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and that the might of omnipotent Spirit shares not its
strength with matter or with human will. Reviewing
this brief experience, I cannot fail to discern the
coincidence of the spiritual idea of man with the divine
Mind.
(Change of belief)
A change in human belief changes all the physical symptoms,
and determines a case for better or for
worse. When one's false belief is corrected,
Truth sends a report of health over the body.
Destruction of the auditory nerve and paralysis of the
optic nerve are not necessary to ensure deafness and blindness;
for if mortal mind says, "I am deaf and blind," it
will be so without an injured nerve. Every theory opposed
to this fact (as I learned in metaphysics) would
presuppose man, who is immortal in spiritual understanding,
a mortal in material belief.
(Power of habit)
The authentic history of Kaspar Hauser is a useful hint
as to the frailty and inadequacy of mortal mind. It
proves beyond a doubt that education constitutes
this so-called mind, and that, in turn,
mortal mind manifests itself in the body by the false
sense it imparts. Incarcerated in a dungeon, where
neither sight nor sound could reach him, at the age of
seventeen Kaspar was still a mental infant, crying and
chattering with no more intelligence than a babe, and
realizing Tennyson's description:
An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry.
His case proves material sense to be but a belief formed
by education alone. The light which affords us joy gave
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