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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 
 HEALING: 
 
 SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 
 
 A LECTURE DELIVERED BY 
 
 PROF. HERMANN S. HERING, C.S.B. 
 
 AS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF LECTURESHIP OF THE 
 
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 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING: 
 SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 
 
 nPHE healing so universally accomplished 
 through Christian Science is probably the 
 one feature of its work which attracts the most 
 attention and which has been most misunderstood, 
 since its methods are purely mental and spiritual,*^ 
 the direct opposite of those employed by the ordi- 
 nary schools of therapeutics. That healing has 
 resulted when Christian Science treatment has 
 been applied after all other means have failed, is 
 now quite generally conceded; but the manner in 
 which this healing is accomplished, is so far from 
 being understood that there is still a great reluc- 
 tance on the part of many to avail themselves of 
 it, and some still question its possibility. This, 
 however, can be just as truthfully said of the 
 healings which are chronicled in the Scriptures, 
 especially in the New Testament, where the spirit- 
 ual means of healing is plainly referred to and 
 advocated, and where many instances of healing 
 are specifically named. 
 
 In Exodus we read, "I am the Lord that heal- 
 eth thee;" in Psalms, God is referred to as He 
 
4 CHKISllAW SCIE^SrCiE HEALING: 
 
 "who healeth all thy diseases;" and again, "He 
 sent his word, and healed them." In Mark's gos- 
 pel we read, "These signs shall follow them that 
 believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; 
 they shall speak with new tongues ; they shall take 
 up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it 
 shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the 
 sick, and they shall recover." These citations 
 show that mankind should look to a spiritual 
 source for their healing instead of to drugs. Had 
 God created drugs and given them healing power, 
 Christ Jesus, who came to show us the way of 
 salvation, or deliverance from sin, disease, and 
 death, would certainly have used them himself and 
 recommended them to others. His own success 
 in healing proves that he fully understood a heal- 
 ing art which has no recourse to material means. 
 
 ^ INSTANCES OF HEALING 
 
 Among the notable instances of the healing of 
 physical disease by Christ Jesus as recorded in 
 the New Testament are these: The healing of 
 paralysis (Luke v. 18-26), of leprosy (Luke xvii. 
 11-19), of deformity (Luke xiii. 11-17), of blind- 
 ness (Matt. ix. 27-31), of fever (Luke iv. 38, 39), 
 of dropsy (Luke xiv. 2-4), of hemorrhage (Matt, 
 ix. 20-22), of violent insanity (Mark v. 1-20), 
 and of epilepsy (Mark ix. 14-29). The gospels 
 also record Jesus' work in the raising of the dead, 
 as Jairus' daughter (Luke viii. 41-56), the widow's 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 5 
 
 son (Luke vii. 11-15), and Lazarus, after he had 
 been dead four days (John xi. 1-44). 
 
 Many cases are also recorded as having been 
 healed by the disciples and by some of Jesus' fol- 
 lowers who were not his personal students. In 
 Acts (v. 12) we read, "And by the hands of ihe 
 apostles were many signs and wonders wrought." 
 Peter healed a man lame from birth (Acts iii. 
 2-8), healed ^neas of paralysis (Acts ix. 32-35), 
 raised Dorcas (Acts ix. 36-41). Paul healed a 
 cripple (Acts xiv. 8-10), healed Publius' father 
 of fever and hemorrhage (Acts xxviii. 8), raised 
 Eutychus to life after his accident (Acts xx. 
 9-12), healed himself of the sting of a poisonous 
 serpent (Acts xxviii. 3-6). Philip, who like Paul 
 was not Jesus' personal student, healed insanity, 
 paralysis, and lameness (Acts viii. 6, 7). The 
 seventy are reported as having returned to 
 Jesus to tell of their healing work, saying, 
 "Even the devils are subject unto us through thy 
 name." 
 
 These cases show unmistakably that Christian 
 healing was effected by spiritual and not material 
 means; they teach that we should look not to 
 matter but to divine Mind for the true healing 
 power, the power which was utilized by Christ 
 Jesus and his disciples. In the case of congenital 
 blindness healed by Jesus, of which John tells us, 
 there was evidently no healing virtue in the clay 
 and spittle, nor in the water of the pool of Siloam, 
 
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 for if there had been, these universally available 
 means would be in use today for the cure of this 
 disease. 
 
