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390 Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against

them. Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and thus you can prevent its development on the body. No law of God hinders this result. It is error to suffer for aught but your own sins. God, or Truth, will destroy all other supposed suffering; and real suffering, for your own sins, will cease, in proportion as the sin ceases.

Justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice declares the absence of law. When the body is supposed

to say, “I am sick,” never plead guilty. Since matter cannot talk, it must be mortal mind which so speaks; therefore meet the intimation with a protest. If you say, “I am sick,” you plead guilty. Then your adversary will deliver you to the judge (mortal mind), and the judge will sentence you. Disease has no intelligence to declare itself something, and announce its name. You alone can sentence yourself. Therefore make your own terms with sickness; and be just, if not generous, to yourself.

Mentally contradict every complaint from the body; and rise to the true consciousness of Life as Love, — as

being all that is pure, and bearing the fruits of Spirit. Sin is the foundation of sickness, and you can master sin through divine Mind; hence it is through divine Mind that you overcome disease. Remember that only while sin remains can it bring forth death. You cannot cure a bodily ailment, a moral law being broken, unless you repent and forsake the sin, and Divine Science will readjust the balance. The only safe