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recognized the TACT that this
healing was brought about
through mental means alone, re-
fused to believe that the healing
power was divine. and said that
it was evil. acting through the
human mind; namely, through
hypnotism. They cried out,
This fellow doth not cast out
devils, but by Beelzebub the
prince of the devils" So also
today many admit that Christian
Science heals mentally, but they
insist that this healing is accom-
plished through hypnotism.
They do not understand the ma
ture and power of divine Mind.
Since Christian Science healing
involves a knowledge of spiritual
truth, a recognition of material
error, and the application of this
truth thereto, this healing is not
effected through mental sugges-
tion, or the influence of one mind
over another. 1t is not mental
domination, nor the exercise of
the human will, and il is es-
sential to a right apprehension
of Christian Science that this
should be clearly understood.
For example,: When a math-
ematician corrects a mathemati-
cal error, it is not his will which
makes this correction, but the
mathematical truth which he
knows and applies. The power
in inherent in the mathematical
truth and not in the will of the
mathematician. When an i'll or
sin is healed in Christian
Science, it is not the will of the
Christian Scientist which does
the healing, but the spiritual
truth which he knows and ap-
plies to the human error. The
power is in the truth itself, not
in the human will. Jesus said,
"Ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you Free"
This definitely distinguishes
Christian Science from hypno-
tism, magnetism. or mental sug-
gestion Of any form. The hyp-
notizer endeavors TO secure con-
troll of his patients mind, to
dominate il, and TO superimpose
upon il his own thought and pur-
pose, be IL good or evil. Hence
the danger of this method.
Knowing the nature of God
and the real man to be spiritual
and perfect, the Christian
Scientist recognizes the fact that |
the diseased or sinful conditions
are but false mesmeric states Of
consciousness. and he applies
his understanding of divine
Truth as the remedy. He knows
the unreality of the appearance
called n sick man, just as the
mathematician knows that two
times two do not make five,
even though he sees il written
out. He knows that they make
four regardless of appearances.
Jesus said, Judge not accord
ing to the appearance. but judge
righteous judgment"
ABSENT TREATMENT
The healing of patients who
are at a distance from their
has frequently been
misunderstood and pronounced
impossible. Notwithstanding that
Jesus healed the centurion's SER
want and the nobleman's son
being present with them.
This misjudgment arises from
the mistaken belief that the
healing is accomplished through
transmission of thought. and
that distance hinders this trans
In Christian Science
healing there is no thought
transference, for mortal mind is
not a factor in the healing. The
divine Mind being omnipresent,
he human knowing of the truth
regarding a sick man at a dis.
.ance brings Truth to bear on
he case the same as if he were
near by. In the realm of Spirit !
here is no space, no time, and
10 sick man. All is infinite Mind
md its perfect, ever-present !
deas.
IL is important TO see that :
Science healing in
ludes a denial of error as well U
IS the affirmation of the truth, E
he reason for this being that q
he belief in matter, sin, and !
Iisease is so fixed in the human I
onsciousness that a specific 0
enial helps To weaken and des- 5
roy that belief. This denial a
an be made only from the basis II
( spiritual truth; il is but the u
everse side of the declaration v
( truth, and it is the truth l'
lone. not the denial of error, =
'hich heals. Indeed, the key 4
ote of Christian Science heal II
lg is the knowing of the allness o.
{ Spirit and the nothingness of o.
latter. s'
SUMMARY :,
To epitomize: In Christian OF
cience healing we must first III
now the nature and character in
divine reality, then see that m
hat is termed material ex- fC
tence is wholly mental. and XII