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The Science of Man, by which the sick are healed,

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Questions and answers in Moral Science

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Mrs Mary M Baker Glover

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Ques.Expanded:Question What is God?

Ans.Expanded:Answer A Principle, wisdom, love, and truth.

Ques. What is this principle?

Ans. Life and intelligence.

Ques What is life and intelligence?

Ans Soul.

Ques. Then, what is God?

Ans The Soul of man and the universe.

Ques Is God, man?

Ans No, they are perfectly distinct and yet united. Soul or God is not man, nor is that which we call Soul, in man; while they are ever united as substance and its shadow; Soul the substance; man its shadow.

Ques. Then what is man?

Ans. The idea of this principle, and Soul is the principle and substance of this idea, named man; becaus Corrected: because it is the Life and Intelligence of it, and you will please remember as the leading points in Science, that man has no neither substance, nor intelligence, that these belong to the Soul, and that the Soul reflects itself in man; therefore man is the reflex shadow of the Soul, and borrows all substance, intelligence, and life, from the Soul, outside of man: you are not man, nor woman you are the but then Soul, [*]Archival Note: The following words look like they may be (or may have been) crossed out and those the shadows and ideas of you.

Ques What is matter?

Ans It is not substance if Soul is substance, for Soul and matter are not one– then matter held as shadow is the idea of God; but matter held as substance is a belief and error.

Ques Is the body of man matter?

Ans Yes because m Man has not a body, and because matter as substance is not the idea of God. The Soul has a body, and this body is immortal, because it is the idea of its principle, and is not a belief of substance, intelligence, and life, in matter, but holds these in the Soul, and man the idea of these: this man is the body of the Soul and not the body of man, therefore t Thi e s body of man, is the belief of lief Corrected: life , intelligence, and substance, in matter, when sScience proves that none of these are of matter, hence a mortal man is not the idea of immortality, and he cannot be the idea of the Soul, for nothing of decay, of sickness or of sin gives an idea of God, the Soul.

Ques. What is the man that is sick and mortal

Ans. We have shown you that the man that is harmonious and immortal is learned of sScience, and reverses the belief we cherish of him, by holding life, substance and intelligence in the Soul and this Soul outside the body, and giving forth its idea as substance does its shadow. Now the body we call man, that is inharmonious and mortal is a belief that life substance, and intelligence are in this body; that the Soul is here, hence, intelligence and life are in matter. From these false premises flows the error that is mortal and this error is the so called Corrected: so-called man that is sick and mortal.

Ques. Is mortality a belief, is sickness a belief, and is there no reality in man?

Ans. There is no truth in error, truth is immortal, error is mortal, truth is harmony error is inharmony; and if sickness was truth Christ would not have destroyed it, and I would not teach a student such presumption. Do you think drugs, air, diet, &c would heal the sick, if the iIntelligence or and truth of man had caused the sickness? If matter is superior to God then we admit that effect is superior to caus [?] Unclear or illegible e and can save or destroy the works of God. This reasoning is vain, Sscience tells us that sickness is discord, and as discord is not caused by the principle of music, so this inharmony of man is not caused by the principle of man. The pPrinciple of man is the Soul and this Soul is the Life and iIntelligence of man, that gives the idea of itself in shadow, and holds all substance in itself; and the idea of harmony must be harmonious, hence this [?] Unclear or illegible  man is a belief of man and not the idea of the Soul, hence and this belief is neither not harmonious nor immortal.

Ques. Do we see man, or what is it that we see?

Ans. It is not the man God created that we see, for this [?] Unclear or illegible man is as before namedan the idea of substance and l Life, and the one we see is a belief of substance and death– a belief of substance and death in matter, instead of the idea of t Truth that holds matter a shadow at the control of the Soul. We see mortality that is falsley Corrected: falsely named man with mortal sense; but we see the immortal man through sScienceand with immortal sense, that contradicts sense in matter.

Ques. How can we understand this?

Ans. By growing up to it through tTruth and not through a belief: we cannot learn this of an 'ism nor of personal sense, we must learn it through sScience and this is to learn it of a p Principle and this p Principle is Soul. Now you must learn what I have stated of the Soul, and let it contradict sense as sScience must. Does sense tell us that the earth rotates and revolves and the sun stands still? No! It says the sun rises and sets, but s S cience contradicts this.

Ques. What is sense?

