to the liberty of which he has been unjustly deprived.
436:1 The principal witness (the officer of the Health-laws) deposed that he was an eye-witness to the good deeds for 436:3 which Mortal Man is under sentence of death. After be- traying him into the hands of your law, the Health-agent disappeared, to reappear however at the trial as a witness 436:6 against Mortal Man and in the interest of Personal Sense, a murderer. Your Supreme Court must find the pris- oner on the night of the alleged offence to have been acting 436:9 within the limits of the divine law, and in obedience thereto. Upon this statute hangs all the law and testimony. Giving a cup of cold water in Christ’s name, is a Christian 436:12 service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man should find it again. Such acts bear their own justifica- tion, and are under the protection of the Most High.
436:15 Prior to the night of his arrest, the prisoner summoned two professed friends, Materia Medica and Physiology, to prevent his committing liver-complaint, and thus save him 436:18 from arrest. But they brought with them Fear, the sheriff, to precipitate the result which they were called to prevent. It was Fear who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now 436:21 punish him. You have left Mortal Man no alternative. He must obey your law, fear its consequences, and be pun- ished for his fear. His friends struggled hard to rescue the 436:24 prisoner from the penalty they considered justly due, but they were compelled to let him be taken into custody, tried, and condemned. Thereupon Judge Medicine sat in judg- 436:27 ment on the case, and substantially charged the jury, twelve Mortal Minds, to find the prisoner guilty. His Honor sen- tenced Mortal Man to die for the very deeds which the di- 436:30 vine law compels man to commit. Thus the Court of Error construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedi- ence to the law of Life. Claiming to protect Mortal Man 436:33 in right-doing, that court pronounced a sentence of death for doing right.
One of the principal witnesses, Nerve, testified that he 437:1 was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides. He also testified that he was on intimate terms with the 437:3 plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful; that he knew Man, and that Man was made in the image of God, but was a criminal. This is a foul aspersion on man’s 437:6 Maker. It blots the fair escutcheon of omnipotence. It in- dicates malice aforethought, a determination to condemn Man in the interest of Personal Sense. At the bar of Truth, 437:9 in the presence of divine Justice, before the Judge of our higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness, 437:12 Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be a false witness.
Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected; 437:15 Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a criminal though recommended to mercy; the helpless innocent body tor- tured, – these are the terrible records of your Court of 437:18 Error, and I ask that the Supreme Court of Spirit reverse this decision.
Here the opposing counsel, False Belief, called Chris- 437:21 tian Science to order for contempt of court. Various notables – Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Scho- lastic Theology, and Jurisprudence – rose to the ques- 437:24 tion of expelling Christian Science from the bar, for such high-handed illegality. They declared that Christian Sci- ence was overthrowing the judicial proceedings of a regu- 437:27 larly constituted court.
But Judge Justice of the Supreme Court of Spirit over- ruled their motions on the ground that unjust usages 437:30 were not allowed at the bar of Truth, which ranks above the lower Court of Error.
The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the 437:33 supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the 438:1 Rights of Man, remarking, that the Bible was better au- thority than Blackstone: –
438:3 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion.
Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power 438:6 of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to 438:9 be a perjurer. Instead of being a ruler in the Province of Body, in which Mortal Man was reported to reside, Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false 438:12 claims to office and bearing false witness against Man. Turning suddenly to Personal Sense, by this time silent, Christian Science continued: –
438:15 I ask your arrest in the name of Almighty God on three distinct charges of crime, to wit: perjury, treason, and con- spiracy against the rights and life of man.
438:18 Then Christian Science continued:
Another witness, equally inadequate, said that on the night of the crime a garment of foul fur was spread over 438:21 him by Morbid Secretion, while the facts in the case show that this fur is a foreign substance, imported by False Be- lief, the attorney for Personal Sense, who is in partnership 438:24 with Error and smuggles Error’s goods into market with- out the inspection of Soul’s government officers. When the Court of Truth summoned Furred Tongue for examina- 438:27 tion, he disappeared and was never heard of more.
Morbid Secretion is not an importer or dealer in fur, but we have heard Materia Medica explain how this fur is 438:30 manufactured, and we know Morbid Secretion to be on friendly terms with the firm of Personal Sense, Error, & 439:1 Co., receiving pay from them and introducing their goods into the market. Also, be it known that False Belief, the 439:3 counsel for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, is a buyer for this firm. He manufactures for it, keeps a furnishing store, and advertises largely for his employers.
439:6 Death testified that he was absent from the Province of Body, when a message came from False Belief, command- ing him to take part in the homicide. At this request 439:9 Death repaired to the spot where the liver-complaint was in process, frightening away Materia Medica, who was then manacling the prisoner in the attempt to save him. True, 439:12 Materia Medica was a misguided participant in the misdeed for which the Health-officer had Mortal Man in custody, though Mortal Man was innocent.
439:15 Christian Science turned from the abashed witnesses, his words flashing as lightning in the perturbed faces of these worthies, Scholastic Theology, Materia Medica, 439:18 Physiology, the blind Hypnotism, and the masked Per- sonal Sense, and said: –
God will smite you, O whited walls, for injuring in your 439:21 ignorance the unfortunate Mortal Man who sought your aid in his struggles against liver-complaint and Death. You came to his rescue, only to fasten upon him an offence 439:24 of which he was innocent. You aided and abetted Fear and Health-laws. You betrayed Mortal Man, meanwhile declaring Disease to be God’s servant and the righteous 439:27 executor of His laws. Our higher statutes declare you all, witnesses, jurors, and judges, to be offenders, awaiting the sentence which General Progress and Divine Love will 439:30 pronounce.
We send our best detectives to whatever locality is re- ported to be haunted by Disease, but on visiting the spot, 439:33 they learn that Disease was never there, for he could not 440:1 possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors, when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic 440:3 disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machina- tions of the counsel, False Belief, whom Truth arraigns before the supreme bar of Spirit to answer for his crime. 440:6 Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason before sacrificing mortals to their false gods.
Mortal Minds were deceived by your attorney, False Be- 440:9 lief, and were influenced to give a verdict delivering Mortal Man to Death. Good deeds are transformed into crimes, to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice 440:12 can render disobedience to the so-called laws of Matter disobedience to God, or an act of homicide. Even penal law holds homicide, under stress of circumstances, to be 440:15 justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed have, than that it is for the good of one’s neighbor? Where- fore, then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence 440:18 Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellow-man in obedience to divine law? You cannot trample upon the decree of the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man has his appeal 440:21 to Spirit, God, who sentences only for sin.
The false and unjust beliefs of your human mental legis- lators compel them to enact wicked laws of sickness and so 440:24 forth, and then render obedience to these laws punishable as crime. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, stand- ing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine 440:27 statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal Sense. I ask that he be forbidden to enter against Mortal Man any more suits to be tried at the Court of Material Error. 440:30 I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been deprived.
Charge of the Chief Justice
440:33 Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing 441:1 presence, comprehending and defining all law and evi- dence, explained from his statute-book, the 441:3 Bible, that any so-called law, which under- takes to punish aught but sin, is null and void.
He also decided that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, be 441:6 not permitted to enter any suits at the bar of Soul, but be enjoined to keep perpetual silence, and in case of temptation, to give heavy bonds for good behavior. He 441:9 concluded his charge thus: –
The plea of False Belief we deem unworthy of a hearing. Let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into 441:12 oblivion, “unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.” Accord- ing to our statute, Material Law is a liar who cannot bear witness against Mortal Man, neither can Fear arrest Mortal 441:15 Man nor can Disease cast him into prison. Our law refuses to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him to be for- ever in the image and likeness of his Maker. Reversing the 441:18 testimony of Personal Sense and the decrees of the Court of Error in favor of Matter, Spirit decides in favor of Man and against Matter. We further recommend that Materia 441:21 Medica adopt Christian Science and that Health-laws, Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Oriental Witchcraft, and Esoteric Magic be publicly executed at the hands of our sheriff, 441:24 Progress.
