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Rh drugs through the blood, and thence derive a supposed effect on intelligence and sentiment. A dislocation of the tarsal joint would produce insanity as perceptible as that produced by congestion of the brain, were it not that mortal mind thinks this joint less intimately connected with the mind than is the brain. Reverse this belief, and the results would be perceptibly different.

The unconscious thought, in the corporeal substratum of mortal mind, produces nothing; and that condition of

the body which we call sensation, is erroneous; but mortal mind is ignorant of itself, — ignorant of the errors it includes, and of their effects upon the body. Intelligent matter is an impossibility. You may say: “But if disease obtains in matter, why do you insist that disease is formed by mortal mind, and not by matter?” Mortal mind and body combine as one, and the nearer matter approaches its final statement, as animate error, — called mind, nerves, brain, — the more prolific does it become in sin and disease-beliefs.

Unconscious mortal mind, alias matter, cannot dictate terms to conscious mind, or say, “I am sick.” The

belief that the unconscious substratum of mortal mind, termed the body, suffers and reports disease, independently of this conscious mind, is the error which prevents mortal man from knowing how to govern his body.

The conscious mortal mind is superior to its unconscious substratum, matter, and the stronger never yields

to the weaker, except through fear or choice. The animate stratum of mortal mind should govern the inanimate material substratum. Man is perfect and immortal; and the mortal and imperfect