Ans. It belongs to the Soul and not to the body, and this sense gives the idea of Truth and never errs. There is no sense that belongs to matter: the five personal senses are but a paradox and error of words. Matter has no i Intelligence nor sensation and these senses are a belief that it has, and this belief is error; therefore, that we ask these senses for pleasure, is the foundation for the results to come in pain and is the error that gives inharmony to man. There is neither pleasure nor pain in matter, and to believe There [?] Unclear or illegible  is, is the error that stands ever the opposite of truth, and this error is named devil and was cast out by Truth, the Christ, that came teaching and practising Corrected: practicing it. Now when there is pain or suffering you find it in sense; therefore you are to contradict this sS ense with Science, that says, there is no reality in aught but in God's giving, and this pPrinciple cannot give inharmony; and this good, evil; hence you must argue down this false seeming, this belief begotten of man and born of woman instead of God; and my proof to you that these statements are s S cience and truth you will find in this, that when you destroy the belief, consumptionEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as tuberculosis, for instance the patient will recover. Now you have not destroyed a person, place, or thing you have only through a metaphysical process destroyed a belief, and that the consumptionEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as tuberculosis is gone when this is accomplished proves to you, that sensation in matter is only an illusion and belief, that sScience contradicts.

Ques. What is belief, according to the Bible cannot you believe and be saved?Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Ans. This never meant meant a blind belief: it meant the faith that worksJames 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. [?] Unclear or illegible  the highest understanding of God, by which we give up the evidences of the senses for the tTruth of a principle that is at war with sense. Belief is a thing of change, and depends on no p Principle for support. It is dangerous to believe in God when we are commanded to "acquaint ourselves with God."Job 22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. If we believe a truth this belief may change and this truth be lost sight of: but if we understand the truth this cannot be taken away from us. Mary understood Truth and Martha believed in it only.Luke 10:38 ¶Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. Luke 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. Luke 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Science is the only safe interpreter of man and God, i.e. of a pPrinciple and its idea. for this teaches the p Principle so we can demonstrate it, and this demonstration Jesus gave, and commanded others to give, in healing the sickMatt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. ; hence was he the most scientific man on record, because he demonstrated more of the understanding of God than did others. If when you heal the sick you will so teach them the principle by which you take truth to destroy error, and give them in place of belief, the understanding of this truth, they will never relapse nor fall into the error they have understood their way out of; but if you destroy the belief, sickness, and they do not understand how it was done, yet will they get well all the same, but are liable to fall into some other belief, for instance, if you should destroy consumptionEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as tuberculosis. through this metaphysical process yet might your patient have sore throat left on Corrected: or some other error. It is the work of time and eternity to destroy it all.

Ques. Is all sickness but a belief?

Ans. It is: there is no truth in inharmony, for truth would at once restore harmony; and all belief is error for you should learn the Science of man so as to understand man, and then you would have no belief about it. Belief is the opposite of Science, and is in reality, nothing. Principle and its idea learned through Science is all the reality there is; hence sickness is nothing because it is not a principle nor its idea. Principle is immortal and gives harmony to its idea, and if sickness were truth or the idea of it you could not destroy it, and it would be error to, attempt to do so. Principle is truth and its idea is man in perfect harmony; belief is error and its belief is man sick and inharmonious. Now you must take this very principle to say to disease, you are a belief only, for matter has no sensation and you claim to be sensation in matter, and you are this error of belief that the opposite truth, that matter has no intelligence must destroy. This is the Moral Science that gives harmony to the problem, man.

Ques. When healing the sick, which belief shall I first destroy?