The Supreme Bench decides in favor of intelligence, that no law outside of divine Mind can punish or reward Mortal 441:27 Man. Your personal jurors in the Court of Error are myths. Your attorney, False Belief, is an impostor, per- suading Mortal Minds to return a verdict contrary to law 441:30 and gospel. The plaintiff, Personal Sense, is recorded in our Book of books as a liar. Our great Teacher of mental jurisprudence speaks of him also as “a murderer from the 441:33 beginning.” We have no trials for sickness before the tri- 442:1 bunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such 442:3 laws. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Divine verdict
The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a 442:6 verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience- chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free. 442:9 We noticed, as he shook hands with his counsel, Chris- tian Science, that all sallowness and debility had dis- appeared. His form was erect and commanding, his 442:12 countenance beaming with health and happiness. Divine Love had cast out fear. Mortal Man, no longer sick and in prison, walked forth, his feet “beautiful upon the 442:15 mountains,” as of one “that bringeth good tidings.”
Christ the great physician
Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot 442:18 be reversed, but the reverse of error is true. An improved belief cannot retrograde. When Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into 442:21 a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand- ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the ma- 442:24 terial, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:” Jesus 442:27 said, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This truth is Christian Science.
442:30 Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake.
CHAPTER XIII – TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. – PROVERBS.
Study of medicine
443:1 WHEN the discoverer of Christian Science is con- sulted by her followers as to the propriety, advan- 443:3 tage, and consistency of systematic medical study, she tries to show them that under ordi- nary circumstances a resort to faith in corporeal means 443:6 tends to deter those, who make such a compromise, from entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as really possessing all power. While a course of medical study is at times 443:9 severely condemned by some Scientists, she feels, as she always has felt, that all are privileged to work out their own salvation according to their light, and that our motto 443:12 should be the Master’s counsel, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
Failure’s lessons
If patients fail to experience the healing power of 443:15 Christian Science, and think they can be benefited by certain ordinary physical methods of medical treatment, then the Mind-physician should 443:18 give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief. Thus such invalids may learn the value of the apostolic 443:21 precept: “Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” If the sick find these material expedients 444:1 unsatisfactory, and they receive no help from them, these very failures may open their blind eyes. In some way, 444:3 sooner or later, all must rise superior to materiality, and suffering is oft the divine agent in this elevation. “All things work together for good to them that love God,” is 444:6 the dictum of Scripture.
Refuge and strength
If Christian Scientists ever fail to receive aid from other Scientists, – their brethren upon whom they may 444:9 call, – God will still guide them into the right use of temporary and eternal means. Step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge 444:12 and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Charity to those opposed
Students are advised by the author to be charitable and kind, not only towards differing forms of religion 444:15 and medicine, but to those who hold these dif- fering opinions. Let us be faithful in pointing the way through Christ, as we understand it, 444:18 but let us also be careful always to “judge righteous judg- ment,” and never to condemn rashly. “Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” 444:21 That is, Fear not that he will smite thee again for thy for- bearance. If ecclesiastical sects or medical schools turn a deaf ear to the teachings of Christian Science, then part 444:24 from these opponents as did Abraham when he parted from Lot, and say in thy heart: “Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between My herd- 444:27 men and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.” Immortals, or God’s children in divine Science, are one harmonious family; but mortals, or the “children of men” in material 444:30 sense, are discordant and ofttimes false brethren.
Conforming to explicit rules
The teacher must make clear to students the Science of healing, especially its ethics, – that all is Mind, and 445:1 that the Scientist must conform to God’s requirements. Also the teacher must thoroughly fit his students to defend 445:3 themselves against sin, and to guard against the attacks of the would-be _mental assassin_, who attempts to kill morally and physically. No 445:6 hypothesis as to the existence of another power should interpose a doubt or fear to hinder the demonstration of Christian Science. Unfold the latent energies and capac- 445:9 ities for good in your pupil. Teach the great possibilities of man endued with divine Science. Teach the dangerous possibility of dwarfing the spiritual understanding and 445:12 demonstration of Truth by sin, or by recourse to material means for healing. Teach the meekness and might of life “hid with Christ in God,” and there will be no desire for 445:15 other healing methods. You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit in any direction of 445:18 thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.
Divine energy
Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion 445:21 of the divine energy in healing the sick. Self- seeking, envy, passion, pride, hatred, and revenge are cast out by the divine Mind which heals 445:24 disease. The human will which maketh and worketh a lie, hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to health, and is the cause of disease rather than its cure.
Blight of avarice
445:27 There is great danger in teaching Mind-healing indis- criminately, thus disregarding the morals of the student and caring only for the fees. Recalling Jeffer- 445:30 son’s words about slavery, “I tremble, when I remember that God is just,” the author trembles whenever she sees a man, for the petty consideration of money, 446:1 teaching his slight knowledge of Mind-power, – per- haps communicating his own bad morals, and in this way 446:3 dealing pitilessly with a community unprepared for self- defence.
A thorough perusal of the author’s publications heals 446:6 sickness. If patients sometimes seem worse while read- ing this book, the change may either arise from the alarm of the physician, or it may mark the crisis of the disease. 446:9 Perseverance in the perusal of the book has generally completely healed such cases.
Exclusion of malpractice
Whoever practises the Science the author teaches, 446:12 through which Mind pours light and healing upon this generation, can practise on no one from sin- ister or malicious motives without destroying 446:15 his own power to heal and his own health. Good must dominate in the thoughts of the healer, or his demon- stration is protracted, dangerous, and impossible in Sci- 446:18 ence. A wrong motive involves defeat. In the Science of Mind-healing, it is imperative to be honest, for victory rests on the side of immutable right. To understand 446:21 God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and verifies Jesus’ word: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
Iniquity overcome
446:24 Resisting evil, you overcome it and prove its nothing- ness. Not human platitudes, but divine beatitudes, re- flect the spiritual light and might which heal 446:27 the sick. The exercise of will brings on a hypnotic state, detrimental to health and integrity of thought. This must therefore be watched and guarded 446:30 against. Covering iniquity will prevent prosperity and the ultimate triumph of any cause. Ignorance of the error to be eradicated oftentimes subjects you to its abuse.
No trespass on human rights
447:1 The heavenly law is broken by trespassing upon man’s individual right of self-government. We have no 447:3 authority in Christian Science and no moral right to attempt to influence the thoughts of others, except it be to benefit them. In men- 447:6 tal practice you must not forget that erring human opin- ions, conflicting selfish motives, and ignorant attempts to do good may render you incapable of knowing or 447:9 judging accurately the need of your fellow-men. There- fore the rule is, heal the sick when called upon for aid, and save the victims of the mental assassins.
Expose sin without believing in it
447:12 Ignorance, subtlety, or false charity does not for- ever conceal error; evil will in time disclose and pun- ish itself. The recuperative action of the 447:15 system, when mentally sustained by Truth, goes on naturally. When sin or sickness – the reverse of harmony – seems true to material sense, 447:18 impart without frightening or discouraging the pa- tient the truth and spiritual understanding, which de- stroy disease. Expose and denounce the claims of 447:21 evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no reality in them. A sinner is not reformed merely by assuring him that he cannot be a sinner because 447:24 there is no sin. To put down the claim of sin, you must detect it, remove the mask, point out the illusion, and thus get the victory over sin and so prove 447:27 its unreality. The sick are not healed merely by declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing that there is none.
