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Rh yields to your demand. Sin is the foundation of sickness, and you can master sin through Mind.

Remember that if sin remains it brings death. You cannot cure a bodily ailment, a moral law being broken, unless you repent and forsake the sin, and Science readjusts the balance. The only safe course is to take antagonistic grounds against all that is opposed to the health and harmony of mind and body.

If you say “I am sick,” you plead guilty. Then your adversary will deliver you to the judge (mortal mind), and the judge will sentence you. Disease has no intelligence to declare itself something, and announce its name. You sentence yourself; or else the sentence comes from your doctor, your friends, your medical books, — from mortal mind in general. Therefore make your own terms with sickness; and be just, if not generous, to yourself.

Meet every adverse circumstance as its master. Observe mind, instead of body, lest aught unfit for development should enter it. Think less of material conditions, and more of the spiritual.

Doctors examine the pulse, tongue, lungs, to learn the condition of matter; when in fact all is Mind, and the body is the substratum of mortal mind, that should respond to a higher mandate.

Nothing is more disheartening than to believe that there is a power opposite to God, or Good, and that He endows this opposing power with strength to be used against Himself, against health, harmony, and Immortality.

Giving discord, the lead, a large majority of doctors depress mental energy, which is the only recuperative power. The knowledge that we can accomplish the good