Ans. The one that is producing inharmony: if it be a liver complaint you are to destroy it thus:– Place your thoughts utterly away from its being a reality, so you must not think of the sallow skin, of the deranged bowels, but of the eternal harmony of every man in Science; there hold yourself, and from that standpoint address your patient; first by saying there is no inharmony because there is but one reality, and this is God and the idea of God; now, sickness is not God nor the idea of God, so you are to say as one having "authority":– "Depart from him all ye that work iniquity"Matt 7:21 ¶Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Matt 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? Matt 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. – all that brings inharmony, and then take up the arguments of Science to take lk down his belief, and afterward explain as much of the Science as he they can bear; but in this be wise, and cast not the pearl, truth, before swineMatt 7:6 ¶Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. , i.e. to the uneducated thought, . bBring up the patient by degrees to see the truth you utter. It is necessary sometimes to shock or startle the mind, in order to move it away from its position of belief: when this is necessary, come out bluntly and tell your patient with a determined vehemence, "nothing ails him"! and he is like an insane man, that suffers from the belief that he will hold on to. Impress him with the feeling that you are indignant with error but charitable towards himself, pitiful and loving, and for the good of your patient alone you have thus spoken boldly the truth. When the sick tell you they have a consumptionEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as tuberculosis., and you see all its simptoms Corrected: symptoms present, you are to tell them they have no such thing, and if they ask what it is, you can reply:– I understand perfectly the cause of all these symptoms and will tell you when you recover but not now. You are not to give names to sickness, but are to un-name it by destroying it. You must in arguing down a belief as you attend uppon a patient, call it by name, for unless you do, it will not be destroyed in many instances, but you are to avoid admitting this name to the sick, because you are trying to blot it out and not to preserve it in belief. You must take up all the beliefs of your patient and utter the truth to each, so as to preach this gospel to all nationsMatt 28:19 ¶Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: , i.e., to all assembled multitudes of thought where nind Corrected: mind condenses on some point. The first cause of all sickness, is fear of sickness, and a belief that sickness can control the body to any condition it pleases to asume Corrected: assume . This is the leading falsehood of error. Sickness is error, truth is harmony, now take the opposite truth of this belief and with it destroy this error, arguing thus:– If Soul is immortal, is not this superior to mortality? if Soul is truth, and sickness error, cannot truth destroy it? Again if Soul is intelligence, and there is no other intelligence, then there can be no sensation nor suffering given by aught but Soul, and this punishes man only for sin, and never for exposure to air or for exercise, eating, or drinking, unless we are offending morally by so doing. You must pluck cast the beam out of your own eye firstMatt 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Matt 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. , you must take away the belief to yourself, of all these so called Corrected: so-called laws of health, which are only educated laws of beliefes, by which we suffer the penalty of a belief instead of the punishment of truth.

Ques. What is the most sure and rapid way of advancing in the understanding of this Science?

Ans. Truth, wisdom, and love, this is the principle. You cannot destroy error by error: if you are profane sw [?] Unclear or illegible  earers, if you are murderers, if you are adulterers, if you are thieves, you would not hesitate to say these errors must be given up, if you would heal with truth, and this is the only means in Science that you employ. Now then, to advance most rapidly, you will cut off every offending thought or motive that is not truth: you will not love money beyond the appeciation Corrected: appreciation of it as a means of usefulness; you will not lie, or deceive; you will be just and merciful, and if you hold any habit that places pleasure in sense, you will be rid of this as fast as possible– or how can you destroy it in others? For instance, never let a student of Moral Science think to succeed by aught but honesty– never go to a patient that suffers from error with the very error you would destroy– never with a cigar or tobacco in your mouth, go to a patient that is sick from the effects of this very error of belief, and as you argue it down say there is no pleasure in it, which is the truth in the case, while you literally are saying there is pleasure in it, by finding it there. Your error here is twofold: first to find pleasure where it is not, and thus to be holding yourself in matter when Science holds you outside of it, and no sensation there; and secondly, by being dishonest. Now to advance higher each day and year of your life in healing the sick, you have to look over yourself and labor here, more than you do with your patients. You must ask yourself while attempting to heal, do I come with truth to do this or a belief only? If with truth, I shall be living in Science, seeing outside of sense and able to read the thoughts of man, because I shall have passed from sense to Soul, in which I shall realize all happiness in doing good. Now, if you learn this only of me and practice it only for policy, you will have to learn it over again and practice it only for its truth, and this weight of truth on your side will then show your scientific position at the bedside, and your presence there even, will often heal the sick, without a word on your part or the least contact with their person.

Ques. If after I begin to heal or atempt Corrected: attempt this and I should fail, what will be the cause?

