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Rh The human mind uses one error as a medicine for another. It seeks, on the same principle, to appease

malice with revenge, and to quiet pain with morphine. Of two evils, it chooses the greater in both cases. You admit that mind influences the body somewhat, but you conclude that the stomach, blood, nerves, bones, hold the preponderance of power. Controlled by this belief, you continue in the old routine. You lean on the inert and unintelligent, never discerning how this deprives you of the available superiority of Mind. The body is not controlled Scientifically by a negative mind.

Mind is the grand creator, and there can be no power except that which is derived therefrom. If Mind was

first chronologically, is first potentially, and must be first eternally, then give to Mind the glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due unto its holy name. Inferior and unspiritual methods of healing may try to make Mind and medicine coalesce; but the two will not mingle harmoniously. Why should we wish to make them do so, since no good can come of it?

If Mind is foremost and superior, let us rely upon Mind, which needs no co-operation from lower powers, even if those so-called powers were real.

The various mortal beliefs formulated in human philosophy, physiology, hygiene, are mainly predicated of

matter, and afford faint gleams of God, or Truth. The more material a belief, the more obstinately tenacious its error; the stronger the