 realize this great truism, there will be no reaction from

over-exertion or from excited conditions. Maintain

the facts of Christian Science, - that Spirit is God, and

417:12 therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter

cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting

through spiritual law. Then hold your ground with

417:15 the unshaken understanding of Truth and Love, and

you will win. When you silence the witness against your

plea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disap-

417:18 pears. The evidence before the corporeal senses is not

the Science of immortal man.

Disease to be made unreal

To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream

417:21 from which the patient needs to be awakened. Dis-

ease should not appear real to the physician,

since it is demonstrable that the way to

417:24 cure the patient is to make disease unreal to him. To

do this, the physician must understand the unreality

of disease in Science.

417:27 Explain audibly to your patients, as soon as they can

bear it, the complete control which Mind holds over the

body. Show them how mortal mind seems to induce

417:30 disease by certain fears and false conclusions, and how

divine Mind can cure by opposite thoughts. Give your

patients an underlying understanding to support them

418:1 and to shield them from the baneful effects of their own

conclusions. Show them that the conquest over sickness,

418:3 as well as over sin, depends on mentally destroying all

belief in material pleasure or pain.

Christian pleading

Stick to the truth of being in contradistinction to the

418:6 error that life, substance, or intelligence can be in matter.

Plead with an honest conviction of truth and

a clear perception of the unchanging, unerr-

418:9 ing, and certain effect of divine Science. Then, if your

fidelity is half equal to the truth of your plea, you will

heal the sick.

Truthful arguments

418:12 It must be clear to you that sickness is no more

the reality of being than is sin. This mortal dream

of sickness, sin, and death should cease

418:15 through Christian Science. Then one dis-

ease would be as readily destroyed as another. What-

ever the belief is, if arguments are used to destroy it,

418:18 the belief must be repudiated, and the negation must ex-

tend to the supposed disease and to whatever decides its

type and symptoms. Truth is affirmative, and confers

418:21 harmony. All metaphysical logic is inspired by this sim-

ple rule of Truth, which governs all reality. By the

truthful arguments you employ, and especially by the

418:24 spirit of Truth and Love which you entertain, you will

heal the sick.

Morality required

Include moral as well as physical belief in your efforts

418:27 to destroy error. Cast out all manner of evil. "Preach

the gospel to every creature." Speak the

truth to every form of error. Tumors, ulcers,

418:30 tubercles, inflammation, pain, deformed joints, are wak-

ing dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought, which

flee before the light of Truth.

419:1 A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick.

Lurking error, lust, envy, revenge, malice, or hate will

419:3 perpetuate or even create the belief in disease. Errors

of all sorts tend in this direction. Your true course is

to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth,

419:6 and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone

are real and harmonious.

Relapse unnecessary

If your patient from any cause suffers a relapse, meet

419:9 the cause mentally and courageously, knowing that

there can be no reaction in Truth. Neither

disease itself, sin, nor fear has the power to

419:12 cause disease or a relapse. Disease has no intelligence

with which to move itself about or to change itself from

one form to another. If disease moves, mind, not mat-

419:15 ter, moves it; therefore be sure that you move it off.

Meet every adverse circumstance as its master. Ob-

serve mind instead of body, lest aught unfit for develop-

419:18 ment enter thought. Think less of material conditions

and more of spiritual.

Conquer beliefs and fears

Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from

419:21 Truth, from immortal Mind, there is harmony; but mor-

tal mind is liable to any phase of belief. A

relapse cannot in reality occur in mortals or

419:24 so-called mortal minds, for there is but one

Mind, one God. Never fear the mental malpractitioner,

the mental assassin, who, in attempting to rule mankind,

419:27 tramples upon the divine Principle of metaphysics, for God

is the only power. To succeed in healing, you must con-

quer your own fears as well as those of your patients, and

419:30 rise into higher and holier consciousness.

True government of man

If it is found necessary to treat against relapse, know

that disease or its symptoms cannot change forms, nor

420:1 go from one part to another, for Truth destroys disease.

There is no metastasis, no stoppage of harmonious

420:3 action, no paralysis. Truth not error, Love

not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man. If

students do not readily heal themselves, they should

420:6 early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid

them. If they are unwilling to do this for themselves,

they need only to know that error cannot produce this

420:9 unnatural reluctance.

Positive reassurance

Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims,

for if they will only accept Truth, they can resist disease

420:12 and ward it off, as positively as they can the

temptation to sin. This fact of Christian Sci-

ence should be explained to invalids when they are in a

420:15 fit mood to receive it, - when they will not array them-

selves against it, but are ready to become receptive to the

new idea. The fact that Truth overcomes both disease

420:18 and sin reassures depressed hope. It imparts a healthy

stimulus to the body, and regulates the system. It in-

creases or diminishes the action, as the case may require,

420:21 better than any drug, alterative, or tonic.

