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of herself. The next minute she said, "My
food is all digested, and I should like something more
to eat."
(Ultimate harmony)
We cannot deny that Life is self-sustained, and we
should never deny the everlasting harmony of Soul, simply
because, to the mortal senses, there is seeming
discord. It is our ignorance of God, the
divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and
the right understanding of Him restores harmony. Truth
will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and
pains of sense for the joys of Soul.
(Unnecessary prostration)
When the first symptoms of disease appear, dispute the
testimony of the material senses with divine Science. Let
your higher sense of justice destroy the false
process of mortal opinions which you name
law, and then you will not be confined to a sick-room nor
laid upon a bed of suffering in payment of the last farthing,
the last penalty demanded by error. "Agree with
thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with
him." Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon
the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that
it is illegitimate, because you know that God is no more
the author of sickness than He is of sin. You have no
law of His to support the necessity either of sin or sickness,
but you have divine authority for denying that necessity
and healing the sick.
(Treatment of disease)
"Agree to disagree" with approaching symptoms of
chronic or acute disease, whether it is cancer, consumption,
or smallpox. Meet the incipient stages
of disease with as powerful mental opposition
as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of
an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the
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