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HET GEBRUIK VAN MIDDELEN.^ nimmer ondergaan. Laten deze gedachten u

sterfelijkheid

vullen, en

men

Gelijk

toenemen

zult gestadig in geestelijkheid

gij

hier een geheel stelsel achter.

ziet, schuilt

steeds ver-

*).

Ons wordt gezegd,

dat ons eigenlijk wezen geestelijk, en dus al het ongeestelijke onwezenlijk

Het is een stelsel afgeleid uit de denkbeelden van Fichte's wijsbegeerte. Door ons in onszelven terug te trekken, moeten we nu derwijs ons lichaam, en al wat aan ons lichaam is, voor ons besef tot niets herleiden, dat pijn geen pijn wordt, en geen kranke aandoening meer macht over ons heeft. is.

In een postscriptum voegt de schrijver er loopen, en gedurende al dien

When

')

Being,

of

instant.

the

N — realized

Mr.

to the letter,

closely

found

I

the state I was then

had been werking

I

from the so-called gout

You must study

spiritual.

the Science

caught his meaning on the

I

more thought

to

main, and only object, seemed to be to get healed

employing the treatment through Mind, as

;

sinds ver-

zijn

the wrong direction, by giving

in

My

jaren

he said to me: „You are adhering too

in,

but of healing sin."

disease

than to the spiritual.

physical

Twee

bij:

ik niet alleen nooit medicijn gebruikt,

you mast depend more on the

not of healing

think

heb

tijd,

were a drug.

if it

I

thought only of

my

recovery from pain and lameness, expecting to be healed instantaneously,

and wondering

all

the

my

surprise,

me

prepare

For

healed.

all

stopped at that point of progress

if I

all

drunk,

the

Golden Rule. ?

carouse

!

not.

Do Do

Do

die?"

and

fear, sin

would be

I

free

done

Well,

I

I try to

act right with all

men,

and blaspheme. I certainly am better than most men I try to follow ten should I be compelled to pass through all of these years ot any man

least malice against

the

me an injury? I could men ? A big No. Would

I try to control I

I sin?

!

bear

I

do

Why

my

when we get life,

is

No

to that.

Do

I

to

push resentment so

They

that.

Do

I

envy any man? ?

Certainly

me oftener than

I control

far as to take life

control

but to „Eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we

life

down

right

that

No

not exactly say I

could not say

I

?

day to get even with any one who had

appetites and passions?

any other aim of

decorate our mortal

Thus

I realized that sin,

a great sinner. I have no very bad habits. I don't

am such

I love all

Have

them.

Destroy

difficulty.

any feeling of revenge, intending some

seemingly

Yes

would never be permanently

now opened.

eyes were

my mind: How

in

occasions. I don't think I

nurture

were, she stepping stone to

it

I

disease.

get

misery

My

cannot heal.

were at the bottom of the

belief

Then the question arose on

and walk a perfectly healed man. To

I could not arise

understanding of the spiritual, and as

the letter alone

and mortal

from

the

for

and that

spirituality,

why

while

found that the understanding of the letter was only the human aid to

I

to

bottom

and brnsh away the spangles that

facts,

about the way most people are living, including myself.

continued to question myself, until

I

found

was not half as good

I

my

a

man

as I

had not yet looked beyond the physical. Who am I? What am I? Am I a mortal or an immortal man? I must be one or the other? I know that both could not be real. Which was the finite, matter, body, who had a beginning, and will have an ending, or the infinite, God's idea, who never thought

I

was, and that I disobeyed God's law every day of

had a beginning, and never will have an ending? senses, cannot think, talk, move, or experience pain, not

the

body that cause

sin,

sicknesa, pain

life.

I

If the matter-body, it

without the mortal

must be the mortal senses

and death.

It

nothing without the mortal senses. It therefore must be the mortal senses,

mind, that cause to

mortal

sin.

What

consciousness,

is

sin

?

Error, evil, the opposite of Truth or

and Truth has no opposite. All

alone,

and

cannot be matter, for matter

will

alias,

Good

1

is

the carnal

Destroy sin

then ge real, and there will

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