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Rh change of spheres and alteration of the flow of human forces into the body enables it to recover its equilibrium of function. But diseases are constantly being induced in the same way through the unconscious influence of one mind upon another, and its appeal to selfish affections and their congenial stupidities and errors and falsities. The presence of such mental powers and the fact of their unconscious transference, simply calls for a science of mind-cure and a conscious and intelligent application of the same powers to the healing of the sick.

This science of mind-cure so far as it is attained at all, will be obliged to light its lamp with the doctrine of Correspondences; because it reveals the law of the relation of states of mind to their symptomatic manifestations in the mind and in the body; and because it involves also those Laws of Order, which are the laws of Divine Providence, and reveal what by the will of God and in the nature of truth and goodness man may do for fellow-man, and what must be left for man to do for himself in freedom according to reason.

One thing a man cannot do for his fellow-man is to regenerate him; he can only lead