Proper stimulus

Mind is the natural stimulus of the body, but erro-

neous belief, taken at its best, is not promotive of health

420:24 or happiness. Tell the sick that they can

meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize

that divine Love gives them all power over every physical

420:27 action and condition.

Awaken the patient

If it becomes necessary to startle mortal mind to break

its dream of suffering, vehemently tell your patient that

420:30 he must awake. Turn his gaze from the false

evidence of the senses to the harmonious facts

of Soul and immortal being. Tell him that he suffers

421:1 only as the insane suffer, from false beliefs. The only

difference is, that insanity implies belief in a diseased

421:3 brain, while physical ailments (so-called) arise from the

belief that other portions of the body are deranged. De-

rangement, or /disarrangement/, is a word which conveys

421:6 the true definition of all human belief in ill-health, or dis-

turbed harmony. Should you thus startle mortal mind

in order to remove its beliefs, afterwards make known

421:9 to the patient your motive for this shock, showing him

that it was to facilitate recovery.

How to treat a crisis

If a crisis occurs in your treatment, you must treat

421:12 the patient less for the disease and more for the mental

disturbance or fermentation, and subdue the

symptoms by removing the belief that this

421:15 chemicalization produces pain or disease. Insist vehe-

mently on the great fact which covers the whole ground,

that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside

421:18 Him. There is /no disease/. When the supposed suffer-

ing is gone from mortal mind, there can be no pain; and

when the fear is destroyed, the inflammation will sub-

421:21 side. Calm the excitement sometimes induced by chemi-

calization, which is the alterative effect produced by

Truth upon error, and sometimes explain the symptoms

421:24 and their cause to the patient.

No perversion of Mind-science

It is no more Christianly scientific to see disease than

it is to experience it. If you would destroy the sense

421:27 of disease, you should not build it up by

wishing to see the forms it assumes or by

employing a single material application for

421:30 its relief. The perversion of Mind-science is like as-

serting that the products of eight multiplied by five, and

of seven by ten, are both forty, and that their combined

422:1 sum is fifty, and then calling the process mathematics.

Wiser than his persecutors, Jesus said: "If I by Beelze-

422:3 bub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them

out?"

Effect of this book

If the reader of this book observes a great stir through-

422:6 out his whole system, and certain moral and physical

symptoms seem aggravated, these indications

are favorable. Continue to read, and the book

422:9 will become the physician, allaying the tremor which

Truth often brings to error when destroying it.

Disease neutralized

Patients, unfamiliar with the cause of this commotion

422:12 and ignorant that it is a favorable omen, may be alarmed.

If such be the case, explain to them the law

of this action. As when an acid and alkali

422:15 meet and bring out a third quality, so mental and moral

chemistry changes the material base of thought, giving

more spirituality to consciousness and causing it to depend

422:18 less on material evidence. These changes which go on

in mortal mind serve to reconstruct the body. Thus

Christian Science, by the alchemy of Spirit, destroys sin

422:21 and death.

Bone-healing by surgery

Let us suppose two parallel cases of bone-disease, both

similarly produced and attended by the same symptoms.

422:24 A surgeon is employed in one case, and a

Christian Scientist in the other. The sur-

geon, holding that matter forms its own conditions and

422:27 renders them fatal at certain points, entertains fears and

doubts as to the ultimate outcome of the injury. Not

holding the reins of government in his own hands, he

422:30 believes that something stronger than Mind - namely,

matter - governs the case. His treatment is therefore

tentative. This mental state invites defeat. The belief

423:1 that he has met his master in matter and may not be

able to mend the bone, increases his fear; yet this belief

423:3 should not be communicated to the patient, either ver-

bally or otherwise, for this fear greatly diminishes the

tendency towards a favorable result. Remember that the

423:6 unexpressed belief oftentimes affects a sensitive patient

more strongly than the expressed thought.

Scientific corrective

The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically

423:9 that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the

truth of being, to destroy the error. This cor-

rective is an alterative, reaching to every part

423:12 of the human system. According to Scripture, it searches

"the joints and marrow," and it restores the harmony of

man.

Coping with difficulties

423:15 The matter-physician deals with matter as both his foe

and his remedy. He regards the ailment as weakened or

strengthened according to the evidence which

423:18 matter presents. The metaphysician, making

Mind his basis of operation irrespective of matter and

regarding the truth and harmony of being as superior to

423:21 error and discord, has rendered himself strong, instead

of weak, to cope with the case; and he proportionately

strengthens his patient with the stimulus of courage and

423:24 conscious power. Both Science and consciousness are

now at work in the economy of being according to the law

of Mind, which ultimately asserts its absolute supremacy.

