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HYPNOTISM
is the only
means health of the body. If the spirit thing existing, it is healthy always, and there is no cause for its being unhealthy; but there is something besides, which causes it to think that it is unhealthy; therefore this mind will make itself able to overcome all difficulties which come through matter. What the teaching ought to be is not that there is no existence of matter but that mind ought not to be affected by matter or influenced by it. There is a certain disturbance in the physical system; the cause may be mental or physical, but there is actual disturbance; but corresponding to the mental derangement, there will come out at once a physical deranngement. A person who is very hungry at seven or eight o'clock in the morning receives a telegram stating that his only son has died. He will not feel any more hunger. That ought not to have any influence on the body if there is no such thing as a body, but that, we know, does take place. In the same manner, from the bodily condition there is something comming to the mental condition. When a person eats for his breakfast many different things, some stimulating, others difficult to digest, and others even intoxicating that person will feel stupid, and if he has to write a good sermon at that time, he will not be able to do it. If a person bends down for a long time and thinks of a subject and attempts to write upon it, he will find that he
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