 SKEPTICISM AS TO SPIRITUAL HEALING 
 
 To be consistent, all professed believers in the 
 Bible must therefore admit the fact of spiritual 
 healing, which, according to contemporaneous 
 secular writers and historians, continued among 
 the early Christians for about three hundred 
 years ; and yet today the vast majority do not be- 
 lieve in it, and many do not even admit it to be 
 historically true, while not a few deny its possi- 
 bility. "• Some say that these events may have hap- 
 pened in Jesus' time, but are impossible now. This 
 is neither logical nor reasonable. The power of 
 God is "the same yesterday, and today, and 
 forever," and if this healing took place in the 
 first century, it can take place now, since every 
 divine law and order must be immutable and we 
 have the same conditions to deal with which they 
 had then. 
 
 Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you alway," and, 
 "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall 
 he do also; . . . because I go unto my Father." 
 The' Master thus taught that all of truth is always 
 with us, and he came to show us how to make it 
 available. This is the way of salvation, and if 
 this way cannot be found and followed today, then 
 his mission was surely a failure. Think you that 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 1 
 
 Christ Jesus, the great Exemplar, the world's 
 Wayshower, would have taught, demonstrated, 
 and enjoined upon mankind a healing and saving 
 method which was efficient and sufficient In the first 
 century, but impracticable or impossible in the 
 twentieth ? 
 
 ^It is not possible to separate Jesus' word from 
 his work!: The one is the proof of the other; 
 yhence the healing work must be recognized as an y 
 essential element of primitive Christianity. The 
 healing recorded in the Bible was no more readily 
 believed when it occurred than It is now, save 
 by the relatively few who were impressed by the 
 evidence presented or who experienced spiritual 
 transformation. The Scriptures record the intense 
 hatred and persecution which the early Chris- 
 tians endured because of their belief in the efficacy 
 of spiritual power This Is corroborated in secu- 
 lar history, and it is noteworthy that the hatred 
 was most intense when spiritual power was most 
 in evidence, especially so at the moment the heal- 
 ing was done. 
 
 Judging by its fruits, and by the fact that it 
 certainly stimulates a higher order of thought 
 and living, all must admit that this spiritual heal- 
 ing Is a far better method than the use of material 
 means. This being true, we can but ask. Why is 
 it not in general use among Christian people? 
 Evidently because it is not understood, for there 
 exists today a very general disbelief in Its possi- 
 
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 bility, a stubborn tendency to doubt it, in spite 
 of the many authentic records of such healing in 
 the past and through Christian Science now. 
 
 CAUSES OF UNBELIEF 
 
 Let us then, if we may, examine into some of the 
 causes of this disbelief in Scriptural or Christian 
 healing. What are they ? First : It is difficult for 
 most of us to see how physical results can be 
 realized through spiritual means. The teaching of 
 the schools regarding the nature of matter and 
 material existence, produces such a materially 
 biased consciousness that it is very difficult to 
 apprehend spiritual existence and spiritual power. 
 Second: The popular teaching regarding the 
 nature of God and of His relation to all being, to- 
 gether with the belief in the reality of material 
 existence and its asserted laws, is at variance with 
 the Scripture teaching. Third: The inertia of 
 the human mind resists belief in anything which 
 differs from what it has been accustomed to; it is 
 innately opposed to all things spiritual or divine, 
 and it is to this mental attitude that St. Paul re- 
 ferred when he said, "The carnal mind is enmity 
 against God." We thus see that it is material 
 sense which hinders the attainment of an under- 
 standing of the spiritual healing of the Bible; 
 this is the fertile soil from which springs the doubt, 
 agnosticism, and infidelity of our times. 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 9 
 
 MENTAL CAUSATION 
 
 One of the most puzzling questions to the lay 
 thinker Respecting spiritual healing'^is this: How 
 can a mere mental effort bring about a physical 
 change; how can it restore health and harmony? 
 This difficulty is largely due to the failure to' 
 understand the nature of Mind and the relation- 
 ship between the inner world of thought and the 
 outer world of phenomenaT^ Let us consider this 
 question briefly, first from a human or material 
 standpoint, then from the Christian Science 
 standpoint. 
 
