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Christian Science healing versus mental suggestion
Originally published in the 1912 pamphlet “Christian Science healing versus mental suggestion”
There is, perhaps, no question occupying the attention of the public today, a correct understanding of which is more essential to its welfare, than that which is summed up in the phrase "mental healing." It is, therefore, peculiarly desirable that, at a time when this treatment is surely and rapidly taking its place as a recognized therapeutic medium, some explanation of such antithetic systems as Christian Science and mental suggestion should be forthcoming.
Mental suggestion is by no means the new discovery that the "man in the street" is apt to regard it. It is as old as the human mind, and is based on that inherent tendency toward a belief in dualism which seems to hypnotize the race. The dualism ultimately resolves itself into a belief in good and evil, a belief which found expression in the metaphor of the tree in the Jehovistic document of Genesis. If the admission is once made that, speaking absolutely, evil is not real, the deduction that the human mind, with its claim of intelligence, will-power, thought-transference—in short, of suggestion in any form—is not a factor in spiritual healing, must inevitably follow.
That mental suggestion, from a standpoint of relative truth, may produce certain changes in a human mentality or in physical conditions is nothing to the point. It only proves that certain effects follow, under certain conditions, until a better knowledge of law enables you to ignore these conditions which are imposed by ignorance.
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