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126 If sickness is real, it belongs to Immortality. If true, it is a part of Truth. Would you attempt, with drugs or without, to destroy a quality or condition of Truth? But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the coming of Christ, the appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the salvation which Cometh through the divine Principle demonstrated by Jesus.

It would be contrary to our highest ideas of God to suppose Him capable of first arranging law and causation

so as to bring about certain evil results, and then punishing the helpless victims of His volition, for doing what they cannot avoid doing. Good is not, cannot be, the author of experimental sins. God can no more produce sickness than goodness can end in evil, or health occasion disease.

Does Wisdom make blunders, to be afterwards rectified by man? Does a law of God produce sickness, and

man put that law under his feet by healing sickness? According to my understanding, the sick are never really healed by drugs, hygiene, or any material method. These merely evade the question. They are soothing syrups to put children to sleep, satisfy mortal belief, and lull its fears.

We think we are healed when a disease disappears, though it is liable to reappear; but we are never thoroughly

healed until this liability is removed. Mortal mind being the remote and exciting cause of all suffering, the cause must be obliterated through Science, or the physical senses will get the victory.