 All are familiar with the effect of fear, grief, 
 and anger upon bodily conditions. Tears flow; 
 the circulation of the blood is altered, as shown 
 by pallor ; the secretions are affected, as shown by 
 cold perspiration, etc. These effects prove that 
 physical changes follow mental disturbances. An 
 eminent physician has made a series of experiments 
 showing the effect of the emotions upon the secre- 
 tions, and has found that under the influence of 
 love and hate, serenity and anger, pleasure and 
 pain, the secretions present marked chemical dif- 
 ferences; all of which gives evidence that mental 
 conditions are the real causes of disease. Many 
 physicians will even admit that malignant diseases 
 have been caused by grief, worry, and sin ; indeed, 
 it is now becoming more and more evident that the 
 cause of all disease is mental. Even what are 
 
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 termed hereditary diseases and conditions are now 
 believed by many to be of mental origin, as there 
 is no other way to account for them. 
 ^ Again, we are all familiar with the fact that 
 diseases and distressing symptoms are alleviated 
 when fear and worry cease and the harmonious 
 effects of peace, happiness, and satisfaction prevail.' 
 Take a rubber ball, grasp it tightly in the hand, 
 thereby destroying its normal outline; then re- 
 move the pressure of the fingers, and when the 
 strain is gone^ the ball resumes its natural shape. 
 In a similar way, mental disturbances clamp the 
 body, put it under a strain, distort it; but when 
 these disturbances are removed, the body becomes 
 normal^ natural. 
 
 This effect of thought on the body is readily 
 admitted even by pronounced materialists. Cheer- 
 fulness, the habit of looking on the bright side of 
 things, is generally acknowledged to be an aid in 
 preserving and restoring health. Yet he who be- 
 lieves in material causation will say: "I cannot 
 admit that malignant and organic diseases may 
 be caused or cured by thought. Possibly my head- 
 ache will disappear when I stop worrying or being 
 angry, but how can I get rid of a tumor or of 
 Bright's disease by simply thinking about it.?" 
 
 This expresses the attitude of mortal thought, 
 and in answer to its questions it is well to bear in 
 mind that the marvelous healing recorded in the 
 Bible, much of which is entirely above and beyond 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 11 
 
 any possible achievement of medical or surgical 
 practice, was actually accomplished through men- 
 tal or spiritual activity alone, and that Christian 
 Science has in the same way healed every known 
 disease. Admitting these facts, we are the better 
 prepared to discuss the manner in which this heal- 
 ing is accomplished. 
 
 NATURE OF EXISTENCE 
 
 In the first place, it is necessary for us to con- 
 sider what existence is, and the relation between 
 mind and body. ' All will admit that to exist means 
 to be conscious.' Then individual existence is indi- 
 vidual consciousness, and since consciousness is 
 ^mental, existence is mental. From this it follows 
 that the character of existence depends upon the 
 character of consciousness. It is also evident that 
 hereditary tendency and educated bias largely de- 
 termine the character of consciousness, and since 
 our mental make-up and perceptive faculties vary 
 greatly, it is manifest that no two people 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 alto- 
 gether different concepts. A flower is a very dif- 
 ferent thing to a botanist from what it is to an 
 engineer. 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 manifestly as different as individual physiog- 
 nomies. 
 
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 Again, since human consciousness is acquired 
 largely through the five physical senses, it par- 
 takes of the nature of material sense. 'This sense- 
 testimony is always relative and never absolute/ 
 It is dimensional, finite, variable, inexact. Echoes 
 do not locate sound correctly. Distant objects 
 are not small because they appear so. Astronomi- 
 cal 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. 
 
 V^ MATTER A MENTAL CONCEPT 
 
 According to recent discoveries in physical 
 science, matter is a form of energy, instead of the 
 indestructible stuff or entity it has been believed to 
 be. Its unit, the atom, is found to be composed 
 of positive and negative electrical corpuscles, 
 called electrons or ions. Through mechanical and 
 chemical processes a material object may be re- 
 duced to its ultimate theoretical 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, a 
 theoretical manifestation of force in which every 
 vestige of the characteristics of matter or the 
 object has disappeared. What the nature and 
 history of a separated, a freed electron may be, is 
 something for the physicist to puzzle over. 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 18 
 
 Idealistic philosophy and psychology teach that 
 material objects are but objectified mental im- 
 pressions or concepts, and not substantive enti- 
 ties exterior to consciousness. For example: 
 When we look at what we call a material thing, we 
 experience an impression made upon consciousness 
 by light, which is all we ever see. Light, accord- 
 ing to physics, is vibration, or a form of energy 
 which impresses itself upon consciousness, and 
 this impression we have been educated to objectify. 
 We have inherited and cultivated the habit of 
 believing it to be matter, or an object which we 
 see, whereas it is merely the experience of a men- 
 tal impression we have unconsciously objectified; 
 and this is true also of the phenomena of hearing, 
 taste, touch, and smell. 
 
