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states and not sensitive in others, or to put it more correctly When the thought of hay fever was in my mind the pollen affected me, but when the thought of hay fever was crowded out the pollen was powerless and could not produce in me the same symptoms, although I was breathing it in and it was in contact with the mucuous membrane. Evidently then the pollen could not produce hay fever in me until its proxy, in the form of a correspondence (a thought) entered my mind.

I do not deny that material things have power to harm us, but I believe they are admitted or barred out by mental states, and for this reason I am convinced that we can fill the mind with something which will make us impervious to disease. I am also convinced that while disease is present with us we can drive it out, either all at once or by degrees, as the case may be, and that we can do this by filling the mind full with the very opposite of disease. Every one has the power of imagination and every one can use it in picturing health. Every one has known a comparative state of health for brief moments at least, and the recollection is sufficient to form a suggestion or pattern for a mental picture to hold in the imagination. Try it, dear friends, and you will be surprised to find how much you will accomplish.