Chapter 8 PHYSIOLOGY

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

He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their

destructions. - PSALMS.

165:1 PHYSIOLOGY is one of the apples from "the tree

of knowledge." Evil declared that eating this fruit

165:3 would open man's eyes and make him as a god. Instead

of so doing, it closed the eyes of mortals to man's God-

given dominion over the earth.

Man not structural

165:6 To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the

brain and strength by the exercise of muscle, is to

subjugate intelligence, to make mind mor-

165:9 tal, and to place this so-called mind at the

mercy of material organization and non-intelligent

matter.

165:12 Obedience to the so-called physical laws of health has

not checked sickness. Diseases have multiplied, since

man-made material theories took the place of spiritual

165:15 truth.

Causes of sickness

You say that indigestion, fatigue, sleeplessness, cause

distressed stomachs and aching heads. Then

165:18 you consult your brain in order to remember

what has hurt you, when your remedy lies in forgetting

166:1 the whole thing; for matter has no sensation of its own,

and the human mind is all that can produce pain.

166:3 As a man thinketh, so is he. Mind is all that feels,

acts, or impedes action. Ignorant of this, or shrinking

from its implied responsibility, the healing effort is made

166:6 on the wrong side, and thus the conscious control over the

body is lost.

Delusions pagan and medical

The Mohammedan believes in a pilgrimage to Mecca

166:9 for the salvation of his soul. The popular doctor believes

in his prescription, and the pharmacist believes

in the power of his drugs to save a man's

166:12 life. The Mohammedan's belief is a religious

delusion; the doctor's and pharmacist's is a medical

mistake.

Health from reliance on spirituality

166:15 The erring human mind is inharmonious in itself.

From it arises the inharmonious body. To ignore

God as of little use in sickness is a mistake.

166:18 Instead of thrusting Him aside in times of

bodily trouble, and waiting for the hour of

strength in which to acknowledge Him, we should learn

166:21 that He can do all things for us in sickness as in

health.

Failing to recover health through adherence to physi-

166:24 ology and hygiene, the despairing invalid often drops

them, and in his extremity and only as a last resort, turns

to God. The invalid's faith in the divine Mind is less

166:27 than in drugs, air, and exercise, or he would have resorted

to Mind first. The balance of power is conceded to be

with matter by most of the medical systems; but when

166:30 Mind at last asserts its mastery over sin, disease, and

death, then is man found to be harmonious and

immortal.

167:1 Should we implore a corporeal God to heal the sick

out of His personal volition, or should we understand the

167:3 infinite divine Principle which heals? If we rise no higher

than blind faith, the Science of healing is not attained, and

Soul-existence, in the place of sense-existence, is not com-

167:6 prehended. We apprehend Life in divine Science only

as we live above corporeal sense and correct it. Our pro-

portionate admission of the claims of good or of evil de-

167:9 termines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our

longevity, and our Christianity.

The two masters

We cannot serve two masters nor perceive divine Sci-

167:12 ence with the material senses. Drugs and hygiene cannot

successfully usurp the place and power of the

divine source of all health and perfection. If

167:15 God made man both good and evil, man must remain

thus. What can improve God's work? Again, an error

in the premise must appear in the conclusion. To have

167:18 one God and avail yourself of the power of Spirit, you

must love God supremely.

Half-way success

The "flesh lusteth against the Spirit." The flesh and

167:21 Spirit can no more unite in action, than good can coin-

cide with evil. It is not wise to take a halt-

ing and half-way position or to expect to work

167:24 equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error. There,

is but one way - namely, God and His idea - which

leads to spiritual being. The scientific government of the

167:27 body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is im-

possible to gain control over the body in any other way.

On this fundamental point, timid conservatism is abso-

167:30 lutely inadmissible. Only through radical reliance on

Truth can scientific healing power be realized.

Substituting good words for a good life, fair seeming

168:1 for straightforward character, is a poor shift for the weak

and worldly, who think the standard of Christian Science

168:3 too high for them.

Belief on the wrong side

If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single

weight from either scale gives preponderance to the oppo-

168:6 site. Whatever influence you cast on the side

of matter, you take away from Mind, which

would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates

168:9 against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the

side of health. When sick (according to belief) you rush

after drugs, search out the material so-called laws of

168:12 health, and depend upon them to heal you, though you

have already brought yourself into the slough of disease

through just this false belief.

The divine authority

168:15 Because man-made systems insist that man becomes

sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with

the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are

168:18 we to believe an authority which denies God's

spiritual command relating to perfection, - an authority

which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the

168:21 Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called

material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law

of Mind.

Disease foreseen

168:24 I have discerned disease in the human mind, and rec-

ognized the patient's fear of it, months before the so-called

disease made its appearance in the body. Dis-

168:27 ease being a belief, a latent illusion of mortal

mind, the sensation would not appear if the error of belief

was met and destroyed by truth.

Changed mentality

168:30 Here let a word be noticed which will be

better understood hereafter, - /chemicalization/.

By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal

169:1 mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a

material to a spiritual basis.

Scientific foresight

169:3 Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred

through mental chemicalization, I have seen the mental

signs, assuring me that danger was over, before

169:6 the patient felt the change; and I have said

to the patient, "You are healed," - sometimes to his dis-

comfiture, when he was incredulous. But it always came

169:9 about as I had foretold.

I name these facts to show that disease has a mental,

mortal origin, - that faith in rules of health or in drugs

169:12 begets and fosters disease by attracting the mind to the

subject of sickness, by exciting fear of disease, and by dos-

ing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in

169:15 these things should find stronger supports and a higher

home. If we understood the control of Mind over body,

we should put no faith in material means.

Mind the only healer

169:18 Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as

mental, but it also declares that all disease is cured by

divine Mind. There can be no healing ex-

169:21 cept by this Mind, however much we trust

a drug or any other means towards which human faith

or endeavor is directed. It is mortal mind, not mat-

169:24 ter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may

seem to receive from materiality. But the sick are never

really healed except by means of the divine power.

169:27 Only the action of Truth, Life, and Love can give

harmony.

