Chart No. 1: The Caduceus
[See Book 1, Chart 1]
which can be directed and molded according to each individual's own efforts. This can be accomplished by devotion to and implicit faith in the Supreme Being and earnestly endeavoring to control the currents of the mind and emotions with patience and perseverance. "Closer is He than breathing, nearer than hands and feet."[1] No wonder Jesus said:
"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Mat. 17:20)
"Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." (Mat. 17:21)
No obstacle in our mind can be greater than the one illustrated here. This law, laid down by Jesus, cannot fail if understood and used wisely for overcoming all obstacles IN OUR OWN BEING.
Science has listed over 1,500 diseases which are facts, like the leaves on the Tree of Human Life. They are as real as effects can be. Yet every leaf depends on the total life of the tree. And that life depends on the free flow of the Energy Current which sustains it in its exchange with Nature's store of supply: The energy or fiery exchange of heat or warmth; the life breath and energy in the air we breathe; the moisture and rain which refreshes us and all vegetation; and the solid foods which supply the worn out cells and tissues with new material from the Cosmos.
The atomic exchange of energy particles works in a similar way. The atom is a minute unit of spinning energy, seen as matter and substance. It attracts electrons and changes them into ions; it also repels electrons and other energy particles constantly. Yet matter looks so solid when we do not know or see these chromatic energy radiations going on continually in every particle of it.
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1 "The Higher Pantheism" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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