The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19

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used TOR svii purposes Tho Bible
[dscialss that - eannot obtain both.
sweet waters and bitter from ths
same fountain. Since mental sug
gsstion. hypnotism, viii power are
used for evil continually, they must
b wholly evil. for t hey cannot be
both good and evil. Any seeming
good that may at times result from
them must be superficial, iliusory,
and dangerous. They do not ex--.
press. the activity Of the Christ Mind
and hence they cannot be divinely.
authorized Remedial agents. !
Healing Methods Contrasted.
1T may be well to illustrate brief
*ly> tho difference between the at
tempt to heal through mental sug-.
gestion or hypnotism and the heal.
ing In Christian Science with the
divine Mind. for Christian Science
healing has been much misunder-.
stood respecting this matter, while.
it very much deserves and asks only
to be correctly understood.
when one person tries to heal
or help another through mental sus-
gestion or hypnotism, his endea 'or
10 to change that peiroa's belief
from a belief in sickness 20 belief
In health. This Is done through
mental manipulation, by securing
control Of the patients mentality.
dominating it, causing it to be obe-
dent to the will Of the oper .tor. ind
thus making him belle re what tie
operator wants him, willis him. ,r
suggests to- him to ,eiiese, 4" it
good or evil.
1.-The operator himself belives In
| the reality Of matter and evil: he be-
| lieves he has sick man there to
treat. and yet he tries to make that
man believe that he Is not sick. OBJ
viously this method does not get at
the root Of the difficulty. 1t does not
| get at the cause OF the sin or disease
and destroy It; its effect 10 simply to
produce 4 change of belief: it is SUI
perlicial and injurious. The indul-
gence OF the counterfeit of the div ne
Mind % 4 substitute for that Mind is
q serious evil. There IL neither God
nor Christ in his process, no uplift-
ing nor capitalization of thought.
no elevation to higher plane of con-
sciousness: the entire action IL on
the plane Of the mortal, carnal mind,
hence it's danger.
Christian Science Healing.
In Christian Science healing, the
Christian Science stands on the
spiritual foundation that God Is
Spirit and His universe including
man, spiritual, all being included in
the divine Mind and its perfect man
Hesitation, the divine Life and its i'm
mortal activity, the divine Love and
it's forever reflection. He under
stands the present and eternal per-
lection of Gods creation. which the
Bible declares was finished and pro-
nounced good In the beginning ]
! ~ He also understands the nature
and character of material existence,
and that the discordant conditions on
earth are but the erroneous concepts.
the mesmeric beliefs. the illusory
phenomena of the mortal, carnal
mind from which men can and must
be awakened.
HE further understands the un-
reality of matter and evil, just "a the
astronomer understands that the sun
does not really move and the earth IL
not really stationary and nat. even
though it SO appears. Thus the
Christian Scientist knows that in re-
atty there is no sick man to treat,
and he knows this in exactly tho
same way that a mathematician
knows that two times two do not
make iave. though It 10 written on q
slate where he can see it. He knows
that 1t makes four, regardless Of ap-
pearance: and 1t 10 his business to
know that: he would not be any kind
OF q mathematician II he did not
know it. :
Truth tho Healing Power.
THE Christian Scientist proceeds
not on the basis Of appearance. for
Jesus said, Judge not according to
the appearance. but Judge righteous
Judgment He proceeds on the basis
Of spiritual Truth. the actually of
spiritual being. to correct the errone-
Gus concepts In the discordant. stn-:
Ming mind Of the patient through the
right knowing Of the Truth. and har-
mony 10 t hus established on spirit
ual and scientific basis. It 10 not the
thought or will Of tho practitioner
that does the healing in Christian
Science. but Truth operating through
% human channel. To, illustrate:-
Suppose you get 4 bill that II
wrong t through N error In compu-
tation. You do not endeavor to hyp-
notise the bill to change it through
will power. or mental suggestion.
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