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into consideration in its diagnosis of disease. Christian
Science deals wholly with the mental cause in judging and
destroying disease. It succeeds where homoeopathy fails,
solely because its one recognized Principle of healing is
Mind, and the whole force of the mental element is employed
through the Science of Mind, which never shares
its rights with inanimate matter.
(The modus of homoeopathy)
Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on
Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that
the divine Mind has all power. Homoeopathy
mentalizes a drug with such repetition of
thought-attenuations, that the drug becomes
more like the human mind than the substratum of this so-called
mind, which we call matter; and the drug's power
of action is proportionately increased.
(Drugging unchristian)
If drugs are part of God's creation, which (according
to the narrative in Genesis) He pronounced good, then
drugs cannot be poisonous. If He could create
drugs intrinsically bad, then they should
never be used. If He creates drugs at all and designs
them for medical use, why did Jesus not employ them
and recommend them for the treatment of disease?
Matter is not self-creative, for it is unintelligent. Erring
mortal mind confers the power which the drug seems to
possess.
Narcotics quiet mortal mind, and so relieve the body;
but they leave both mind and body worse for this
submission. Christian Science impresses the entire corporeality,
- namely, mind and body, - and brings out the
proof that Life is continuous and harmonious. Science
both neutralizes error and destroys it. Mankind is the
better for this spiritual and profound pathology.
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