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destroys the cause of sin, sickness and death. There
is no cause of evil; when we see this, a blow has been
made at the root, which shall finally destroy the entire
plant." -- Isa. 52:2, 5.
To clear our garden of weeds, we clean them out
root and all, for if we cut away only the tops we shall
have an abundant crop again. To heal the sickness of
the body is like cutting off the tops of our weeds, and
leaving all the roots to put forth again in new growth.
Science goes always into Cause; and as there is but
One Cause to go into, and that forever Good, it soon
eliminates the cause of evil, seeing it has none! The
only supposed cause of evil and suffering is the thought
of separation from Good. There is no separation from
God. Truth destroys this "cause."
Fasting is "casting down imaginations," or false images thought is holding. "And every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every thought, to the obedience of
Christ." -- 2 Cor. 10:5.
That which sees things contrary to God is imagination. "And God saw that . . . every imagination of
the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually." -- Gen. 6:5. This condition caused the "flood," and within
each of us, the flood shall come, that shall destroy these
imaginations. When the soul is flooded with the light
of Truth and Love, "The world of the ungodly" perishes;
the imagination that there is an ungodly world, is destroyed. Righteous thought Noah, (Gen. 7:1), is separated from all unrighteousness, that ungodliness may be
destroyed.
Fasting is "shutting the door" when thought enters
into communion with All-Spirit. It shuts out every
thing but Spirit, seeing that Spirit is all. Hence fasting
