I give you the following compound questions because you will need to be able in all things to separate As Written: seperate truth and error to your own understanding in order to place yourself in scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and also to instruct the world who so misunderstand the phenomena of science, and mix it up with the phenomena of belief. You are to discuss the following questions among As Written: amoung yourselves before opening the envelope.
QuestionAs Written:Ques? We see the so-called As Written: so called mediums reading thoughts examining the sick, present or absent, uttering the words more than ordinary ability in eloquence and giving a variety of manifestations that startle people. How is this done? and is it a good thing? and is it done in science? or in what does it differ from science?
AnswerAs Written:Ans. The thoughts are read by clairvoyance As Written: clairavoyance , not upon the plan of science nor from the principle of it and mediums are clairvoyants simply if they are anything: more frequently they are pretending impostures who claim to be seers of the past, but are not, and do this work by chicanery. I have found most of them of this kind, when they are clairvoyants As Written: clairavoyants , by believing that a spirit controls them who is all-powerful As Written: all powerfull to control them to any manifestatio[*]Gap: letter.Reason: edge cut off. this belief is the secret that makes them let go of limits by which another As Written: annother belief controls them to only what personal sense can do; this sense is mind that is more rarefied As Written: rarified than the body, hence its action has a wider range. If those calling themselves spiritualists would admit this fact the phenomena they are producing would be a steppingstone As Written: stepingstone into the vestibule of science; but their interpretation of this clairvoyance makes a spirit the cause of it, and this is an error, which robs thousands of free moral agency, and this is a still greater erro[*]Gap: letter.Reason: edge cut off. Medium is a word wholly obsolete As Written: obsolute in science when applied to intelligence As Written: intellegence , God cannot be a medium and therefore intelligence As Written: intellegence cannot What is superior to God? nothing can be, What can control God nothing can control God, What controls matter? Mind. But is [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. not matter mind? Yes. Therefore one mind can control annoth[*]Gap: letters.Reason: edge cut off. mind, but thoughts opinions and beliefs can err, therefore this is not science but is a belief and belongs to man, and not to the intelligence As Written: intellegence that in science controls man. Does not God control matter? Yes as an idea of God is controlled As Written: controled by wisdom and not by another As Written: annother mind; hence clairvoyance As Written: clairavoyance belongs to the mind of man, and is controlled As Written: controled by belief only. This mind of man is what manifests all the phenomena that mediums give. Now there is no mind of man, therefore all this they claim is a belief only and is the opposite of God while it mocks As Written: moks God by imitatio n. How do I know all this is the next question? I reply by demonstration, the only way to judge in science. The demonstrations that mediums give do no good to themselves nor to others, because they confer to matter instead of destroying its beliefs, they tell a sick person where disease As Written: deasease is and what it is: this is not of God,– but was and is the tree of Knowledge As Written: Knowlege Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. that has brought sickness sin and death with it. Now to answer this question is it a good [?] Unclear or illegible ? is only to watch it and see it dividing As Written: diveding families, making people sick deceiving As Written: deceiveing and being deceived, and then say can a pure fount send forth such a corrupt streamJames 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Jesus the man of science said As Written: sead no; and I understand him and wish my students As Written: stuidents to do so, Do their manifestations of clairvoyance As Written: clairavoyance and the so-calledAs Written:so called mediums differ from science, and in what way? The first part of this question is already answered, and to make the latter part more distinctly understood we will instance the case, Suppose I should read the thoughts of the absent examine As Written: examin the sick, present or absent, utter myself As Written: muself with unaccustomed eloquence, and give all the phenomena of clairvoyance As Written: clairavoyance what would be the difference between As Written: betwene this manifestation of mine and that of others? We reply when I examine As Written: examin the sick I go upon the principle of science that sickness is not truth, that it has no locality and is nothing, mark the reverse of their views. also I cannot use science to do evil with it, the moment I ever attempt this error I should lose science inasmuch As Written: in as much as I would be working in error and not in truth: hence the impossibility As Written: impossibillity for me to give a demonstration in science that works ill to myself or my neighbourRom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. : as also the impossibility As Written: impossibillity for me to visit the absent in a speculative mood, out of curiosity: or a desire to influence a mind to any evil thoughts or actions: why I cannot do this, is because I cannot act or think in matters where sin is, or the belief called sin, which is error, if I am acting or thinking in science, Now I cannot give the phenomena of belief when I give the phenomena above alluded to; but I give the manifestation As Written: manefestation in science, and whereas I once gave them darkly not knowing how I did it, I now give them in light, as understanding belongs As Written: blongs to God, and belief belongs As Written: blongs to man. you can draw the conclusion that give what phenomena I am enabled to understand from God from intelligence As