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Rh No system of hygiene but mine is purely mental. Before my book was published other books were in

circulation, which discussed mental medicine and mind-cure, operating through the power of the earth's magnetic currents to regulate life and health. Such theories, and systems of so-called mind-cure which have sprung up since, are as material as the prevailing systems of medicine. They have their birth in mortal mind, which puts forth a human conception in the name of Science, to match the Divine Science of immortal Mind, even as the necromancers of Egypt strove to emulate the wonders wrought by Moses. Such theories have no relationship with Christian Science, which rests on the conception of God as all Life, Substance, and Intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual factor in the healing work.

Jesus cast out evil and healed the sick, not only without drugs, but without hypnotism, which is the

opposite of ethical and pathological Truth-power.

Erroneous metaphysical practice may seem for a time to benefit the sick, but the recovery is not permanent. This is because erroneous methods act on and through the material stratum of the human mind, called brain, which is but a mortal consolidation of material mentality and its suppositional activities.

A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed only by removing the influence on him of this

mind, by emptying his thought of the false stimulus and reaction of will-power, and filling it with the divine energies of Truth.

Christian Science destroys material beliefs through the understanding of Spirit, and the thoroughness of this