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Rh man's entire obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. Submission to error superinduces weakness and loss of power.

Physiology is one of the apples from the tree of knowledge. Error said that to eat thereof would open man's eyes, and make him as a god. Instead of this enlargement, it closes the eyes to man's God-given dominion over the earth.

Truth casts out all evils, and every materialistic method, with the higher spiritual law, — the law that gives sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, voice to the dumb, feet to the lame. If Christian Science dishonors belief, it honors understanding; and there is but One Mind entitled to honor.

The so-called laws of health are simply laws of mortal belief, the premises whereof are erroneous. Therefore the conclusions are wrong. Truth has made no laws to regulate sickness, sin, and death; for these are unknown to Truth. Belief produces the results of belief, and the penalty it affixes is as sure as the belief itself. The remedy lies in probing to the bottom, finding out the error of belief that produces a mortal disorder, and never honoring it with the title of law, or yielding obedience to it. Truth, Life, and Love are the only legitimate or eternal demands on man, and they are spiritual laws that enforce obedience.

We say, “My hand hath done it.” What is this my but mortal mind, the cause of all materialistic action? All voluntary — or miscalled involuntary — action of the mortal body is governed by this mind, not by matter.

Controlled by the Divine Intelligence, man becomes