are all dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought, which will flee before the light.
A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick. Lurking error, envy, revenge, and malice will perpetuate, or even create disease. Errors of all sorts tend in this direction. Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and lasting.
If, from any cause, your patient suffers a relapse, meet the cause mentally and courageously, knowing that there Relapse. can be no reaction in Truth. Neither disease itself nor fear has the power to cause disease to relapse. Disease has no intelligence wherewith to move itself about, or to change itself from one form to another. Meet every adverse circumstance as its master. Observe mind, instead of body, lest aught unfit for development should enter it. Think less of material conditions, and more of spiritual.
Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from Truth, from immortal Mind, there is harmony; but The phases of disease. mortal mind is liable to any phase of belief. A relapse cannot in reality come from other minds, for there is but one Mind. It may come from yourself, because you are not bringing out, in your deeds, the divine Principle of metaphysics, but departing from its rules. To succeed in healing, you must conquer your own beliefs and fears, as well as those of your patients, and you must rise daily into higher and holier consciousness.
Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims; for, if they will only learn how, they can resist
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