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Rh beyond itself. The beliefs of the human mind rob and enslave it, and then impute this sad result to another personality of illusion, named Satan.

In these lines Charles Swain points out the true duty of man.

A physician of the old school remarked with great gravity: “We know that mind affects the body somewhat, and advise our patients to be hopeful, cheerful, and take as little medicine as possible; but mind can never cure organic difficulties.”

The logic is lame and facts contradict it. I have cured what is termed organic disease as readily as purely functional disease, and with no other means except Mind. Few will deny that death has been occasioned by fright. This proves that every function of the body, its entire organism, is governed by the human mind; unless this mind yields to the Divine Mind, and is saved from itself. Fear has stopped the action of the blood, heart, lungs, and brain.

That mortal mind does govern every organ of the mortal body we have overwhelming proof. It is the autocrat of the mortal body, that yields to no power except by its own consent. It wields the sceptre of a monarch, until the immortal Divine Mind takes away its supposed realm.

If the human mind has the power to kill, it has utter control of what is termed the human mechanism. If the