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4. Life, God, omnipotent Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease — Dis- 

 ease, sin, evil, death, deny Good, omnipotent God, Life." 



"What is termed disease does not exist." "Matter has no being." 

 "All is mind." "Matter is but the subjective state of what is here 

 termed mortal mind." "All disease is the result of education, and can 

 carry its ill-effects no farther than mortal mind maps out the way." 

 "The fear of dissevered bodily members, or a belief in such a possibility, 

 is reflected on the body, in the shape of headache, fractured bones, dis- 

 located joints, and so on, as directly as shame is seen rising to the cheek. 

 This human error about physical wounds and colics is part and parcel 

 of the delusion that matter can feel and see, having sensation and sub- 

 stance." "Insanity implies belief in a diseased brain, while physical 

 ailments (so-called) arise from belief that some other portions of the 

 body are deranged. ... A bunion would produce insanity as per- 

 ceptible as that produced by congestion of the brain, were it not that 

 mortal mind calls the bunion an unconscious portion of the body. Re- 

 verse this belief and the results would be different." "We weep because 

 others weep, we yawn because they yawn, and we have small-pox be- 

 cause others have it; but mortal mind, not matter, contains and carries 

 the infection." "A Christian Scientist never gives medicine, never 

 recommends hygiene, never manipulates." "Anatomy, Physiology, 

 Treatises on Health, sustained by what is termed material law, are the 

 husbandmen of sickness and disease." "You can even educate a 

 healthy horse so far in physiology that he will take cold without his 

 blanket." "If exposure to a draught of air while in a state of perspira- 

 tion is followed by chills, dry cough, influenza, congestive symptoms in 

 the lungs, or hints of inflammatory rheumatism, your Mind-remedy is 

 safe and sure. If you are a Christian Scientist, such symptoms will not 

 follow from the exposure; but if you believe in laws of matter and their 

 fatal effects when transgressed, you are not fit to conduct your own case 

 or to destroy the bad effects of belief. When the fear subsides and the 

 conviction abides that you have broken no law, neither rheumatism, 

 consumption nor any other disease will ever result from exposure to 

 the weather." "Destroy fear and you end the fever." "To prevent 

 disease or cure it mentally let spirit destroy the dream of sense. If you 

 wish to heal by argument, find the type of the ailment, get its name 

 and array your mental plea against the physical. Argue with the patient 

 (mentally, not audibly) that he has no disease, and conform the argu- 

 ment to the evidence. Mentally insist that health is the everlasting 

 fact, and sickness the temporal falsity. Then realize the presence of 

 health and the corporeal senses will respond, so be it." "My publica- 

 tions alone heal more sickness than an unconscientious student can be- 

 gin to reach." "The quotient when numbers have been divided by a 

 fixd rule, are not more unquestionable than the scientific tests I have 

 made of the effects of truth upon the sick." "I am never mistaken in 

 my scientific diagnosis of disease." "Outside of Christian Science all is 

 vague and hypothetical, the opposite of Truth." "Outside Christian 

 Science all is error." 



Surely this is a remarkable product of mortal mind! It would per- 

 haps be an interesting tour de force, though hardly so entertaining as 

 'Alice in Wonderland,' to construct a universe on the assertions and 