 We never really see, hear, feel, taste, or smell 
 matter or objects, but merely experience sense- 
 phenomena which we call matter. What we think 
 we see is not an object exterior to consciousness, 
 but only an impression in consciousness due to 
 what is assumed to be some form of vibration. 
 Furthermore, according to psychology and phi- 
 losophy, there is no evidence of any existence 
 external to consciousness ; hence existence is meas- 
 ured by consciousness. We thus see that'^matter 
 must be defined as a mirage, as an appearance of 
 substance rather than substance itself, and it is 
 therefore wholly mental, a state of mortal 
 consciousness. ^ 
 
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 These are not the teachings of Christian Science, 
 but the conclusions reached through research and 
 discovery in the domain of physical science, psy- 
 chology, and philosophy, and they show that even 
 from a physical standpoint what we term matter 
 is not what it is generally believed to be,, but is 
 wholly a mental phenomenon, and has not been and 
 cannot be accounted for in any other way. Christ 
 Jesus proved what is called matter to be wholly 
 mental when he walked on the water, stilled the 
 tempest, and overcame other so-called material 
 conditions. 
 
 MATERIAL MENTALITY 
 
 ^ Having seen the mental nature of matter, let us 
 now consider the nature of the mind which per- 
 ceives material things and of which matter is the 
 objectified concept or extern alization, the mind 
 which largely constitutes human consciousness. 
 This mind is a consciousness of which the factors 
 are dimensional, variable, destructible, and our 
 concept of the nature of these factors is gained 
 through the testimony of the five physical senses. 
 It is a consciousness of evil, sin, disaster, and 
 death. It claims to be intelligence, but is inhe- 
 rently non-intelligent: it knows nothing of itself, 
 it has to be educated.' It claims to be substance, 
 but is really shadow, since it is based on false tes- 
 timony. It claims to be life, but is really death, 
 since it is not self-sustaining. Recognizing the 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 16 
 
 nature of this so-called mind, St. Paul named it 
 "carnal," and Mrs. Eddy designated it "mortal," 
 since sin, disease, and death are its inevitable 
 products. 
 
 Thus we see that all discordant conditions exist 
 solely as phenomena and experiences of this carnal, 
 mortal mind, as states of human consciousness"; 
 hence their healing, their correction or destruc- 
 tion, involves a transformation of this conscious- 
 ness. ' As existence implies consciousness, and as 
 the body is externalized consciousness, the condi- 
 tions of existence and of the body depend upon 
 one's mental state. ^A discordant consciousness 
 results in discordant existence.' It is therefore 
 necessary to change the human consciousness if 
 we wish to have changed conditions. How is this 
 to be done? 
 
 First, it is necessary to determine whether the 
 mortal or carnal mind with its experiences is true, 
 for we know that the initial step in the correction 
 of any mistake is the perception of the mistake. 
 We recognize an error when we know the truth 
 which it falsifies. When we apply the corrective 
 truth to an error, it disappears, and right, har- 
 monious conditions prevail. If the phenomena of 
 mortal mind were true, they could never be altered. 
 If untrue, they cannot be corrected until we know 
 their falsity. It is impossible to correct an error 
 until it is recognized as such. For example, if we 
 receive a wrongly computed bill and believe it 
 
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 right, we are deceived and suffer for it. Yet we 
 do not perceive that it is wrong until we know 
 what is right. Directly we know the truth about 
 the facts involved, this knowledge corrects or dis- 
 places the error, the wrong concept. 
 
 THE NATURE OF TRUTH 
 
 Let us then examine into the essential nature 
 and character of Truth, of that which really is, 
 and learn whether matter and mortal mind are 
 true and real, for we have seen that matter and 
 material existence are mental, and we must now 
 determine the truth regarding this mentality. 
 
 Truth by its very nature is infinite, everywhere. 
 Being that which is, there can be no place where 
 Truth is not; therefore Truth is omnipresent. 
 Truth is intelligent, always knowing enough to be 
 itself and never anything else; being infinite, it is 
 infinitely intelligent; that is, omniscient. Truth 
 is almighty, having power to be itself and to resist 
 being anything else, power to correct that which 
 seems to falsify it. Truth being infinite, the power 
 of Truth is infinite, omnipotent. Truth is inde- 
 structible, since it is impossible for any element, 
 quality, or particle of omnipresence or real being 
 to be annihilated. 
 
 We thus see that Truth is actuality; absolute, 
 fundamental, independent; without beginning or 
 ending, without dimensions or limitations. It is 
 immortal, forever self-sustained; it is eternal 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 17 
 
 Principle, the source of all true being, harmonious 
 and perfect. 
 