Formation from thought

423:27 Ossification or any abnormal condition or derange-

ment of the body is as directly the action of mortal

mind as is dementia or insanity. Bones have

423:30 only the substance of thought which forms

them. They are only phenomena of the mind of mor-

tals. The so-called substance of bone is formed first

424:1 by the parent's mind, through self-division. Soon the

child becomes a separate, individualized mortal mind,

424:3 which takes possession of itself and its own thoughts of

bones.

Accidents unknown to God

Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind,

424:6 and we must leave the mortal basis of belief

and unite with the one Mind, in order to

change the notion of chance to the proper sense

424:9 of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony.

Opposing mentality

Under divine Providence there can be no accidents,

since there is no room for imperfection in perfection.

424:12 In medical practice objections would be raised if one

doctor should administer a drug to counteract the work-

ing of a remedy prescribed by another doctor.

424:15 It is equally important in metaphysical prac-

tice that the /minds /which surround your patient should

not act against your influence by continually expressing

424:18 such opinions as may alarm or discourage, - either by

giving antagonistic advice or through unspoken thoughts

resting on your patient. While it is certain that the

424:21 divine Mind can remove any obstacle, still you need the

ear of your auditor. It is not more difficult to make your-

self heard mentally while others are thinking about your

424:24 patients or conversing with them, if you understand

Christian Science - the oneness and the allness of divine

Love; but it is well to be alone with God and the sick

424:27 when treating disease.

Mind removes scrofula

To prevent or to cure scrofula and other so-called he-

reditary diseases, you must destroy the belief in these ills

424:30 and the faith in the possibility of their trans-

mission. The patient may tell you that he

has a humor in the blood, a scrofulous diathesis. His

425:1 parents or some of his progenitors farther back have so

believed. Mortal mind, not matter, induces this con-

425:3 clusion and its results. You will have humors, just so

long as you believe them to be safety-valves or to be

ineradicable.

Nothing to consume

425:6 If the case to be mentally treated is consumption, take

up the leading points included (according to belief) in

this disease. Show that it is not inherited;

425:9 that inflammation, tubercles, hemorrhage, and

decomposition are beliefs, images of mortal thought su-

perimposed upon the body; that they are not the truth

425:12 of man; that they should be treated as error and put out

of thought. Then these ills will disappear.

The lungs re-formed

If the body is diseased, this is but one of the beliefs of

425:15 mortal mind. Mortal man will be less mortal, when he

learns that matter never sustained existence

and can never destroy God, who is man's Life.

425:18 When this is understood, mankind will be more spiritual

and know that there is nothing to consume, since Spirit,

God, is All-in-all. What if the belief is consumption?

425:21 God is more to a man than his belief, and the less we ac-

knowledge matter or its laws, the more immortality we

possess. Consciousness constructs a better body when

425:24 faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material

belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form

you anew. You will never fear again except to offend

425:27 God, and you will never believe that heart or any por-

tion of the body can destroy you.

Soundness maintained

If you have sound and capacious lungs and want

425:30 them to remain so, be always ready with the

mental protest against the opposite belief in

heredity. Discard all notions about lungs, tubercles, in-

426:1 herited consumption, or disease arising from any cir-

cumstance, and you will find that mortal mind, when

426:3 instructed by Truth, yields to divine power, which steers

the body into health.

Our footsteps heavenward

The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less

426:6 difficult when she has the high goal always before her

thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps

in endeavoring to reach it. When the desti-

426:9 nation is desirable, expectation speeds our progress. The

struggle for Truth makes one strong instead of weak,

resting instead of wearying one. If the belief in death

426:12 were obliterated, and the understanding obtained that

there is no death, this would be a "tree of life," known

by its fruits. Man should renew his energies and en-

426:15 deavors, and see the folly of hypocrisy, while also learn-

ing the necessity of working out his own salvation. When

it is learned that disease cannot destroy life, and that

426:18 mortals are not saved from sin or sickness by death, this

understanding will quicken into newness of life. It will

master either a desire to die or a dread of the grave,

426:21 and thus destroy the great fear that besets mortal

existence.

Christian standard

The relinquishment of all faith in death and also of

426:24 the fear of its sting would raise the standard of health

and morals far beyond its present elevation,

and would enable us to hold the banner of

426:27 Christianity aloft with unflinching faith in God, in Life

eternal. Sin brought death, and death will disappear

with the disappearance of sin. Man is immortal, and

426:30 the body cannot die, because matter has no life to sur-

render. The human concepts named matter, death, dis-

ease, sickness, and sin are all that can be destroyed.

