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MAGNETISM soul is separate from the body he will have the true knowledge. The only objection which we would urge against the practise of Christian Science is that the patient ought not to be told that disease does not exist; he should be told that it does exist, but that the soul ought by the adoption of right life, right thought and right living, to remove the disease. The philosophy on which these schools are based is different from the philoscphy of the Eastern schools. The knowledge given to them that there is no evil, no body and no matter, is imparted simply for the purpose of giving health, and that is not a logical object. They do not take into account the eternity of life. Right thinking, right living and right acting are assumed for the purpose of giving health to the body only, the very existence of which they deny. Some admit that mind can control matter. Certainly; we all agree with this, that matter is always subject to the powers of the mind.
There is another school of Christian scientists who say that there is no such thing as matter and they impart a knowledge to the people which affects the nature of the soul. Thus they do an injury to the soul nature by simply doing a good to the physical nature, and thus instead of discarding the evil or throwing it away, the secd itself not having been removed, the disease will take its course either in that or some other plane of existence. The impression of things exists, and nothing will do away with it. Among desires hunger for example, is not felt by many per.
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