Three Rules for Treatment

Self Help

Rule 1: Get a clear concept of God. There is only one infinite Mind, infinite Good, and Its infinite manifestation. There is only one infinite indestructible Life, one omnipotent Truth, one infinite and ever-present divine Principle, Love, intelligent Good, the only Cause, the only Presence — and the only Creator, Activity, and Law. Realize this. (See page 465 of the Textbook, Science and Health, ponder the answers to the question, “What is God?” link)

Rule 2: Get a clear concept of man, the image and likeness of God, the perfect reflection and expression of that infinite and perfect Mind — divine Principle, Love, Life, and Truth forever expressing health, harmony, holiness, spiritual power, and peace. (Read again, S&H 475:5-27 link) The Christ is the spiritual understanding that comes to human consciousness bringing up the real, perfect spiritual man; and it is done — it is come — the Christ is risen! I am that “man,” and every man, woman and child of the universe is that man. The Christ is the Truth about everything which comes to the human consciousness to show forth the “real” man. (Read in Prose Works, the paragraph, “Look long enough, …” My. 268:29 link)

Rule 3: Handle false beliefs only. In the realm of belief only, can the evil (so-called) be handled. There is no mortal mind; it has no sources, no origin, no power, no presence, no activity, no manifestation, and no law of enactment. There are not minds many. The false beliefs that there are, or seem to be, cannot operate to affect us in any way whatever. A false belief cannot operate by calling itself “fear,” “envy,” “deceit,” “lust,” “hatred,” “jealousy,” “lack,” “pain” and so on. It cannot act or operate through a belief calling itself “mental practice,” either ignorant or malicious or sympathetic, hiding itself under the cloak of religion, trying to get temporal power through a belief in organized prayer, or organized malpractice. A false belief cannot make avenues or channels through a belief in false theology, false “science,” false philosophy, or even calling itself “Christian Science.”

Know: ‘These beliefs cannot act or operate through malice against Truth, as operating in Christian Science, to affect me in any way whatever, or prevent my healing myself or others, through my individual understanding of Truth, or prevent my spiritual growth, development and demonstration in Christian Science, for there is only one Mind, intelligent Good; and there is no other Mind, no mental activity, or influence. God is the only power, and the Christ-man, the only man there is has dominion over all the earth.”

Summary: Clear up the thought right away in the morning. Think, “As I go on my way rejoicing in the Lord”; “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” (Phil. 4:13) Mrs. Eddy left Science and Health for us to amplify. Take and amplify one statement of the Textbook daily, and study it in a big progressive way, ponder it. You cannot study it today as you did yesterday because more has been revealed. The utterance of God is man. Be normal, be peaceful, be sure and let one Mind operate. Learn to let Spirit bear witness in ideas and in no other way. In reality there is no healing. You can not heal God. If patients are Christian Scientist, insist on their declaration of the Truth aloud; mesmerism is broken by audible statements. Always voice the Truth; to declare that Christian Science is difficult is not voicing the Truth! Christian Science is the easiest, the only thing in the world, in the earth, or in the heavens — for God, Good is all. Act just like God, Good.

Our Daily Bread

“… Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and ‘there shall be no night there.’” (S&H 584:5-8 link) Day is experience in unfoldment. God the one Law, Soul, one Love, one infinite Being. ALL ONE! The Law of God to this day is oneness, completeness, success, satisfaction. There is no other Law. No mortal mind is in this day. This day is today. It is God’s day, Good’s day, Mind’s day, Love’s day. It is the unfoldment of spiritual ideas. For it, there is no fear, no disease, no belief of sin, death, nor disaster, nobody who is suffering, nobody who is poor, or seems to be, no law of deterioration, no loss of faculties or power. Spiritual man is the only experience of this day. The ability of man to exist in an environment of comfort and harmony is not dependent on the impermanent purchasing power of a material medium; and no false belief can make it seem so. It depends solely upon the degree to which the individual consciousness attains to unity with its Principle, divine Mind. Spirit is the only purchasing power. Our capital is our own individual understanding of Mind; our income is our utilization or circulation of the understanding.

God’s Law of Supply

Man lives because God expresses through man the Spiritual idea of Life. God provides for the ideas all that is necessary of sustenance, protection, and counsel. All that is necessary to sustain the idea accompanies and is inseparable from the idea. It is the spiritual status of God and man. Man exists at the very basis of all supply, and there are no human conditions, beliefs, or combination of circumstances to interfere with the flowing of that supply. Take that position, and you will see it working out in every relation. When you have taken that position, watch the suggestion that would deny your position. It may be a belief in lack of opportunity, or belief of age, or of competition, and the like. Man has every quality necessary for the achievement of success, now and forever. Opportunity is ever present. It has not gone by. It means a chance to act, a favorable chance to accomplish certain things. Opportunity is included in Mind and man is the exhibition of the one Mind.

Opportunity

Man exists at the very standpoint of opportunity — the opportunity to achieve. So he has infinite opportunities and cannot get away from any of them. Your opportunity does not come through other people but through knowing man is not bound to one small way of earning a living. Mind, man, supply, and opportunity — if we feel we have no opportunity, we are but denying Christ. Man exists at the very standpoint of all supply, of all substance. Mind supplies you with every idea that goes to make up capacity and ability to achieve. Mind indeed supplies this way, all the time. Mind is the basis of supply, man is one with it. If you think your supply can come to you through one thing only, ask yourself, “…Consciousness, where art thou?” (See S&H 307:32 link) If you think you are fitted for something better, take the stand that you do exist at the very standpoint of expressing all in Mind. That recognition places you right at the fundamental basis of opportunity and supply.

When you have done that, don’t settle down into a rut. You must use the abilities you have. Man is God-acting, so think of it as God-acting — not God helping man. God’s acting in man. Allow yourself to progress. Alert work is necessary. No suggestion can stand between you and progress. You can displace all these things through the activity of intelligent, right ideas. You must not dream for a moment that you can fail. It may take work to do it because of the beliefs of obstruction but do not be fooled by them. You can do it because God is the source of opportunity. You should gain all things for Christ. You don’t have to give up. “But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Luke 12:31)

You must meet the claims of mortal mind. You must not think that God will take care of it, and it will then come out all right. That is old theology! There must be activity, intelligent activity. Man is the enforcement of the Law of God. Therefore, there is no need of anyone not having, doing, and being whatever is right. Perception, reason, memory, and application are faculties of divine Mind. The spontaneity of unlimited supply is a normal fact. As Mrs. Eddy has written in Prose Works, “Know, then, that you posses sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love.” (Pul. 3:7) “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Ex. 20:3) “Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.” (S&H 454:18-21 link)