Practical Healing for Mind and Body

Ignorance of truth is the cause of all misery. –Buddha

The blessings and benefits of understanding these principles are threefold:
* Healing all our infirmities. * Correcting all immoralities. * Brightening our intellectual faculties.
And the result is peace of mind, knowledge of truth and health of body.

STATEMENT OF BEING
There is but one God, one Life, one Truth, one Love, one Substance,
and one Power, divinely Good, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent.

What are the seven errors so common to mankind that must be erased before perfect peace can be established?
1. First, The belief in an angry God, and the fear that attends the belief. 2. Second, The belief in a burning hell, and the fear that attends the belief. 3. Third, The belief in a personal devil, and the fear that goes with it. 4. Fourth, The belief in hereditary taint in the flesh, and the fear that goes with it. 5. Fifth, The belief in sensuality of all kinds, and the fear that goes with it. 6. Sixth, The belief in deceit, with its fears. 7. Seventh, The belief in all secret sins that take root in selfishness.
This covers the whole ground.
This practice of denials is only the first step. It is simply the beginning of discipline. We have to tear down the false and remove the rubbish of false beliefs, before we can build truly upon the rock which is truth (Christ), and this is the discipline that every student of truth must practice before the mind is cleansed of error. We must erase every picture of error from the body, by this treatment of the mind, before the harmonious conditions will show forth.

Every child of God shows forth three phases of enlightenment to the conscious mind; the religious, the philosophical, the scientific.

The religious is the ultimate, the highest, because it is that which binds us to the great First Cause, the Father, God. It is an interior perception of truth, or knowledge of true principles, and a willing obedience to their promptings.

The phase of the mind we call philosophical is simply the point where the conscious mind reasons from an intellectual standpoint only, and before it reaches the interior perception or spiritual illumination, and yet has a clear intellectual perception as to how principles work; and by a close adherence to the philosophical reasoning we find we can prove things in such a manner as to call it as science.

A scientific truth is the same as Divine Law reduced to the understanding of the human intellect; for a thing cannot be scientific unless it is based upon a true foundation. Truth is God, and Divine Law is the law of God. True science points the way to true philosophy, and philosophy according to true science, leads to religion, and religion to God.

Each is necessary to the other.

“After preaching or hearing a good sermon we all go home and act all the week as if we did not believe a word of it.”

Something over three years ago a Baptist clergyman, aged 65 years, who had been a victim of consumption (so called) for many years, at times very low and again able to preach occasionally, was finally reduced to a condition considered absolutely hopeless by his family and by physicians. He became interested in this true science, and consulted Dr. Yarnall regarding his chances for a longer lease on life than what the doctors and his family considered possible. He said he was not at all afraid to die, but he felt that it was very unbecoming in one who professed godliness to carry such a miserable body. The principles of science were briefly explained, and all the help we could give was tendered him. He had a few treatments, and then entered a class, attending every lesson promptly. Before the close of the course of twelve lessons he declared himself perfectly healed.

His testimony before the class at the close of the lessons was to the effect that although he had been a preacher of the gospel of Christ (as he had formerly understood it) for many years, he, like the majority of Christians, had virtually denied the practical part of the gospel by living contrary to what he preached. As he expressed it: “After preaching or hearing a good sermon we all go home and act all the week as if we did not believe a word of it.”

A large cavity in his lung, from which he was expectorating most freely and offensively, was perfectly healed in a few days, and in five weeks from the time he entered the class he was installed as pastor of a new church, and is still preaching and in good health. When asked if he should preach these principles, he answered that he should preach Christ as he now understood Christianity from the teaching he had listened to in this class, and if people did not like his preaching the whole gospel as he now understood it, they would have to listen to some one else. He has since then taught many classes, and being a highly educated theologian, his Bible lessons, taught in the light of the new Science, have been very uplifting and enlightening.

