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a cancer when you know by every indication that you have one? Ah, but have you? That is the point. It depends upon what you regard as you. If you are your physical body, why then you have the cancer. I shall not dispute that evident fact. What I do deny is that you are your physical body, and instead I declare that you are a birthless, deathless, spiritual identity, having the power to put on and throw off your physical envelope. In the course of your evolution you have had many of these physical envelopes, vegetable, animal, and, perhaps, human.

One after another you have cast them off, like the chambered nautilus, leaving your outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. Your present shell is constantly changing, and if it has a cancer now, it need not have one if you gain sufficient control over your body to cast it out.

When I say — If you gain sufficient control over your body — I suggest that you are something above and superior to your body. Else how can you control it? As long as you think of yourself as your body, or your body as yourself, you cannot establish any claim of superiority or command over any of its states or activities.

When you deny that you have a cancer you are speaking of the real self that is you, the self that is in the image of God or the externalization of God; for an image is an externalization of a thing. This real self has no cancer nor any other defect or disease. As you realize this your thought becomes exalted, becomes positive in character,