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72 words of Madame Roland, as she knelt to a Goddess of Liberty erected upon a guillotine, “O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!” Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legitimate state of man. God made him free. Paul said, “I was free born.” So should all men be. Justice and Truth make free; injustice and error lead into captivity.

Divine Science grasps the standard of liberty, and cries “Follow me; escape from the bondage of sickness, sin, and death.” Jesus marked out the way. Citizens of the world, accept the glorious import of “the liberty of the sons of God,” and be free! This is your divine right. Illusion, not law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs, crippled your capacities, defaced the tablet of your mind with error, enfeebled your body.

Causation is Mind, not matter. The body but expresses mortal mind. You possess this body and you make it harmonious or discordant, according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace the body in thought, and should delineate your thoughts in health, not in sickness. You should banish the thought of disease, the belief that matter holds you in mystery and slavery. As immortal, you have a perfect, indestructible form. It is belief in mortality that makes your body discordant, according to the ignorance, fear, and belief that govern it.

If God had constituted material laws to govern man, which, disobeyed, make him ill, Christ could not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them, and in defiance of the material condition, instead of through consultation with it.