Article March 1, 1924 Issue

Health

MARION E. TWICHELL

One of the first things required of him who seeks Christian Science for physical healing is that he affirm health, rather than disease. This very point has furnished critics of Christian Science with food for argument; and it is said that Christian Scientists say they are well when they are sick. As in the case of every other position in Christian Science, a logical reason for the rule can be given. Indeed, Christian Science should at any time be able to give a correct reason, because it is Science.

Christian Science shows that health—the health for which every one longs—is a spiritual quality of God, divine Mind. And as man is inseparable from God, so is he inseparable from the quality of health. With this realization comes freedom,—freedom of which we can never be robbed! One knows then that true health is not a personal material possession, but rather a spiritual reflection.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 297), "It is as necessary for a health-illusion, as for an illusion of sickness, to be instructed out of itself into the understanding of what constitutes health; for a change in either a health-belief or a belief in sickness affects the physical condition." When one looks upon health, believing it to be a personal possession, he is looking upon a "health-illusion"; and an illusion is "an unreal ... image." As one awakens to realize that perfect health is an ever present spiritual reflection, and that it does not exist because of physicality, then he is on the way to perceiving what real health is, the real which has positive existence. When this understanding comes to the human consciousness, one ceases to consult so-called physical evidence. Then, and only then, can one say, "None of these things move me." Then one realizes that he can no more lose health than he can lose God; and so he is able to declare with Mrs. Eddy (Poems, p. 14):—

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