Accession: L13406
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ursula N. Gestefeld, January 20, 1885
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ursula N. Gestefeld 
Date: January 20, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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My dear Student,

Your interesting letterEditorial Note: See 544.57.004. should have been answered sooner but this is my very first chance to reply.

Yes, dear, a case of deafness from fracture of the drum is as readily cured on the principle of Mental ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science as the simple earache. All that hinders your finding it so -- is the reality you make of matter. The false teaching of so-called Mental Healing is fastening the belief in matter, and this fastens the belief in disease, and the only way it can be cured after that is through belief, willpowerAs Written:will-power - which leaves the so-called cure worse than the disease. Why? because a stronger belief had to master the weaker

You, dear one, were taught wrong before I had the honor of teaching you and the effect of that false teaching is to make matter more real to you. The basis of metaphysical Healing is Mental ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and this Science has nothing to do with matter, only to say and to establish in the facts of Mind that there is no matter. See this and you heal all cases of belief since all are founded on matter

Ever Truly
M B G Eddy

Take my advice, say nothing to anyoneAs Written:any one, and join the C. S. A. in Chicago that gives you a pass into ours in Boston

L13406
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student,

Your interesting letterEditorial Note: See 544.57.004. should have been answered sooner but this is my very first chance to reply.

Yes, dear, a case of deafness from fracture of the drum is as readily cured on the principle of Mental ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science as the simple earache. All that hinders your finding it so -- is the reality you make of matter. The false teaching of so-called Mental Healing is fastening the belief in matter, and this fastens the belief in disease, and the only way it can be cured after that is through belief, will-powerCorrected:willpower - which leaves the so-called cure worse than the disease. Why? because a stronger belief had to master the weaker

You, dear one, were taught wrong before I had the honor of teaching you and the effect of that false teaching is to make matter more real to you. The basis of metaphysical Healing is Mental ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and this Science has nothing to do with matter, only to say and to establish in the facts of Mind that there is no matter. See this and you heal all cases of belief since all are founded on matter

Ever Truly
M B G Eddy

Take my advice, say nothing to any oneCorrected:anyone, and join the C. S. A. in Chicago that gives you a pass into ours in Boston

 
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