Editorial April 8, 1961 Issue

Dominion over Disease

Helen Wood Bauman

Until the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, the world believed that disease controls human beings and that men are the helpless victims of it. Now, through this Science, great numbers of people are proving that sickness is a mental state and that they are not helpless before it, because spiritualization of thought removes all evidence of disease from their bodies.

The spiritualistic medium's belief that he is controlled by the spirits of the dead is not far removed from the mortal's belief that he is controlled by sickness. On page 6 of her sermon "Christian Healing," Mrs. Eddy uses this illustration of mediumship to teach the important lesson that we control our own bodies. She says: "Man thinks he is a medium of disease; that when he is sick, disease controls his body to whatever manifestation we see. But the fact remains, in metaphysics, that the mind of the individual only can produce a result upon his body."

That one may be personally unconscious of the belief which produces sickness does not make less true this fact: that the individual's thought is responsible for his physical state. Regrettable points are that he has not been alert enough to his mental state to detect the developing disorder and spiritually minded enough to stop its development. Mrs. Eddy speaks of the unconscious development of sickness on page 374 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and says, "This mortal blindness and its sharp consequences show our need of divine metaphysics."

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