reality. It is not even necessary that you know what the disease is.

Talk little to him at first. Give him the great principles of the teaching, but do not look for him to use the Word for himself until further instructed, and you see that self-work is required to complete the healing.

The following is a good order of proceeding in giving treatment. Remember, the speaking is all silent.

1. Consecrate yourself.

2. Mentally address the patient by name.

3. Apply yourself to reassure him mentally that there is nothing to fear.

4. Tell him the truth about God and himself.

5. Make such denials and affirmations as are appro­priate to the case. In a six-day course of treatment the first day you deny the belief in an evil inheritance and the reality and power of sensual desires and carnal appetites, and you affirm the truth about the divine inheritance and the pure and holy origin and desires.

6 Close with invoking a benediction upon yourself, the patient, and your Word of Truth, thus,

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
—Is. 55 :11.

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