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414 distinctly as a mountain-peak, as if it were a separate bodily member. At last the agony also vanishes. This process shows the pain to be in the mind; for the inflammation is not suppressed; and the belief of pain will presently return, unless the mental image, occasioning it, be removed by divine Mind, the Truth of Being.

A hypodermic injection of morphine is administered to a patient, and in twenty minutes the sufferer is

quietly asleep. To him there is no longer any pain. Yet any physiciau — allopathic, homœopathic, botanic, eclectic — will tell you that the troublesome material cause is unremoved, and that in a few hours, when the soporific influence of the opium is exhausted, the patient will find himself in the same pain, unless the belief which occasions the pain has meanwhile disappeared. Where is the pain while the patient sleeps?

The material body, which you call me, is mortal mind; and this mind is material in its sensation, even as the

body is material, which has originated from this material sense, and been developed according to it. This materialism of parent and child is only in mortal mind, as the dead body proves; for when the law of this mind has doomed it to decay, that body is no longer the parent, even in appearance.

The sick know nothing of the mental process by which they are depleted, and next to nothing of the metaphysical

method by which they can be healed. If they ask about their disease, tell them only what is best for them to know. Assure them that they think too much about their ailments, and have already heard too much on that subject. Turn their thoughts