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296 matter, giving it life, sensation, and producing disease. To break the spell, understand that sickness is formed by the human mind, and not by matter.

To the Scientist, sickness is a dream, from which the patient needs to be awakened. Disease should not appear real to the physician, since it is demonstrable in Science that to make disease unreal to his patient is to cure him. To do this the physician must understand the scientific unreality of disease.

If the Truth of Being, while destroying error, causes chemicalization (as when an acid and an alkali meet), then one must neutralize the other, for the purpose of forming a higher combination. This fermentation should be as painless to man as to a fluid; for matter has no sensation, and mortal mind only feels and sees materially.

If an aggravation of symptoms sets in, you may sometimes treat the patient less for the disease, and more for the fermentation, and abate the symptoms, by removing the belief that chemicalization produces pain. When the supposed suffering is gone there can be no pain; and when the fear is destroyed, the inflammation will subside. Calm the fear and confusion induced by chemicalization, which is the alterative effect produced by Truth on error; and explain the symptoms and their cause to the patient.

Truth is an alterative to the entire system, and can make it “every whit whole.” Brains are not Mind. Matter cannot be sick. Mind is immortal harmony. Your mortal body is a mortal belief of discord.

If delusion says “I have lost my memory,” you must contradict it. No faculty is lost. According to Science