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ceived the thought of power in inert matter -vegetable and mineral, and extracted therefrom certain qualities. To these extracts it gave still greater power than to the vegetable or mineral in its natural condition, thus claiming more power for the inventions and works of the soul or man, than for the works of God.

These inventions and the thoughts which prompted them, are what might be called hereditary, having been handed down from generation to generation, and they cannot be broken up in a moment of time, but must be uprooted little by little. All the material understanding of the soul, both the good and the evil, is the absence of the Understanding of Spirit, and the absence of something is nothing to the thing itself, therefore sickness is nothing to God. To say to a man who is suffering, that his sickness is but his own imagination or delusion, would be as ridicu lous as to tell him that his existence in a material form was his imagination. The

sickness will be real to him until the thoughts which produced it are destroyed, and saying that it is not real, will not destroy it. Saying that a statement or work. is wrong does not prove it to be so, neither does it make it right. One must first understand why it is wrong, and what made it wrong, and then he has not made it right, but has only learned how to begin the correction. The evil or wrong material thoughts must first be overcome or destroyed, and the good material thoughts cultivated, for these will lead us toward the spiritual thoughts through which we perceive the Understanding of God.

Acid is said to contract the muscles of the mouth, but let us see if that is a correct statement. Hold a lemon, vinegar, or anything acid before you with the thought or expectation of tasting it, and you will find that the muscles of the mouth will contract before you taste; this shows you that the thought of acidity will produce the action.

which the acid is said to produce.

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here you may say that it is because you know the taste, having tasted it before. Let us see what it is that knows. The muscles of the mouth have no intelligence, neither have they any sensation in themselves; therefore, it is the life that knows, and causes the suffering to matter. Had there been no life in the body, no amount of acid would cause an action of the muscles. Therefore in this case, as in all others, life was the cause instead of matter as has been supposed.

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It is said that arsenic kills; but it would

very difficult for any one to prove how it kills, since persons have had all the symptoms of arsenic poisoning without having taken any arsenic; and again, persons have taken arsenic and did not die. When asked for a proof that it is the arsenic that causes death, the doctor will tell you to take it and you will die; but that is not a proof, it is simply an assertion that a certain thing will

cause death. Suppose you take a child that knows nothing about arsenic, and administer the usual dose, the child will probably die, but I will show you that the arsenic was not the cause of the death.

The child has a soul or life, and had you taken that life or soul out of the child before administering the arsenic, the arsenic would have preserved the stomach instead of eating or destroying it. Here is a contradiction regarding the action of arsenic: where there is life, it destroys; where there is none, it preserves. In both cases the arsenic was the same, but in one case there was life, and in the other case there was none. The matter composing the stomach was alike in both cases, also the arsenic administered, but by removing the life we changed the action; therefore the life must have been the cause of the action. Here you may say, “What had the life of the child to do with the action, the child not knowing anything about arsenic?" We will admit that the child was ignorant of

the nature of the poison, but all who are educated in physiology and materia medica know that it kills, therefore the thought, although unconscious to the child, was hereditary in its life. It is indeed, a universal thought admitted as a fact in every life or soul. A thought is a product of life and is action, and this thought, produced and accepted by life, acts upon the life of the child and produces unconsciously, a confusion. therein. This confusion produces a fear, this fear in the child's life heats the blood and causes the first conscious action; this disturbs the pulsation, a chemical action takes place in the system, and the result of this action is what is termed death or a separation of life from this body or product of the life. The soul has two spiritual senses, the outward spiritual sight and the inward spiritual perception. The outward spiritual sight is that sense through which the soul sees spiritual things which are the reflection of spirit Thought. The inward spiritual