Modes of matter

Whatever teaches man to have other laws and to

169:30 acknowledge other powers than the divine

Mind, is anti-Christian. The good that a

poisonous drug seems to do is evil, for it robs man of

170:1 reliance on God, omnipotent Mind, and according to be-

lief, poisons the human system. Truth is not the basis of

170:3 theogony. Modes of matter form neither a moral nor a

spiritual system. The discord which calls for material

methods is the result of the exercise of faith in material

170:6 modes, - faith in matter instead of in Spirit.

Physiology unscientific

Did Jesus understand the economy of man less than

Graham or Cutter? Christian ideas certainly present

170:9 what human theories exclude - the Principle

of man's harmony. The text, "Whosoever

liveth and believeth in me shall never die," not only con-

170:12 tradicts human systems, but points to the self-sustaining

and eternal Truth.

The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the

170:15 body through Mind. The best interpreter of man's needs

said: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,

or what ye shall drink."

170:18 If there are material laws which prevent disease, what

then causes it? Not divine law, for Jesus healed the

sick and cast out error, always in opposition, never in

170:21 obedience, to physics.

Causation considered

Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered,

for more than all others spiritual causation relates to

170:24 human progress. The age seems ready to

approach this subject, to ponder somewhat

the supremacy of Spirit, and at least to touch the hem

170:27 of Truth's garment.

The description of man as purely physical, or as both

material and spiritual, - but in either case dependent

170:30 upon his physical organization, - is the Pandora box,

from which all ills have gone forth, especially despair.

Matter, which takes divine power into its own hands and

171:1 claims to be a creator, is a fiction, in which paganism and

lust are so sanctioned by society that mankind has caught

171:3 their moral contagion.

Paradise regained

Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of ma-

teriality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will

171:6 reopen with the key of divine Science the gates

of Paradise which human beliefs have closed,

and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free,

171:9 not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either

of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brain-

ology to learn how much of a man he is.

A closed question

171:12 Mind's control over the universe, including man, is

no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science.

Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the

171:15 power of immortal Mind by healing sickness

and sin and destroying the foundations of death.

Matter /versus/ Spirit

Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to

171:18 be combined matter and Spirit. He believes that Spirit

is sifted through matter, carried on a nerve, ex-

posed to ejection by the operation of matter.

171:21 The intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, - yea, the image

of infinite Mind, - subject to non-intelligence!

No more sympathy exists between the flesh and Spirit

171:24 than between Belial and Christ.

The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false be-

liefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind

171:27 is not. These false beliefs are the procuring cause of all

sin and disease. The opposite truth, that intelligence and

life are spiritual, never material, destroys sin, sickness,

171:30 and death.

The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man

is a material outgrowth and that the cognizance of good

172:1 or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, con-

stitutes his happiness or misery.

Godless Evolution

172:3 Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms

to monkeys and from monkeys into men

amounts to nothing in the right direction and

172:6 very much in the wrong.

Materialism grades the human species as rising from

matter upward. How then is the material species main-

172:9 tained, if man passes through what we call death and

death is the Rubicon of spirituality? Spirit can form

no real link in this supposed chain of material being.

172:12 But divine Science reveals the eternal chain of existence

as uninterrupted and wholly spiritual; yet this can be

realized only as the false sense of being disappears.

Degrees of development

172:15 If man was first a material being, he must have passed

through all the forms of matter in order to become man.

If the material body is man, he is a portion of

172:18 matter, or dust. On the contrary, man is the

image and likeness of Spirit; and the belief that there is

Soul in sense or Life in matter obtains in mortals, /alias/

172:21 mortal mind, to which the apostle refers when he says

that we must "put off the old man."

Identity not lost

What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the

172:24 material structure? If the real man is in the material

body, you take away a portion of the man when

you amputate a limb; the surgeon destroys

172:27 manhood, and worms annihilate it. But the loss of a limb

or injury to a tissue is sometimes the quickener of manli-

ness; and the unfortunate cripple may present more no-

172:30 bility than the statuesque athlete, - teaching us by his

very deprivations, that "a man's a man, for a' that."

When man is man

When we admit that matter (heart, blood, brain, acting

173:1 through the five physical senses) constitutes man, we fail

to see how anatomy can distinguish between

173:3 humanity and the brute, or determine when

man is really /man/ and has progressed farther than his

animal progenitors.

Individualization

173:6 When the supposition, that Spirit is within what it

creates and the potter is subject to the clay,

is individualized, Truth is reduced to the level

173:9 of error, and the sensible is required to be made manifest

through the insensible.

What is termed matter manifests nothing but a material

173:12 mentality. Neither the substance nor the manifestation

of Spirit is obtainable through matter. Spirit is positive.

Matter is Spirit's contrary, the absence of Spirit. For

173:15 positive Spirit to pass through a negative condition

would be Spirit's destruction.

Man not structural

Anatomy declares man to be structural. Physiology

173:18 continues this explanation, measuring human

strength by bones and sinews, and human life

by material law. Man is spiritual, individual, and eter-

173:21 nal; material structure is mortal.

Phrenology makes man knavish or honest according to

the development of the cranium; but anatomy, physiology,

173:24 phrenology, do not define the image of God, the real im-

mortal man.

Human reason and religion come slowly to the recogni-

173:27 tion of spiritual facts, and so continue to call upon

matter to remove the error which the human mind alone

has created.

173:30 The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health

and longevity than are the idols of barbarism. The idols

of civilization call into action less faith than Buddhism

174:1 in a supreme governing intelligence. The Esquimaux

restore health by incantations as consciously as do civi-

174:3 lized practitioners by their more studied methods.

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that

man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to

174:6 baths, diet, exercise, and air? Nothing save divine

power is capable of doing so much for man as he can

do for himself.

Rise of thought

174:9 The footsteps of thought, rising above material stand-

points, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller;

but the angels of His presence - the spiritual

174:12 intuitions that tell us when "the night is far

spent, the day is at hand" - are our guardians in the

gloom. Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is

174:15 a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for gen-

erations yet unborn.

The thunder of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount

174:18 are pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in

their course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of

heaven on earth. Truth is revealed. It needs only to

174:21 be practised.

