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unless there is a cause generated by me? The Karma may not be dissolved in that case, but may be weakened. That objection, really speaking, falls to the ground. There are other objections to the Christian science; one is that the knowledge of the cause of disease is not the correct knowledge as taught by this school. The knowledge which is given to them is that there is no such thing as disease. It does not exist. Those who understand the doctrine will never say this is the truth. They only want to divert the mind of the patient from the seat of disease, they say. Disease does exist, but it is the concentration of the attention on the seat of disease which gives us consciousness of pain. Mere diversion, however, will not remove the pain, only remove the consciousness of pain. If there were no disease the inind would not be led to fee! the pain. If all is a part of the universal and onnipotert inind we should feel no pain. If we do not remove the cause of disease the disease will never be removed. There are primary secondary and circumstantial causes. When the soul works on the physical plane it must make use of physical means, and requires many helps. With allopathic or homepathic or any other treatment based on science, the effects will be good to a certain extent, but if the Karma is not ready to be dissolved no kind of treatment will do any good. If the patient himself is willing to be cured, all these causes will act together and the effect will be a cure of the disease, The objection in the first ptace of interfering
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