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406 Christian Science, and he will get the better of that desire, and ascend a degree in the scale of health, happiness, and existence.

If delusion says, “I have lost my memory,” contradict it. No faculty is lost. In Science, all Being is spiritual,

perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts, instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings Mind, not matter, Life, not death, into the world.

There are many species of insanity. All sin is insanity in different degrees. Sin is only spared from this

classification, because its method of madness is in consonance with common mortal belief. Every sort of sickness is a degree of insanity; that is, sickness is always hallucination. This view is not altered by the fact that it is not acknowledged or discovered to be so by those affected by it.

There is a universal insanity, which mistakes fable for fact throughout the entire round of the material senses; but this general craze cannot, in a spiritual diagnosis, shield the individual case from the special name of insanity. Those unfortunate people who are committed to insane asylums are only so many well-defined instances of the baneful effects of illusion on mortal minds and bodies.

The supposition that we can correct insanity by the use of purgatives and narcotics is in itself a mild species

of insanity. Can drugs go of their own accord to the brain, and so destroy the inflammation of its disordered functions, — thus reaching mortal mind through matter? Truth does not distribute