Medical errors

Mortal belief is all that enables a drug to cure mortal

ailments. Anatomy admits that mind is somewhere in

174:24 man, though out of sight. Then, if an indi-

vidual is sick, why treat the body alone and

administer a dose of despair to the mind? Why declare

174:27 that the body is diseased, and picture this disease to the

mind, rolling it under the tongue as a sweet morsel and

holding it before the thought of both physician and pa-

174:30 tient? We should understand that the cause of disease

obtains in the mortal human mind, and its cure comes

from the immortal divine Mind. We should prevent the

175:1 images of disease from taking form in thought, and we

should efface the outlines of disease already formulated in

175:3 the minds of mortals.

Novel Diseases

When there are fewer prescriptions, and less thought is

given to sanitary subjects, there will be better

175:6 constitutions and less disease. In old times

who ever heard of dyspepsia, cerebro-spinal meningitis,

hay-fever, and rose-cold?

175:9 What an abuse of natural beauty to say that a rose,

the smile of God, can produce suffering! The joy of its

presence, its beauty and fragrance, should uplift the

175:12 thought, and dissuade any sense of fear or fever. It is

profane to fancy that the perfume of clover and the breath

of new-mown hay can cause glandular inflammation,

175:15 sneezing, and nasal pangs.

No ancestral dyspepsia

If a random thought, calling itself dyspepsia, had

tried to tyrannize over our forefathers, it would have

175:18 been routed by their independence and in-

dustry. Then people had less time for self-

ishness, coddling, and sickly after-dinner talk. The ex-

175:21 act amount of food the stomach could digest was not

discussed according to Cutter nor referred to sanitary

laws. A man's belief in those days was not so severe

175:24 upon the gastric juices. Beaumont's "Medical Experi-

ments" did not govern the digestion.

Pulmonary misbeliefs

Damp atmosphere and freezing snow empurpled the

175:27 plump cheeks of our ancestors, but they never indulged

in the refinement of inflamed bronchial tubes.

They were as innocent as Adam, before he ate

175:30 the fruit of false knowledge, of the existence of tubercles

and troches, lungs and lozenges.

Our modern Eves

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," says

176:1 the English poet, and there is truth in his sentiment. The

action of mortal mind on the body was not so injurious

176:3 before inquisitive modern Eves took up the

study of medical works and unmanly Adams

attributed their own downfall and the fate of their off-

176:6 spring to the weakness of their wives.

The primitive custom of taking no thought about

food left the stomach and bowels free to act in obedi-

176:9 ence to nature, and gave the gospel a chance to be seen

in its glorious effects upon the body. A ghastly array of

diseases was not paraded before the imagination. There

176:12 were fewer books on digestion and more "sermons in

stones, and good in everything." When the mechanism

of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, self-

176:15 ishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their

foothold.

Human fear of miasma would load with disease the

176:18 air of Eden, and weigh down mankind with superimposed

and conjectural evils. Mortal mind is the worst foe of

the body, while divine Mind is its best friend.

Diseases not to be classified

176:21 Should all cases of organic disease be treated by a

regular practitioner, and the Christian Scientist try

truth only in cases of hysteria, hypochon-

176:24 dria, and hallucination? One disease is no

more real than another. All disease is the

result of education, and disease can carry its ill-effects

176:27 no farther than mortal mind maps out the way. The

human mind, not matter, is supposed to feel, suffer, en-

joy. Hence decided types of acute disease are quite as

176:30 ready to yield to Truth as the less distinct type and chronic

form of disease. Truth handles the most malignant con-

tagion with perfect assurance.

One basis for all sickness

177:1 Human mind produces what is termed organic dis-

ease as certainly as it produces hysteria, and it must re-

177:3 linquish all its errors, sicknesses, and sins.

I have demonstrated this beyond all cavil.

The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and abso-

177:6 lute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own

existence.

Mental and physical oneness

Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without

177:9 the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind.

Matter, or body, is but a false concept of mor-

tal mind. This so-called mind builds its own

177:12 superstructure, of which the material body is

the grosser portion; but from first to last, the body is a

sensuous, human concept.

The effect of names

177:15 In the Scriptural allegory of the material creation,

Adam or error, which represents the erroneous theory

of life and intelligence in matter, had the

177:18 naming of all that was material. These names

indicated matter's properties, qualities, and forms. But

a lie, the opposite of Truth, cannot name the qualities and

177:21 effects of what is termed matter, and create the so-called

laws of the flesh, nor can a lie hold the preponderance

of power in any direction against God, Spirit and

177:24 Truth.

Poison defined mentally

If a dose of poison is swallowed through mistake, and

the patient dies even though physician and

177:27 patient are expecting favorable results, does

human belief, you ask, cause this death? Even

so, and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally

177:30 taken.

In such cases a few persons believe the potion swal-

lowed by the patient to be harmless, but the vast ma-

178:1 jority of mankind, though they know nothing of this par-

ticular case and this special person, believe the arsenic,

178:3 the strychnine, or whatever the drug used, to be poi-

sonous, for it is set down as a poison by mortal mind.

Consequently, the result is controlled by the majority of

178:6 opinions, not by the infinitesimal minority of opinions in

the sick-chamber.

Heredity is not a law. The remote cause or belief

178:9 of disease is not dangerous because of its priority and

the connection of past mortal thoughts with present.

The predisposing cause and the exciting cause are

178:12 mental.

Perhaps an adult has a deformity produced prior to his

birth by the fright of his mother. When wrested from

178:15 human belief and based on Science or the divine Mind, to

which all things are possible, that chronic case is not

difficult to cure.

Animal magnetism destroyed

178:18 Mortal mind, acting from the basis of sensation in

matter, is animal magnetism; but this so-called mind,

from which comes all evil, contradicts itself,

178:21 and must finally yield to the eternal Truth, or

the divine Mind, expressed in Science. In pro-

portion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are

178:24 freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or ani-

mal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power

in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status

178:27 of immortal being.

Ignorant of the methods and the basis of metaphysical

healing, you may attempt to unite with it hypnotism,

178:30 spiritualism, electricity; but none of these methods can

be mingled with metaphysical healing.

