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Rh single weight from either gives preponderance to the opposite. Whatever influence you cast on the side of

matter, you take away from Mind, which would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the side of health. When sick (according to belief) you rush after drugs, search out the so-called laws of health, and depend on these to heal you, though you have already brought yourself into the slough of disease through just this false dependence.

Because man-made systems insist that man becomes sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with

the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are we to believe an authority which denies God's spiritual command relating to perfection, — authority which Jesus has proved to be false? He did the will of the Father. He healed sickness, in defiance of what is called material law, but in accordance with God's law.

I have discerned disease in the human mind, and recognized the patient's fear of it, many weeks before the

so-called disease made its appearance in the body. Disease being a belief, — a latent illusion of mortal mind, the sensation would not appear if this error was met and destroyed by Truth.

Here let a word be introduced which may be frequently used hereafter, — chemicalization. By

chemicalization I mean the process which mortal mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a material to a spiritual basis.

Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred, through mental chemicalization, I have seen the mental