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HET GEBRUIK VAN MIDDELEN.

460

maar ook „never resorted vlucht genomen tot eenig

any

to

other material things", nooit mijn toe-

stoffelijk

Nu

middel.

we

betwisten

dat

niet,

metterdaad op deze wijze kwalen verdwenen zijn. Men heeft hier te doen met dezelfde actie die werkt in de genezingen te Lourdes in de Pyreneeën, en waarop we later terugkomen. Thans merken we alleen op, dat bij deze Christian Scientists het stelsel het zuiverst uitgewerkt,

beleden

Het

is.

een poging

is

en het helderst

ons tot zoo sterke geestelijke concentratie

van ons wezen

het binnenste

in

om

te

brengen, dat onze

de sterkst

ziel

mogelijke zelfstandigheid verkrijge, en de afhankelijkheid van het lichaam

worde teruggebracht.

kleinste evenredigheid

tot de

Juist dus het tegen-

hun lichaam,

overgestelde van die slappe, weeke naturen, die letterlijk aan

met

no

be

only

omniscient

pain

sickness,

sin,

God

that

cruptiën en kwalen hangen, daardoor feitelijk zoo bitter

kleine

alle

real

is

He

that

;

God

Ahl But

can

we destroy

has no mortality

is

real beside

hear yoa ask the same qnestion that I did. What

I

same moment he

apparently soffering

is

and the same

one thought at one

and the existence of pain

belief

Now

that

thonght.

own

mortality.

its

torments?

instant.

Pain

is

I

is

is

lic,

when

Is

at the

mind can only hold

say Yes. Mortal

only a belief. If one shoald deny the

thought there would be no pain dnring the instant of

in

God

on Spirit continually, keeping Spirit

call

and death

sickness

of sin,

meant by anreality?

nnreal, a

is

Realize that you are the

Spirit.

in the

thought

no pain during the continuance of that thought. Spiritual thought belief

Him, His idea and

continue to hold that thought of denial, and disabuse yourself of your

Transfer the thought to Spirit, for

man,

spiritual

declaring and realizing

omnipotent, omnipresent and

illusion.

is

possible for one to declare that he has no pain, that pain

it

By

sin?

He

that

;

and there can be nothing

All in All,

is

His eternal verities. All else

How

death.

or

that

;

;

and

;

and you

have

will

supplant the mortal

will

in proportion to the inflowing,

and the holding of

the Spiritual thought, will the mortal thought be destroyed. Sin and sickness will disappear,

and we

become more and more

will

harmony, which

is

Heaven. Often,

and hold that instant

in

from the unreal to the Persistent denial in

When was

to

thought,

we ultimately reach a

difficult to

and to experience that instantaneous change

words only, without

my

the spiritual

thought will nat affect anything.

only object in submitting to Christian Science treatment

be healed from gout, and from that alone, employing the treatment as if it were administered by a physician, I determined to seek the real cause of my trouble,

and having found

it,

I

became

a

new man. The Science of Being,

that

is

man had

first

place in

true existence as a spiritual, not a material, or mortal

Fear

state of perfect

the beginner in Science, to take

can only be attained by persistent spiritual desire.

real. It

I ceased to realize, that

medicine

my

spiritual

spiritual, until

may seem

it

was

existence

destroyed, disease,

of

chemicalization

disappeared,

and

the knowledge of

thonghts

spiritual

God

passed into nothingness, and from that moment,

my

with

thought.

me.

filled

all

The

of his

became my all, and now the gout has been totally destroyed. So it tvill be with when you give up the idea of loanting to he healed only from pain and lamenens. Yoa

verities,

you,

cannot accomplish thorough healing, without a struggle. For old mortal thought will press his claims a

thousand times

Be prepared mortal

existence.

experience the

to

sin,

deny

Declare

sickness,

e day, in

in thought, in

almost as many shapes. Have your armor always on

thought, that you being immortal,

or death

;

for the purely spiritual

pangs of mortality. Let these thoughts ever

in spirituality.

Deny

the reality of sin and sickness.

man

fiU you,

is

it

is

eternal,

and you

I

the reality of your

impossible for you to

and can never

will continue to

suffer

advance

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