“Ye shall be as gods!” This was the tantalizing reward that the serpent promised Adam were he to eat of the tree of knowledge, in dazzling display to all the world and to himself the mind of a god.
In the centuries following, error had made an incredible number of intricate inroads into Adam’s fascinating — yet so deadly — world of good-and-evil exploration. Matthew 4:23-24 makes clear the cornucopia of diseases that error had concocted and amassed since the days of Adam, all for mortal mind to be preoccupied with:
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness [in Greek, noson] and all kinds of disease [malakion] among the people. Then his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to him all sick [kakos] people who were afflicted [sunechomenous] with various diseases [noson] and torments [basanos], and those who were demon possessed [daimonizomenous], epileptic [seleniazonemous] and paralytics [paralutikos] and he healed them.”
Noson: translated as sickness or disease
Malakion: a disease of weakness such as chronic fatigue, loss of muscle, etc.
Sunechomenous: seized with, taken by, held fast by.
Kakos: bad, evil, inwardly foul, rotten, poisoned.
Basanos: refers to a touchstone used to test metals; examined by torture, torture, torment (same word used in the Book of Revelation to describe the torments of the damned
Jesus came to banish — swiftly and unceremoniously — all of the above.
Jesus came to reverse all of mortal mind’s morbid fantasizing about sin, disease, and death, and Mrs. Eddy, through her monumental discovery, has made it possible for you, me, everyone to continue in those very same footsteps: to carry on this reversal process to final victory!