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excited state of mortals which is not normal. Immortal
Mind is the only cause; therefore disease is neither a
cause nor an effect. Mind in every case is the
eternal God, good. Sin, disease, and death
have no foundations in Truth. Inflammation as a mortal
belief quickens or impedes the action of the system,
because thought moves quickly or slowly, leaps or halts
when it contemplates unpleasant things, or when the individual
looks upon some object which he dreads. Inflammation
never appears in a part which mortal thought
does not reach. That is why opiates relieve inflammation.
They quiet the thought by inducing stupefaction and by
resorting to matter instead of to Mind. Opiates do not
remove the pain in any scientific sense. They only render
mortal mind temporarily less fearful, till it can master
an erroneous belief.
(Truth calms the thought)
Note how thought makes the face pallid. It either retards
the circulation or quickens it, causing a pale or
flushed cheek. In the same way thought increases
or diminishes the secretions, the action
of the lungs, of the bowels, and of the heart. The muscles,
moving quickly or slowly and impelled or palsied by
thought, represent the action of all the organs of the human
system, including brain and viscera. To remove
the error producing disorder, you must calm and instruct
mortal mind with immortal Truth.
(Effects of etherization)
Etherization will apparently cause the body to
disappear. Before the thoughts are fully at rest, the limbs
will vanish from consciousness. Indeed, the
whole frame will sink from sight along with
surrounding objects, leaving the pain standing forth as
distinctly as a mountain-peak, as if it were a separate
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