230:1 If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true, it is a part of Truth. Would you attempt with drugs, 230:3 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, 230:6 holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the for- ever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the sal- 230:9 vation which comes through God, the divine Principle, Love, as demonstrated by Jesus. God never inconsistent It would be contrary to our highest ideas of God to 230:12 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 vo- 230:15 lition for doing what they could not avoid doing. Good is not, cannot be, the author of experimental sins. God, good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can 230:18 cause evil and health occasion disease. Mental narcotics Does wisdom make blunders which must afterwards be rectified by man? Does a law of God produce sick- 230:21 ness, and can man put that law under his feet by healing sickness? According to Holy Writ, the sick are never really healed by drugs, hygiene, or any 230:24 material method. These merely evade the question. They are soothing syrups to put children to sleep, satisfy mortal belief, and quiet fear. The true healing 230:27 We think that we are healed when a disease disap- pears, though it is liable to reappear; but we are never thoroughly healed until the liability to be 230:30 ill is removed. So-called mortal mind or the mind of mortals being the remote, predisposing, and the exciting cause of all suffering, the cause of disease 231:1 must be obliterated through Christ in divine Science, or the so-called physical senses will get the victory. Destruction of all evil 231:3 Unless an ill is rightly met and fairly overcome by Truth, the ill is never conquered. If God destroys not sin, sickness, and death, they are not de- 231:6 stroyed in the mind of mortals, but seem to this so-called mind to be immortal. What God cannot do, man need not attempt. If God heals not the sick, 231:9 they are not healed, for no lesser power equals the infinite All-power; but God, Truth, Life, Love, does heal the sick through the prayer of the righteous.