A religious statement is often very obscure until philosophy reduces it to the comprehension of the intellect, and then science steps in and proves it by demonstration.
Thus we see how religion, philosophy and science strengthen each other. How each one is dependent upon the others, and neither is complete and perfect without the others.
There is a true and philosophical reason for all the statements of the Christ Science, else it would not be scientific; and as the statements prove true, they must finally be known and acknowledged of all men as the only rational way of proving our sonship; the re and ligo that binds us to God and makes us conscious of our divine inheritance.
Why are so many suicides recorded in every morning paper?
Why do so many succumb to the fatal belief in softening of the brain?
And of paralysis, and apoplexy?
All because of false education in one way or another.

Many of the physical troubles so prevalent in this age are super-induced by the great competition, or by an unlawful ambition to excel in whatever is undertaken, even to the disadvantage and destruction of others.

In politics, and in seeking power and place in government affairs, a man scarcely considers the position worth having unless it is gained by the complete ruin and overthrow of his opponent, who may be more worthy than himself.

In business matters it is very little better, and in the profession, especially with the medical profession, all is confusion and discord in the struggle for supremacy. Even with clergymen this ambition is often deplorably manifest. It really begins with children in the schoolroom, and grows more intense with each year, and is so often encouraged by the parents that many have been called upon to mourn the untimely death of the promising son or daughter.

This destroying ambition is not confined to the male portion of mankind, by any means.
It permeates every phase and grade of society. It is the bane of fashionable life. It creates jealousies and animosities, and engenders so much strife over the non-essentials of life, that its degrading influence morally can scarcely be estimated, to say nothing of its destructive influence upon the physical.

When people are stricken with physical maladies they never dream that it is due to such false ideas of life; and hundreds may sicken and die from such causes, and the world jogs on as before, enacting the same foolish drama year after year, creating more lunatics and providing more convicts for the prisons, and more sorrow for the honest and level-headed that escape such influences.
The world has never till now been awake to the fact that all the prevailing diseases of the world may be traced to such causes, and in every case has its origin in the false influences exerted over the people - beginning with the young minds that are so plastic to every strong wave of thought, and extending through every community and to every individual in the community.
If any one presumes to set up an opinion not in harmony with the popular beliefs, he is set aside as a little strange, or a little off; consequently truth has to wait patiently for the recognition that has to be made before it will serve us.

CASE OF ASTHMA.
A middle aged lady who had suffered from childhood with asthma in its most distressing form, with most exhausting and frequent paroxysms of coughing, in addition to which was a palsied condition of the hands, arms and head, by which she was deprived of using a pen or pencil, was cured by these lessons and a few treatments. Of course she had been through the usual experience with physicians all to no purpose, as after years of experimenting all agreed that nothing could be done for her.

After the first treatment she sat through the lesson with only two slight paroxysms of coughing, and went home very much cheered. After the second treatment she sat through the lesson without coughing at all. After the third treatment and lesson she declared she was healed, and from that time on she walked several blocks to the class and home again after the lesson, while at first she had to be assisted from the carriage to the class room.

About the sixth lesson she brought pencil and book and astonished her friends by taking notes and writing nearly as steadily and rapidly as other students.
Her cough was gone. She breathed like other people, and her hands had ceased to tremble.
Never was more grateful joy expressed by a healed patient than by her. Even her looks proclaimed the praise that was in her heart.

Excerpted from:
Practical Healing for Mind and Body
A Course of Twelve Lessons
A Complete Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Healing
by a Knowledge of Divine Law
by
Jane W. Yarnall
[1891]

Historically, Divine Science was founded in 1885 by Malinda Elliott Cramer of San Francisco, who later opened a school, Home College of Divine Science, in 1887. As Mrs Yarnall’s lessons were first published in 1891, and noting that her name is mentioned in the founder’s Divine Science magazine in 1894, it seems that Mrs Yarnall was likely a former student of Mrs Cramer.

Although Mrs Yarnall also refers to her teaching as “Science of Mind,” this should not be confused with the teachings of Dr Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science, whose textbook is also of that name. Dr Holmes was four years old when these lessons were written.

Flesch–Kincaid: 9.7