 Truth is thus identified in Christian Science as 
 Spirit, Mind, Soul, Life, the supreme Ego, the 
 great I AM, the one infinite God, the God of 
 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God whom Jesus 
 called his Father, the God whom St. John defined 
 as Love. This infinite, all-inclusive, all-creating, 
 omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient divine Love, 
 is the incorporeal God revealed through Christian 
 Science. Man as the image and likeness of God, 
 the real man of the Scriptures, must be like his 
 Father, not corporeal but incorporeal; not ma- 
 terial but mental, spiritual consciousness; not 
 mortal but immortal. The universe created and 
 constantly sustained by God must be like Him, 
 for like produces like; therefore the real universe 
 is not finite but infinite ; not destructible but inde- 
 structible ; not material but spiritual. 
 
 THE NATURE OF REALITY 
 
 Thus reality is essentially infinite, without limi- 
 tations or dimensions, infinite in extent, in pres- 
 ence, in wisdom, and in power. It is unchanging, 
 indestructible, eternal. It is harmonious, perfect, 
 spiritual. Therefore the standard of infinity, 
 indestructibility, and perfection is the test of 
 reality. Whatever has not these qualities or at- 
 tributes of infinity and perfection does not express 
 Truth. Matter, mortal mind, and the discordant 
 material consciousness being finite, mutable, de- 
 
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 structible, are not true, not absolutely real. Per- 
 fect God, perfect man, and perfect spiritual being, 
 ' — this is the basis of all Christian Science teach- 
 ing, analysis, and practice. This is the standard 
 by which Christian Science measures and tests all 
 human phenomena and experiences in order to 
 determine their true value. 
 
 Truth, however, cannot be cognized by the 
 physical senses, for because of their material limi- 
 tations these senses cannot perceive infinity, the 
 finite cannot cognize the infinite. Truth is per- 
 ceived only through the understanding, which is 
 not dependent upon the testimony of the physical 
 senses. For example, even the truths of the mul- 
 tiplication table are discerned not through the 
 sense of sight, but through the understanding. 
 The physical figures which we see are not the 
 mathematical truth; this truth is invisible to the 
 physical senses, discernible only through mathe- 
 matical understanding. 
 
 Similarly God, the real man and real universe, 
 are discerned not through the physical senses, but 
 only through spiritual sense or spiritual under- 
 standing, and this spiritual understanding, the 
 perception and apprehension of divine Truth, 
 Christian Science makes possible to all. 
 
 DISCORD AN ERROR 
 
 Disease, sin, death, all discords, are therefore 
 to be classed as errors of mortal consciousness/' as 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 19 
 
 mesmeric, illusory mental conditions.' ' On this 
 basis they can be corrected and healed by Truth, 
 while they cannot be corrected so long as they are 
 classed as either physical or mental realities'. Even 
 according to psychology and philosophy they are 
 but objectified sense-impressions. Thus we can 
 begin to separate the wheat 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 pur- 
 pose. If God makes us sickly and dying, it is our 
 business to be sick and die. Dominated by such a 
 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 eviH *^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. 
 
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 MENTAL CUEE OP DISEASE 
 
 ^^ Fear is admitted to be a prolific cause of disease. 
 The Bible says, "Perfect love casteth out fear." 
 Fear is due to ignorance. Perfect Love is the 
 infinite divine intelligence. When intelligence is 
 brought to bear on ignorance, ignorance is de- 
 stroyed, and thus does "perfect love" cast out 
 fear, and of necessity its effects. It is readily 
 seen how important it is to let Truth control our 
 thought. When we indulge in thoughts of limita- 
 tion, fear, sickness, mortality, then consciousness 
 partakes of the nature of these thoughts, and the 
 body likewise. When we engage in thoughts of 
 infinity, spirituality, health, life, our conscious- 
 ness 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, neutralized by its 
 true antidote, divine Love. Then the evil cause 
 is destroyed and its effects disappear. Christian 
 Science explains this clearly and rationally, so 
 that Christian Science Mind-healing can be 
 demonstrated by any one in the degree of his 
 understanding of it. This healing relies on a spir- 
 itual method which is both simple and logical. 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 21 
 
 ^In answer to the inevitable question, How does 
 Christian Science heal? we need to remember that 
 the truth and error about a given thing cannot 
 exist in a given consciousness at the same time, 
 since they are opposites. ' We cannot believe that 
 two times two make both five and four. The heal- 
 ing of the error of sickness must be akin to the 
 healing of any other error of belief. Mathematical 
 truth applied to error in computation always 
 removes that error and establishes right results. 
 '.The truth about God and man annuls false human 
 belief, and this removes the effects of such belief.*^ 
 Human discord and disease exist only as a false 
 state of consciousness, a mistaken sense, a mes- 
 meric dream condition which has no real existence, 
 no relation to the divine Mind and its perfect 
 reflection. ""When the truth of being is known and 
 applied, it destroys the false belief, and this im- 
 proved condition is externalized in harmony. ^ 
 
