The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian SciencePeabody, Frederick William
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The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
Peabody, Frederick William
Christian Science -- Controversial literature
The contents of this Quimby-Glover manuscript having been
communicated to Mr. George A. Quimby of Belfast, Maine, son of
Dr. P. P. Quimby, he says, having compared it with his father’s
writings in his possession, that it is a precise copy of them. He
further says that an opportunity was afforded Mrs. Eddy to copy
his father’s writings, as his father was accustomed to lend his
manuscript to his patients, one of whom Mrs. Eddy was.
A perusal of this manuscript in comparison with Mrs. Eddy’s
“Science and Health” shows, that every basic idea of Christian
Science as a healing system was bodily appropriated by her from
Dr. Quimby’s manuscripts and not obtained, as she says, by
revelation from God. As contained in the manuscript and as taught
by Dr. Quimby, there was no suggestion of a religious character
to his teachings; the religious phase was an afterthought of Mrs.
Eddy’s, as a means of facilitating the sale and distribution of
her profit-yielding, copyrighted and “inspired” writings.
It may be here remarked that, at the outset, Mrs. Eddy especially
deprecated the giving to Quimbyism, or Christian Science, a
religious character, as I shall hereafter show in more detail,
and she goes so far as to criticise the disciples of Jesus for
founding, as she says, religious organizations and church rites.
Thus, at first, healing was the only phase of Christian Science.
The religious feature was a subsequent invention.
Quimbyism, as contained in Mrs. Wentworth’s copy of Mrs. Glover’s
copy of Dr. Quimby’s “Science of Man,” as revised and corrected
in Mrs. Glover’s own handwriting, is compared with Mrs. Eddy’s
Christian Science as contained in her “Science and Health” in the
following parallel passages from the two. A glance will show Dr.
Quimby’s system of mental healing, as taught by Mrs. Glover,
later Mrs. Eddy, in 1870, to be no other than the “Science of
Metaphysical Healing” that Mrs. Eddy, formerly Mrs. Glover, now
says was revealed to her in 1866:
Quimby: From Quimby’s “Science of Man,” as Expounded by Mrs. Eddy
at Stoughton, 1868-69-70.
“If I understand how disease originates in the mind and fully
believe it, why cannot I cure myself?”
Disease being made by our belief or by our parents’ belief or
by public opinion, there is no one formula of argument to be
adopted; but every one must fit in their particular case.
Therefore it requires great shrewdness or wisdom to get the
better of the error.” ....
Eddy: From Mrs. Eddy’s “Science and Health,” the Text-Book of the
“Christian Science” She now Claims to have Discovered in 1866.
“Disease being a belief, a latent delusion of mortal mind, the
sensation would not appear if this _error was met and destroyed
by Truth._”—Page 61, edition of 1898.
“Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as wholly
mental, but it also declares that all disease is cured by
mind.”—Page 62, edition of 1898.
Quimby:
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