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Rh your body is spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts, instead of its demoralized opposite.

Fear is the foundation of all sickness. Some image of disease is frightening the sick. Their mental state, you call a material state. Whatever you cherish in mortal mind is imaged forth on the body, which is the substratum of mortal mind.

Remember that all is Mind, and there is no matter. You are only seeing and feeling a belief, whether it be cancer, deformity, consumption, or fracture that you deal with.

Inflammation is a state of fear, that quickens or impedes the action of the blood; just as a man's blood is quickened when he comes upon some object which he dreads. Inflammation never appears in a part which mortal thought does not reach. That is why opiates relieve it. They calm the fear by inducing stupefaction, — by error instead of by Truth. Opiates do not remove the pain in any proper sense of the words. They only render mortal mind oblivious to it.

Here lies a man in agonizing pain, caused by the presence in the ureters of calculi, which are pressing their ragged way out of the system. A hypodermic injection of morphine is administered, and in twenty minutes the sufferer is quietly asleep. To him there is no longer any pain. Yet any physician — allopathic, homœopathic, botanic, eclectic — will tell you that the troublesome material cause is unremoved, and that in a few hours, when the soporific influence of the opium is exhausted, the patient will find himself in the same pain. Where was it while he slept?