|
- 425 -
parents or some of his progenitors farther back have so
believed. Mortal mind, not matter, induces this conclusion
and its results. You will have humors, just so
long as you believe them to be safety-valves or to be
ineradicable.
(Nothing to consume)
If the case to be mentally treated is consumption, take
up the leading points included (according to belief) in
this disease. Show that it is not inherited;
that inflammation, tubercles, hemorrhage, and
decomposition are beliefs, images of mortal thought superimposed
upon the body; that they are not the truth
of man; that they should be treated as error and put out
of thought. Then these ills will disappear.
(The lungs reformed)
If the body is diseased, this is but one of the beliefs of
mortal mind. Mortal man will be less mortal, when he
learns that matter never sustained existence
and can never destroy God, who is man's Life.
When this is understood, mankind will be more spiritual
and know that there is nothing to consume, since Spirit,
God, is All-in-all. What if the belief is consumption?
God is more to a man than his belief, and the less we acknowledge
matter or its laws, the more immortality we
possess. Consciousness constructs a better body when
faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material
belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form
you anew. You will never fear again except to offend
God, and you will never believe that heart or any portion
of the body can destroy you.
(Soundness maintained)
If you have sound and capacious lungs and want
them to remain so, be always ready with the
mental protest against the opposite belief in
heredity. Discard all notions about lungs, tubercles, inherited
|
