Remove this fear by the true
sense that God is Love, -- and that Love punishes nothing 18
but sin, -- and the patient can then look up to the loving
God, and know that He afflicteth not willingly the children
of men, who are punished because of disobedience to His 21
spiritual law. His law of Truth, when obeyed, removes
every erroneous physical and mental state. The belief
that matter can master Mind, and make you ill, is an 24
error which Truth will destroy.
You must learn to acknowledge God in all His ways.
It is only a lack of understanding of the allness of God, 27
which leads you to believe in the existence of matter, or
that matter can frame its own conditions, contrary to the 1
law of Spirit.
Sickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ; 3
first to faith in Christ; next to belief in God as omnipo-
tent; and finally to the _understanding_ of God and man
in Christian Science, whereby you learn that God is good, 6
and in Science man is His likeness, the forever reflection of
goodness. Therefore good is one and All.
This brings forward the next proposition in Christian 9
Science, -- namely, that there are no sickness, sin, and
death in the divine Mind. What seem to be disease, vice,
and mortality are illusions of the physical senses. These 12
illusions are not real, but unreal. Health is the conscious-
ness of the unreality of pain and disease; or, rather, the
absolute consciousness of harmony and of nothing else.
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