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suppositional error, which affords no proof of God,
Spirit, or of the spiritual creation. Material sense defines
all things materially, and has a finite sense of the
infinite.
(Seemingly independent authority)
The Scriptures say, "In Him we live, and move, and
have our being." What then is this seeming power, independent
of God, which causes disease and
cures it? What is it but an error of belief, -
a law of mortal mind, wrong in every sense,
embracing sin, sickness, and death? It is the very antipode
of immortal Mind, of Truth, and of spiritual law.
It is not in accordance with the goodness of God's character
that He should make man sick, then leave man to
heal himself; it is absurd to suppose that matter can both
cause and cure disease, or that Spirit, God, produces
disease and leaves the remedy to matter.
John Young of Edinburgh writes: "God is the father
of mind, and of nothing else." Such an utterance is
"the voice of one crying in the wilderness" of human
beliefs and preparing the way of Science. Let us learn
of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of
Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, - the reign and rule of
universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain
forever unseen.
(Sickness as only thought)
Mind, not matter, is causation. A material body
only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal
man possesses this body, and he makes it
harmonious or discordant according to the
images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace
your body in your thought, and you should delineate
upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. You should
banish all thoughts of disease and sin and of other beliefs
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