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(Jurisdiction of Mind)
If disease can attack and control the body without
the consent of mortals, sin can do the same, for both
are errors, announced as partners in the
beginning. The Christian Scientist finds only
effects, where the ordinary physician looks for causes.
The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling
every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in
divine Mind.
(Power of imagination)
A felon, on whom certain English students experimented,
fancied himself bleeding to death, and died because
of that belief, when only a stream of
warm water was trickling over his arm. Had
he known his sense of bleeding was an illusion, he would
have risen above the false belief. Let the despairing invalid,
inspecting the hue of her blood on a cambric handkerchief,
think of the experiment of those Oxford boys,
who caused the death of a man, when not a drop of his
blood was shed. Then let her learn the opposite statement
of Life as taught in Christian Science, and she will
understand that she is not dying on account of the state of
her blood, but is suffering from her belief that blood is
destroying her life. The so-called vital current does not
affect the invalid's health, but her belief produces the
very results she dreads.
(Fevers the effect of fear)
Fevers are errors of various types. The quickened
pulse, coated tongue, febrile heat, dry skin, pain in the
head and limbs, are pictures drawn on the
body by a mortal mind. The images, held in
this disturbed mind, frighten conscious thought. Unless
the fever-picture, drawn by millions of mortals and imaged
on the body through the belief that mind is in matter
and discord is as real as harmony, is destroyed through
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