Life not contingent on matter

427:1 If it is true that man lives, this fact can never change

in Science to the opposite belief that man dies. Life is

427:3 the law of Soul, even the law of the spirit of

Truth, and Soul is never without its represent-

ative. Man's individual being can no more

427:6 die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for

both are immortal. If man believes in death now, he

must disbelieve in it when learning that there is no reality

427:9 in death, since the truth of being is deathless. The be-

lief that existence is contingent on matter must be met

and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood

427:12 and harmony obtained.

Mortality vanquished

Death is but another phase of the dream that exist-

ence can be material. Nothing can interfere with the

427:15 harmony of being nor end the existence of

man in Science. Man is the same after as

before a bone is broken or the body guillotined. If man

427:18 is never to overcome death, why do the Scriptures say,

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"? The

tenor of the Word shows that we shall obtain the victory

427:21 over death in proportion as we overcome sin. The great

difficulty lies in ignorance of what God is. God, Life,

Truth, and Love make man undying. Immortal Mind,

427:24 governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the

physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.

No death nor inaction

Called to the bed of death, what material remedy has

427:27 man when all such remedies have failed? Spirit is his

last resort, but it should have been his first

and only resort. The dream of death must

427:30 be mastered by Mind here or hereafter. Thought

will waken from its own material declaration, "I am

dead," to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, "There

428:1 is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor

reaction."

Vision opening

428:3 Life is real, and death is the illusion. A demonstra-

tion of the facts of Soul in Jesus' way resolves the dark

visions of material sense into harmony and

428:6 immortality. Man's privilege at this supreme

moment is to prove the words of our Master: "If a man

keep my saying, he shall never see death." To divest

428:9 thought of false trusts and material evidences in order

that the spiritual facts of being may appear, - this is

the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep

428:12 away the false and give place to the true. Thus we may

establish in truth the temple, or body, "whose builder

and maker is God."

Intelligent consecration

428:15 We should consecrate existence, not "to the unknown

God" whom we "ignorantly worship," but to the eternal

builder, the everlasting Father, to the Life

428:18 which mortal sense cannot impair nor mortal

belief destroy. We must realize the ability of mental

might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them

428:21 with the life which is spiritual, not material.

The present immortality

The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man

/is/, not /shall be/, perfect and immortal. We must hold

428:24 forever the consciousness of existence, and

sooner or later, through Christ and Christian

Science, we must master sin and death. The evidence

428:27 of man's immortality will become more apparent, as ma-

terial beliefs are given up and the immortal facts of being

are admitted.

Careful guidance

428:30 The author has healed hopeless organic disease, and

raised the dying to life and health through the under-

standing of God as the only Life. It is a sin to believe

429:1 that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life,

and this Life must be brought to light by the understand-

429:3 ing that there is no death, as well as by other

graces of Spirit. We must begin, however,

with the more simple demonstrations of control, and

429:6 the sooner we begin the better. The final demonstration

takes time for its accomplishment. When walking, we

are guided by the eye. We look before our feet, and if

429:9 we are wise, we look beyond a single step in the line of

spiritual advancement.

Clay replying to the potter

The corpse, deserted by thought, is cold and decays,

429:12 but it never suffers. Science declares that man is sub-

ject to Mind. Mortal mind affirms that mind

is subordinate to the body, that the body is

429:15 dying, that it must be buried and decomposed

into dust; but mortal mind's affirmation is not true.

Mortals waken from the dream of death with bodies un-

429:18 seen by those who think that they bury the body.

Continuity of existence

If man did not exist before the material organization

began, he could not exist after the body is disintegrated.

429:21 If we live after death and are immortal, we

must have lived before birth, for if Life ever

had any beginning, it must also have an ending, even ac-

429:24 cording to the calculations of natural science. Do you

believe this? No! Do you understand it? No! This

is why you doubt the statement and do not demonstrate

429:27 the facts it involves. We must have faith in all the say-

ings of our Master, though they are not included in the

teachings of the schools, and are not understood gener-

429:30 ally by our ethical instructors.

Life all-inclusive

Jesus said (John viii. 51), "If a man keep my saying,

he shall never see death." That statement is not con-

430:1 fined to spiritual life, but includes all the phenomena of

existence. Jesus demonstrated this, healing the dying

430:3 and raising the dead. Mortal mind must part

with error, must put off itself with its deeds,

and immortal manhood, the Christ ideal, will appear.

430:6 Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base

by resting upon Spirit instead of matter. When man

gives up his belief in death, he will advance more rapidly

430:9 towards God, Life, and Love. Belief in sickness and

death, as certainly as belief in sin, tends to shut out the

true sense of Life and health. When will mankind wake

430:12 to this great fact in Science?

