Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-14

gin. as there is no other way to &C
count for them. T.
Again, we are all familiar with the
fact that diseases and distressing
symptoms. are aIleviated when fear
and worry cease and the harmoHiou:
effects of peace. happiness, and salts
faction prevail Take a rubber ball
grasp it tightly in the hand. thereby
destroying its normal outline; then
remove the pressure Of the fingers
and when the strain is gone. the bal
resumes its natural shape In sim
liar way, mental disturbances clamp
the body, put it under strain, dis
tort It.; but when these disturbances
are removed, the body becomes nor
NAL, natural. ~
This effect of thought on the body
is readily admitted even by pronounc'
ed materialists. Cheerfulness, the
habit Of locking On the bright side o.
things, is generally acknowledged to
be an aid in preserving and restoring
health. Yet he who believes in ma
terial causatfon will say: Il cannot
admit that malignant and organic dis
eases may be caused or cured by
/ thought. Possibly my headache will
disappear when stop worrying or
being angry, but how can l get rid
of a tumor or of Bright's disease by
simply thinking about it?'
/ This expresses the attitude Of NOR.
tai thought, and in answer to its ques.
tons IL is well to bear in mind that
the marvellous healing recorded in the
Bible. much Of which is entirely above
and beyond any possible achievement
of medical or surgical practice, was
actually accomplished through mental
or spiritual activity alone, and that
Christian Science has in the same way
healed every known disease, Admit
ting these facts, we are better pre-
pared to discuss the manner in which
this healing is accomplished.
Nature Of Existence. ta3 IN ....fg:#
/ In the first place, II. is necessary
for us to consider what existence is,
and the relation between mind and
body, All will admit that to exist
ual existence is individual conscious.
ness, and since consciousness is men
tai. existence is mental. From that it
follows that thelcharacter of existence
/ depends upon the character of con-
seriousness. 1t is also evident that
hereditary tendency and educated bias
largely determine the character OF
consciousness, and since cur mental
makeup and perceptive faculties vary
greatly, it is manifest that no two peo-
pie can have the same consciousness
or even see the same object alike.
For example, an aeroplane viewed by
a civilized person and by a savage.
awakens altogether different concepts.
A flower is very different thing to- a
: botanist from what it is to an engi-
Ineer. The impression received Of the
shape and size of an object depends
upon the shape and size of the lens
of the eye, and individual lenses
are manifestIy as different as individ-
ual physiognomies.
Again. since human consciousness
is acquired largely through the five
physical senses. it partakes of the
mature of material sense. This sense
Testimony is always relative and never
absolute. 1t is dimensional, finite, va
riable. inexact Echoes do not locate
sound correctly. Distant objects are
not small because they appear so. AS
i Economical phenomena are not what
they seem to be. The sun does not
move across the sky and the earth is
not stationary. Color is not absolute.
neither are the reports made to us by
the senses of taste, smell, and touch.
Matter a Mental Concept.
According to recent discoveries in
physical science, matter is form of
energy, instead of the indestructible
stuff or entity 1t has been believed to
be. It's unit. the atom, is found to be
ccmposed of positive and negative
electrical corpuscles, called electrons
or icns. Through mechanical and
chemical. processes material object
NAV be reduced to its ultimate theo-
retical limit. called atoms Further
separation of these atoms into their
constituent electrons or ions. leaves
nothing of our material object but a
form Of. energy, theoretical manifes-
taticn of force in which every yestige
Iof the characteristics of matter or the
Eobject has disappeared. What the ma
ture and history of a separated. a
IIE6cu. SIcGtIOH5 illdg Uc,, 10 coiuCtnAhS
for the physicist to puzzle over.
Ideaiistic philosophy and psychol-
cgy teach that material objects are
but obiectified mental impressions or
lconceDts. and not substantive entities
Iexterior to consciousness. For exam
lple: When we look at what we call
a material thing. we experience an i'm
/ preston made uDon consciousness by
light. which is all we ever see. Light,
according to physics. is vibration, or
a form of energy which impresses It
self upon consciousness, and this inn
lpression We have been educated to
1obiectifv. We have Inherited and cul-
tivatad the habit of believing it to be
matter, or an object which We see.
whereas it is merely the experience Of
a mental impression we have uncon-
sciouslu obiecfi6ed; and this is true
ALSO Of the phenomena of heraing,
i taste. touch and smell.
We. never really see, hear, feel.
taste. CT smell matter or objects. but
merely experience sense-phenomena
which we call matter. What we think