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Change of belief

A change in human belief changes all the physical symp- toms, and determines a case for better or for worse. When one's false belief is corrected Truth sends a report of health over the body.

Destruction of the auditory nerve and paralysis of the optic nerve are not necessary to ensure deafness and blind- ness; for if mortal mind says, "I am deaf and blind," it will be so without an injured nerve. Every theory op- posed to this fact (as I learned in metaphysics) would presuppose man, who is immortal in spiritual under- standing, a mortal in material belief.