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" When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, weakness, 

 sorrow, sin and death will be unknown and the mortal dream 

 will for ever cease." 



" My method of treating t)f fatigue applies to all bodily ail- 

 ments since mind should be, and is, supreme, absolute and 

 final." 



This is the supposed answer to a complaint that the indivi- 

 dual is supposed to make — Toil fatigues me. Now comes the 

 philosophy. 



" But what is this me ? Is it muscle or is it mind ? With- 

 out mind would the muscles be tired ? Do the muscles talk ? 

 Do you talk for them ? " 



Matter is non-intelligent. Mortal mind does the false talking 

 and that which appeared weariness made that weariness. Here 

 is her own belief : — " Do not believe in any supposed necessity 

 for sin, disease or death, knowing as you ought to know that 

 God never requires obedience to a so-called natural law, for no 

 such law exists. The belief in sin and death is destroyed by 

 the law of God which is the law of life instead of death ; of 

 harmony instead of discord ; of spirit instead of the flesh. 

 Again as part of the same reasoning if you believe yourself 

 diseased you can alter this wrong belief and action without 

 hindrance from the body." 



This is only one specimen of the sort of rhapsody which is 

 the tone of the whole book, where Scripture is continually quoted 

 and ridiculously applied. 



At page 251 we learn that "Fright is so great at certain 

 stages of mortal belief as to drive belief into new paths. In the 

 illusion of death mortals wake to tlie knowledge of two facts. 

 First, tliat they are not dead, and secondly, that they have but 

 passed the portals of a new belief." 



One does not get a much clearer idea of this by what we 

 should call the interpretation clause, titled death, when we are 

 told, " Any material evidence of death is false, for it contradicts- 

 the s])iritual facts of being." 



Although I have had considerable difficulty in quoting without 

 appearing to deal lightly with sacred things, I have no such 

 hesitation about the lady's philosophy, and this reminds me very 

 much of a little professional anecdote which occurred to me 

 wlien I was at the bar. A witness was being stiffly cross- 

 examined about the absence of a particular })erson wlio was 

 alleged to have been present at the transacticm which was in 

 dispute, and he accounted for the absence of the person in 

 question by saying that he was dead. " How do you know he 



