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Rh Human mind produces what is termed organic disease as certainly as it produces hysteria, and it must

relinquish all its errors, sicknesses, and sins. I have demonstrated this beyond all cavil. The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and absolute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own existence.

Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind.

Matter, or body, is but a false concept of mortal mind. This so-called mind builds its own superstructure, of which the material body is the grosser portion; but from first to last, the body is a sensuous, human concept.

In the Scriptural allegory of the material creation, Adam or error, which represents the erroneous theory

of life and intelligence in matter, had the naming of all that was material. These names indicated matter's properties, qualities, and forms. But a lie, the opposite of Truth, cannot name the qualities and effects of what is termed matter, and create the so-called laws of the flesh, nor can a lie hold the preponderance of power in any direction against God, Spirit and Truth.

If a dose of poison is swallowed through mistake, and the patient dies even though physician and

patient are expecting favorable results, does human belief, you ask, cause this death? Even so, and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally taken.

In such cases a few persons believe the potion swallowed by the patient to be harmless, but the vast