Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord.

  • Henrietta Frances Lord
Date:
1888
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Credit: Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some road to pass ; is quite incompatible with justice. It is the very opposite ; it is the height of injustice. The more complete teaching of the Liberal section of spirits gives a rational, logical, and consecutive explanation of most of the phenomena, which are observable in human life. It shows that every individual, or spiritual monad, began level; all had the same starting point, all ran the same or a perfectly similar course ; that none had advantages not possessed by others ; and that the inequality of Spiritual development manifested in the human races, and in members of the same race, are all due to the struggles made in past existences to overcome all evil or perverse tendencies ; in other words, some have, by self-improvement, developed the Spiritual factors of the soul to a greater degree than others, and are therefore born now into the world in positions suited to the degree of advancement attained, or in positions in which the trials they have to undergo are the very ones best suited to their further development; or they are in positions in which penance is undergone, to prove and establish repentance made in the previous erratic spiritual state. (U sually every life contains a mixture of these three conditions.) Further, it teaches that a man cannot be incarnated again on earth, until he is willing to subject himself to the trials and penances to which a new life will expose him [i.e., until he concurs]. We are taught, that spirits of very high degree are appointed to the work of regulating the rebirth of spirits into new bodies; they may refuse to grant the request of any individual to re-enter corporeal life in conditions unsuited to the development of that entity, but they are unable to 'bundle him neck and crop' into any body they may choose. The functions of these spirits appear to be to advise and counsel the penitent spirit as to the kind of life to be taken up, and they may even use some pressure to get him to accept their advice. They also have the power to veto an unwise request. But the final decision must be made, and voluntarily made, by the candidate for Re-incarnation himself. Hence every single man on earth is in the position he now finds himself, by virtue of his own free choice, or by following the advice of the mighty spirits who are charged with the carrying out of this part of creation. And that position is regulated for better, or for worse, in accordance with the state of advancement already acquired. THE THEORY OF ' CURSES.' The Power of the Word is an expression which should be kept free from all misunderstanding. First of all, it means we have the power to speak into manifestation the perfection which God has made. When we use it so, our message reaches without fail; because Truth is All- powerful, as we all admit, and as the student of Christian Science has especially laid down in the Statement of Being. Next, the Power of spoken Words means, we have the power to speak every kind of error into manifestation. When we use it so, our message has to take its chance; because error has no power, as all persons can be got to admit, if you put the matter clearly to them, and as the student of Christian Science has especially laid down in the Statement of Being. If you say to your little girl, Mary, you are the stupidest little thing that ever was born, you never recollect anything; you are cross and 2 D