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points lack Science. How sad it is
that envy will bend its bow and shoot its arrow at the idea which claims
only its inheritance, is naturally modest, generous, and sincere! while
the trespassing error murders either friend or foe who stands in its way.
Truly it is better to fall into the hands of God, than of man.
When I revised "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in
1878, some irresponsible people insisted that my manual of the practice
of Christian Science Mind-healing should not be made public; but I
obeyed a diviner rule. People dependent on the rules of this practice for
their healing, not having lost the Spirit which sustains the genuine
practice, will put that book in the hands of their patients, whom it will
heal, and recommend it to their students, whom it would enlighten.
Every teacher must pore over it in secret, to keep himself well informed.
The Nemesis of the history of Mind-healing notes this hour.
Dishonesty necessarily stultifies the spiritual sense which Mind-healers
specially need; and which they must possess, in order to be safe
members of the community. How good and pleasant a thing it is to seek
not so much thine own as another's good, to sow by the wayside for the
way-weary, and trust Love's recompense of love.
Plagiarism from my writings is so common it is becoming odious to
honest people; and such compilations, instead of possessing the
essentials of Christian Science, are tempting and misleading.
Reading Science and Health has restored the sick to health; but the task
of learning thoroughly the Science of Mind-healing and demonstrating
it understandingly had better be undertaken in health than sickness.

DISEASE UNREAL
Disease is more than _imagination_; it is a human error, a constituent
part of what comprise the whole of mortal existence,--namely, material
sensation and mental delusion. But an erring sense of existence, or the
error of belief, named disease, never made sickness a stubborn reality.
On the ground that harmony is the truth of being, the Science of
Mind-healing destroys the feasibility of disease; hence error of thought
becomes fable instead of fact. Science demonstrates the reality of Truth
and the unreality of the error. A self-evident proposition, in the Science
of Mind-healing, is that disease is unreal; and the efficacy of my
system, beyond other systems of medicine, vouches for the validity of
that statement. Sin and disease are not scientific, because they embody
not the idea of divine Principle, and are not the phenomena of the
immutable laws of God; and they do not arise from the divine
consciousness and true constituency of being.
The unreality of sin, disease, and death, rests on the exclusive truth that
being, to be eternal, must be harmonious. All disease must be--and can
only be--healed on this basis. All true Christian Scientists are
vindicating, fearlessly and honestly, the Principle of this grand verity of
Mind-healing.
In erring mortal thought the reality of Truth has an antipode,--the
reality of error; and disease is one of the severe realities of this error.
God has no opposite in Science. To Truth there is no error. As Truth
alone is real, then it follows that to declare error real would be to make
it Truth. Disease arises from a false and material sense, from the belief
that matter has sensation. Therefore this material sense, which is untrue,
is of necessity unreal. Moreover, this unreal sense substitutes for Truth
an unreal belief,--namely, that life and health are independent of God,
and dependent on material conditions. Material sense also avers that
Spirit, or Truth, cannot restore health and perpetuate life, but that
material conditions can and do destroy both human health and life.
If disease is as real as health, and is itself a state of being, and yet is
arrayed against being, then Mind, or God, does not meddle with it.
Disease becomes indeed a stubborn reality, and man is mortal. A

"kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation;" therefore the
mind that attacks a normal and real condition of man, is profanely
tampering with the realities of God and His laws. Metaphysical healing
is a lost jewel in this misconception of reality. Any contradictory fusion
of Truth with error, in both theory and practice, prevents one from
healing scientifically, and makes the last state of one's patients worse
than the first. If disease is real it is not illusive, and it certainly would
contradict the Science of Mind-healing to attempt to destroy the
realities of Mind in order to heal the sick.
On the theory that God's formations are spiritual, harmonious, and
eternal, and that God is the only creator, Christian Science refutes the
validity of the testimony of the senses, which take cognizance of their
own phenomena,--sickness, disease, and death. This refutation