I here present to my readers an allegory illustrative

of the law of divine Mind and of the supposed laws of mat-

430:15 ter and hygiene, an allegory in which the plea of Christian

Science heals the sick.

A mental court case

Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried

430:18 in court. A man is charged with having committed liver-

complaint. The patient feels ill, ruminates,

and the trial commences. Personal Sense is

430:21 the plaintiff. Mortal Man is the defendant. False Belief

is the attorney for Personal Sense. Mortal Minds, Ma-

teria Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Hypnotism, Envy,

430:24 Greed and Ingratitude, constitute the jury. The court-

room is filled with interested spectators, and Judge

Medicine is on the bench.

430:27 The evidence for the prosecution being called for, a

witness testifies thus: -

I represent Health-laws. I was present on certain nights

430:30 when the prisoner, or patient, watched with a sick friend.

Although I have the superintendence of human affairs, I

was personally abused on those occasions. I was told that

431:1 I must remain silent until called for at this trial, when I

would be allowed to testify in the case. Notwithstanding

431:3 my rules to the contrary, the prisoner watched with the sick

every night in the week. When the sick mortal was thirsty,

the prisoner gave him drink. During all this time the pris-

431:6 oner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at ir-

regular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately

after a heavy meal. At last he committed liver-complaint,

431:9 which I considered criminal, inasmuch as this offence is

deemed punishable with death. Therefore I arrested Mor-

tal Man in behalf of the state (namely, the body) and cast

431:12 him into prison.

At the time of the arrest the prisoner summoned Physi-

ology, Materia Medica, and Hypnotism to prevent his pun-

431:15 ishment. The struggle on their part was long. Materia

Medica held out the longest, but at length all these assist-

ants resigned to me, Health-laws, and I succeeded in get-

431:18 ting Mortal Man into close confinement until I should

release him.

The next witness is called:-

431:21 I am Coated Tongue. I am covered with a foul fur,

placed on me the night of the liver-attack. Morbid Secre-

tion hypnotized the prisoner and took control of his mind,

431:24 making him despondent.

Another witness takes the stand and testifies:-

I am Sallow Skin. I have been dry, hot, and chilled by

431:27 turns since the night of the liver-attack. I have lost my

healthy hue and become unsightly, although nothing on my

part has occasioned this change. I practise daily ablutions

431:30 and perform my functions as usual, but I am robbed of my

good looks.

432:1 The next witness testifies: -

I am Nerve, the State Commissioner for Mortal Man.

432:3 I am intimately acquainted with the plaintiff, Personal

Sense, and know him to be truthful and upright, whereas

Mortal Man, the prisoner at the bar, is capable of false-

432:6 hood. I was witness to the crime of liver-complaint. I

knew the prisoner would commit it, for I convey messages

from my residence in matter, alias brain, to body.

432:9 Another witness is called for by the Court of Error

and says: -

I am Mortality, Governor of the Province of Body, in

432:12 which Mortal Man resides. In this province there is a stat-

ute regarding disease, - namely, that he upon whose per-

son disease is found shall be treated as a criminal and

432:15 punished with death.

The Judge asks if by doing good to his neighbor, it is

possible for man to become diseased, transgress the laws,

432:18 and merit punishment, and Governor Mortality replies in

the affirmative.

Another witness takes the stand and testifies: -

432:21 I am Death. I was called for, shortly after the report of

the crime, by the officer of the Board of Health, who pro-

tested that the prisoner had abused him, and that my pres-

432:24 ence was required to confirm his testimony. One of the

prisoner's friends, Materia Medica, was present when I

arrived, endeavoring to assist the prisoner to escape from

432:27 the hands of justice, /alias /nature's so-called law; but my

appearance with a message from the Board of Health

changed the purpose of Materia Medica, and he decided at

432:30 once that the prisoner should die.

Judge Medicine charges the jury

433:1 The testimony for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, being

closed, Judge Medicine arises, and with great solemnity

433:3 addresses the jury of Mortal Minds. He an-

alyzes the offence, reviews the testimony, and

explains the law relating to liver-complaint.

433:6 His conclusion is, that laws of nature render disease

homicidal. In compliance with a stern duty, his Honor,

Judge Medicine, urges the jury not to allow their judg-

433:9 ment to be warped by the irrational, unchristian sugges-

tions of Christian Science. The jury must regard in such

cases only the evidence of Personal Sense against Mortal

433:12 Man.

As the Judge proceeds, the prisoner grows restless. His

sallow face blanches with fear, and a look of despair and

433:15 death settles upon it. The case is given to the jury. A

brief consultation ensues, and the jury returns a verdict

of "Guilty of liver-complaint in the first degree."

