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cannot get any thoughts. When a person sits at his window in a sultry climate, he is not comfortable. Why is that? From all these instances, we are quite sure that the body has something to do with the mind, and the mind with the body. The mind should be brought into the condition in which it can control matter, and that kind of teaching ought to be given to the patient. Therefore the real object of curing is not to give physical health, but to restore the soul or mind to such a condition, that it will from that time and forever in the future be not controlled by matter, but will control it; that it will not live simply a material life but a spiritual life. For such a person there will be no disease and no evil. That ought to be the teaching. No false teaching ought to be given to the patients, that there is no such thing as matter or evil, but the mind ought to be taught in such a way that it will not be influenced by eyil which is actually there. There may be many suggestions made for this purpose. The nature of the mind and of matter ought to be explained, and the practical way of concentration ought to be taught; the method of counteracting or doing away with the results of past forces ought to be taught. We have to teach, really speaking, the moralities of life, because we have in past life generated some forces which cause pain in this life. If this force is too strong to be counteracted, it must be worked out. but if it is not too strong to be counteracted by another force opposite in nature, we ought to ieach how counter
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