Ans. This will not be the case If aAfter I have instructed you by MSS.Expanded:Manuscripts and lessons if and you do not succeed to a very great extent, you certainly will be able to do enough, to satisfy yourself that all you need to be able to do infinetly Corrected: infinitely more, is to obey the rules laid down in this Science. When you see an error at your own door, destroy it, and thus go on with yourself, and your success will then be certain. for by the time you [?] Unclear or illegible  discharge cargo, you will be able to help others out, and more readily because you remember how you overcame the beliefs yourself that were at war with man in Science. When you destroy a belief you must get the belief that caused it also, and also destroy th [?] Unclear or illegible  at. For instance, Science explains all sickness and death a belief, and not truth. Now you may have a sick child and the first argument is to say, this child is not sick but is a belief of its parents and that belief embraced all this error called sickness. You can readily understand it has no hereditary disease, because matter cannot make its own conditions. You may call a child an hereditary error, for such it is, and just in the ratio that you can argue down this little error, will the child the man of Science, thi e s body that is harmonious, appear The first error of this child is that man created it, and that life is here in the form of mortality This birth, existance Corrected: existence , and death is all an illusion? and is the opposite of truth: it is nothing to do with man, it is the opposite of man, and should be destroyed, so that man and the principle of man, can be understood. You may also have a creed that hides truth.

Ques What is sickness?

Ans A belief only: it has no identity and is an image formed in the mind that reflects itself in the form it believes. If it be a cancer in belief, we see this: if it be a consumptionEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as tuberculosis, we see this, and if we do not see it we feel it, for it is a belief of the personal sences Corrected: senses and there it is found and never in the Soul. As we have before taught you, there is no personal sense because matter has no sensation, then you can readily infer that it is incapable of pain, or inflammation, or swelling or any action independent of mind. Sickness or sensation in matter, is not a reality but is an illusion; it is the error that is the opposite of truth, and one that we must grow out of if we are scientific and learn our immortality. In order to grow out of this you must avoid speaking of sickness, and you would not really do this if you were in truth, for there it would not appear to you, for then re you would know the mind of your patient and regard disease all mind and belief and no substance in matter; while to yourself you would have the same body as now, and so would all men and women appear the same in identity. The sick are like the insane in this, that a delusion is a reality to them and you are to break up this belief: a delusion is a reality to them and you are to break up this belief: d Disease has the same reality to them that a dream has to the dreamer, and if you understand that it has no more reality than a dream, then are you like [?] Unclear or illegible  one who has waking who can break up the incubus of another one. The sick have only to waken from this dream of life in matter– of pain and disease in matter yea, of sensation in matter, that you call personal sense, to realize themselves well; but to break up this illusion requires much growth on your part, much progress from sense to Soul. You are not in the body, hence, you have not in reality to make this passage, but the dream of life says that you are and you are looking and listening to this error and this dream: then let it be enough to break this fatal spell of belief, that would gather you where you are not, to know that all inharmony is error, and that the Soul which is you, cannot dwell in error. Soul is immortal, error is mortal: turn then from the persuasions of error that say:– "I am disease that can make man mortal in spite of the Soul," and listen to the words of Wisdom that said: "I am the resurrection and the life."John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: This meant not to raise a dead man, but to destroying a dead lifeless belief, so that the immortal man can might be seen and better understood.

Ques. What is the proper method and the one Jesus employed to heal the sick?

Ans. To cast out error with truth, and thus heal the sick, and this is Science, and no other process is.

Ques. How can I succeed in doing this so that my demonstration in healing shall be wonderful and immediate?

Ans. By being like Jesus, by asking yourself, am I honest, am I just, am I merciful, and am I pure? and being able to respond with your demonstration, to let what you can do for the sick, answer this and not your lips, for if you are becoming what is required of you, then are you a law to yourself and will ask am I doing to others as I would that they should do by me?Matt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. am I seeking the praise of man or the praise God?– which means in Science– am I asking the Soul to approve, or am I asking this of sense? and the answer will be found in Science, by which you may know. If you are seeking money in your practice more than a growth of your own, more than to be perfectly pure, and honest, and just, and meek, and loving, then are you asking of sense instead of Soul for happiness, and your patients will not recover as well; they will gain at first up to you, and then you are not sufficiently beyond them and near the Soul to cary Corrected: carry them further away from sense by following you. A stream rises no higher than its fount: if you are vain, or selfish, or avaricious, or deceiving, or unjust, when you are practicing healing the sick, remember you are holding on to error as strongly as your patient, and the only difference is, his is an error of pain in sense, and yours is an error of pleasure in sense, or matter. What I say unto you I say unto all— watchMark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. for ye know not the hour in which the thief comethMatt 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. . Error will tempt you just as it tenpts them, only in different argunents Corrected: arguments : sickness comes trough Corrected: through fear, and this fear draws the sick into the belief of disease, andeError may come to you, saying;– "Believe me and I will make you as Gods,"Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. that is, become proud and revengeful, vain and selfish, unjust, or impure, and this will give you success in this world. Now had you known that this was the thief that breaks into your good resolutions, you would have watched and not have had your house broken open: but when we believe an error we cannot see it is an error, and here is the reason of this command, watch. if you find yourself asleep and not watching over yourself to hold ground against these thieves, then will you be awakened by seeing your patients not go on to perfect recovery, and here you would ask of me "how can I carry them on to this"? when I have already given you the scientific rules and you have not been keeping them In healing the sick you will be constantly coming in contact with error, with evil dispositions, and all the dark category of disease called nervousness, these symptoms havieng nothing to do with nerves but are beliefs, devils, to be cast out. Now you must watch that none of these enter you, and if you feel a growing impatience, know that this is not God– is not the principle in Science thats Corrected: that casts this out, and that heals the sick: if you feel a growing pride know that this is error and not truth: if you are petulent Corrected: petulant and irritable, watch, for now you are atmitting Corrected: admitting a thief that will rob God for a season; if [*]Editorial Note: There are large brackets that have been erased at this point in the document. you are loving tobacco or associates in error, if you are loving ardent spirits, if you take medicins Corrected: medicines , if you take pleasure in any way in sense, then are you looking the wrong way, and if you look long you will certainly go there in belief, and cannot draw your patients out of error while you are being drawn into it.

