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not mingle scientifically. Why should we wish to make
them do so, since no good can come of it?
If Mind is foremost and superior, let us rely upon Mind,
which needs no cooperation from lower powers, even if
these so-called powers are real.
Naught is the squire, when the king is nigh;
Withdraws the star, when dawns the sun's brave light.
The various mortal beliefs formulated in human philosophy,
physiology, hygiene, are mainly predicated of matter,
and afford faint gleams of God, or Truth.
The more material a belief, the more obstinately
tenacious its error; the stronger are the manifestations of
the corporeal senses, the weaker the indications of
Soul. Human will-power is not Science. Human will belongs
to the so-called material senses, and its use is to be
condemned. Willing the sick to recover is not the
metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but
is sheer animal magnetism. Human will-power may infringe
the rights of man. It produces evil continually,
and is not a factor in the realism of being. Truth, and
not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to
disease, "Peace, be still."
Because divine Science wars with so-called physical
science, even as Truth wars with error, the old schools
still oppose it. Ignorance, pride, or prejudice
closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped.
When the Science of being is universally understood,
every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be
the universal panacea.
It is a question to-day, whether the ancient inspired
healers understood the Science of Christian healing, or
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