Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure. It has been named one of the worst “sins,” as its reaction is so harmful. The student learns that in metaphysics sin has a much broader meaning than in the old teaching. “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins. They are inverted faith, and through distorted mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears. His work is to drive out these enemies (from the subconscious mind). “When Man is _fearless he is finished_!” Maeterlinck says, that “Man is God afraid.” So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army prepared to meet the enemy, singing “Praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever,” they found their enemies had destroyed each other, and there was nothing to fight. For example: A woman asked a friend to deliver a message to another friend. The woman feared to give the message, as the reasoning mind said, “Don’t get mixed-up in this affair, don’t give that message.” She was troubled in spirit, for she had given her promise. At last, she determined to “walk up to the lion,” and call on the law of divine protection. She met the friend to whom she was to deliver the message. She opened her mouth to speak it, when her friend said, “So-and-So has left town.” This made it unnecessary to give the message, as the situation depended upon the person being in town. As she was willing to do it, she was not obliged to; as she did not fear, the situation vanished. The student often delays his demonstration through a belief in incompletion. He should make this statement: “In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore, my demonstration is completed. My perfect work, my perfect home, my perfect health.” Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered in Divine Mind, and must manifest, “under grace in a perfect way.” He gives thanks he has already received on the invisible, and makes active preparation for receiving on the visible. One of my students was in need of a financial demonstration. She came to me and asked why it was not completed. I replied: “Perhaps, you are in the habit of leaving things unfinished, and the subconscious has gotten into the habit of not completing (as the without, so the within).” She said, “You are right. I often _begin things_ and never finish them.” “I’ll go home and finish something I commenced weeks ago, and I know it will be symbolic of my demonstration.” So she sewed assiduously, and the article was soon completed. Shortly after, the money came in a most curious manner. Her husband was paid his salary twice that month. He told the people of their mistake, and they sent word to keep it. When man asks, _believing, he must receive, for God creates His own channels_!