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   1  we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action.
     Look away from the body into Truth and Love,

    Thoughts
    are things

   3  the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and
     immortality. [[[Hold thought steadfastly to the endur-
     ing, the good, and the true, and you will bring these
   6  into your experience proportionably to their occupancy
     of your thoughts.]]]
         The effect of mortal mind on health and happiness is
   9  seen in this: If one turns away from the body with such
     absorbed interest as to forget it, the body

    Unreality
    of pain

     experiences no pain. Under the strong im-
  12  pulse of a desire to perform his part, a noted actor was
     accustomed night after night to go upon the stage and
     sustain his appointed task, walking about as actively
  15  as the youngest member of the company. This old man
     was so lame that he hobbled every day to the theatre, and
     sat aching in his chair till his cue was spoken,--a signal
  18  which made him as oblivious of physical infirmity as if
     he had inhaled chloroform, though he was in the full pos-
     session of his so-called senses.
  21      Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only
     a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning
     of God, or good, and the nature of the immu-

    Immutable
    identity
    of man

  24  table and immortal. Breaking away from the
     mutations of time and sense, you will neither
     lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own iden-
  27  tity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will
     rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird
     which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a
  30  skyward flight.
         We should forget our bodies in remembering good and
     the human race. Good demands of man every hour, in

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