Whoever reaches the understanding of Christian Science

179:1 in its proper signification will perform the sudden cures

of which it is capable; but this can be done only by

179:3 taking up the cross and following Christ in the daily

life.

Absent patients

Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their

179:6 healers, as well as those present, since space is no ob-

stacle to Mind. Immortal Mind heals what eye

hath not seen; but the spiritual capacity to ap-

179:9 prehend thought and to heal by the Truth-power, is won

only as man is found, not in self-righteousness, but re-

flecting the divine nature.

Horses mistaught

179:12 Every medical method has its advocates. The prefer-

ence of mortal mind for a certain method creates a demand

for that method, and the body then seems to re-

179:15 quire such treatment. You can even educate a

healthy horse so far in physiology that he will take cold

without his blanket, whereas the wild animal, left to his

179:18 instincts, sniffs the wind with delight. The epizootic is

a humanly evolved ailment, which a wild horse might

never have.

Medical works objectionable

179:21 Treatises on anatomy, physiology, and health, sustained

by what is termed material law, are the pro-

moters of sickness and disease. It should not

179:24 be proverbial, that so long as you read medical works you

will be sick.

The sedulous matron - studying her Jahr with homoe-

179:27 opathic pellet and powder in hand, ready to put you

into a sweat, to move the bowels, or to produce sleep -

is unwittingly sowing the seeds of reliance on matter,

179:30 and her household may erelong reap the effect of this

mistake.

Descriptions of disease given by physicians and adver-

180:1 tisements of quackery are both prolific sources of sickness.

As mortal mind is the husbandman of error, it should be

180:3 taught to do the body no harm and to uproot its false

sowing.

The invalid's outlook

The patient sufferer tries to be satisfied when he sees

180:6 his would-be healers busy, and his faith in their efforts is

somewhat helpful to them and to himself; but

in Science one must understand the resusci-

180:9 tating law of Life. This is the seed within itself bearing

fruit after its kind, spoken of in Genesis.

Physicians should not deport themselves as if Mind

180:12 were non-existent, nor take the ground that all causation

is matter, instead of Mind. Ignorant that the human

mind governs the body, its phenomenon, the invalid may

180:15 unwittingly add more fear to the mental reservoir already

overflowing with that emotion.

Wrong and right way

Doctors should not implant disease in the thoughts of

180:18 their patients, as they so frequently do, by declaring dis-

ease to be a fixed fact, even before they go to

work to eradicate the disease through the ma-

180:21 terial faith which they inspire. Instead of furnishing

thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent

element of mortal mind by the influence of divine Love

180:24 which casteth out fear.

When man is governed by God, the ever-present

Mind who understands all things, man knows that with

180:27 God all things are possible. The only way to this

living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science

of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ

180:30 Jesus.

The important decision

To reduce inflammation, dissolve a tumor, or cure or-

ganic disease, I have found divine Truth more potent than

181:1 all lower remedies. And why not, since Mind, God, is

the source and condition of all existence? Before decid-

181:3 ing that the body, matter, is disordered, one

should ask, "Who art thou that repliest to

Spirit? Can matter speak for itself, or does

181:6 it hold the issues of life?" Matter, which can neither

suffer nor enjoy, has no partnership with pain and pleas-

ure, but mortal belief has such a partnership.

Manipulation unscientific

181:9 When you manipulate patients, you trust in electricity

and magnetism more than in Truth; and for

that reason, you employ matter rather than

181:12 Mind. You weaken or destroy your power when you re-

sort to any except spiritual means.

It is foolish to declare that you manipulate patients but

181:15 that you lay no stress on manipulation. If this be so, why

manipulate? In reality you manipulate because you are

ignorant of the baneful effects of magnetism, or are not

181:18 sufficiently spiritual to depend on Spirit. In either case

you must improve your mental condition till you finally

attain the understanding of Christian Science.

Not words but deeds

181:21 If you are too material to love the Science of Mind and

are satisfied with good words instead of effects, if you

adhere to error and are afraid to trust Truth,

181:24 the question then recurs, "Adam, where art

thou?" It is unnecessary to resort to aught besides

Mind in order to satisfy the sick that you are doing some-

181:27 thing for them, for if they are cured, they generally know

it and are satisfied.

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

181:30 If you have more faith in drugs than in Truth, this faith

will incline you to the side of matter and error. Any

hypnotic power you may exercise will diminish your

182:1 ability to become a Scientist, and /vice versa./ The act

of healing the sick through divine Mind alone, of casting

182:3 out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian

Scientist.

Physiology or Spirit

The demands of God appeal to thought only; but the

182:6 claims of mortality, and what are termed laws of nature,

appertain to matter. Which, then, are we to

accept as legitimate and capable of producing

182:9 the highest human good? We cannot obey both physi-

ology and Spirit, for one absolutely destroys the other,

and one or the other must be supreme in the affections.

182:12 It is impossible to work from two standpoints. If we

attempt it, we shall presently "hold to the one,

and despise the other."

182:15 The hypotheses of mortals are antagonistic to Science and cannot mix with it. This is clear to those, who heal the sick on the basis of Science.

No material law

182:18 Mind's government of the body must supersede the so-

called laws of matter. Obedience to material law pre-

vents full obedience to spiritual law, - the law

182:21 which overcomes material conditions and puts

matter under the feet of Mind. Mortals entreat the di-

vine Mind to heal the sick, and forthwith shut out the aid

182:24 of Mind by using material means, thus working against

themselves and their prayers and denying man's God-

given ability to demonstrate Mind's sacred power. Pleas

182:27 for drugs and laws of health come from some sad incident,

or else from ignorance of Christian Science and its tran-

scendent power.

182:30 To admit that sickness is a condition over which God

has no control, is to presuppose that omnipotent power

is powerless on some occasions. The law of Christ, or

183:1 Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-

called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and

183:3 demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing

from the basis of one God, one lawmaker. To suppose

that God constitutes laws of inharmony is a mistake; dis-

183:6 cords have no support from nature or divine law, however

much is said to the contrary.

