Article July 8, 1916 Issue

Mrs. Eddy has not failed to discriminate between "mind...

Charles W. J. Tennant—London, England

Occult Review

Mrs. Eddy has not failed to discriminate between "mind and the spirit of life," if what your contributor means by "the spirit of life" is the same as that referred to by Paul when he said, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." This "Spirit of life" is the divine Mind, and Mrs. Eddy has drawn the distinction between this Mind and the carnal or mortal mind as no one before her has ever done.

The healing which results from Christian Science treatment is brought about in the same manner as that wrought by Jesus and his disciples, both being the practical application of the spiritual laws of divine Principle. Naturally it is only those who have sufficient spiritual understanding of these laws to demonstrate them who are in a position to say how the healing is done. When Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, Pref., p. x), "No intellectual proficiency is requisite in the learner" of Christian Science, does she not mean exactly what Jesus meant when he said, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven"?

Jesus did not heal by the use of animal magnetism, nerve force, or nerve energy, as the critic asserts. He defined his method thus: "If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." It was the absolute spiritual truth which Jesus knew that enabled him to destroy the discordant conditions of error, just as a mathematician would correct a mistake in computation by his knowledge of the science of numbers. Jesus healed at a distance just as easily as at hand, and Christian Science heals though the practitioner and patient may be thousands of miles apart, which proves that nerve force or animal magnetism has nothing whatever to do with the process.

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