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 pnysical body is just a bundle of human thoughts made from human experiences; then when we begin to put spiritual thoughts in the place of the human ones, we will begin to realize what we really are; and that there is nothing the matter with us, and nothing the matter in us, and no matter about any of it; but that Spirit is with us, and Spirit is in us, and is All of Everything."

"And what are you going to do with all of that?" asked the Dream.

"Use it," said Marjorie; "Use it for an eraser to wipe out the things that I don't want."

"All right," said the Dream; "but be sure that it leaves its own mark wherever you wipe out anything with it. Don't leave a blank space for just any old thing to put a mark on. Now tell me why you were making such a fuss about matter a while ago."

"Why," said Marjorie, "you see, I brought back such a wonderful thing when I wakened up and found you here. I seemed to have had a very curious dream; and then following that, some one had given me a message that was so wonderful and so beautiful!—and I remembered it, and I lay here thinking about it and about the many ways that it proved its truth;—and then the wind blew my hair into my eyes, and when I had brushed it away and turned back to look at my beautiful thought, it was gone; absolutely