Chapter 11
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he failed to get the right answer, condemn the pupil [1]
and the science of numbers. The simplest problem in Christian Science is healing the sick, and the least understanding and demonstration thereof prove all its possibilities. The ability to demonstrate to the extent [5]
that Jesus did, will come when the student possesses as much of the divine Spirit as he shared, and utilizes its power to overcome sin.
Opposite to good, is the universal claim of evil that seeks the proportions of good. There may be those [10]
who, having learned the power of the unspoken thought, use it to harm rather than to heal, and who are using that power against Christian Scientists. This giant sin is the sin against the Holy Ghost spoken of in Matt.
xii. 31, 32. [15]
_Is Christian Science based on the facts of both Spirit_ _and matter?_
Christian Science is based on the facts of Spirit and its forms and representations, but these facts are the direct antipodes of the so-called facts of matter; and [20]
the eternal verities of Spirit a.s.sert themselves over their opposite, or matter, in the final destruction of all that is unlike Spirit.
Man knows that he can have one G.o.d only, when he regards G.o.d as the only Mind, Life, and substance. [25]
If G.o.d is Spirit, as the Scriptures declare, and All-in- all, matter is mythology, and its laws are mortal beliefs.
If Mind is in matter and beneath a skull bone, it is in something unlike Him; hence it is either a G.o.dless and [30]
material Mind, or it is G.o.d in matter,-which are theo-
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ries of agnosticism and pantheism, the very antipodes [1]
of Christian Science
_What is organic life?_
Life is inorganic, infinite Spirit; if Life, or Spirit, were organic, disorganization would destroy Spirit and [5]
annihilate man.
If Mind is not substance, form, and tangibility, G.o.d is substanceless; for the substance of Spirit is divine Mind. Life is G.o.d, the only creator, and Life is im- mortal Mind, not matter. [10]
Every indication of matter's const.i.tuting life is mortal, the direct opposite of immortal Life, and infringes the rights of Spirit. Then, to conclude that Spirit consti- tutes or ever has const.i.tuted laws to that effect, is a mor- tal error, a human conception opposed to the divine [15]
government. Mind and matter mingling in perpetual warfare is a kingdom divided against itself, that shall be brought to desolation. The final destruction of this false belief in matter will appear at the full revelation of Spirit,-one G.o.d, and the brotherhood of man. [20]
Organic life is an error of statement that Truth destroys.
The Science of Life needs only to be understood; its dem- onstration proves the correctness of my statements, and brings blessings infinite.
_Why did G.o.d command, __"__Be fruitful, and multiply,_ [25]
_and replenish the earth,__"__ if all minds (men) have existed_ _from the beginning, and have had successive stages of_ _existence to the present time?_
Your question implies that Spirit, which first spirit- ually created the universe, including man, created man [30]
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over again materially; and, by the aid of mankind, all [1]
was later made which _He had made_.
made all, and Mind was the creator. Man originated not from dust, materially, but from Spirit, spiritually.
This work had been done; the true creation was finished, and its spiritual Science is alluded to in the first chapter of Genesis. [10]
Jesus said of error, "That thou doest, do quickly."
By the law of opposites, after the truth of man had been demonstrated, the postulate of error must appear. That this addendum was untrue, is seen when Truth, G.o.d, denounced it, and said: "I will greatly multiply thy [15]
sorrow." "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." The opposite error said, "I am true," and declared, "G.o.d doth know... that your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as G.o.ds," creators. This was false; and the Lord G.o.d never said it. This history of a falsity [20]
must be told in the name of Truth, or it would have no seeming. The Science of creation is the universe with man created spiritually. The false sense and error of creation is the sense of man and the universe created materially.
_Why does the record make man a creation of the sixth_ [25]
_and last day, if he was coexistent with G.o.d?_
In its genesis, the Science of creation is stated in mathe- matical order, beginning with the lowest form and ascend- ing the scale of being up to man. But all that really is, always was and forever is; for it existed in and of the Mind [30]
that is G.o.d, wherein man is foremost.
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_If one has died of consumption, and he has no remem-_ [1]
_brance of that disease or dream, does that disease have any_ _more power over him?_
Waking from a dream, one learns its _unreality_; then it has no power over one. Waking from the dream of [5]
death, proves to him who thought he died that it was a dream, and that he did not die; then he learns that con- sumption did not kill him. When the belief in the power of disease is destroyed, disease cannot return.
_How does Mrs. Eddy know that she has read and studied_ [10]
_correctly, if one must deny the evidences of the senses?_ _She had to use her eyes to read._
Jesus said, "Having eyes, see ye not?" I read the in- spired page through a higher than mortal sense. As matter, the eye cannot see; and as mortal mind, it is a [15]
belief that sees. I may read the Scriptures through a belief of eyesight; but I must spiritually understand them to interpret their Science.
_Does the theology of Christian Science aid its heal-_ _ing?_ [20]
Without its theology there is no mental science, no order that proceeds from G.o.d. All Science is divine, not human, in origin and demonstration. If G.o.d does not govern the action of man, it is inharmonious: if He does govern it, the action is Science. Take away the [25]
theology of mental healing and you take away its science, leaving it a human "mind-cure," nothing more nor less, -even one human mind governing another; by which, if you agree that G.o.d is Mind, you admit that there is
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more than one government and G.o.d. Having no true [1]
sense of the healing theology of Mind, you can neither understand nor demonstrate its Science, and will prac- tise your belief of it in the name of Truth. This is the mortal "mind-cure" that produces the effect of mes- [5]
merism. It is using the power of human will, instead of the divine power understood, as in Christian Science; and without this Science there had better be no "mind- cure,"-in which the last state of patients is worse than the first. [10]
_Is it wrong to pray for the recovery of the sick?_
Not if we pray Scripturally, with the understanding that G.o.d _has_ given all things to those who love Him; but pleading with infinite Love to love us, or to restore health and harmony, and then to admit that it has been [15]
lost under His government, is the prayer of doubt and mortal belief that is unavailing in divine Science.
_Is not all argument mind over mind?_
The Scriptures refer to G.o.d as saying, "Come now, and let us reason together." There is but one right Mind, and [20]
that one should and does govern man. Any copartners.h.i.+p with that Mind is impossible; and the only benefit in speaking often one to another, arises from the success that one individual has with another in leading his thoughts away from the human mind or body, and guiding them [25]
with Truth. That individual is the best healer who as- serts himself the least, and thus becomes a transparency for the divine Mind, who is the only physician; the divine Mind is the scientific healer.
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_How can you believe there is no sin, and that G.o.d does_ [1]