Wicked evasions
447:30 A sinner is afraid to cast the first stone. He may say, as a subterfuge, that evil is unreal, but to know it, he must demonstrate his statement. To assume that 448:1 there are no claims of evil and yet to indulge them, is a moral offence. Blindness and self-righteousness cling 448:3 fast to iniquity. When the Publican’s wail went out to the great heart of Love, it won his humble desire. Evil which obtains in the bodily senses, 448:6 but which the heart condemns, has no foundation; but if evil is uncondemned, it is undenied and nurtured. Under such circumstances, to say that there is no evil, is an evil 448:9 in itself. When needed tell the truth concerning the lie. Evasion of Truth cripples integrity, and casts thee down from the pinnacle.
Truth’s grand results
448:12 Christian Science rises above the evidence of the cor- poreal senses; but if you have not risen above sin your- self, do not congratulate yourself upon your 448:15 blindness to evil or upon the good you know and _do_ not. A dishonest position is far from Christianly scientific. “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: 448:18 but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Try to leave on every student’s mind the strong impress of divine Science, a high sense of the moral and 448:21 spiritual qualifications requisite for healing, well knowing it to be impossible for error, evil, and hate to accomplish the grand results of Truth and Love. The reception or 448:24 pursuit of instructions opposite to absolute Christian Science must always hinder scientific demonstration.
Adherence to righteousness
If the student adheres strictly to the teachings of Chris- 448:27 tian Science and ventures not to break its rules, he can- not fail of success in healing. It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right- 448:30 doing has any claim to the name. To talk the right and live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one’s self the most harm. Fettered by sin yourself, it is difficult to free 449:1 another from the fetters of disease. With your own wrists manacled, it is hard to break another’s chains. A little 449:3 leaven causes the whole mass to ferment. A grain of Christian Science does wonders for mortals, so omnip- otent is Truth, but more of Christian Science must be 449:6 gained in order to continue in well doing.
Right adjusts the balance
The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one’s self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later. 449:9 Think it “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,” than for you to benefit yourself by injuring others. Man’s moral mercury, ris- 449:12 ing or falling, registers his healing ability and fitness to teach. You should practise well what you know, and you will then advance in proportion to your honesty 449:15 and fidelity, – qualities which insure success in this Science; but it requires a higher understanding to teach this subject properly and correctly than it does to heal 449:18 the most difficult case.
Inoculation of thought
The baneful effect of evil associates is less seen than felt. The inoculation of evil human thoughts ought to 449:21 be understood and guarded against. The first impression, made on a mind which is attracted or repelled according to personal merit or de- 449:24 merit, is a good detective of individual character. Cer- tain minds meet only to separate through simultaneous repulsion. They are enemies without the preliminary 449:27 offence. The impure are at peace with the impure. Only virtue is a rebuke to vice. A proper teacher of Chris- tian Science improves the health and the morals of his 449:30 student if the student practises what he is taught, and unless this result follows, the teacher is a Scientist only in name.
Three classes of neophytes
450:1 There is a large class of thinkers whose bigotry and conceit twist every fact to suit themselves. Their creed 450:3 teaches belief in a mysterious, supernatural God, and in a natural, all-powerful devil. An- other class, still more unfortunate, are so depraved that 450:6 they appear to be innocent. They utter a falsehood, while looking you blandly in the face, and they never fail to stab their benefactor in the back. A third class 450:9 of thinkers build with solid masonry. They are sincere, generous, noble, and are therefore open to the approach and recognition of Truth. To teach Christian Science 450:12 to such as these is no task. They do not incline long- ingly to error, whine over the demands of Truth, nor play the traitor for place and power.
Touchstone of Science
450:15 Some people yield slowly to the touch of Truth. Few yield without a struggle, and many are reluctant to ac- knowledge that they have yielded; but un- 450:18 less this admission is made, evil will boast itself above good. The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome 450:21 them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good. Sickness to him is no less a temptation than is sin, and he heals them both by understanding 450:24 God’s power over them. The Christian Scientist knows that they are errors of belief, which Truth can and will destroy.
False claims annihilated
450:27 Who, that has felt the perilous beliefs in life, substance, and intelligence separated from God, can say that there is no error of belief? Knowing the claim of 450:30 animal magnetism, that all evil combines in the belief of life, substance, and intelligence in matter, electricity, animal nature, and organic life, who will deny 451:1 that these are the errors which Truth must and will an- nihilate? Christian Scientists must live under the con- 451:3 stant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate. They must re- nounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power. 451:6 Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow, must be their queen of life.
Treasure in heaven
Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter 451:9 and think to succeed without the spirit, will either make shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly awry. They must not only seek, but strive, 451:12 to enter the narrow path of Life, for “wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.” Man walks in the 451:15 direction towards which he looks, and where his treasure is, there will his heart be also. If our hopes and affec- tions are spiritual, they come from above, not from be- 451:18 neath, and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit.
Obligations of teachers
Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will 451:21 is not Christian Science, and he must recog- nize this in order to defend himself from the influence of human will. He feels morally obligated to 451:24 open the eyes of his students that they may perceive the nature and methods of error of every sort, especially any subtle degree of evil, deceived and deceiving. All mental 451:27 malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling another from wrong motives, and it is practised either 451:30 with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.
Indispensable defence
Show your student that mental malpractice tends to blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct 452:1 him how to bar the door of his thought against this seeming power, – a task not difficult, when one under- 452:3 stands that evil has in reality no power. Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error. The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a 452:6 chance to manifest itself.
Egotistic darkness
Walking in the light, we are accustomed to the light and require it; we cannot see in darkness. But eyes ac- 452:9 customed to darkness are pained by the light. When outgrowing the old, you should not fear to put on the new. Your advancing course may pro- 452:12 voke envy, but it will also attract respect. When error confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explana- tion which destroys error. Never breathe an immoral 452:15 atmosphere, unless in the attempt to purify it. Better is the frugal intellectual repast with contentment and virtue, than the luxury of learning with egotism and vice.
Unwarranted expectations
452:18 Right is radical. The teacher must know the truth himself. He must live it and love it, or he cannot impart it to others. We soil our garments with con- 452:21 servatism, and afterwards we must wash them clean. When the spiritual sense of Truth unfolds its harmonies, you take no risks in the policy of error. Ex- 452:24 pect to heal simply by repeating the author’s words, by right talking and wrong acting, and you will be disap- pointed. Such a practice does not demonstrate the 452:27 Science by which divine Mind heals the sick.
Reliable authority
Acting from sinful motives destroys your power of healing from the right motive. On the other hand, if 452:30 you had the inclination or power to practise wrongly and then should adopt Christian Science, the wrong power would be destroyed. You do 453:1 not deny the mathematician’s right to distinguish the cor- rect from the incorrect among the examples on the black- 453:3 board, nor disbelieve the musician when he distinguishes concord from discord. In like manner it should be granted that the author understands what she is saying.
Winning the field
453:6 Right and wrong, truth and error, will be at strife in the minds of students, until victory rests on the side of invincible truth. Mental chemicalization fol- 453:9 lows the explanation of Truth, and a higher basis is thus won; but with some individuals the morbid moral or physical symptoms constantly reappear. I 453:12 have never witnessed so decided effects from the use of material remedies as from the use of spiritual.