Ques What arguments am I to use with error?

Ans. The arguments that Science oppose to it, that happiness is not found in it– that health is not found in it; and that these belong to matter or sense is the belief and error you must put under your feet. If a patient comes to you with a belief, called consumption, for instance, you are to sit calmly and triunphantly Corrected: triumphantly down by them, so filled yourself with the understanding that nothing is here and that they are only dreaming, that your atmosphere of Soul will be to them like the sunlight that melts away the darkness. You are to bring enough of Soul or light to disperse this vapor. There is no discord, because there is no t truth in discord, and no discord in truth: now Science tells you they are not sick, and knowing this as you aught, you can begin to waken them from this dream or illusion. But if when you stand by them mentally speaking, you cannot pierce the darkness by a "peace be still"Mark 4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. Mark 4:38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? Mark 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. "let this peace return to you,"Matt 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it. Matt 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. that is, do not be discouraged but hold calmly and persistently on to Science that tells you, you are right and sickness is the error. We believe, and others believe, we get nearer to them by contact, and now you would rub out a belief, and this belief is located in the brain– therefore as an M.D. lays a poultice where the pain is, so you lay on hands where the belief is, to rub it forever out. Do not address your thoughts for a moment to their [*]Archival Note: There is erased underlining at this point in the document body as you mentally argue down their [*]Archival Note: The erased underlining ends at this point in the document beliefs, but take yourself, the Soul, to destroy this error of life, sensation and substance in matter, to your own belief as much as in you lies, so that your patient may be conscious of the effect of Soul upon him, for this principle brings harmony with it and thuis destroys the errors of sense. If you have a belief, consumptionEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as tuberculosis, to destroy, begin with the leading point that it is not inherited because man and woman were created by God and not by a union of the sexes– were created by Soul and not by sense, therefore God never created a disease that destroys man; the principle of harmony never gave discord; nor truth, error; nor life, death; but here are these are to belief and you are to know they are not here, only a belief is here; this body of man's creating, and this belief you are to destroy, and let the man be thus born againJohn 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: John 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. , out of error and into truth. This birth is a chemical change, in which truth destroys error: these changes occur as alternatives and change the body from a belief of error to an idea of truth, such as [*]Archival Note: There is erased underlining at this point in the document Wisdom created in the beginning. [*]Archival Note: The erased underlining ends at this point in the document Inflammation is the foundation error of the sick, but inflammation is only a fear and this fear makes an increased or diminished action: it either paralyzes or fevers the body; now y You are first to calm the fear and next to destroy the image in the mind that has frightened them. But the sick do not always know themselves what this image is: sometimes they can tell you, but you ought to be able to tell yourself, by reading their minds better than they can; for if they are in an error they cannot know it. Begin with fear always and talk it down, then take away its image called inflammation, and then destroy the belief that made this fear, if it was a cold that caused it, argue down this belief, or if grief argue down this, or if hereditary tubercles give this a rebuke thrashing, for you know there is no sensation or substance in matter, then how are you to get pain, tubercals Corrected: tubercles or inflammation in shadows? You cannot. You must assure the patient that nothing ails their lungs, for you know Science holds man and every formation of man immortal, and this is the principle of man, because it itAs Written:it is the truth of him, so you can safely tell them this, and if you get them to believe it, they are cured, and if you get them to understand it they can never have this again. Take up tubercles, ulcers, bleeding, and blood inpoverished Corrected: impoverished , matter in the air cells making them cough, fever, &c, showing the [?] Unclear or illegible  m that blood has no life nor nutriment for man, therefore it cannot be impoverished for want of air, that air has neither no good nor evil for man, that ulcers cannot be, for there is no decay in truth, and no truth in decay, that bleeding has not been, that blood is a belief, that all this is a belief and that man is not made up of lungs, liver and stomach, heart, brains, bones, &c; that these are beliefs that die, and then we go on to learn that these are the ideas the Soul ho<del rend="erasure"><unclear/></del>lds and gives this idea in man; and holding them thus they are never lost nor inharmonious. Sometimes a single hair of belief sep [?] Unclear or illegible  arates from truth and these "hairs," Wisdom "numbers,"Matt 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. and you must sift out what this belief is, so as to argue it down. It may be a creed by which man has yielded up the truth that in Science the Soul controls man in Science and not a third person named God. It may be that a belief has made them give up the controling Corrected: controlling of themselves to a "departed spirit" that in truth cannot control them, or it may be hereditary beliefs of their parents that are developed in the patients: all this is impossible in Science, and yet all error is possible to belief, just as all harmony and truth are possible to God. I give consumption for an example only, all beliefs is to be destroyed in the same manner aforesaid; and you are to bear in mind that all inharmony is a belief and not truth. If sickness were truth I would not teach you how to destroy it: that this Science is truth is proved in that it does destroy inharmony and error. When you would destroy a present belief, get the remote and predisposing one that made it; sometimes you will find it a very slight thing, a fright from a cause wholly remote from the belief you are trying to destroy, but which was the procruring Corrected: procuring cause of it. O, my students, if you would become distinguished in your calling, seek truth in all you seek, and pursue truth: this is the only possible way in of Science by which you can give the highest demonstration of God– of the principle that gives harmony to all it controls. Do not think to deceive yourselves by deceiving others, for Wisdom will call you into judgement Corrected: judgment for all you think and act, and the tribunal before which your true position is tried and proved, is in the demonstration that you are able to give of healing the sick, after learning the principle upon which this is done, and the only one by which you can succeed to the most marvellous Corrected: marvelous instances of cure.