Written: intellegence , yea from wisdom love and truth, and those worketh no ill to thyself or to thy neighbourRom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. , whom tho art to love as thyselfMark 12:28 ¶And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: Mark 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. . What, or who are you studying this science? If the idea what need of your studying? If not what use of your studying. No thing and no person studies As Written: studyes this; But the eternal wisdom which is the soul of man and which we name God, is through itself (which is the understanding) destroying this belief of God in matter, of soul in body, yea of God in man by which we look for intelligence As Written: intellegence where it is not, and vainly suppose there is a God studying. science teaches there is but one intelligence As Written: intellegence and one reality, this intelligence As Written: intellegence is soul, and man is the shadow and idea only, and possesses As Written: posseses no capacity of intelligence As Written: intellegence to learn or understand truth, there is no reality in error: it is an illusion. there is no reality in learning As Written: learing , for God has no need of this, and the idea of God cannot learn but because this error and belief saith I am God, i.e. As Written: ie , I am intelligence As Written: intellegence and claim to learn, we have only to let its last be interpreted As Written: interpretated by Paul "forever learning and never coming As Written: comeing to the understanding of the truth."II Tim 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. II Tim 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, II Tim 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, II Tim 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; II Tim 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. II Tim 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, II Tim 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. The idea of wisdom, is man embraced in this principle. the principle is not found in its idea hence it cannot be taught of that which forever is explained through it. Now studying is the process belief employs to give the scientific man; the same as rubbing the head is the process my students As Written: stuidents employ to rub out belief, and therefore let the idea man appear in its harmony. era sing a wrong statement on a blackboard is necessary As Written: nessesary before we can give the harmonious demonstration that the principle gives in idea and not in belief.
QuestionAs Written:Ques 2nd The idea has no need of studying, first because it cannot, having As Written: haveing no intelligence As Written: intellegence in brain or nerves, and secondly because the principle controls its idea and this infinite never gives nor tells its idea more tomorrow than it hath today, man like the earth receives its light from the soul outside of it, and hath none of its own.
QuestionAs Written:Ques 3rd It hath no use of learning because it cannot demonstrate, what it cannot understand. man shadows forth God, He [*]Archival Note: A vertical line in the left margin appears at this point in the manuscript. cannot learn nor teach wisdom, You my students As Written: stuidents are soul and not body; are God and not man; holding intelligence As Written: intellegence thus all error, sickness, and death were destroyed. this is science; belief says As Written: sayes the opposite of this, but you [*]Archival Note: A vertical line in the left margin ends at this point in the manuscript. are to say to this "thou savourest not the things that are of God, but those that are of man"Matt 16:21 ¶From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Matt 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. Matt 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8:32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. Mark 8:33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. . When I teach science it is not woman that addresses man it is the principle and soul bringing out its idea by blotting out the belief that otherwise holdeth it. Where art tho?Gen 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? In matter? then art thou learning according to belief: but this is the process you employ in belief and not in the understanding: You should so hold yourself in infinite wisdom, love and truth, that the idea of this would be ever present to you, and you would impart this idea as the birthright As Written: birth right of soul. This is not teaching man but rather As Written: rathar it is destroying the teachings of man. My students As Written: stuidents may learn from me what they could not learn from the same words uttered by another As Written: annother with less wisdom than my "grain of mustard seed,"Matt 17:14 ¶And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, Matt 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. Matt 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Matt 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. Matt 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Matt 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Matt 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Matt 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. Luke 17:5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. hence it is not the words but the amount of soul that comes forth to destroy As Written: destror error. The belief called man thinks it learns, forgets remembers, etc. As Written: etc just as the sick think they feel pain and lose As Written: loose and remember it &c, but theirs is not science, therefore it is the belief of sense As Written: sence in matter and should be silenced as fast as possible in which case the all-wisdom As Written: all wisdom would pour in through the understanding, and then you would not learn other than as Jesus explained it, like "the wind that bloweth where it lesteth, and thou hearest the sound thereof; but canst not tell whence it cometh or wither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit"John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. .