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20 zance of the spiritual facts of the universe, or of man and God. Science declares that there is but one Truth, Life, Love, but one Spirit, Mind, Soul. Any attempt to divide these arises from the fallibility of sense, from mortal man’s ignorance, from his hatred of God and Divine Science.

Sickness is a belief, a latent fear, made manifest on the body in different forms of fear, or disease. This fear is formed unconsciously in the silent thought, as when you waken from sleep and feel ill, experiencing the effect of a fear whose existence you do not realize; but if you fall asleep, actually conscious of the Truth of Science, — namely, that man’s harmony is no more to be invaded than the rhythm of the universe, — you can not awake in fear or suffering of any sort.

Science saith to Fear: “You are the cause of all sickness; but you area self-constituted falsity, — you are darkness, nothingness. You are without hope and without God in the world.’ You do not exist, and have no right to, for ‘perfect Love casteth out fear. God is everywhere. “There is no speech nor language where His voice is not heard”; and this voice is Truth that destroys error, and Love that casts out fear.

Science reveals the fact that if suffering exists it is in the mortal mind only, for matter has no sensation and can not suffer. If you rule out every sense of disease and suffering from mortal mind, it can not be found in the body.

I advise my pupils not to read unscientific works, which advocate a materialistic treatment of disease, because they becloud the pure sense of Metaphysical Science.

Who would deny to the mathematician the right to decide whether an example is wrought correctly or incorrectly, or to the musician, who gives the keynote, the ability to detect the discord?

The Principle and rule of Mind-healing are wholly Christly and spiritual. To adopt any material