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370 learn that Disease was never there, for he could not possibly elude their search. Your Material Court of Errors, when it condemned Mortal Man on the ground of hygienic disobedience, was manipulated by the oleaginous machinations of the counsel, Belief, whom Truth arraigns before the supreme bar of Soul, to answer for his bloodshed. Morbid Secretion is taught how to make sleep befool reason, before sacrificing mortals to false gods.

Mortal Minds were mesmerized by your attorney, Belief, and compelled to give a verdict delivering Mortal Man to his grave. Good deeds are transformed into crimes, to which you attach penalties; but no warping of justice can render a disobedience to the laws of Matter real disobedience to God, or an act of homicide. Even penal law regards homicide, under stress of circumstances, as justifiable. Now what greater justification can any deed have, than that it is for the good of one's neighbor? Wherefore then, in the name of outraged justice, do you sentence Mortal Man for ministering to the wants of his fellow-man, in obedience to higher law? You cannot trample upon the Supreme Bench. Mortal Man is amenable to God, who sentences only for sin.

The false and unjust beliefs of your mental legislators compel them to enact laws of sickness, and then render obedience to these laws punishable as crimes. In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, standing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal Sense. I ask that he be forbidden to enter any more suits against Mortal Man, to be tried at the Court of Material Error. I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of Spirit, to restore to Mortal Man the rights whereof he has been deprived.

Here the counsel for the defence closed; and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing