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thought a hopeless state, an image more terrifying than
that of most other diseases. The patient turns involuntarily
from the contemplation of it, but though unacknowledged,
the latent fear and the despair of recovery remain
in thought.
(Insidious concepts)
Just so is it with the greatest sin. It is the most subtle,
and does its work almost self-deceived. The diseases
deemed dangerous sometimes come from the
most hidden, undefined, and insidious beliefs.
The pallid invalid, whom you declare to be wasting away
with consumption of the blood, should be told that blood
never gave life and can never take it away, - that Life is
Spirit, and that there is more life and immortality in one
good motive and act, than in all the blood which ever
flowed through mortal veins and simulated a corporeal
sense of life.
(Remedy for fever)
If the body is material, it cannot, for that very reason,
suffer with a fever. Because the so-called material body
is a mental concept and governed by mortal
mind, it manifests only what that so-called
mind expresses. Therefore the efficient remedy is to
destroy the patient's false belief by both silently and audibly
arguing the true facts in regard to harmonious
being, - representing man as healthy instead of diseased,
and showing that it is impossible for matter to suffer, to
feel pain or heat, to be thirsty or sick. Destroy fear,
and you end fever. Some people, mistaught as to Mind-science,
inquire when it will be safe to check a fever.
Know that in Science you cannot check a fever after admitting
that it must have its course. To fear and admit
the power of disease, is to paralyze mental and scientific
demonstration.
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