Can the agriculturist, according to belief, produce a

183:9 crop without sowing the seed and awaiting its germina-

tion according to the laws of nature? The answer is no,

and yet the Scriptures inform us that sin, or error, first

183:12 caused the condemnation of man to till the ground, and

indicate that obedience to God will remove this necessity.

Truth never made error necessary, nor devised a law to

183:15 perpetuate error.

Laws of nature spiritual

The supposed laws which result in weariness and dis-

ease are not His laws, for the legitimate and only possible

183:18 action of Truth is the production of harmony.

Laws of nature are laws of Spirit; but mortals

commonly recognize as law that which hides the power of

183:21 Spirit. Divine Mind rightly demands man's entire obe-

dience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made

for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man

183:24 power and strength. Submission to error superinduces

loss of power.

Belief and understanding

Truth casts out all evils and materialistic methods

183:27 with the actual spiritual law, - the law which gives

sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, voice

to the dumb, feet to the lame. If Christian

183:30 Science dishonors human belief, it honors spir-

itual understanding; and the one Mind only is entitled to

honor.

184:1 The so-called laws of health are simply laws of mortal

belief. The premises being erroneous, the conclusions

184:3 are wrong. Truth makes no laws to regulate sickness,

sin, and death, for these are unknown to Truth and should

not be recognized as reality.

184:6 Belief produces the results of belief, and the penal-

ties it affixes last so long as the belief and are insepara-

ble from it. The remedy consists in probing the trouble

184:9 to the bottom, in finding and casting out by denial the

error of belief which produces a mortal disorder, never

honoring erroneous belief with the title of law nor yield-

184:12 ing obedience to it. Truth, Life, and Love are the only

legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are

spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine

184:15 statutes.

Laws of human belief

Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmoni-

ous and eternal. Whatever is governed by a false belief

184:18 is discordant and mortal. We say man suffers

from the effects of cold, heat, fatigue. This

is human belief, not the truth of being, for matter cannot

184:21 suffer. Mortal mind alone suffers, - not because a law

of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this

so-called mind has been disobeyed. I have demonstrated

184:24 this as a rule of divine Science by destroying the delusion

of suffering from what is termed a fatally broken physical

law.

184:27 A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always

breathed with great difficulty when the wind was from

the east. I sat silently by her side a few moments. Her

184:30 breath came gently. The inspirations were deep and nat-

ural. I then requested her to look at the weather-vane.

She looked and saw that it pointed due east. The wind

185:1 had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her diffi-

culty in breathing had gone. The wind had not produced

185:3 the difficulty. My metaphysical treatment changed the

action of her belief on the lungs, and she never suffered

again from east winds, but was restored to health.

A so-called mind-cure

185:6 No system of hygiene but Christian Science is purely

mental. Before this book was published, other books

were in circulation, which discussed "mental

185:9 medicine" and "mind-cure," operating through

the power of the earth's magnetic currents to regulate life

and health. Such theories and such systems of so-called

185:12 mind-cure, which have sprung up, are as material as the

prevailing systems of medicine. They have their birth

in mortal mind, which puts forth a human conception

185:15 in the name of Science to match the divine Science of im-

mortal Mind, even as the necromancers of Egypt strove

to emulate the wonders wrought by Moses. Such theories

185:18 have no relationship to Christian Science, which rests on

the conception of God as the only Life, substance, and

intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual

185:21 factor in the healing work.

Jesus and hypnotism

Jesus cast out evil and healed the sick, not only with-

out drugs, but without hypnotism, which is

185:24 the reverse of ethical and pathological Truth-

power.

Erroneous mental practice may seem for a time to bene-

185:27 fit the sick, but the recovery is not permanent. This is

because erroneous methods act on and through the ma-

terial stratum of the human mind, called brain, which is

185:30 but a mortal consolidation of material mentality and its

suppositional activities.

False stimulus

A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed

186:1 only by removing the influence on him of this mind, by

emptying his thought of the false stimulus

186:3 and reaction of will-power and filling it with

the divine energies of Truth.

Christian Science destroys material beliefs through the

186:6 understanding of Spirit, and the thoroughness of this work

determines health. Erring human mind-forces can work

only evil under whatever name or pretence they are em-

186:9 ployed; for Spirit and matter, good and evil, light and

darkness, cannot mingle.

Evil negative and self-destructive

Evil is a negation, because it is the absence of truth.

186:12 It is nothing, because it is the absence of something. It

is unreal, because it presupposes the absence

of God, the omnipotent and omnipresent.

186:15 Every mortal must learn that there is neither

power nor reality in evil.

Evil is self-assertive. It says: "I am a real entity, over-

186:18 mastering good." This falsehood should strip evil of all

pretensions. The only power of evil is to destroy itself. It

can never destroy one iota of good. Every attempt of evil

186:21 to destroy good is a failure, and only aids in peremptorily

punishing the evil-doer. If we concede the same reality to

discord as to harmony, discord has as lasting a claim upon

186:24 us as has harmony. If evil is as real as good, evil is also as

immortal. If death is as real as Life, immortality is a myth.

If pain is as real as the absence of pain, both must be im-

186:27 mortal; and if so, harmony cannot be the law of being.

Ignorant idolatry

Mortal mind is ignorant of self, or it could never be

self-deceived. If mortal mind knew how to be better, it

186:30 would be better. Since it must believe in some-

thing besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity.

The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning,

187:1 having other gods and believing in more than the one

Mind.

187:3 As mortals do not comprehend even mortal existence, how ignorant must they be of the all-knowing Mind and of His creations.

187:6 Here you may see how so-called material sense creates

its own forms of thought, gives them material names, and

then worships and fears them. With pagan blindness,

187:9 it attributes to some material god or medicine an ability

beyond itself. The beliefs of the human mind rob and

enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive

187:12 personification, named Satan.

Action of mortal mind

The valves of the heart, opening and closing for the pas-

sage of the blood, obey the mandate of mor-

187:15 tal mind as directly as does the hand, ad-

mittedly moved by the will. Anatomy allows the mental

cause of the latter action, but not of the former.