Mortal Man sentenced

433:18 Judge Medicine then proceeds to pronounce the solemn

sentence of death upon the prisoner. Because he has

loved his neighbor as himself, Mortal Man has

433:21 been guilty of benevolence in the first degree,

and this has led him into the commission of the second

crime, liver-complaint, which material laws condemn as

433:24 homicide. For this crime Mortal Man is sentenced to

be tortured until he is dead. "May God have mercy on

your soul," is the Judge's solemn peroration.

433:27 The prisoner is then remanded to his cell (sick-bed),

and Scholastic Theology is sent for to prepare the fright-

ened sense of Life, God, - which sense must be immortal,

433:30 - for /death/.

Appeal to a higher tribunal

Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the

friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors

434:1 and set the captive free. Swift on the wings of divine

Love, there comes a despatch: "Delay the execution;

434:3 the prisoner is not guilty." Consternation fills

the prison-yard. Some exclaim, "It is con-

trary to law and justice." Others say,

434:6 "The law of Christ supersedes /our/ laws; let us follow

Christ."

Counsel for defence

After much debate and opposition, permission is ob-

434:9 tained for a trial in the Court of Spirit, where Christian

Science is allowed to appear as counsel for

the unfortunate prisoner. Witnesses, judges

434:12 and jurors, who were at the previous Court of Error,

are now summoned to appear before the bar of Justice

and eternal Truth.

434:15 When the case for Mortal Man /versus/ Personal Sense

is opened, Mortal Man's counsel regards the prisoner

with the utmost tenderness. The counsel's earnest,

434:18 solemn eyes, kindling with hope and triumph, look up-

ward. Then Christian Science turns suddenly to the

supreme tribunal, and opens the argument for the

434:21 defence: -

The prisoner at the bar has been unjustly sentenced.

His trial was a tragedy, and is morally illegal. Mortal

434:24 Man has had no proper counsel in the case. All the test-

mony has been on the side of Personal Sense, and we shall

unearth this foul conspiracy against the liberty and life of

434:27 Man. The only valid testimony in the case shows the

alleged crime never to have been committed. The pris-

oner is not proved "worthy of death, or of bonds."

434:30 Your Honor, the lower court has sentenced Mortal Man

to die, but God made Man immortal and amenable to

Spirit only. Denying justice to the body, that court com-

435:1 mended man's immortal Spirit to heavenly mercy, - Spirit

which is God Himself and Man's only lawgiver! Who or

435:3 what has sinned? Has the body or has Mortal Mind

committed a criminal deed? Counsellor False Belief has

argued that the body should die, while Reverend Theology

435:6 would console conscious Mortal Mind, which alone is capa-

ble of sin and suffering. The body committed no offence.

Mortal Man, in obedience to higher law, helped his fellow-

435:9 man, an act which should result in good to himself as well

as to others.

The law of our Supreme Court decrees that whosoever

435:12 /sinneth/ shall die; but good deeds are immortal, bringing

joy instead of grief, pleasure instead of pain, and life

instead of death. If liver-complaint was committed by

435:15 trampling on Laws of Health, this was a good deed, for the

agent of those laws is an outlaw, a destroyer of Mortal

Man's liberty and rights. Laws of Health should be sen-

435:18 tenced to die.

Watching beside the couch of pain in the exercise of a

love that "is the fulfilling of the law," - doing "unto

435:21 others as ye would that they should do unto you," - this

is no infringement of law, for no demand, human or divine,

renders it just to punish a man for acting justly. If mor-

435:24 tals sin, our Supreme Judge in equity decides what penalty

is due for the sin, and Mortal Man can suffer only for his

sin. For naught else can he be punished, according to the

435:27 law of Spirit, God.

Then what jurisdiction had his Honor, Judge Medicine,

in this case? To him I might say, in Bible language, "Sit-

435:30 test thou to judge . . . after the law, and commandest . . .

to be smitten contrary to the law?" The only jurisdiction

to which the prisoner can submit is that of Truth, Life, and

435:33 Love. If they condemn him not, neither shall Judge Medi-

cine condemn him; and I ask that the prisoner be restored

to the liberty of which he has been unjustly deprived.

436:1 The principal witness (the officer of the Health-laws)

deposed that he was an eye-witness to the good deeds for

436:3 which Mortal Man is under sentence of death. After be-

traying him into the hands of your law, the Health-agent

disappeared, to reappear however at the trial as a witness

436:6 against Mortal Man and in the interest of Personal Sense,

a murderer. Your Supreme Court must find the pris-

oner on the night of the alleged offence to have been acting

436:9 within the limits of the divine law, and in obedience

thereto. Upon this statute hangs all the law and testimony.

