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Rh like snowflakes, and drift to the ground. Science reveals Life as not being at the mercy of death, nor will it admit that happiness is ever the sport of circumstance.

Error becomes more imperative as it hastens towards self-destruction. This action of mortal mind on the

body is illustrated by an abscess, which grows more painful before it bursts and suppurates, or a fever, which becomes more severe before it abates.

Fright is so great, at certain stages of mortal belief, as to drive that belief into new paths. In the illusion of

death, mortals wake to the knowledge of two facts: (1) that they are not dead; (2) that they have but passed the portals of a new belief. Truth works out the nothingness of error in just these ways. Sickness, as well as sin, is suicidal, — an error culminating in self-destruction.

We should learn how the human mind governs the body: whether through faith in hygiene, through drugs, or through faith in will power; whether mortals govern the body through a belief in the necessity of sickness and death, sin and pardon, or from the higher understanding that the divine Mind makes perfect, acts upon the human mind through Truth, leads it to relinquish error, and find the divine Mind to be the only Mind, and the healer of sin, disease, and death. This process of higher understanding improves mortal mind until error disappears, and nothing is left which deserves to perish or be punished.

Ignorance, like intentional wrong, is not Science. Ignorance must be seen and corrected before we can