Knowledge and honesty
Teach your student that he must know himself be- 453:15 fore he can know others and minister to human needs. Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help. 453:18 You uncover sin, not in order to injure, but in order to bless the corporeal man; and a right motive has its reward. Hidden sin is spiritual wickedness in high 453:21 places. The masquerader in this Science thanks God that there is no evil, yet serves evil in the name of good.
Metaphysical treatment
453:24 You should treat sickness mentally just as you would sin, except that you must not tell the patient that he is sick nor give names to diseases, for such a 453:27 course increases fear, the foundation of dis- ease, and impresses more deeply the wrong mind-picture. A Christian Scientist’s medicine is Mind, the divine Truth 453:30 that makes man free. A Christian Scientist never recom- mends material hygiene, never manipulates. He does not trespass on the rights of mind nor can he practise 454:1 animal magnetism or hypnotism. It need not be added that the use of tobacco or intoxicating drinks is not in 454:3 harmony with Christian Science.
Impotence of hate
Teach your students the omnipotence of Truth, which illustrates the impotence of error. The understanding, 454:6 even in a degree, of the divine All-power de- stroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, – the path which leads to the house built without hands 454:9 “eternal in the heavens.” Human hate has no legiti- mate mandate and no kingdom. Love is enthroned. That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power, 454:12 is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science, and this is the great truth which strips all disguise from error.
Love the incentive
He, who understands in sufficient degree the Princi- 454:15 ple of Mind-healing, points out to his student error as well as truth, the wrong as well as the right practice. Love for God and man is the true 454:18 incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to 454:21 speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. 454:24 Patience must “have her perfect work.”
Continuity of interest
Do not dismiss students at the close of a class term, feeling that you have no more to do for them. Let your 454:27 loving care and counsel support all their feeble footsteps, until your students tread firmly in the straight and narrow way. The superiority of spir- 454:30 itual power over sensuous is the central point of Chris- tian Science. Remember that the letter and mental argument are only human auxiliaries to aid in bringing 455:1 thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love, which heals the sick and the sinner.
Weakness and guilt
455:3 A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt or a faltering and doubting trust in Truth are unsuitable conditions for healing the sick. Such mental 455:6 states indicate weakness instead of strength. Hence the necessity of being right yourself in order to teach this Science of healing. You must utilize the moral 455:9 might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error and support your claims by demonstration. If you are yourself lost in the belief and fear of disease or sin, and 455:12 if, knowing the remedy, you fail to use the energies of Mind in your own behalf, you can exercise little or no power for others’ help. “First cast out the beam out 455:15 of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
The trust of the All-wise
The student, who receives his knowledge of Christian 455:18 Science, or metaphysical healing, from a human teacher, may be mistaken in judgment and demonstra- tion, but God cannot mistake. God selects 455:21 for the highest service one who has grown into such a fitness for it as renders any abuse of the mission an im- possibility. The All-wise does not bestow His highest 455:24 trusts upon the unworthy. When He commissions a mes- senger, it is one who is spiritually near Himself. No per- son can misuse this mental power, if he is taught of God 455:27 to discern it.
Integrity assured
This strong point in Christian Science is not to be overlooked, – that the same fountain cannot send forth 455:30 both sweet waters and bitter. The higher your attainment in the Science of mental healing and teaching, the more impossible it will be- 456:1 come for you intentionally to influence mankind adverse to its highest hope and achievement.
Chicanery impossible
456:3 Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but con- trary to its spirit or rules, is most dangerous quackery. Strict adherence to the divine Principle and 456:6 rules of the scientific method has secured the only success of the students of Christian Science. This alone entitles them to the high standing which 456:9 most of them hold in the community, a reputation ex- perimentally justified by their efforts. Whoever af- firms that there is more than one Principle and method 456:12 of demonstrating Christian Science greatly errs, igno- rantly or intentionally, and separates himself from the true conception of Christian Science healing and from 456:15 its possible demonstration.
No dishonest concessions
Any dishonesty in your theory and practice betrays a gross ignorance of the method of the Christ-cure. Science 456:18 makes no concessions to persons or opinions. One must abide in the _morale_ of truth or he cannot demonstrate the divine Principle. So long as 456:21 matter is the basis of practice, illness cannot be effica- ciously treated by the metaphysical process. Truth does the work, and you must both understand and abide by the 456:24 divine Principle of your demonstration.
This volume indispensable
A Christian Scientist requires my work SCIENCE AND HEALTH for his textbook, and so do all his students and 456:27 patients. Why? _First_: Because it is the voice of Truth to this age, and contains the full statement of Christian Science, or the Science of healing 456:30 through Mind. _Second_: Because it was the first book known, containing a thorough statement of Christian Science. Hence it gave the first rules for demonstrating 457:1 this Science, and registered the revealed Truth uncon- taminated by human hypotheses. Other works, which 457:3 have borrowed from this book without giving it credit, have adulterated the Science. _Third_: Because this book has done more for teacher and student, for healer and 457:6 patient, than has been accomplished by other books.
Purity of science
Since the divine light of Christian Science first dawned upon the author, she has never used this newly discovered 457:9 power in any direction which she fears to have fairly understood. Her prime object, since entering this field of labor, has been to prevent suffering, 457:12 not to produce it. That we cannot scientifically both cure and cause disease is self-evident. In the legend of the shield, which led to a quarrel between two knights 457:15 because each of them could see but one face of it, both sides were beautiful according to their degree; but to mental malpractice, prolific of evil, there is no good as- 457:18 pect, either silvern or golden.
Backsliders and mistakes
Christian Science is not an exception to the general rule, that there is no excellence without labor in a direct 457:21 line. One cannot scatter his fire, and at the same time hit the mark. To pursue other vocations and advance rapidly in the demonstration of 457:24 this Science, is not possible. Departing from Christian Science, some learners commend diet and hygiene. They even practise these, intending thereby to initiate 457:27 the cure which they mean to complete with Mind, as if the non-intelligent could aid Mind! The Scientist’s demonstration rests on one Principle, and there must 457:30 and can be no opposite rule. Let this Principle be ap- plied to the cure of disease without exploiting other means.
Mental charlatanism
458:1 Mental quackery rests on the same platform as all other quackery. The chief plank in this platform is the 458:3 doctrine that Science has two principles in partnership, one good and the other evil, – one spiritual, the other material, – and that these two 458:6 may be simultaneously at work on the sick. This theory is supposed to favor practice from both a mental and a material standpoint. Another plank in the plat- 458:9 form is this, that error will finally have the same effect as truth.
Divinity ever ready
It is anything but scientifically Christian to think of 458:12 aiding the divine Principle of healing or of trying to sus- tain the human body until the divine Mind is ready to take the case. Divinity is always 458:15 ready. _Semper paratus_ is Truth’s motto. Having seen so much suffering from quackery, the author desires to keep it out of Christian Science. The two-edged sword 458:18 of Truth must turn in every direction to guard “the tree of life.”
The panoply of wisdom
Sin makes deadly thrusts at the Christian Scientist as 458:21 ritualism and creed are summoned to give place to higher law, but Science will ameliorate mortal malice. The Christianly scientific man reflects the 458:24 divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself. He does violence to no man. Neither is he a false accuser. The Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is hon- 458:27 est and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. He must prove, through living as well as heal- ing and teaching, that Christ’s way is the only one 458:30 by which mortals are radically saved from sin and sickness.
Advancement by sacrifice
Christianity causes men to turn naturally from matter 459:1 to Spirit, as the flower turns from darkness to light. Man then appropriates those things which “eye hath 459:3 not seen nor ear heard.” Paul and John had a clear apprehension that, as mortal man achieves no worldly honors except by sacrifice, 459:6 so he must gain heavenly riches by forsaking all worldli- ness. Then he will have nothing in common with the worldling’s affections, motives, and aims. Judge not the 459:9 future advancement of Christian Science by the steps already taken, lest you yourself be condemned for fail- ing to take the first step.
