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   1  can tell what the unaided medium is incapable of know-
     ing or uttering? This phenomenon only shows that the
   3  beliefs of mortal mind are loosed. Forgetting her igno-
     rance in the belief that another mind is speaking through
     her, the devotee may become unwontedly eloquent. Hav-
   6  ing more faith in others than in herself, and believing
     that somebody else possesses her tongue and mind, she
     talks freely.
   9      Destroy her belief in outside aid, and her eloquence
     disappears. The former limits of her belief return. She
     says, "I am incapable of words that glow, for I am un-
  12  educated." This familiar instance reaffirms the Scrip-
     tural word concerning a man, "As he thinketh in his heart,
     so is he." If one believes that he cannot be an orator with-
  15  out study or a superinduced condition, the body responds
     to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before
     was eloquent.
  18      [[[Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational
     processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry,
     and the power of expressing them. Spirit,

    Scientific
    improvisation

  21  God, is heard when the senses are silent. We
     are all capable of more than we do. The influence or
     action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phe-
  24  nomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.]]]
         Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is
     not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of
  27  music, and man is not the father of man. Cain

    Divine
    origination

     very naturally concluded that if life was in the
     body, and man gave it, man had the right to take it away.
  30  This incident shows that the belief of life in matter was
     "a murderer from the beginning."
         If seed is necessary to produce wheat, and wheat to

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