Giving a cup of cold water in Christ's name, is a Christian

436:12 service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man

should find it again. Such acts bear their own justifica-

tion, and are under the protection of the Most High.

436:15 Prior to the night of his arrest, the prisoner summoned

two professed friends, Materia Medica and Physiology, to

prevent his committing liver-complaint, and thus save him

436:18 from arrest. But they brought with them Fear, the sheriff,

to precipitate the result which they were called to prevent.

It was Fear who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now

436:21 punish him. You have left Mortal Man no alternative.

He must obey your law, fear its consequences, and be pun-

ished for his fear. His friends struggled hard to rescue the

436:24 prisoner from the penalty they considered justly due, but

they were compelled to let him be taken into custody, tried,

and condemned. Thereupon Judge Medicine sat in judg-

436:27 ment on the case, and substantially charged the jury, twelve

Mortal Minds, to find the prisoner guilty. His Honor sen-

tenced Mortal Man to die for the very deeds which the di-

436:30 vine law compels man to commit. Thus the Court of Error

construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedi-

ence to the law of Life. Claiming to protect Mortal Man

436:33 in right-doing, that court pronounced a sentence of death

for doing right.

One of the principal witnesses, Nerve, testified that he

437:1 was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides.

He also testified that he was on intimate terms with the

437:3 plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful; that he

knew Man, and that Man was made in the image of God,

but was a criminal. This is a foul aspersion on man's

437:6 Maker. It blots the fair escutcheon of omnipotence. It in-

dicates malice aforethought, a determination to condemn

Man in the interest of Personal Sense. At the bar of Truth,

437:9 in the presence of divine Justice, before the Judge of our

higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before

its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness,

437:12 Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be

a false witness.

Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected;

437:15 Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a criminal though

recommended to mercy; the helpless innocent body tor-

tured, - these are the terrible records of your Court of

437:18 Error, and I ask that the Supreme Court of Spirit reverse

this decision.

Here the opposing counsel, False Belief, called Chris-

437:21 tian Science to order for contempt of court. Various

notables - Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Scho-

lastic Theology, and Jurisprudence - rose to the ques-

437:24 tion of expelling Christian Science from the bar, for such

high-handed illegality. They declared that Christian Sci-

ence was overthrowing the judicial proceedings of a regu-

437:27 larly constituted court.

But Judge Justice of the Supreme Court of Spirit over-

ruled their motions on the ground that unjust usages

437:30 were not allowed at the bar of Truth, which ranks above

the lower Court of Error.

The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the

437:33 supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the

438:1 Rights of Man, remarking, that the Bible was better au-

thority than Blackstone: -

438:3 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and

let them have dominion.

Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power

438:6 of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to

438:9 be a perjurer. Instead of being a ruler in the Province

of Body, in which Mortal Man was reported to reside,

Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false

438:12 claims to office and bearing false witness against Man.

Turning suddenly to Personal Sense, by this time silent,

Christian Science continued: -

438:15 I ask your arrest in the name of Almighty God on three

distinct charges of crime, to wit: perjury, treason, and con-

spiracy against the rights and life of man.

438:18 Then Christian Science continued:

Another witness, equally inadequate, said that on the

night of the crime a garment of foul fur was spread over

438:21 him by Morbid Secretion, while the facts in the case show

that this fur is a foreign substance, imported by False Be-

lief, the attorney for Personal Sense, who is in partnership

438:24 with Error and smuggles Error's goods into market with-

out the inspection of Soul's government officers. When

the Court of Truth summoned Furred Tongue for examina-

438:27 tion, he disappeared and was never heard of more.

Morbid Secretion is not an importer or dealer in fur, but

we have heard Materia Medica explain how this fur is

438:30 manufactured, and we know Morbid Secretion to be on

friendly terms with the firm of Personal Sense, Error, &

439:1 Co., receiving pay from them and introducing their goods

into the market. Also, be it known that False Belief, the

439:3 counsel for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, is a buyer for this

firm. He manufactures for it, keeps a furnishing store,

and advertises largely for his employers.

439:6 Death testified that he was absent from the Province of

Body, when a message came from False Belief, command-

ing him to take part in the homicide. At this request

439:9 Death repaired to the spot where the liver-complaint was

in process, frightening away Materia Medica, who was then

manacling the prisoner in the attempt to save him. True,

439:12 Materia Medica was a misguided participant in the misdeed

for which the Health-officer had Mortal Man in custody,

though Mortal Man was innocent.