Dangerous knowledge
459:12 Any attempt to heal mortals with erring mortal mind, instead of resting on the omnipotence of the divine Mind, must prove abortive. Committing the 459:15 bare process of mental healing to frail mor- tals, untaught and unrestrained by Christian Science, is like putting a sharp knife into the hands of a blind 459:18 man or a raging maniac, and turning him loose in the crowded streets of a city. Whether animated by malice or ignorance, a false practitioner will work mis- 459:21 chief, and ignorance is more harmful than wilful wicked- ness, when the latter is distrusted and thwarted in its incipiency.
Certainty of results
459:24 To mortal sense Christian Science seems abstract, but the process is simple and the results are sure if the Science is understood. The tree must be good, which 459:27 produces good fruit. Guided by divine Truth and not guesswork, the _theologus_ (that is, the student – the Christian and scientific expounder – of the divine 459:30 law) treats disease with more certain results than any other healer on the globe. The Christian Scientist should understand and adhere strictly to the rules of divine meta- 460:1 physics as laid down in this work, and rest his demonstra- tion on this sure basis.
Ontology defined
460:3 Ontology is defined as “the science of the necessary constituents and relations of all beings,” and it under- lies all metaphysical practice. Our system of 460:6 Mind-healing rests on the apprehension of the nature and essence of all being, – on the divine Mind and Love’s essential qualities. Its pharmacy is moral, 460:9 and its medicine is intellectual and spiritual, though used for physical healing. Yet this most fundamental part of metaphysics is the one most difficult to understand and 460:12 demonstrate, for to the material thought all is material, till such thought is rectified by Spirit.
Mischievous imagination
Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal, – that is, 460:15 to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right ap- 460:18 prehension of the truth of being. If Christian healing is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a tedious mischief-maker. Instead of scientifically effect- 460:21 ing a cure, it starts a petty crossfire over every cripple and invalid, buffeting them with the superficial and cold assertion, “Nothing ails you.”
Author’s early instructions
460:24 When the Science of Mind was a fresh revelation to the author, she had to impart, while teaching its grand facts, the hue of spiritual ideas from her own 460:27 spiritual condition, and she had to do this orally through the meagre channel afforded by language and by her manuscript circulated among the students. As for- 460:30 mer beliefs were gradually expelled from her thought, the teaching became clearer, until finally the shadow of old errors was no longer cast upon divine Science.
Proof by induction
I do not maintain that anyone can exist in the flesh without food and raiment; but I do believe that the 461:3 real man is immortal and that he lives in Spirit, not matter. Christian Science must be accepted at this period by induction. We admit the 461:6 whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle. Christian Science can be taught only by those who are morally advanced and 461:9 spiritually endowed, for it is not superficial, nor is it discerned from the standpoint of the human senses. Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can 461:12 the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science, because Science reverses the evidence before the material senses and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and 461:15 man.
If you believe that you are sick, should you say, ” I am sick”? No, but you should tell your belief sometimes, 461:18 if this be requisite to protect others. If you commit a crime, should you acknowledge to yourself that you are a criminal? Yes. Your responses should differ because 461:21 of the different effects they produce. Usually to admit that you are sick, renders your case less curable, while to recognize your sin, aids in destroying it. Both sin and 461:24 sickness are error, and Truth is their remedy. The truth regarding error is, that error is not true, hence it is unreal. To prove scientifically the error or unreality of sin, you 461:27 must first see the claim of sin, and then destroy it. Whereas, to prove scientifically the error or unreality of disease, you must mentally unsee the disease; then you 461:30 will not feel it, and it is destroyed.
Rapidity of assimilation
Systematic teaching and the student’s spiritual growth and experience in practice are requisite for a thorough 462:1 comprehension of Christian Science. Some individu- als assimilate truth more readily than others, but any 462:3 student, who adheres to the divine rules of Christian Science and imbibes the spirit of Christ, can demonstrate Christian Science, cast out 462:6 error, heal the sick, and add continually to his store of spiritual understanding, potency, enlightenment, and success.
Divided loyalty
462:9 If the student goes away to practise Truth’s teach- ings only in part, dividing his interests between God and mammon and substituting his own views for 462:12 Truth, he will inevitably reap the error he sows. Whoever would demonstrate the healing of Christian Science must abide strictly by its rules, heed every state- 462:15 ment, and advance from the rudiments laid down. There is nothing difficult nor toilsome in this task, when the way is pointed out; but self-denial, sincerity, Christianity, and 462:18 persistence alone win the prize, as they usually do in every department of life.
Anatomy defined
Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self- 462:21 knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the 462:24 important question. This branch of study is indispen- sable to the excision of error. The anatomy of Christian Science teaches when and how to probe the self-in- 462:27 flicted wounds of selfishness, malice, envy, and hate. It teaches the control of mad ambition. It unfolds the hallowed influences of unselfishness, philanthropy, spir- 462:30 itual love. It urges the government of the body both in health and in sickness. The Christian Scientist, through understanding mental anatomy, discerns and 463:1 deals with the real cause of disease. The material physi- cian gropes among phenomena, which fluctuate every in- 463:3 stant under influences not embraced in his diagnosis, and so he may stumble and fall in the darkness.
Scientific obstetrics
Teacher and student should also be familiar with the 463:6 obstetrics taught by this Science. To attend properly the birth of the new child, or divine idea, you should so detach mortal thought from its 463:9 material conceptions, that the birth will be natural and safe. Though gathering new energy, this idea cannot injure its useful surroundings in the travail of spiritual 463:12 birth. A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive. The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is 463:15 clad in white garments. Its beginning will be meek, its growth sturdy, and its maturity undecaying. When this new birth takes place, the Christian Science infant 463:18 is born of the Spirit, born of God, and can cause the mother no more suffering. By this we know that Truth is here and has fulfilled its perfect work.
Unhesitating decision
463:21 To decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error – whether error is manifested in forms of sickness, sin, or death – is the first step towards destroy- 463:24 ing error. Our Master treated error through Mind. He never enjoined obedience to the laws of nature, if by these are meant laws of matter, nor did he use drugs. 463:27 There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material. The sick are not healed by inanimate matter or drugs, as they believe that they 463:30 are. Such seeming medical effect or action is that of so- called mortal mind.
Seclusion of the author
It has been said to the author, “The world is bene- 464:1 fited by you, but it feels your influence without seeing you. Why do you not make yourself more widely 464:3 known?” Could her friends know how little time the author has had, in which to make herself outwardly known except through her laborious 464:6 publications, – and how much time and toil are still re- quired to establish the stately operations of Christian Science, – they would understand why she is so secluded. 464:9 Others could not take her place, even if willing so to do. She therefore remains unseen at her post, seeking no self- aggrandizement but praying, watching, and working for 464:12 the redemption of mankind.
If from an injury or from any cause, a Christian Scien- tist were seized with pain so violent that he could not 464:15 treat himself mentally, – and the Scientists had failed to relieve him, – the sufferer could call a surgeon, who would give him a hypodermic injection, then, when the 464:18 belief of pain was lulled, he could handle his own case mentally. Thus it is that we “prove all things; [and] hold fast that which is good.”