 RIGHT MENTAL ACTION 
 
 As the body is an externalization of conscious- 
 ness, if we change the consciousness, the condition 
 of its externalization 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 aright, may engage in right mental 
 
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 action. ^A wrong belief cannot be corrected with 
 a wrong thought/ Thinking is the exercise of 
 intelligence or mind, therefore real thinking is the 
 actiA'ity of real Mind. Real Mind is the divine 
 consciousness, the infinite intelligence. Truth. 
 Real thinking is thus the activity of the divine 
 Mind, or Truth. The activity of Truth in con- 
 sciousness is the knowing of Truth ; therefore, real 
 thinking is right knowing. We can know only the 
 truth, never error. » We can never know that two 
 times two make five, because they do not. We can 
 only believe it. We can never know sin, disease, 
 and death, or anything that is wrong, evil, or 
 material ; we can only believe it. 
 V Being infinite, perfect, and divine, real Mind is 
 good.! Therefore evil is not mind, and evil think- 
 ing is not true mind action ; and all that j^ evil and 
 material, limited, discordant, and mortal- in human 
 thought, is not intelligence, not mind, but a coun- 
 terfeit 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 thinking, not right knowing. "Gray 
 matter," so called, cannot know; it is Mind alone 
 that knows. 
 
 How can Truth be brought to bear upon con- 
 sciousness in order that the belief of disease and 
 its cause may be destroyed? When we think 
 rightly of any truth, this truth is present with us 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 23 
 
 in consciousness, is active there, just as when we 
 think rightly of the multiplication table the truth 
 of mathematics is with us in thought or we could 
 not think mathematically. Likewise when we 
 think rightly of divine Truth, Life, Love, — God, — 
 which Christian Science makes possible today, 
 Truth is present with us in consciousness, — "God 
 with us." St. Paul wrote to the Ephesians of the 
 one God who is "through all," that is, omnipresent. 
 Thus He is already present and has but to be 
 known. And as by knowing Truth we reflect 
 Truth and bring it into action in our conscious- 
 ness, so by knowing God we reflect Him, and it is 
 by this right knowing of God that divine Truth 
 and Love are reflected in consciousness and 
 brought to bear upon our human problems. 
 
 The spiritual knowing is real consciousness, the 
 consciousness of the real man; it is communion 
 with the infinite Father-Mother God. It is true 
 Christian prayer, — "Not my will, but thine, be 
 done." Such prayer, "in his name," is answered 
 in healing the sick, reforming the sinner, and in 
 supplying all our needs. 
 
 HEALING NOT THROUGH SUGGESTION 
 
 "^The healing power which Christ Jesus utilized 
 in his wonderful healing work was not understood 
 by the people who witnessed these works." Some 
 who recognized the fact that this healing was 
 brought about through mental means alone, re- 
 
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 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 
 accomplished through hypnotism. They do not 
 understand the nature and power of divine Mind. 
 ^Since Christian Science healing involves a 
 know^ledge of spiritual truth, a recognition of ma- 
 terial error, and the application of this truth 
 thereto, this healing is not effected through men- 
 tal suggestion, or the influence of one mind over 
 another.^ It is not mental domination, nor the 
 exercise of the human will, and it is essential to a 
 right apprehension of Christian Science that this 
 should be clearly understood. 
 
 For example: When a mathematician corrects 
 a mathematical error, it is not his will which makes 
 this correction, but the mathematical truth which 
 he knows and applies. The power is inherent in 
 the mathematical truth and not in the will of the 
 mathematician. When an ill or sin is healed in 
 Christian Science, it is not the will of the Chris- 
 tian Scientist which does the healing, but the 
 spiritual truth which he knows and applies 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 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 26 
 
 definitely distinguishes Christian Science from 
 hypnotism, magnetism, or mental suggestion of 
 any form. The hypnotizer endeavors to secure 
 control of his patient's mind, to dominate it, and 
 to superimpose upon it his own thought and pur- 
 pose, be it good or evil. Hence the danger of this 
 method. 
 
 ^K^nowing 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 con- 
 sciousness, and he applies his understanding of 
 divine Truth as the remedy. ^ He knows the un- 
 reality of the appearance called a sick man, just 
 as the mathematician knows that two times two do 
 not make five, even though he sees it written out. 
 He knows that they make four regardless of ap- 
 pearances. Jesus said, "Judge not according to 
 the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." 
 
