THE EDUCATION OF THE NEMINIST. 179 



"'God is the principle of Mentipliysics. As there is but one 

 God, there can be but one Principle in this Science. As there are 

 many stars, there mnst be many fixed rules for the demonstration 

 of this Divine Principle. 



'' ' The fundamental propositions among these rules are proved 

 by inversion, for this is the basis of all true mathematics. Two 

 times two is four, therefore four is two times two. As a star is 

 the same whether seen from the north, south, east, or west, so a 

 precept of Mentipliysics must be the same as seen from every side. 

 To invert is not to change its meaning, and must prove its truth.' 

 Then she gave me a printed card containing these words, over 

 which I was to ponder until the next lesson: 



" ' IvT. ]Sr. IST. There is no Pain in Truth, therefore there is no 

 Truth in Pain. There is no Xerve in Mind, therefore there is no 

 Mind in IS^erve. There is no Matter in Mind, therefore there is 

 no Mind in Matter. There is no Matter in Life, therefore there 

 is no Life in Matter. There is no Matter in Good, therefore there 

 is no Good in Matter. Nihil nocet nemiiii; nihil nemini nocet.^ 



" ' Twenty-five dollars, please,' and I returned to my hotel filled 

 with new thoughts, which I found later were very incomplete. 



" The next day she said : 



" ' Man, my dear, is governed by Soul, not sense. Sense is the 

 reflection, of matter, and matter does not exist. Thus sense is but 

 the shadow of a dream. In dreams the laws of health are value- 

 less. There is but one Law of Health, and that is the one precept 

 of Keministic Healing. 



" ' To the awakened mind the seasons will come and go, with 

 changes of time and tide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. 

 The agriculturist finds that these changes can not affect his crops. 

 The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great 

 deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. The as- 

 tronomer will no longer look up to the stars. He will look out 

 from them upon the universe, and the florist will find his fiower 

 before he beholds its seed. Thus matter will be finally proved to 

 be nothing but a mortal belief, wholly inadequate to affect man 

 through its supposed organic action or existence.' 



"Then she gave me another mystic card, which read: 



" ' X. IST. X. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and Cre- 

 ation must collapse. Nihil nocet nemini.' And this time I did 

 not need to be reminded of the final ceremony with which the les- 

 son ended. Nor did she need to clink the coins on the table. 



" In the fourth lesson the president discoursed more fully on 

 ' the popular gods, Sin, Sorrow, and Sickness, the three S's of 

 Satan; all three illusions of the Sinful Soul. The very word Illu- 



