Article November 4, 1972 Issue

Declarations That Heal

MAURICE W. HASTIE

Jesus told his disciples—and, through the Bible, all of us—that to know the truth makes one free. The knowing process in Christian Science healing includes declaring to oneself the truth of spiritual being, affirming the perfection of the real man, formed in God's image, as well as repudiating the belief of reality and power in matter.

One may wonder how declarations of anything can change physical conditions. A physical problem is not as strictly material as it may appear.

What makes the body give out audible laughter? It's the mental stimulus of amusement, we can all agree. The opposite mental stimulus can result in the shedding of tears. Anger, resentment, fear, and other inharmonious mental states produce discordant physical conditions. Medicine does not reform the mental state, nor does it permanently correct the physical state. To heal the body, we must deal with the thought that controls the body. Wrong or discordant thought is corrected by spiritual understanding. This is where declarations of the truth of God's, Mind's, faultless, incorporeal creation have their effectual application in healing.

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