Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

from the tares, the actual from the
seeming, the real from the unreal in
the human consciousness.
Most of us have believed that God
sends disease, disaster and death to
His children; but 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. Ii
God makes us sickly and dying, it is
our business to be sick and die. Dom
mated by such belief, it is of course
impossible to understand Christian
healing or to be healed spiritually.
Discordant conditions exist only
in that human consciousness which is
largely mortal, which is a belief Of
both good and evil They are not
the products 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.
Mental Cure of Disease.
Fear is admitted to be a prolific
cause of disease. The Bible says,
Perfect love casteta out fear" Fear
is due to ignorance. Perfect Love is
the infinite divine intelligence. When
intelligence is brought to bear on ig-
norance, ignorance is destroyed, and
thus does perfect love" cast out
fear, and of necessity it's effect. 1t
is readily seen how important it is
to let Truth control our thought.
When we indulge in thoughts of limi-
tation, fear, sickness, mortality, then
consciousness partakes of the nature
of these thoughts, and the body like
wise. When we engage in thoughts
of infinity, spirituality, health, life,
our consciousness must partake of
the nature of these thoughts, and
the body likewise.
Since disease has a mental origin,
it is manifest that it must have a
mental cure. A man suffering from
physical disease produced by hatred,
for example, cannot be permanently
healed by drugs or surgery. He
needs to have the hatred, whether
from within or from without, neutral
lied by its true antidote, divine
Love. Then the evil cause is de-
stroyed and its effects disappear.
Christian Science explains this clear
ly and nationally, so that Christian
Science Mind-healing can be demon
strated by any one in the degree of
his understanding of it. This heal
ing relies on spiritual method
which is both simple and logical.
In answer to the inevitable ques-
ton, How does Christian Science
heal? we need TO remember that the
truth and error about a given thing
cannot exist in given consciousness
at the same time, since they are op-
posites. We cannot believe that two
times two make both five and four
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 computa-
tion always removes that error and
establishes right results. The truth
about God and man annuls false hui
man belief, and this removes the eff
fects of such belief. Human discord
and disease exist only as false state
of consciousness, a mistaken sense,
a mesmeric dream condition which
has no real existence, no relation to
the divine Mind and it's perfect re-
Election. When the truth of being
is known and applied, it destroys the
false belief, and this improved condi-
tion is externalized in harmony.
Right Mental Action.
AS the body Is an GENERALIZATION
of consciousness, if we change the
consciousness the condition of its eX-
ternalization will also be changed.
How is this to be done? In answer
we would say that since Christian
Science healing is wholly mental it
must be accomplished through the
activity of the truth in human
thought, and in this connection it is
well to consider what thinking is, in
order that we may think Alright, may
engage in right mental action. A
wrong belief cannot be corrected with
a wrong thought. Thinking is the
exercise of intelligence or mind,
therefore real thinking is the activ-
ity of real Mind. Real Mind is the
divine consciousness, the infinite in
telligence, Truth. Real thinking is
thus the activity of the divine Mind,
or Truth. The activity of Truth in
consciousness is the knowing of
Truth; therefore, real thinking is
right knowing. We can know only
the truth, never error. We can
never know sin, disease and death,
or anything that is wrong, evil or
material; we can only believe it.
Being infinite, perfect and divine,
real Mind is good. Therefore evil is
not mind, and evil thinking is not
true mind action; and all that is evil
and material, limited, discordant and
mortal in human thought is not in
telligence, not mind, but a counter
felt of it; that is, false belief. What
is termed the mortal mind is not real
Mind. That mind action which is
based upon belief in matter and its
discordant conditions is not real
thinking, because it is not right
not right knowing. Gray
matter" so called, cannot know; it
is Mind alone that knows.
How can Truth be brought to bear
upon consciousness in order that the
belief of disease and its cause may
be destroyed? When we think right
ly of any truth. this truth is present
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