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Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing
in Christian Science present only a phase of the
action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained
way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary,
Christian Science rationally explains that all
other pathological methods are the fruits of human
faith in matter, - faith in the workings, not of Spirit,
but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science.
The physical healing of Christian Science results
now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine
Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality
in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works
are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are
the sign of Immanuel, or "God with us," - a divine
influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating
itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised.
When God called the author to proclaim His Gospel
to this age, there came also the charge to plant and
water His vineyard.
The first school of Christian Science Mind-healing
was started by the author with only one student in
Lynn, Massachusetts, about the year 1867. In 1881,
she opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in
Boston, under the seal of the Commonwealth, a law
relative to colleges having been passed, which enabled
her to get this institution chartered for medical
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