 ABSENT TREATMENT 
 
 The healing of patients who are at a distance 
 from their practitioners has frequently been mis- 
 understood and pronounced impossibly notwith- 
 standing that Jesus healed the centurion's ser- 
 vant and the nobleman's son without being present 
 with them. 'This misjudgment arises from the 
 mistaken belief that the healing is accomplished 
 through the transmission of thought, ^ and that 
 distance hinders this transmission. In Christian 
 
26 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING: 
 
 Science healing there is no thought transference, 
 for mortal mind is not a factor in the healing.^ 
 The divine Mind being omnipresent, the human 
 knowing of the truth regarding a sick man at a 
 distance brings Truth to bear on the case the same 
 as if he were near by. In the realm of Spirit 
 there is no space, no time, and no sick man. 
 All is infinite Mind and its perfect, ever-present 
 ideas. 
 
 It is important to see that Christian Science 
 healing includes a denial of error as well as the 
 affirmation of the truth, the reason for this being 
 that the belief in matter, sin, and disease is so 
 fixed in the human consciousness that a specific 
 denial helps to weaken and destroy that belief.*^ 
 This denial can be made only from the basis of 
 spiritual truth; it is but the reverse side of the 
 declaration of truth, and it is the truth alone, not 
 the denial of error, which heals. ^Indeed, the key- 
 note of Christian Science healing is the knowing 
 of the allness of Spirit and the nothingness of 
 matter. ^ 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 To epitomize : ' In Christian Science healing we 
 must first know the nature and character of divine 
 reality, then see that what is termed material ex- 
 istence is wholly mental, and that sin, disease, and 
 death are not of God, but are manifestations of 
 erroneous states of human consciousness, and 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 27 
 
 therefore neither true nor authoritative K*^e thus 
 perceive that we do not have to be sick, for God 
 did not make us so.» When spiritual knowing 
 dominates consciousness, the error-banishing 
 influence of divine Truth and Love establishes 
 harmony. 
 
 As with the healing of sickness, so is it with the 
 healing of sin, the overcoming of evil. We must 
 see that it is not of God, divine Mind; that it is 
 therefore unreal and powerless and no part of 
 man. This correction of thought with spiritual 
 truth destroys the error, the impulse to do wrong. 
 Sin causes suffering so long as it is believed and 
 indulged in ; but when sin is mastered and the evil 
 thought destroyed, man is set free from this bond- 
 age and begins to experience the promised liberty 
 of the sons of God. 
 
 ^Christian Science is thus seen to be reformatory- 
 and regenerative. It uplifts consciousness, brings 
 man nearer to God, and makes him better 
 acquainted with his own true selfhood." It improves 
 him morally and physically, which improvement 
 continues as his spiritual development progresses. 
 To the Ephesians, St. Paul writes : "This I say 
 therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye hence- 
 forth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity 
 of their mind, having the understanding darkened, 
 being alienated from the life of God through the 
 ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness 
 of their heart: . . . that ye put off concerning 
 
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 the former conversation the old man [material 
 consciousness], which is corrupt according to the 
 deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of 
 your mind; and that ye put on the new man 
 [spiritual consciousness], which after God is cre- 
 ated in righteousness and true holiness." Chris- 
 tian Science makes it possible for us all to begin to 
 do this today. 
 
 Finally it must be understood that Christian 
 Science healing is not a mere mental method, re- 
 quiring simply the entertainment and repetition 
 of certain thoughts. Being scientific, it calls for 
 accurate, logical, metaphysical reasoning and 
 analysis, a correct mental application of divine 
 Principle; Above all, it demands a clear realiza- 
 tion of the allness of God, Spirit, and the noth- 
 ingness of His opposite, evil and matter. Divine 
 Love alone makes this spiritual illumination pos- 
 sible, for Love is the real healer in Christian 
 Science. 
 
 MES. eddy's discovery 
 
 It is important to recognize that Christian 
 Science, the demonstrable knowledge of the Christ- 
 teaching, is a discovery, not an invention. This 
 notable discovery was made by Mrs. Eddy in 1866, 
 and it was proclaimed to the world in her great 
 work, "Science and Health with Key to the 
 Scriptures," which was first published in 1875. 
 This book contains a complete statement of the 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 29 
 
 teachings and practice of Christian Science. It 
 interprets the Bible so that it can be understood, 
 its redemptive truth be practically utilized. Very 
 many have been healed of organic, structural, and 
 functional diseases, as well as of sin, while reading 
 this book. I know this to be true, for I have per- 
 sonally investigated many such cases. 
 
