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generally designated ~ laws Of
disease, have no divine origin
and can be set aside without
doing violence to divine decrees.
The spiritual understanding Of
this at once frees humanity from
the dread OF law and necessity sup
posed to be incorporated In disease.
II lifts the bugbear Of incurability
from the frightened sense Of the sick
and SHINING, and establishes them up
on the sure foundation OF their d.
vine rights to health, happiness. holi-
ness, and through reformation and
repentance TO heaven itself. BY this
test OF the real and the unreal, hu-
manity can sort out OF It's experi-
ences the inevitable good from the
seeming evil, the spiritual necessities
from the material appearances. This
process means growth. progress
along the narrow way. II makes
plain the path from sense To Soul
and Is the modus operandi OF Christ
ian Science healing and reforming.
| In Science and Health Up. 469) Mrs.
Eddy writes, "The exterminaton Of
error is the great truth that God,
good. is the only Mind, and that the
supposititious opposite Of infinite
Mind-called devil or evils not
Mind, is not Truth, but error, with
out intelligence or reality"
The Importance OF recognizing God
as the only Mind is clearly seen when
the sad effects OF believing Is a sup
posititious opposite OF the divine Mind
are learned by experience. Paul des-
ignates this supposititous mind as the
carnal or neshly mind. Mrs. Eddy
has described It more specifically al
mortal mind. or the mind OF mortals.
This belief In q mind apart from
God is capable Of all evil. It would
set up. II It could, a power opposed
to God TO nullify His decrees and de-
throne His majesty. This belief at.
Itempts to defraud man OF his rights
and to rob him Of everything that he
holds dear. Mortal mind, II not cor
rected by spiritual understanding
will take from man his health. hap.
piness. freedom. Joy; his wealth, his
friends. his good name: In short. all
that humanity Justly prizes.
Mortal Mind
| Christian Science uncovers the pro.
cess by which this robber first eStices
his victims into q byway OF error and
then picks his pockets. The process
is the exact reverse OF the method
used by Christian Science in saving
humanity from its woes. Morta
minds method consists in inducing
humanity to accept the untrue a!
Itrue. the unreal as real, the non-es
sential as essential. and then In temp
ting the deluded victims to strive
after these falsities. In this way thu
carnal mind sends its votaries oil
many a wild-goose chase. which cal
only end In disappointment and dis
gust. It bangles before the eyes o
humanity the false concept OF gen
uine desire or need. 1t approaches
some unsuspecting mortal with tn,
promise OF substance, support, ant
sustenance. 1t asks. Do you desir'
substance? and the mortal naturall,
and very properly replies, Yes.
Then the carnal or fleshly. or morta
or material mind, would suggest tina
substance was matter, and that t
gain substance, man must strive I,
accumulate matter. II the intended
victim accepts this mental suggestion
mortal mind then leads him on
forlorn quest after substance-matter
Whether the victim does or does no
accumulate matter as the result o
this inducement, he will never be abb
to find true substance in matter. TO
true substance is spiritual and men
tai, and fadeth not away, because
is not subject to material laws O
origin or decay, but is eternal an
indestructible. Paul has truly writ
ten OF "the substance OF things hope
for, the evidence Of things not seen.
, To some sick mortal this robbie
belief OF a mind apart from CO
would offer health as material po:
session. II would induce the sick {
, believe that health is dependent solel
' upon material conditions, and tha
health can only be restored or mair
, tanned by material remedies. The
y II would drive the sick from one rem
edy to another. from one place to al
other. from one material process I
another, to search for health where
cannot be found, namely, n matte
2 True health Is a state OF col
sciousness. It is spiritual and mel
ltal. not material, II Is based upo