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Questions and Answers

From the August 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal

This article was later republished in Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896:  Mis. 33:21-34:9, Mis. 35:15-26, Mis. 41:18-31, Mis. 60:12-22, Mis. 255:17-5


Ques. "Does it not limit the power of mind to deny the possibility of communion with departed friends—dead only in belief?"

Ans. Does it limit the power of mind to say addition is not subtraction in mathematics? The science of mind reveals the impossibility for two individual sleepers to communicate in different dreams, even if side by side; or for one who dreams to communicate with another who is awake? If this life is a dream, and the departed have wakened to the realities of being, there can be no intercommunion. If neither have yet reached its realities, then both states of existence are dreams, and different dreams, since those here have never passed into the dream of death and the beyond, and any interchange of thought with those who have is impossible, and can seem possible only as illusions seem real.

Ques. "What are the advantages of your system of healing, over the ordinary method of healing disease?"

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