187:18 We say, "My hand hath done it." What is this /my/ but

mortal mind, the cause of all materialistic action? All

voluntary, as well as miscalled /involuntary/, action of the

187:21 mortal body is governed by this so-called mind, not by

matter. There is no involuntary action. The divine Mind

includes all action and volition, and man in Science is gov-

187:24 erned by this Mind. The human mind tries to classify

action as voluntary and involuntary, and suffers from the

attempt.

Death and the body

187:27 If you take away this erring mind, the mortal material

body loses all appearance of life or action, and this so-

called mind then calls itself dead; but the hu-

187:30 man mind still holds in belief a body, through

which it acts and which appears to the human mind to

live, - a body like the one it had before death. This body

188:1 is put off only as the mortal, erring mind yields to God,

immortal Mind, and man is found in His image.

Embryonic sinful thoughts

188:3 What is termed disease does not exist. It is neither

mind nor matter. The belief of sin, which has grown

terrible in strength and influence, is an uncon-

188:6 scious error in the beginning, - an embryonic

thought without motive; but afterwards it

governs the so-called man. Passion, depraved appetites,

188:9 dishonesty, envy, hatred, revenge ripen into action, only to

pass from shame and woe to their final punishment.

Disease a dream

Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in

188:12 matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like

the dream we have in sleep, in which every one

recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of

188:15 mind. In both the waking, and the sleeping dream, the

dreamer thinks that his body is material and the suffering

is in that body.

188:18 The smile of the sleeper indicates the sensation pro-

duced physically by the pleasure of a dream. In the

same way pain and pleasure, sickness and care, are

188:21 traced upon mortals by unmistakable signs.

Sickness is a growth of error, springing from mortal

ignorance or fear. Error rehearses error. What causes

188:24 disease cannot cure it. The soil of disease is mortal

mind, and you have an abundant or scanty crop of disease,

according to the seedlings of fear. Sin and the fear of

188:27 disease must be uprooted and cast out.

Sense yields to understanding

When darkness comes over the earth, the physical

senses have no immediate evidence of a sun.

188:30 The human eye knows not where the orb of

day is, nor if it exists. Astronomy gives the

desired information regarding the sun. The human or

189:1 material senses yield to the authority of this science, and

they are willing to leave with astronomy the explanation of

189:3 the sun's influence over the earth. If the eyes see no sun

for a week, we still believe that there is solar light and

heat. Science (in this instance named natural) raises

189:6 the human thought above the cruder theories of the

human mind, and casts out a fear.

In like manner mortals should no more deny the power

189:9 of Christian Science to establish harmony and to explain

the effect of mortal mind on the body, though the cause

be unseen, than they should deny the existence of the sun-

189:12 light when the orb of day disappears, or doubt that the sun

will reappear. The sins of others should not make good

men suffer.

Ascending the scale

189:15 We call the body material; but it is as truly mortal

mind, according to its degree, as is the material brain

which is supposed to furnish the evidence

189:18 of all mortal thought or things. The human

mortal mind, by an inevitable perversion, makes all

things start from the lowest instead of from the highest

189:21 mortal thought. The reverse is the case with all the

formations of the immortal divine Mind. They proceed

from the divine source; and so, in tracing them, we con-

189:24 stantly ascend in infinite being.

Human reproduction

From mortal mind comes the reproduction of the

species, - first the belief of inanimate, and then of ani-

189:27 mate matter. According to mortal thought,

the development of embryonic mortal mind

commences in the lower, basal portion of the brain, and

189:30 goes on in an ascending scale by evolution, keeping always

in the direct line of matter, for matter is the subjective

condition of mortal mind.

190:1 Next we have the formation of so-called embryonic

mortal mind, afterwards mortal men or mortals, - all this

190:3 while matter is a belief, ignorant of itself, ignorant of what

it is supposed to produce. The mortal says that an inani-

mate unconscious seedling is producing mortals, both body

190:6 and mind; and yet neither a mortal mind nor the immortal

Mind is found in brain or elsewhere in matter or in mortals.

Human stature

This embryonic and materialistic human belief called

190:9 mortal man in turn fills itself with thoughts

of pain and pleasure, of life and death, and

arranges itself into five so-called senses, which presently

190:12 measure mind by the size of a brain and the bulk of a

body, called man.

Human frailty

Human birth, growth, maturity, and decay are as the

190:15 grass springing from the soil with beautiful green blades,

afterwards to wither and return to its native

nothingness. This mortal seeming is temporal;

190:18 it never merges into immortal being, but finally disap-

pears, and immortal man, spiritual and eternal, is found

to be the real man.

190:21 The Hebrew bard, swayed by mortal thoughts, thus

swept his lyre with saddening strains on human existence:

As for man, his days are as grass:

190:24 As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;

And the place thereof shall know it no more.

190:27 When hope rose higher in the human heart, he sang:

As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness:

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.

. . . . .

190:30 For with Thee is the fountain of life;

In Thy light shall we see light.

191:1 The brain can give no idea of God's man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matter is not the organ of infi- 191:3 nite Mind.

As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than

one Mind, more than one God, man in God's likeness will

191:6 appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness

no material element.

The immortal birth

As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a

191:9 misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine

Principle of man dawns upon human thought,

and leads it to "where the young child was,"

191:12 - even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual

sense of being and of what Life includes. This the whole

earth will be transformed by Truth on its pinions of light,

191:15 chasing away the darkness of error.

Spiritual freedom

The human thought must free itself from self-imposed

materiality and bondage. It should no longer

191:18 ask of the head, heart, or lungs: What are

man's prospects for life? Mind is not helpless. Intelli-

gence is not mute before non-intelligence.

191:21 By its own volition, not a blade of grass springs up, not a spray buds within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its fair outlines, not a flower starts from its cloistered cell.

191:24 The Science of being reveals man and immortality as

based on Spirit. Physical sense defines mortal man as

based on matter, and from this premise infers the mor-

191:27 tality of the body.

No physical affinity

The illusive senses may fancy affinities with their op-

posites; but in Christian Science, Truth never mingles

191:30 with error. Mind has no affinity with matter,

and therefore Truth is able to cast out the ills

of the flesh. Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit,

192:1 the atmosphere of intelligence. The belief that a pulpy

substance under the skull is mind is a mockery of intelli-

192:3 gence, a mimicry of Mind.