 This healing is explained by the fact that 
 spiritual truth, touching a receptive consciousness, 
 and perchance entertained there, brings about a 
 change in thought by correcting erroneous con- 
 cepts. It thereby establishes harmony on a 
 spiritual basis, and this harmonious consciousness 
 is externalized as a well body. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy was a woman of great moral cour- 
 age and possessed a very unusual degree of relig- 
 ious feeling. From childhood she was deeply inter- 
 ested in religious and philosophical subjects. She 
 was an earnest seeker for spiritual truth, and in 
 her search examined all channels which promised 
 to lead her into the light; but without avail, for 
 the truth was not to be found in human theories 
 and systems. Finally, when on a sick-bed, suf- 
 fering from a supposedly fatal accident, she was 
 suddenly made well as the truth of God's ever- 
 present healing power dawned upon her. She 
 realized that she had been healed through divine 
 influence, rmd at once entered upon a careful study 
 of Christ Jesus' words and works, that if possible 
 she might apprehend the Science underlying this 
 
80 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING: 
 
 healing truth, with the view of giving it to a long- 
 suffering world. 
 
 My acquaintance with Mrs. Eddy for many 
 years, besides my association with her on many 
 occasions, enables me to speak of her exalted 
 Christian character. Tenacious adherence to her 
 highest concept of spiritual truth, consecration to 
 the work of establishing this truth, spiritual wis- 
 dom in leading and directing this great Christian 
 movement, unfeigned love for God, for His Christ, 
 and for all mankind, — these were dominant traits 
 of character in the great yet gentle woman who 
 discovered and established Christian Science. The 
 modern wise men should say of her as was said of 
 old : "Give her of the fruit of her hands ; and let 
 her own works praise her in the gates." One of 
 Mrs. Eddy's greatest achievements was this: she 
 proved the Bible to be true by demonstrating that 
 its teachings are applicable today; and for this 
 scientific illumination of the divine Word the whole 
 world owes her a lasting debt of gratitude. 
 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 ^ Those who question Christian Science healing 
 should ask themselves whether they really believe 
 in the healing work done by Christ Jesus and his 
 disciples. ^ If they do not thoroughly believe in the 
 spiritual power exercised over material conditions, 
 and its possible availability for all time, as de- 
 clared in the Bible, then their opposition is not to 
 
SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC 81 
 
 Christian Science, but to the Christianity which 
 Jesus taught and practised. Christian Science 
 stands ready to come to their rescue and to bring 
 an elucidation of Jesus' teachings which will result 
 in blessings such as they have never before believed 
 possible. Those who have not read the New Testa- 
 ment recently, will do well to do so. Let me ask 
 them to read at least one of the gospels, also the 
 book of the Acts of the Apostles, which record the 
 healing done by Christ Jesus and his followers of 
 that day, and which are verified by the works of 
 Christian Science today. 
 
 The fact that Christian Scientists do not yet 
 do all the wonderful works that Jesus did, is a 
 cause for regret, but not for discouragement or 
 criticism. We are glad that Jesus' work proves 
 Christian Science to be true, and that Mrs. Eddy 
 rediscovered the Science of Christian healing and 
 has given it to the world. This healing is possible 
 in proportion to our spiritual understanding. 
 
 In Science and Health (pp. 42, 44, 45), Mrs. 
 Eddy writes : "The resurrection of the great 
 demonstrator of God's power was the proof of his 
 final triumph over body and matter, and gave full 
 evidence of divine Science, — evidence so important 
 to mortals." "He proved Life to be deathless and 
 Love to be the master of hate. He met and mas- 
 tered on the basis of Christian Science, the power 
 of Mind over matter, all the claims of medicine, 
 surgery, and hygiene." "Jesus' deed was for the 
 
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 enlightenment of men and for the salvation of the 
 whole world from sin, sickness, and death." 
 
 Do medicine, surgery, physiology, chemistry, 
 and physics aid us in understanding Jesus' great 
 work for humanity? Do they bring us such en- 
 lightenment and salvation? Do they show us a 
 better way? If not, where should we place our 
 faith? 
 
 In closing, ' let me recommend that when the 
 temptation comes to believe the arguments of 
 suffering or sin, it is well to stop a moment and 
 think; well to know that they do not come from 
 God, that He does not cause or support them, 
 therefore they are not true, and we do not have to 
 believe in them or be governed by themV When we 
 recognize disease as mental and false, and realize 
 that man is God's spiritual idea, governed by His 
 love, we begin to experience harmony, something 
 of the peace "which passeth all understanding," 
 and this will increase in proportion as our under- 
 standing increases. Christian Science makes this 
 possible today. 
 
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