SICKNESS A BELIEF

If God makes man sick, sickness is good, and its opposite, health, must be evil; for all He made is good, and should continue and will remain for ever. If a law of mortal mind transgressed makes man sick, then sickness is the result of sin and error; hence, its only remedy is in mind, and not matter. But if God has made a law that, transgressed, produces sickness, it is right for man to be sick and wrong to heal him; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. If sickness is real, it belongs to Truth and immortality. If sickness is true, it is a species of Truth; and would you attempt, with drugs or without them, to destroy a quality or one of the conditions of Truth? But if, as is true, sickness is but a belief, and matter a dream and illusion of the senses, the waking from this dream of mortality must come from Truth; and this is the Christ, casting out error and healing the sick. Salvation from sin, sickness and death is of God; not the person of Deity, but the infinite Principle that we can recognize as God. This divine Principle, as demonstrated by Jesus, produced every good effect, and is the one great and universal basis of salvation.—Science and Health, by M. B. G. Eddy.