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Rh whereas imperfection is blameworthy and unreal.

Matter cannot be inflamed. Inflammation is an excited stage of mortal mind that is not normal. Immortal

Mind is the only cause, therefore disease is not a cause or effect. And Mind in every case is the eternal God, Good. Sin, disease and death have no foundations in Truth. Inflammation as a mortal belief quickens or impedes the action of the system, because thought moves thus and leaps or halts when it contemplates unpleasant things, or when the individual comes upon some object which he dreads. Inflammation never appears in a part which mortal thought does not reach. That is why opiates relieve it. They calm the thought by inducing stupefaction, — by resorting to error instead of Truth. Opiates do not remove the pain, in any proper sense of the word. They only render mortal mind temporarily less fearful.

Note how thought makes the face pallid. It either retards the circulation or quickens it, causing a pale

cheek or a flushed. Even so it increases or diminishes the secretions, the breathing, the action of the bowels, the action of the heart. The muscles, moving quickly or slowly, impelled or palsied by thought, represent the action of all the organs of the human system, including brain and viscera. To remove the error producing disorder, you must instruct mortal mind with immortal Truth.

Etherization will apparently cause the body to disappear. Before the thoughts are fully at rest, the limbs

will vanish from consciousness. Nay, the whole frame will sink from sight, along with surrounding objects, leaving the pain standing forth as