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192 magnetism, that her healing might be clear and definite, then we may believe she was by the same gradual process prepared for the writing of her book. Again it is best to take her own words for a description of the attuning of her faculties. She says:

Naturally, my first jottings were but efforts to express in feeble diction Truth’s ultimate. … As sweet music ripples in one’s first thoughts of it like the brooklet in its meandering midst pebbles and rocks, before the mind can duly express it to the ear, — so the harmony of Divine Science, first broke upon my sense, before gathering experience and confidence to articulate it. Its natural manifestation is beautiful, and euphonious, but its written expression increases in power, and perfection, under the guidance of the great master.