The right motive and its reward
464:21 In founding a pathological system of Christianity, the author has labored to expound divine Principle, and not to exalt personality. The weapons of bigotry, 464:24 ignorance, envy, fall before an honest heart. Adulterating Christian Science, makes it void. Falsity has no foundation. “The hireling fleeth, because 464:27 he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.” Neither dishonesty nor ignorance ever founded, nor can they over- throw a scientific system of ethics.
CHAPTER XIV – RECAPITULATION
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. – ISAIAH.
465:1 THIS chapter is from the first edition of the author’s class-book, copyrighted in 1870. After much labor 465:3 and increased spiritual understanding, she revised that treatise for this volume in 1875. Absolute Christian Science pervades its statements, to elucidate scientific 465:6 metaphysics.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
_Question_. – What is God?
465:9 _Answer_. – God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
_Question_. – Are these terms synonymous? 465:12 _Answer_. – They are. They refer to one absolute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness of Deity. The attributes of God are justice, 465:15 mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on.
_Question_. – Is there more than one God or Principle? _Answer_. – There is not. Principle and its idea is one, 465:18 and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni- 466:1 present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe. _Omni_ is adopted from the Latin adjective signifying _all_. 466:3 Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifesta- tions of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter, 466:6 and have one Principle.
Real _versus_ unreal
_Question_. – What are spirits and souls? _Answer_. – To human belief, they are personalities 466:9 constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and error, good and evil; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as Chris- 466:12 tian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth is limitless; error is limited. Truth is intelligent; error 466:15 is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is unreal. This last statement contains the point you will most reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the 466:18 most important to understand.
Mankind redeemed
The term _souls_ or _spirits_ is as improper as the term _gods_. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. 466:21 There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and Jewish 466:24 theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence, soul, and life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism are the outcome of all man-made beliefs. The Science 466:27 of Christianity comes with fan in hand to separate the chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright, and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and 466:30 its divine Principle, making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually.
Two chief commands
467:1 _Question_. – What are the demands of the Science of Soul?
467:3 _Answer_. – The first demand of this Science is, ” Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” This _me_ is Spirit. Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt 467:6 have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” 467:9 It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact 467:12 becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother- hood of man will be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide 467:15 him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav- ing that Mind which was also in Christ.
Soul not confined in body
Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and 467:18 God as not in man but as reflected by man. The greater cannot be in the lesser. The belief that the greater can be in the lesser is an error that 467:21 works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Soul, that Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not confined in man, and is never in matter. We reason im- 467:24 perfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit; but _a priori_ reasoning shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives 467:27 the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind, through matter. Matter neither sees, hears, nor feels.
Sinlessness of Mind, Soul
Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, 467:30 we begin with Mind, which must be under- stood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we 468:1 arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human 468:3 illusions. If Soul sinned, it would be mortal, for sin is mortality’s self, because it kills itself. If Truth is im- mortal, error must be mortal, because error is unlike 468:6 Truth. Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for sin is not the eternal verity of being.
_Question_. – What is the scientific statement of being? 468:9 _Answer_. – There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor sub- stance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal 468:12 Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore 468:15 man is not material; he is spiritual.
Spiritual synonyms
_Question_. – What is substance?
_Answer_. – Substance is that which is eternal and inca- 468:18 pable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: “The substance of things hoped 468:21 for, the evidence of things not seen.” Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a com- 468:24 pound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit.
Eternity of Life
_Question_. – What is Life?
_Answer_. – Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit. 468:27 Life is without beginning and without end. Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in 468:30 proportion as the other is recognized. Time is finite; 469:1 eternity is forever infinite. Life is neither in nor of mat- ter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which 469:3 includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Mat- ter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not limited. Death and finiteness are unknown to Life. If 469:6 Life ever had a beginning, it would also have an ending.
_Question_. – What is intelligence? _Answer_. – Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, 469:9 and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle, – Life, Truth, and Love, – named God.
True sense of infinitude
469:12 _Question_. – What is Mind?
_Answer_. – Mind is God. The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the _only_ Mind, and 469:15 that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind – called _devil_ or evil – is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There 469:18 can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if 469:21 that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all 469:24 space is filled with God.
The sole governor
We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and 469:27 has all-power, we still believe there is another power, named _evil_. This belief that there is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology 469:30 as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With 470:1 one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, 470:3 the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science. The supposed existence of 470:6 more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an 470:9 unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and universal.
The divine standard of perfection
Divine Science explains the abstract statement that 470:12 there is one Mind by the following self-evident propo- sition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can 470:15 only seem to be real by giving reality to the unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, 470:18 never sins? The standard of perfection was originally God and man. Has God taken down His own standard, and has man fallen?
Indestructible relationship
470:21 God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression 470:24 of God’s being. If there ever was a moment when man did not express the divine perfec- tion, then there was a moment when man did not express 470:27 God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex- pressed – that is, without entity. If man has lost per- fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine 470:30 Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle or Mind, then man’s existence was a myth.
The relations of God and man, divine Principle and 471:1 idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine 471:3 order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He cre- ates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.
Celestial evidence
471:6 The unlikeness of Truth, – named _error_, – the op- posite of Science, and the evidence before the five cor- poreal senses, afford no indication of the grand 471:9 facts of being; even as these so-called senses receive no intimation of the earth’s motions or of the science of astronomy, but yield assent to astronomical 471:12 propositions on the authority of natural science.
The facts of divine Science should be admitted, – although the evidence as to these facts is not supported 471:15 by evil, by matter, or by material sense, – because the evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by spiritual sense. Man is, and forever has been, God’s re- 471:18 flection. God is infinite, therefore ever present, and there is no other power nor presence. Hence the spirit- uality of the universe is the only fact of creation. “Let 471:21 God be true, but every [material] man a liar.”
The test of experience
_Question_. – Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? _Answer_. – The author subscribed to an orthodox 471:24 creed in early youth, and tried to adhere to it until she caught the first gleam of that which inter- prets God as above mortal sense. This 471:27 view rebuked human beliefs, and gave the spiritual im- port, expressed through Science, of all that proceeds from the divine Mind. Since then her highest creed has 471:30 been divine Science, which, reduced to human apprehen- sion, she has named Christian Science. This Science 472:1 teaches man that God is the only Life, and that this Life is Truth and Love; that God is to be understood, adored, 472:3 and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out supposi- tional error and heals the sick.
God’s law destroys evil
The way which leads to Christian Science is straight 472:6 and narrow. God has set His signet upon Science, mak- ing it coordinate with all that is real and only with that which is harmonious and eternal. 472:9 Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government. His law, rightly understood, destroys them. Jesus furnished 472:12 proofs of these statements.
Evanescent materiality
_Question_. – What is error?
_Answer_. – Error is a supposition that pleasure and 472:15 pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in mat- ter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind’s faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. 472:18 Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which seemeth to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should 472:21 have a self-evident absurdity – namely, _erroneous truth_. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
Unrealities that seem real
_Question_. – Is there no sin?
472:24 _Answer_. – All reality is in God and His creation, har- monious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore 472:27 the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not 472:30 true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian 473:1 Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illu- sion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming 473:3 to be real and identical.
Christ the ideal Truth
The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God, is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are 473:6 to be classified as effects of error. Christ came to destroy the belief of sin. The God- principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every- 473:9 where, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes 473:12 all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who, more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroy- 473:15 ing the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ.
Jesus not God
473:18 In an age of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced the teaching and practice of Christianity, affording the proof of Christianity’s truth and love; but to 473:21 reach his example and to test its unerring Sci- ence according to his rule, healing sickness, sin, and death, a better understanding of God as divine Prin- 473:24 ciple, Love, rather than personality or the man Jesus, is required.