We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance

upon that which is false and grasp the true. We are not

192:6 Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ. Human

opinions are not spiritual. They come from the hearing

of the ear, from corporeality instead of from Principle,

192:9 and from the mortal instead of from the immortal. Spirit

is not separate from God. Spirit /is/ God.

Human power a blind force

Erring power is a material belief, a blind miscalled force,

192:12 the offspring of will and not of wisdom, of the mortal mind

and not of the immortal. It is the headlong

cataract, the devouring flame, the tempest's

192:15 breath. It is lightning and hurricane, all that is selfish,

wicked, dishonest, and impure.

The one real power

Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds

192:18 the "wind in His fists;" and this teaching accords with

Science and harmony. In Science, you can

have no power opposed to God, and the physi-

192:21 cal senses must give up their false testimony. Your in-

fluence for good depends upon the weight you throw into

the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you

192:24 the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a

mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness

and falls, never to rise.

192:27 We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by follow-

ing the example of our Master in the understanding of

divine metaphysics. Christianity is the basis of true heal-

192:30 ing. Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed

love, receives directly the divine power.

Mind cures hip-disease

I was called to visit Mr. Clark in Lynn, who had been

193:1 confined to his bed six months with hip-disease, caused by

a fall upon a wooden spike when quite a boy. On enter-

193:3 ing the house I met his physician, who said that

the patient was dying. The physician had just

probed the ulcer on the hip, and said the bone was carious

193:6 for several inches. He even showed me the probe, which

had on it the evidence of this condition of the bone. The

doctor went out. Mr. Clark lay with his eyes fixed and

193:9 sightless. The dew of death was on his brow. I went to

his bedside. In a few moments his face changed; its

death-pallor gave place to a natural hue. The eyelids

193:12 closed gently and the breathing became natural; he was

asleep. In about ten minutes he opened his eyes and

said: "I feel like a new man. My suffering is all gone."

193:15 It was between three and four o'clock in the afternoon

when this took place.

I told him to rise, dress himself, and take supper with

193:18 his family. He did so. The next day I saw him in the

yard. Since then I have not seen him, but am informed

that he went to work in two weeks. The discharge from

193:21 the sore stopped, and the sore was healed. The diseased

condition had continued there ever since the injury was

received in boyhood.

193:24 Since his recovery I have been informed that his physi-

cian claims to have cured him, and that his mother has

been threatened with incarceration in an insane asylum

193:27 for saying: "It was none other than God and that woman

who healed him." I cannot attest the truth of that

report, but what I saw and did for that man, and what

193:30 his physician said of the case, occurred just as I have

narrated.

It has been demonstrated to me that Life is God

194:1 and that the might of omnipotent Spirit shares not its

strength with matter or with human will. Review-

194:3 ing this brief experience, I cannot fail to discern the

coincidence of the spiritual idea of man with the divine

Mind.

Change of belief

194:6 A change in human belief changes all the physical symp-

toms, and determines a case for better or for

worse. When one's false belief is corrected

194:9 Truth sends a report of health over the body.

Destruction of the auditory nerve and paralysis of the

optic nerve are not necessary to ensure deafness and blind-

194:12 ness; for if mortal mind says, "I am deaf and blind," it

will be so without an injured nerve. Every theory op-

posed to this fact (as I learned in metaphysics) would

194:15 presuppose man, who is immortal in spiritual under-

standing, a mortal in material belief.

Power of habit

The authentic history of Kaspar Hauser is a useful hint

194:18 as to the frailty and inadequacy of mortal mind. It

proves beyond a doubt that education consti-

tutes this so-called mind, and that, in turn,

194:21 mortal mind manifests itself in the body by the false

sense it imparts. Incarcerated in a dungeon, where

neither sight nor sound could reach him, at the age of

194:24 seventeen Kaspar was still a mental infant, crying and

chattering with no more intelligence than a babe, and

realizing Tennyson's description:

194:27 An infant crying in the night,

An infant crying for the light,

And with no language but a cry.

194:30 His case proves material sense to be but a belief formed

by education alone. The light which affords us joy gave

195:1 him a belief of intense pain. His eyes were inflamed by

the light. After the babbling boy had been taught to

195:3 speak a few words, he asked to be taken back to his dun-

geon, and said that he should never be happy elsewhere.

Outside of dismal darkness and cold silence he found no

195:6 peace. Every sound convulsed him with anguish. All

that he ate, except his black crust, produced violent

retchings. All that gives pleasure to our educated senses

195:9 gave him pain through those very senses, trained in an

opposite direction.

Useful knowledge

The point for each one to decide is, whether it is mortal

195:12 mind or immortal Mind that is causative. We

should forsake the basis of matter for meta-

physical Science and its divine Principle.

195:15 Whatever furnishes the semblance of an idea governed

by its Principle, furnishes food for thought. Through as-

tronomy, natural history, chemistry, music, mathematics,

195:18 thought passes naturally from effect back to cause.

Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observa-

tion, invention, study, and original thought are expansive

195:21 and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of it-

self, out of all that is mortal.

It is the tangled barbarisms of learning which we

195:24 deplore, - the mere dogma, the speculative theory, the

nauseous fiction. Novels, remarkable only for their

exaggerated pictures, impossible ideals, and specimens

195:27 of depravity, fill our young readers with wrong tastes

and sentiments. Literary commercialism is lowering the

intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to

195:30 meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for

improvement. Incorrect views lower the standard of

truth.

196:1 If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom.

It is but a blind force. Man has "sought out many inven-

196:3 tions," but he has not yet found it true that knowledge can

save him from the dire effects of knowledge. The power

of mortal mind over its own body is little understood.

Sin destroyed through suffering

196:6 Better the suffering which awakens mortal mind from

its fleshly dream, than the false pleasures

which tend to perpetuate this dream. Sin

196:9 alone brings death, for sin is the only element

of destruction.

"Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body

196:12 in hell," said Jesus. A careful study of this text allows

that here the word soul means a false sense or material

consciousness. The command was a warning to beware,

196:15 not of Rome, Satan, nor of God, but of sin. Sickness,

sin, and death are not concomitants of Life or Truth.

