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which mortal mind has decided upon as essential for
health. Anodynes, counter-irritants, and depletion never
reduce inflammation scientifically, but the truth of being,
whispered into the ear of mortal mind, will bring relief.
(Mind can destroy all ills)
Hatred and its effects on the body are removed by
Love. Because mortal mind seems to be conscious, the
sick say: "How can my mind cause a disease
I never thought of and knew nothing about,
until it appeared on my body?" The author has answered
this question in her explanation of disease as originating
in human belief before it is consciously apparent
on the body, which is in fact the objective state of mortal
mind, though it is called matter. This mortal blindness
and its sharp consequences show our need of divine
metaphysics. Through immortal Mind, or Truth, we can
destroy all ills which proceed from mortal mind.
Ignorance of the cause or approach of disease is no
argument against the mental origin of disease. You confess
to ignorance of the future and incapacity to preserve
your own existence, and this belief helps rather than
hinders disease. Such a state of mind induces sickness.
It is like walking in darkness on the edge of a precipice.
You cannot forget the belief of danger, and your steps
are less firm because of your fear, and ignorance of mental
cause and effect.
(Temperature is mental)
Heat and cold are products of mortal mind. The body,
when bereft of mortal mind, at first cools, and afterwards
it is resolved into its primitive mortal
elements. Nothing that lives ever dies, and
vice versa. Mortal mind produces animal heat, and then
expels it through the abandonment of a belief, or increases
it to the point of self-destruction. Hence it is
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