Jesus not understood
Jesus established what he said by demonstration, 473:27 thus making his acts of higher importance than his words. He proved what he taught. This is the Science of Christianity. Jesus _proved_ 473:30 the Principle, which heals the sick and casts out error, to be divine. Few, however, except his students un- derstood in the least his teachings and their glorious 474:1 proofs, – namely, that Life, Truth, and Love (the Prin- ciple of this unacknowledged Science) destroy all error, 474:3 evil, disease, and death.
Miracles rejected
The reception accorded to Truth in the early Chris- tian era is repeated to-day. Whoever introduces the 474:6 Science of Christianity will be scoffed at and scourged with worse cords than those which cut the flesh. To the ignorant age in which it first 474:9 appears, Science seems to be a mistake, – hence the misinterpretation and consequent maltreatment which it receives. Christian marvels (and _marvel_ is the sim- 474:12 ple meaning of the Greek word rendered _miracle_ in the New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused by many, until the glorious Principle of these marvels is 474:15 gained.
Divine fulfilment
If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Life, Truth, and Love, then they must all be from the same source; 474:18 God must be their author. Now Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness, and death yet the Scriptures aver, “I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” 474:21 Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which Jesus lived to destroy are real or the offspring of the divine will?
Truth destroys falsity
474:24 Despite the hallowing influence of Truth in the de- struction of error, must error still be immortal? Truth spares all that is true. If evil is real, Truth 474:27 must make it so; but error, not Truth, is the author of the unreal, and the unreal vanishes, while all that is real is eternal. The apostle says that 474:30 the mission of Christ is to “destroy the works of the devil.” Truth destroys falsity and error, for light and darkness cannot dwell together. Light extinguishes the 475:1 darkness, and the Scripture declares that there is “no night there.” To Truth there is no error, – all is Truth. 475:3 To infinite Spirit there is no matter, – all is Spirit, divine Principle and its idea.
Fleshly factors unreal
_Question_. – What is man?
475:6 _Answer_. – Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in 475:9 the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and be- 475:12 cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so under- stood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of 475:15 God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God’s image and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is 475:18 the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which 475:21 possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
And God said: “Let us make man in our image, after 475:24 our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that 475:27 creepeth upon the earth.”
Man unfallen
Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor 475:30 can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not 476:1 God’s man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil, 476:3 which declares that man begins in dust or as a material embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.
Mortals are not immortals
476:6 Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed. Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life and intelligence are in matter, and that 476:9 this matter is man. God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and im- 476:12 mortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen chil- dren of God. They never had a perfect state of being, 476:15 which may subsequently be regained. They were, from the beginning of mortal history, “conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity.” Mortality is finally swallowed 476:18 up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must dis- appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal man.
Imperishable identity
476:21 Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood. Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal 476:24 man: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall 476:27 know it no more.”
The kingdom within
When speaking of God’s children, not the children of men, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you;” 476:30 that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God’s image is unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per- 477:1 fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour 477:3 saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. 477:6 Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect nor material.
Material body never God’s idea
477:9 Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but Christian Science reveals man as the idea of 477:12 God, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science shows it to be impossible that a material body, though 477:15 interwoven with matter’s highest stratum, misnamed mind, should be man, – the genuine and perfect man, the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. 477:18 Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated.
Reflection of Spirit
_Question_. – What are body and Soul? _Answer_. – Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the re- 477:21 flection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelli- gence of man, which is individualized, but not 477:24 in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to Spirit.
Man inseparable from Spirit
Man is the expression of Soul. The Indians caught 477:27 some glimpses of the underlying reality, when they called a certain beautiful lake “the smile of the Great Spirit.” Separated from man, 477:30 who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man, divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is, 478:1 there can be, no such division, for man is coexistent with God.
A vacant domicile
478:3 What evidence of Soul or of immortality have you within mortality? Even according to the teachings of natural science, man has never beheld Spirit 478:6 or Soul leaving a body or entering it. What basis is there for the theory of indwelling spirit, except the claim of mortal belief? What would be thought of 478:9 the declaration that a house was inhabited, and by a cer- tain class of persons, when no such persons were ever seen to go into the house or to come out of it, nor were they 478:12 even visible through the windows? Who can see a soul in the body?
Harmonious functions
_Question_. – Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and 478:15 is there intelligence in matter?
_Answer_. – No, not if God is true and mortal man a liar. The assertion that there can be pain or pleasure 478:18 in matter is erroneous. That body is most harmonious in which the discharge of the nat- ural functions is least noticeable. How can intelligence 478:21 dwell in matter when matter is non-intelligent and brain-lobes cannot think? Matter cannot perform the functions of Mind. Error says, “I am man;” but this 478:24 belief is mortal and far from actual. From beginning to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material hu- man beliefs and of nothing else. That only is real which 478:27 reflects God. St. Paul said, “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, . . . I conferred not with flesh and blood.”
Immortal birthright
478:30 _Mortal man_ is really a self-contradictory phrase, for man is not mortal, “neither indeed can be;” man is im- 479:1 mortal. If a child is the offspring of physical sense and not of Soul, the child must have a material, not a spirit- 479:3 ual origin. With what truth, then, could the Scriptural rejoicing be uttered by any mother, “I have gotten a man from the Lord”? On the con- 479:6 trary, if aught comes from God, it cannot be mortal and material; it must be immortal and spiritual.
Matter’s supposed selfhood
Matter is neither self-existent nor a product of Spirit. 479:9 An image of mortal thought, reflected on the retina, is all that the eye beholds. Matter cannot see, feel, hear, taste, nor smell. It is not self- 479:12 cognizant, – cannot feel itself, see itself, nor understand itself. Take away so-called mortal mind, which constitutes matter’s supposed selfhood, and matter 479:15 can take no cognizance of matter. Does that which we call dead ever see, hear, feel, or use any of the physical senses?
Chaos and darkness
479:18 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” 479:21 (Genesis i. 1, 2.) In the vast forever, in the Science and truth of being, the only facts are Spirit and its innumerable creations. Darkness and chaos 479:24 are the imaginary opposites of light, understanding, and eternal harmony, and they are the elements of nothingness.
Spiritual reflection
479:27 We admit that black is not a color, because it reflects no light. So evil should be denied identity or power, because it has none of the divine hues. Paul 479:30 says: “For the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being under- stood by the things that are made.” (Romans i. 20.) 480:1 When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Sci- ence, the nothingness of matter is recognized. Where 480:3 the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is not, evil becomes nothing, – the opposite of the some- thing of Spirit. If there is no spiritual reflection, then 480:6 there remains only the darkness of vacuity and not a trace of heavenly tints.
Harmony from Spirit
Nerves are an element of the belief that there is sensa- 480:9 tion in matter, whereas matter is devoid of sensation. Consciousness, as well as action, is governed by Mind, – is in God, the origin and gov- 480:12 ernor of all that Science reveals. Material sense has its realm apart from Science in the unreal. Harmonious action proceeds from Spirit, God. inharmony has no 480:15 Principle; its action is erroneous and presupposes man to be in matter. Inharmony would make matter the cause as well as the effect of intelligence, or Soul, thus 480:18 attempting to separate Mind from God.
Evil non-existent
Man is not God, and God is not man. Again, God, or good, never made man capable of sin. It is the oppo- 480:21 site of good – that is, evil – which seems to make men capable of wrong-doing. Hence, evil is but an illusion, and it has no real basis. Evil is a 480:24 false belief. God is not its author. The supposititious parent of evil is a lie.
