The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-10-14

matter senses, the finite cannot cog,
nize the infinite Thus reality, spiri.
tual being, can be cognized only
through spiritual sense or spiritual un.
derstanding, the perception and appre-
hension of divine Truth, Christian
Science makes possible to all.
DiscOrd an Error.
Disease, sin, death, all discords
are therefore to be classed as errors
of mortal conditions. On this basis
they can be corrected by Truth, while
they cannot be corrected so long as
they are classed as either physical OF
mental realities. Even according tC
psychology and philosophy they are
but objectified sense impressions.
Most of us have believed that God
sends disease, disaster, and death to
His children. If this were true we
would have no moral right to use any
healing means whatsoever, for by so
doing we would be interfering with
the divine plan and purpose. If God
makes us sickly and dying, it is our
business to be sick and die. Dominat-
ed by such a belief it is of course i'm
possible to understand Christian heal
ing or to be healed spiritually.
"Discordant conditions exist only in
that human consciousness which is
largely mortal, which are not the pro-
ducts of Truth or Principle, hence they
are not divine creations. Realizing
this in some degree their assumed
power is at once lessened and we can
begin to free ourselves from them by
turning to divine sources in the realm
Of reality. Then we begin to see that
God is not the author of sin, disease,
and death and that we do not have to
experience them. The apprehension of
this one point often results in healing.
The Mental Cure of Disease.
Fear is admitted to be a prolific
cause of disease. The Bible says per-
feet love casteth out fear Fear is due
to ignorance. Perfect love is the inf
mite divine intelligence. When intelli-
gence is brought to bear on ignorance,
ignorance is destroyed and thus per-
feet love casteth out fear
ut is readily seen how important it
is to control thought. When we in
dulge in thoughts of limitation, fear,
sickness, mortality, consciousness par
takes of the nature of these thoughts
and the body likewise. When we en-
gage in thoughts of infinity, spirituali-
ty, health, life, our consciousness must
partake of the nature of these thoughts
and the body likewise.
Since disease has a mental cause
it is manifest that it must have a men
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cal disease produced by hatred, for
example, cannot be permanently heal
ed by drugs or surgery. He needs
to have the hatred, whether from with
in or from without, neutralized by it's
true antidote, divine love. Then the
evil cause is destroyed and its effects
disappear.
christian Science explains this
clearly and nationally so that Christian
mind healing can be demonstrated by
any one in the degree of his under
standing of it. This healing relies Oh
spiritual method, which is both sim
pie and logical.
The MOdus Of Christian Healing.
"In answer to the question, How
does Christian Science heal? we need
to remember that the truth and error
about a given thing cannot exist in a
given consciousness at the same time
since they are opposites. We cannot
believe that 2 2 make both 5, and 4.
The healing of the error of sickness
must be akin to the healing of any
other error of belief. Mathematical
truth applied to error in computation
always removes that error and es-
tablishes right results. The truth
about God and man annuls false hui
man belief, and this removes the eff
fects of this belief.
'The error of two time two equal
five exists only as a belief. Ii has no
actual existence because two times two
do not make five. The knowing of the
truth and its application
to the error effects a correction. HUI
man discord and disease exist only as
a false state of co, seiousness. mis-
taken sense, a nesmerc dream condi-
ton which has not real existence, no
relation to the divine mind and it's
perfect reflections When the truth of
being is known and applied, it des-
troys the false belief, and this improv
ed condition is externalized in har
mony. AS the body is an eXternaliza-
ton of consciousness if we change
the consciousness the condition of its
will also be changed.
How is this to be done?
Right Mental Action Essential.
"Snce Christian Science healing is
wholly mental it must be accomplished
through the activity of thought and in
this conception, it is well to consider
what thinking is in order that we may
think Alright, may engage in right men
-al action. A wrong belief cannot be
with a wrong thought
Thinking is the exercise of intelli-
gence or mind, therefore real thinking
IS the activity of real mind. Real
mind is the infinite intelligence, the
1ivine consciousness, the all-inclusive
entity, Spirit, Love, the principle of all
zeal being, called God. Real thinking
S thus the activity of the divine mind,
u truth. The activity of truth in con-
,ciousness is the knowing Of truth,
therefore, real thinking is right know
ng.
I'VE can only know truth, never err
or. We can never know that two
lines two make five because they do |
lot. We can only believe it. We can |
lever know sin, disease, and death, or |
that is wrong, evil or mater
al; we can only believe it.
Being infinite, perfect, and divine,
cal mind is good. Therefore evil is