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Rh will be unknown, and the mortal dreams forever cease. My method of treating fatigue applies to all bodily ailments, since Mind should be, and is, supreme, absolute, and final.

In mathematics we do not multiply where we should subtract, and then say the product is correct. No more

can we say, in Science, that muscles give strength, that nerves give pain or pleasure, or that matter governs, and then expect that the result will be harmony. Not muscles, nerves, or bones, but mortal mind makes the whole body “sick and the whole heart faint;” whereas divine Mind heals all ailments.

When this is understood, we shall never affirm concerning the body what we do not wish to have true. We shall not call the body weak, if we would have it strong; for we know that the belief in feebleness must obtain in the human mind before it can be made manifest in the body, and that the destruction of the illusion will be the removal of its effects. Science includes no rule of discord, but governs harmoniously. “The wish,” says the poet, “is ever father to the thought.” We may hear a sweet melody, and yet misunderstand the science which governs it. Those who are healed

through Metaphysical Science, not comprehending the Principle of the cure, may misunderstand it, and impute their recovery to change of air or diet, not rendering to God the honor due to Him alone. Entire immunity from sin and suffering cannot be expected at this period, but we may look for some abatement of them; and these Scientific beginnings are in the right direction.