Vapor and nothingness
The Bible declares: “All things were made by Him 480:27 [the divine Word]; and without Him was not anything, made that was made.” This is the eternal verity of divine Science. If sin, sickness, and 480:30 death were understood as nothingness, they would dis- appear. As vapor melts before the sun, so evil would vanish before the reality of good. One must hide the 481:1 other. How important, then, to choose good as the reality! Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing 481:3 else. God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Like the archpriests of yore, man is 481:6 free “to enter into the holiest,” – the realm of God.
The fruit forbidden
Material sense never helps mortals to understand Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man com- 481:9 prehends and loves Deity. The various con- tradictions of the Science of Mind by the ma- terial senses do not change the unseen Truth, which re- 481:12 mains forever intact. The forbidden fruit of knowledge, against which wisdom warns man, is the testimony of error, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death, 481:15 and good and evil to be capable of commingling. This is the significance of the Scripture concerning this “tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” – this growth of 481:18 material belief, of which it is said: “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Human hypotheses first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death, and 481:21 then assume the necessity of these evils because of their admitted actuality. These human verdicts are the pro- curers of all discord.
Sense and pure Soul
481:24 If Soul sins, it must be mortal. Sin has the elements of self-destruction. It cannot sustain itself. If sin is supported, God must uphold it, and this is 481:27 impossible, since Truth cannot support error. Soul is the divine Principle of man and never sins, – hence the immortality of Soul. In Science we learn that 481:30 it is material sense, not Soul, which sins; and it will be found that it is the sense of sin which is lost, and not a sinful soul. When reading the Scriptures, the substitu- 482:1 tion of the word _sense_ for _soul_ gives the exact meaning in a majority of cases.
Soul defined
482:3 Human thought has adulterated the meaning of the word _soul_ through the hypothesis that soul is both an evil and a good intelligence, resident in matter. 482:6 The proper use of the word _soul_ can always be gained by substituting the word _God_, where the deific meaning is required. In other cases, use the word _sense_, 482:9 and you will have the scientific signification. As used in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with 482:12 sense, with material sensation.
Sonship of Jesus
_Question_. – Is it important to understand these ex- planations in order to heal the sick? 482:15 _Answer_. – It is, since Christ is “the way” and the truth casting out all error. Jesus called himself “the Son of man,” but not the son of Joseph. As 482:18 woman is but a species of the genera, he was literally the Son of Man. Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from 482:21 Christ, the Messiah, – the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his con- trol over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of 482:24 old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through faith, to the hungering heart in every age.
Sickness erroneous
Sickness is part of the error which Truth casts out. 482:27 Error will not expel error. Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick, on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no 482:30 other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease.
True healing transcendent
483:1 Then comes the question, how do drugs, hygiene, and animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed that they 483:3 do not heal, but only relieve suffering tempo- rarily, exchanging one disease for another. We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or 483:6 Mind can heal, and this Mind must be divine, not human. Mind transcends all other power, and will ultimately su- persede all other means in healing. In order to heal by 483:9 Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spir- itual demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral igno- rance or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its 483:12 approach to the standard in Christian Science.
Terms adopted by the author
After the author’s sacred discovery, she affixed the name “Science” to Christianity, the name “error” to 483:15 corporeal sense, and the name “substance” to Mind. Science has called the world to battle over this issue and its demonstration, which 483:18 heals the sick, destroys error, and reveals the universal harmony. To those natural Christian Scientists, the an- cient worthies, and to Christ Jesus, God certainly revealed 483:21 the spirit of Christian Science, if not the absolute letter.
Science the way
Because the Science of Mind seems to bring into dis- honor the ordinary scientific schools, which wrestle with 483:24 material observations alone, this Science has met with opposition; but if any system honors God, it ought to receive aid, not opposition, from all think- 483:27 ing persons. And Christian Science does honor God as no other theory honors Him, and it does this in the way of His appointing, by doing many wonderful works 483:30 through the divine name and nature. One must fulfil one’s mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity 484:1 will never be based on a divine Principle and so found to be unerring, until its absolute Science is reached. When 484:3 this is accomplished, neither pride, prejudice, bigotry, nor envy can wash away its foundation, for it is built upon the rock, Christ.
Mindless methods
484:6 _Question_. – Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmer- ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? 484:9 _Answer_. – Not one of them is included in it. In di- vine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the law of Mind. What are termed natural 484:12 science and material laws are the objective states of mortal mind. The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. 484:15 Physical force and mortal mind are one. Drugs and hygiene oppose the supremacy of the divine Mind. Drugs and inert matter are unconscious, mindless. Cer- 484:18 tain results, supposed to proceed from drugs, are really caused by the faith in them which the false human con- sciousness is educated to feel.
Animal magnetism error
484:21 Mesmerism is mortal, material illusion. Animal mag- netism is the voluntary or involuntary action of error in all its forms; it is the human antipode 484:24 of divine Science. Science must triumph over material sense, and Truth over error, thus putting an end to the hypotheses involved in all false theories 484:27 and practices.
Error only ephemeral
_Question_. – Is materiality the concomitant of spirit- uality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to 484:30 the understanding and expression of Spirit? 485:1 _Answer_. – If error is necessary to define or to reveal Truth, the answer is yes; but not otherwise. _Material 485:3 sense_ is an absurd phrase, for matter has no sensation. Science declares that Mind, not matter, sees, hears, feels, speaks. Whatever contradicts 485:6 this statement is the false sense, which ever betrays mortals into sickness, sin, and death. If the unimpor- tant and evil appear, only soon to disappear because 485:9 of their uselessness or their iniquity, then these ephem- eral views of error ought to be obliterated by Truth. Why malign Christian Science for instructing mortals how 485:12 to make sin, disease, and death appear more and more unreal?
Scientific translations
Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not 485:15 to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth. 485:18 Not death, but the understanding of Life, makes man im- mortal. The belief that life can be in matter or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, 485:21 is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which man is perfect, even as the “Father which is in heaven 485:24 is perfect.” If thought yields its dominion to other powers, it cannot outline on the body its own beautiful images, but it effaces them and delineates foreign agents, 485:27 called disease and sin.
Material beliefs
The heathen gods of mythology controlled war and agriculture as much as nerves control sensation or 485:30 muscles measure strength. To say that strength is in matter, is like saying that the power is in the lever. The notion of any life or intelli- 486:1 gence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned 486:3 falsehood’s true nature.
Sense _versus_ Soul
Suppose one accident happens to the eye, another to the ear, and so on, until every corporeal sense is quenched. 486:6 What is man’s remedy? To die, that he may regain these senses? Even then he must gain spiritual understanding and spiritual sense in order to 486:9 possess immortal consciousness. Earth’s preparatory school must be improved to the utmost. In reality man never dies. The belief that he dies will not establish his 486:12 scientific harmony. Death is not the result of Truth but of error, and one error will not correct another.
Death an error
Jesus proved by the prints of the nails, that his body 486:15 was the same immediately after death as before. If death restores sight, sound, and strength to man, then death is not an enemy but a better friend 486:18 than Life. Alas for the blindness of belief, which makes harmony conditional upon death and matter, and yet supposes Mind unable to produce harmony! So long 486:21 as this error of belief remains, mortals will continue mor- tal in belief and subject to chance and change.
Permanent sensibility
Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are 486:24 eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immor- tality are in Spirit and understanding, not in matter, – hence their permanence. If this 486:27 were not so, man would be speedily annihilated. If the five corporeal senses were the medium through which to understand God, then palsy, blindness, and deafness 486:30 would place man in a terrible situation, where he would be like those “having no hope, and without God in the world;” but as a matter of fact, these calamities often 487:1 drive mortals to seek and to find a higher sense of happi- ness and existence.
Exercise of Mind-faculties