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unconsciously argue for suffering, instead of against it.
They admit its reality, whereas they should deny it.
They should plead in opposition to the testimony of the
deceitful senses, and maintain man's immortality and
eternal likeness to God.
(Divine authority)
Like the great Exemplar, the healer should speak to
disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to
master the false evidences of the corporeal
senses and to assert its claims over mortality
and disease. The same Principle cures both sin and
sickness. When divine Science overcomes faith in a carnal
mind, and faith in God destroys all faith in sin and in
material methods of healing, then sin, disease, and death
will disappear.
(Aids in sickness)
Prayers, in which God is not asked to heal but is besought
to take the patient to Himself, do not benefit the
sick. An ill-tempered, complaining, or deceitful
person should not be a nurse. The nurse
should be cheerful, orderly, punctual, patient, full of
faith, - receptive to Truth and Love.
(Mental quackery)
It is mental quackery to make disease a reality - to
hold it as something seen and felt - and then to attempt
its cure through Mind. It is no less erroneous
to believe in the real existence of a tumor, a
cancer, or decayed lungs, while you argue against their
reality, than it is for your patient to feel these ills in
physical belief. Mental practice, which holds disease
as a reality, fastens disease on the patient, and it may
appear in a more alarming form.
(Effacing images of disease)
The knowledge that brain-lobes cannot kill a man nor
affect the functions of mind would prevent the brain from
becoming diseased, though a moral offence is indeed the
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