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action that first recognises the violation. If a stomach is overworked, what tells it that it is being imposed upon? Ans.: "Mind." The "Stomach Mind" reports to the "Central Mind" that an oversupply of supplies is being sent constantly to it. The "Central Mind," realizing that if this is not stopped the entire physical body will soon be overloaded, orders the "Stomach Mind" to cease receiving any further supplies, and the "Stomach Mind" obeys. Then we have resultant diseases of the stomach, all of which are familiar to you. Even the act of the violation itself had its beginning in a mental desire.

Look at it from any point of view that you will; go around and around, and you will finally have to admit, that if the matter of which our physical bodies is composed, is changed, or shaped either normally or abnormally, there must be mind intelligence back of the action.

Disease, then, is produced by wrong mental action. Therefore disease is abnormal, being only the result of temporary departure from right mental action.

It is not an entity. It has no principle and no intelligence of its own. Neither does it possess power. Man in his essence is whole and it is no part of him.

The word "nothing" contains the root-meaning of the word disease. It was derived from the Latin dis, meaning un: without: the lack of: absence; and the word ease. Literally it is dis-ease, un-ease, a lack of ease. It stands for absence, not presence. It cannot exist without consciousness. The unconscious cannot be said to be even uneasy. So this dis-ease must be a matter of "Mind" only and a thought-condition.