Ques. Is theis process of cure, magnetism?

Ans. It is not animal magnetism, electricity, mediumship, physiology or materia medica, and we can only define it Moral Science and metaphysics.

Ques. Please give us your name for the trinity?

Ans. We will. It is Love, Wisdom, and Truth, a triune principle in unity. The Holy Ghost revealed this principle to the disciples, and begat Jesus the idea of it, and rested on him. The holy ghost was is Science, the only revelator of God– the principle of man and the universe– and was the Comforter to come that should lead into all truth.John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: John 16:9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; John 16:10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Ques. What is prayer?

Ans. Fasting and prayerMatt 17:14 ¶And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, Matt 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. Matt 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Matt 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. Matt 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Matt 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Matt 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Matt 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. , by which Jesus healed beyond his diciples Corrected: disciples, is this. Fasting is so to withdraw from the senses, that say you must eat to live, etc. as to bring down "bread from heaven,"John 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. ie Corrected: i.e. truth from harmony, wherewith to destroy sickness sin and death. This is the "bread to eat that the senses know not of." Prayer is to shut the door of sense to withdraw from the error of sense, and place all intelligence in the soul and there to understand "I and the Father are one"John 10:30 I and my Father are one. which means, that principle and Soul are God. If we utter not a sin but believe in it, we sin; if we utter not a truth but understand it, we are in that truth: if prayer is a sincere desire we can feel this and to express it were vain, for it needs no expression "only to be heard of men" as the hypocrites doMatt 6:5 ¶And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. , and if the words are not all sincere it is a deceeption Corrected: deception ; words can deceive, thoughts are more safe, until we have grown up to every word we utter, for every idle word we are judged by WisdomMatt 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. . We must work to obtain a principle and to demonstrate it. Praying for the understanding of music would never give it: praying for wisdom never moved this principle, but striving for it, i.e., to learning it, does give it; therefore we are not only to seek but to strive for wisdom by which the demonstration of healing the sick is given obtained in Science.