397:1 By not perceiving vital metaphysical points, not seeing how mortal mind affects the body, - acting beneficially 397:3 or injuriously on the health, as well as on the morals and the happiness of mortals, - we are misled in our conclusions and methods. We throw the 397:6 mental influence on the wrong side, thereby actually in- juring those whom we mean to bless. Remedy for accidents Suffering is no less a mental condition than is enjoy- 397:9 ment. You cause bodily sufferings and increase them by admitting their reality and continuance, as directly as you enhance your joys by be- 397:12 lieving them to be real and continuous. When an ac- cident happens, you think or exclaim, "I am hurt!" Your thought is more powerful than your words, more 397:15 powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real. Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt 397:18 and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine meta- 397:21 physics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be. Independent mentality To heal the sick, one must be familiar with the great 397:24 verities of being. Mortals are no more material in their waking hours than when they act, walk, see, hear, enjoy, or suffer in dreams. We can 397:27 never treat mortal mind and matter separately, because they combine as one. Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and 397:30 you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. Naming maladies 398:1 Sometimes Jesus called a disease by name, as when he said to the epileptic boy, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I 398:3 charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him." It is added that "the spirit [error] cried, and rent him sore and came out of him, and 398:6 he was as one dead," - clear evidence that the malady was not material. These instances show the concessions which Jesus was willing to make to the popular ignorance 398:9 of spiritual Life-laws. Often he gave no name to the distemper he cured. To the synagogue ruler's daughter, whom they called dead but of whom he said, "she is not 398:12 dead, but sleepeth," he simply said, "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise!" To the sufferer with the withered hand he said, "Stretch forth thine hand," and it "was restored 398:15 whole, like as the other." The action of faith