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Rh thought, alias the body, and you prevent its development and heredity. This task becomes easy, if you understand that every disease is an error, and has no character or type, except what mortal mind assigns to it. By lifting the mind above error, or disease, and contending persistently against it, you destroy it.

When we remove disease by addressing the mortal mind, giving no heed to the body, we prove that mortal

mind creates the suffering. Mortal mind rules all that is mortal. We see in the body the images of this mind, even as, in optics, we see painted on the retina the image which becomes visible to the senses. The action of mortal mind needs to be controlled by the divine Mind, to bring out the harmony of Being. Without this control there is discord, — manifest as sin, sickness, and death. The Scriptures plainly declare the baneful influence of mortal mind on the body. Even our Master felt it. It

is recorded that in certain localities he did not many mighty works, “because of their unbelief” in Truth. If mortal mind is its own enemy, and works against itself, it does little in the right direction, and much in the wrong. Cherishing evil passions and malicious purposes, this mind is not a healer, but engenders disease and death.

If faith in the Truth of Being, which you impart mentally, while destroying error, causes chemicalization (as

when an alkali is destroying an acid), it is because one must neutralize the other, for the purpose of forming a higher combination. This fermentation should not aggravate the disease, but should be as painless to man as to a fluid; since matter has