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Rh Here you may see how sense creates its own forms of thought, gives them material names, and then worships and fears them. With pagan blindness it attributes to a material god of medicine an ability beyond itself. The beliefs of the human mind rob and enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive personification, named Satan.

The valves of the heart, opening and closing for the passage of the blood, obey the mandate of mortal mind

as directly as does the hand, moved evidently by the will; though anatomy admits the mental cause of the latter action, but not of the former.

We say, “My hand hath done it.” What is this my but mortal mind, the cause of all materialistic action? All voluntary, as well as miscalled involuntary, action of the mortal body is governed by this mind, not by matter. There is no involuntary action. Mind includes all action and volition, but so-called human mind tries to classify action as voluntary and involuntary.

If you take away this erring mind, the mortal body loses all appearance of life or action, and the human

mind then calls it dead; but this human mind still has a body, through which it acts, and which appears to itself to live, — a body like the one it had before death, and which we still see.

What is termed disease does not exist. It is not mind nor matter. The belief of sin, which has grown

terrible in strength and influence, is an unconscious error in the beginning, — an embryotic thought without motive; but afterwards it governs the so-called man. Passion, appetite,