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Rh word, “As a man thinketh, so is he.” If one believes that he cannot be an orator without study or a superinduced condition, the body responds to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before was eloquent.

Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry,

and the power of expressing them. Soul, God, is heard when the senses are silent. We are all capable of more than we do. The influence or action of Soul confers a freedom which explains the phenomena of improvisation, and the fervor of untutored lips.

Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of

music, and man is not the father of man. Cain concluded, very naturally, that if life was in the body, and man gave it, man had the right to take it away. This incident shows that the belief of life in matter was “a murderer from the beginning.” If seed is necessary to produce wheat, and wheat to produce flour, or if one animal can originate another, how then can we account for their primal origin? How were the loaves and fishes multiplied on the shores of Galilee, — and that, too, without meal or monad, from which loaf or fish could come?

The earth's orbit, and the imaginary line called the equator, are not substance. The earth's motion and

position are sustained alone by Mind. Divest yourself of the thought that there can ever be substance in matter, and then the movements and transitions, now possible for mortal mind, will be