The doctor is called and he, like the
minister, commences by introducing his stock in trade, which consists of all
kinds of diseases from the gout to the consumption. He asks
you all kinds of questions about yourself and then condenses them into a
disease of which you are a stranger. This newcomer, like a
lover, is not very acceptable at first. But by talking over his false wisdom,
you become interested in it; and at last your mind or belief is completely
overcome, and you become married to his belief. If you had
any belief before, you have left it and become wedded to this new belief. Now
as this new belief or husband is of this world, it is like
all other bad husbands who are never happy except when they see others
miserable. It begins to show its authority by laying restrictions on you. And if any of your old ideas or lovers appear, your new
husband or belief puts his threats into execution. Suppose your new husband or
belief is Mr. Consumption. Every one knows that he is a very
bad character. Of all hypocrites in the world, he is the worst, for he keeps
you in fear all of the time. If you attempt to speak, he
seizes you by the throat. And if you try to get rid of him, he seizes you by
the side and in fact you are completely in his power. Now in your lonely hours, for you are always alone except when your tormentor is
near, this belief throws out a shadow and the shadow is the child of your
belief. So you attach your senses to this shadow and cling to
it as a mother clings to her child.
Although her husband may be a bad man and her tormentor, yet she has some sympathy with him. The priests have invented a belief and called the people together. They pour out their wine or belief and the people drink of it and get intoxicated. And in their intoxication as in other dissipation, they fall in love and
bad results follow. So the priests by their craft excite the people and in their excitement they marry the very belief that three days before they would not have listened to at all. The party breaks up and the company retires and as in all other gatherings where wine is drunk to excess a great deal of evil is done. After the excitement is over the lovers come; some have gotten married, others insulted, and some have left their father's house or innocent state of mind and have become the wife or husband of some bad belief. This was the case in the days of Jesus. He saw all of the above and saw where people were deceived. This knowledge of his was not of the priests or people but of a higher and more excellent wisdom that acted through Jesus and could see all the phenomena that the priests produced. This was called Christ or Science and was never applied to the testing of our beliefs.
Science was acknowledged in everything that
could be demonstrated by a principle, but that man's belief
should be made by science was something so new that when Christ came to test
their belief by Science, they said that their craft was in
danger. For if a man's thoughts could be felt and the effects of their thoughts
on the body explained, the priests could see that their acts would come to naught. So this science of analyzing mind was a new idea
that the natural man knew nothing of. This science came from the father of
all and was always in the world but never acknowledged.
So that all phenomena that were taking place in the world were looked upon by
the priests as a revelation from God, and they were ordained
to explain all the mysteries of the Godhead. So their explanation made the
people seek this man Jesus. They saw from his peculiar organization that he could take the feelings of the sick, and the feelings
being the shadows of their belief, science discovered the substance. And when
Jesus' science or Christ analyzed the substance, he found it
to contain hypocrisy and deception, based on ignorance. So he called this
substance or belief the devil and the shadow was its child.
So he said to them, You are the children of the devil and his works ye will do.
He was a liar and abided not in the truth or science, for science has no beliefs but tries all beliefs to see whether they are of God or
man.
Paul understood this science when he said,
It was better not to marry or have a belief, but if you are
not able to take care of yourself, it is better to have some belief than to be ignorant of all beliefs.
Now the Christ that Jesus had was confined to the
intelligence of mankind, to the opening of the eyes of the superstitious,
loosening the tongues of the dumb, making the lame to walk and instructing
those oppressed by the priests in the truth that sets them free. This was the
true Christ. How can you tell a true Christ from a false one? By his science. If I tell a person how he feels and then he tells me
his opinion, he is a liar and the truth is not in him. That is a false Christ.
And if one tells you how you feel and attributes your
feelings to the wisdom of man by locating a disease, believe him not, for there
shall be many false Christs or theories.
The true Christ comes in this way. He takes no thought what
he will say but it comes to him when he sits down by the sick and the answer
corresponds with the feelings. For instance, if you feel a
pain you have a wisdom of what the substance or belief is that makes it. So
your Science or Christ will analyze the substance and explain
it to the patient in language so plain that he will understand it. And as he
understands, he embraces your wisdom and that lights up the
error or belief till the belief is lost in wisdom and the shadow is gone. And you
rejoice in the Christ or Truth that sets you free. This is the true Christ. So
the word Christ is the name of that wisdom that can feel a
sensation of another, analyze it so as to explain the error and destroy the
belief so that the patient is set free from his belief. Christ is light. So is science and to
be equal with Jesus is to do as he did. If you, by any power not understood,
should do miracles or anything far beyond
Jesus and do not know how you do it, then you would be a Christ, but an
ignorant one. To be equal with Christ is to do the things intelligently and the wisdom is Christ; let it come through Jesus or any other
man, for God has no respect for persons. All can learn to be Christ or Science
if they only study.
PPQ 1861
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