439:15 Christian Science turned from the abashed witnesses,

his words flashing as lightning in the perturbed faces

of these worthies, Scholastic Theology, Materia Medica,

439:18 Physiology, the blind Hypnotism, and the masked Per-

sonal Sense, and said: -

God will smite you, O whited walls, for injuring in your

439:21 ignorance the unfortunate Mortal Man who sought your

aid in his struggles against liver-complaint and Death.

You came to his rescue, only to fasten upon him an offence

439:24 of which he was innocent. You aided and abetted Fear

and Health-laws. You betrayed Mortal Man, meanwhile

declaring Disease to be God's servant and the righteous

439:27 executor of His laws. Our higher statutes declare you all,

witnesses, jurors, and judges, to be offenders, awaiting the

sentence which General Progress and Divine Love will

439:30 pronounce.

We send our best detectives to whatever locality is re-

ported to be haunted by Disease, but on visiting the spot,

439:33 they learn that Disease was never there, for he could not

440:1 possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors,

when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic

440:3 disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machina-

tions of the counsel, False Belief, whom Truth arraigns

before the supreme bar of Spirit to answer for his crime.

440:6 Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason

before sacrificing mortals to their false gods.

Mortal Minds were deceived by your attorney, False Be-

440:9 lief, and were influenced to give a verdict delivering Mortal

Man to Death. Good deeds are transformed into crimes,

to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice

440:12 can render disobedience to the so-called laws of Matter

disobedience to God, or an act of homicide. Even penal

law holds homicide, under stress of circumstances, to be

440:15 justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed

have, than that it is for the good of one's neighbor? Where-

fore, then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence

440:18 Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellow-man

in obedience to divine law? You cannot trample upon the

decree of the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man has his appeal

440:21 to Spirit, God, who sentences only for sin.

The false and unjust beliefs of your human mental legis-

lators compel them to enact wicked laws of sickness and so

440:24 forth, and then render obedience to these laws punishable

as crime. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, stand-

ing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine

440:27 statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal. Sense.

I ask that he be forbidden to enter against Mortal Man

any more suits to be tried at the Court of Material Error.

440:30 I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit

to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been

deprived.

Charge of the Chief Justice

440:33 Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing

441:1 presence, comprehending and defining all law and evi-

dence, explained from his statute-book, the

441:3 Bible, that any so-called law, which under-

takes to punish aught but sin, is null and void.

He also decided that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, be

441:6 not permitted to enter any suits at the bar of Soul, but

be enjoined to keep perpetual silence, and in case of

temptation, to give heavy bonds for good behavior. He

441:9 concluded his charge thus: -

The plea of False Belief we deem unworthy of a hearing.

Let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into

441:12 oblivion, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown." Accord-

ing to our statute, Material Law is a liar who cannot bear

witness against Mortal Man, neither can Fear arrest Mortal

441:15 Man nor can Disease cast him into prison. Our law refuses

to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him to be for-

ever in the image and likeness of his Maker. Reversing the

441:18 testimony of Personal Sense and the decrees of the Court of

Error in favor of Matter, Spirit decides in favor of Man

and against Matter. We further recommend that Materia

441:21 Medica adopt Christian Science and that Health-laws,

Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Oriental Witchcraft, and Esoteric

Magic be publicly executed at the hands of our sheriff,

441:24 Progress.

The Supreme Bench decides in favor of intelligence, that

no law outside of divine Mind can punish or reward Mortal

441:27 Man. Your personal jurors in the Court of Error are

myths. Your attorney, False Belief, is an impostor, per-

suading Mortal Minds to return a verdict contrary to law

441:30 and gospel. The plaintiff, Personal Sense, is recorded in

our Book of books as a liar. Our great Teacher of mental

jurisprudence speaks of him also as "a murderer from the

441:33 beginning." We have no trials for sickness before the tri-

442:1 bunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent

of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such

442:3 laws. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine.

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Divine verdict

The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a

442:6 verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-

chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then

the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.

442:9 We noticed, as he shook hands with his counsel, Chris-

tian Science, that all sallowness and debility had dis-

appeared. His form was erect and commanding, his

442:12 countenance beaming with health and happiness. Divine

Love had cast out fear. Mortal Man, no longer sick

and in prison, walked forth, his feet "beautiful upon the

442:15 mountains," as of one "that bringeth good tidings."

Christ the great physician

Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into

the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot

442:18 be reversed, but the reverse of error is true.

An improved belief cannot retrograde. When

Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into

442:21 a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand-

ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth,

gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the ma-

442:24 terial, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man

is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, "Work

out your own salvation with fear and trembling:" Jesus

442:27 said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good

pleasure to give you the kingdom." This truth is

Christian Science.

442:30 Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental

malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when

awake.