Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-08

ena of mortal mind, a concept of exist
ence obtained through the physical
senses, misapprebension of reality
held by human consciousness when
uninstructed by Science, an appear
ance instead of an actuality. Tt is
simply an imitation or counterfeit.
Now it is not the appearance but
only the original that has power m
telligence and substance. The mani
festation of growth, action or being in
matter is but a material concept of
spiritual facts.
The objects, action and power ex-
pressed in moving picture" are not
in the picture and We do not associ-
ate them with the picture but with
the original which the picture repro
duces. Similarly, life, growth, action.
power, substance, law, ct cetera, are
not in matter, physical existance or
the material consciousness; but in di-
vine Mind, the only cause and Princi-
pie of being, and should be so thought
of.
When We recognize God as the only
Mind, the only cause, Truth srenected
in consciousness and existence is har-
monious. When we believe causation
to be material or in mortal mind, we
put Gun trust and dependence in
shadow, false belief, and existence
SO called, is discordant, liable to dis
ease, disaster, death. Inorder to work
out our salvation we therefore need
to understand causation.
WHAT is MIND?
The ordinary human concept of
mind is that which thinks, feels or
wills, the intellect, or the activity of
the brain. Christian Science reveals
the fact that Mind is divine Principle,
the infinite Life, Truth, Love omnip-
otent, omniscient, omnipresent, the
all-inclusive eternal, unchanging, all
wise being, the only cause and creator.
This is very different Mind from
that which is supposed to result from
the action of the gray matter called
| brain.
Christian Science makes it clear that
| material existence is not the NANTES
| tation of this divine Mind, but the
| phenomenon of the counterfeit, called
mortal mind.
1t is this false concept of existence
that does all the wrong thinking: that
believes in sin, disease and death: that
claims there is life and intelligence in
matter.
Since God is Mind, this Mind is
| good, and its effects must always be
| good, never evil. AS real thinking is
the activity of the divine Mind, the
only real thoughts or ideas are good.
Therefore everything that is evil, per-
tains to evil or results in evil is not
Mind nor included in Mind, hence is
not real. Human thoughts, will
power, hypnotism, mental suggestion
or magnetism are all capable of evil,
and hence are not Mind or the activity
of Mind, are not Of God, and so are
not good but essentially and entirely
evil.
| HEALING METHODS.
| The difference between the method
of healing through mental suggestion,
| or hypnotism, and that of the divine
Mind. the Christ healing, must be
| clearly seen.
When the effort is made to heal by
| suggestion, the operator endeayoIS by
means of hypnotism to make sthe
| patient believe that he is not sick. He
| attempts to change the belief but the
cause of disease remains and in stime
manifests itself even in worse forms.
The patient is no better off, he has not
risen in the scale of being, he has no
| more manhood, or moral courage, and
does not know any more about God
and His Christ than before.
The true Christian Scientist reflects
| Ollc ul'li1S MiliNi, SldiIttS OI OilO DdSlo
| of God, man and the universe as Spirit
and spiritual, as Love and its NANTES
| tation, as Mind and its ideas-perfect
| and harmonious. Hence he under
stands the unreality of matter and
evil and knows that man is not sick
but that the patient is simply suffer
ing from a false mesmeric belief.
From that standpoint he proceeds to
correct the errors of belief with the
Truth of being and thus establishes
harmony on a spiritual, scientific
I basis.
This is cardinal point in Christian
Science healing, that it is God, divine
| Mind that does the healing and not
human thought. In Christian Science
healing the human sense serves only
as a vehicle for Truth. 1t is the
Truth alone that effects results.
Another cardinal point in Christian
Science healing is that it works from
the standpoint of the unreahty of
| matter and evil and thus proves the
allness and supremacy of God. 1t in
cludes the knowing and affirmation of