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forth from a heart made strong in purity and faith. "K Where there is sterling faith and unc_ojnrjrg-» mising purity there is health, there is success, there~"IiT"pbwerr ln"*suclT a one, disease, failure, and disaster can find ncTTodgment, for there is noTh7ng~oh which they can feed. ~~n6 ^^IfiiK^ Even physical conditions are largely deter- mined by mental states, and to this truth the scientific world is rapidly being drawn.

The old, materialistic belief that a man is what his body makes him, is rapidly passing away, and is being replaced by the inspiring belief that man is superior to his body, and that his body is what he makes it by the power of thought.

Men everywhere are ceasing to believe that a man is despairing because he is dyspeptic, and are coming to understand that he is dyspeptic because he is despairing, and in the near future, the fact that all disease has its origin in the mind will become common knowledge.

There is no evil in the universe but has its -■*. 0 62 The Path of Prosperity root and origin in the mind, and sin, sickness, sorrow, and affliction do not, in reality, belong to the universal order, are not inherent in the nature of things, but are the direct outcome of our ignorance of the right relations of things.

According to tradition, there once lived, in India, a school of philosophers who led a life of such absolute purity and simplicity that they commonly reached the age of one hundred and fifty years, and to fall sick was looked upon by them as an unpardonable disgrace, for it was considered to indicate a violation of law.

The sooner we realize and acknowledge that sickness, far from being the arbitrary visitation of an offended God, or the test of an unwise Providence, is the result of our own error or sin, the sooner shall we enter upon the highway of health.

Disease comes to those who attract it, to those whose mind and bodies are receptive to it, and flees from those whose strong, pure, and positive thought-sphere generates healing and life-giving currents. If you are given to anger, worry, jealousy, greed, or any other inharmonious state of mind, and expect perfect physical health, you are ex- pecting the impossible, for you are continually sowing the seeds of disease in your mind.

Such conditions of mind are carefully shunned by the ise man, for he knows them to be far more The Secret dangerous v:~Power 63 &•■ ^ or an infected ^N> house. ^ &? '^§j If you Would be free from all physical aches and pains, and would enjoy perfect physical harmony, then put your mind in order, and har- jp monize your thoughts.

Think joyful thoughts * think loving thoughts; let the elixir of goodwill fn*\ course through your veins, and you will need no other medicine. Put away your jealousies, your suspicions, your worries, your hatreds, VF"1* selfish indulgences, and you will put away 38 dyspepsia, your biliousness, your nervousness and aching joints.

If you will persist in clinging to these debilitating and demoralizing habits oi mind, then do not complain when your body is laid low with sickness. The following story illustrates the close r lation that exists between habits of mind an bodily conditions : — A certain man was afflicted with a painful disease, and he tried one physician after another, but all to no purpose.