No law supports them. They have no relation to God

196:18 wherewith to establish their power. Sin makes its own

hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Dangerous shoals avoided

Such books as will rule disease out of mortal mind, -

196:21 and so efface the images and thoughts of dis-

ease, instead of impressing them with forcible

descriptions and medical details, - will help

196:24 to abate sickness and to destroy it.

Many a hopeless case of disease is induced by a single

/post mortem/ examination, - not from infection nor from

196:27 contact with material virus, but from the fear of the

disease and from the image brought before the mind; it

is a mental state, which is afterwards outlined on the

196:30 body.

Pangs caused by the press

The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and

diseases among the human family. It does this by giv-

197:1 ing names to diseases and by printing long descriptions

which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A

197:3 new name for an ailment affects people like a

Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one

hastens to get it. A minutely described dis-

197:6 ease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What

a price for human knowledge! But the price does not ex-

ceed the original cost. God said of the tree of knowledge,

197:9 which bears the fruit of sin, disease, and death, "In the

day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Higher standard for mortals

The less that is said of physical structure and laws, and

197:12 the more that is thought and said about moral

and spiritual law, the higher will be the stand-

ard of living and the farther mortals will be re-

197:15 moved from imbecility or disease.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it. It

was the ignorance of our forefathers in the departments

197:18 of knowledge now broadcast in the earth, that made them

hardier than our trained physiologists, more honest than

our sleek politicians.

Diet and dyspepsia

197:21 We are told that the simple food our forefathers ate

helped to make them healthy, but that is a mistake.

Their diet would not cure dyspepsia at this

197:24 period. With rules of health in the head

and the most digestible food in the stomach, there would

still be dyspeptics. Many of the effeminate constitutions

197:27 of our time will never grow robust until individual opin-

ions improve and immortal belief loses some portion of its

error.

Harm done by physicians

197:30 The doctor's mind reaches that of his patient. The

doctor should suppress his fear of disease, else his belief

in its reality and fatality will harm his patients even more

198:1 than his calomel and morphine, for the higher stratum of

mortal mind has in belief more power to harm man than

198:3 the substratum, matter. A patient hears the

doctor's verdict as a criminal hears his death-

sentence. The patient may seem calm under it, but he is

198:6 not. His fortitude may sustain him, but his fear, which

has already developed the disease that is gaining the

mastery, is increased by the physician's words.

Disease depicted

198:9 The materialistic doctor, though humane, is an art-

ist who outlines his thought relative to disease, and then

fills in his delineations with sketches from text-

198:12 books. It is better to prevent disease from

forming in mortal mind afterwards to appear on the

body; but to do this requires attention. The thought of

198:15 disease is formed before one sees a doctor and before

the doctor undertakes to dispel it by a counter-irritant,

- perhaps by a blister, by the application of caustic or

198:18 croton oil, or by a surgical operation. Again, giving an-

other direction to faith, the physician prescribes drugs,

until the elasticity of mortal thought haply causes a

198:21 vigorous reaction upon itself, and reproduces a picture

of healthy and harmonious formations.

A patient's belief is more or less moulded and formed

198:24 by his doctor's belief in the case, even though the doctor

says nothing to support his theory. His thoughts and his

patient's commingle, and the stronger thoughts rule the

198:27 weaker. Hence the importance that doctors be Christian

Scientists.

Mind over matter

Because the muscles of the blacksmith's arm are

198:30 strongly developed, it does not follow that

exercise has produced this result or that a

less used arm must be weak. If matter were the cause

199:1 of action, and if muscles, without volition of mortal

mind, could lift the hammer and strike the anvil, it

199:3 might be thought true that hammering would enlarge

the muscles. The trip-hammer is not increased in size

by exercise. Why not, since muscles are as material as

199:6 wood and iron? Because nobody believes that mind is

producing such a result on the hammer.

Muscles are not self-acting. If mind does not move

199:9 them, they are motionless. Hence the great fact that

Mind alone enlarges and empowers man through its

mandate, - by reason of its demand for and supply of

199:12 power. Not because of muscular exercise, but by rea-

son of the blacksmith's faith in exercise, his arm becomes

stronger.

Latent fear subdued

199:15 Mortals develop their own bodies or make them sick,

according as they influence them through mortal mind.

To know whether this development is produced

199:18 consciously or unconsciously, is of less impor-

tance than a knowledge of the fact. The feats of the gym-

nast prove that latent mental fears are subdued by him.

199:21 The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes

the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this

rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble

199:24 faith.

Had Blondin believed it impossible to walk the rope

over Niagara's abyss of waters, he could never have

199:27 done it. His belief that he could do it gave his thought-

forces, called muscles, their flexibility and power which

the unscientific might attribute to a lubricating oil. His

199:30 fear must have disappeared before his power of putting

resolve into action could appear.

Homer and Moses

When Homer sang of the Grecian gods, Olympus was

200:1 dark, but through his verse the gods became alive in a

nation's belief. Pagan worship began with muscularity,

200:3 but the law of Sinai lifted thought into the

song of David. Moses advanced a nation to

the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and il-

200:6 lustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed

by immortal Mind.

A mortal not man

Whoever is incompetent to explain Soul would be wise

200:9 not to undertake the explanation of body. Life is, always

has been, and ever will be independent of

matter; for life is God, and man is the idea

200:12 of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not

subject to decay and dust. The Psalmist said: "Thou

madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy

200:15 hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet."

The great truth in the Science of being, that the real

man was, is, and ever shall be perfect, is incontrovertible;

200:18 for if man is the image, reflection, of God, he is neither

inverted nor subverted, but upright and Godlike.

The suppositional antipode of divine infinite Spirit

200:21 is the so-called human soul or spirit, in other words

the five senses, - the flesh that warreth against Spirit.

These so called material senses must yield to the infinite

200:24 Spirit, named God.

St. Paul said: "For I determined not to know any-

thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified."

200:27 (I Cor. ii. 2.) Christian Science says: I am determined

not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and

him glorified.