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has told us, and the consequence is that we have been overwhelmed with all kinds of privation and suffering.

Some people who, during the last few years, have been making a special study of the mind find it a fact that certain wrong or false beliefs held by us are really the cause of all sorts of trouble --- physical, moral, and financial. They have learned that wrong (or, as they call them, error) beliefs arise only in the human mind. They have learned and actually proved that we can, by a persistent effort of the will, change our beliefs, and by this means alone, entirely change our troublesome circumstances and bodily conditions.

One of the methods that they have found will work every time in getting rid of troublesome conditions (which are all the result of erroneous thinking and feeling) is to deny them in toto. First, to deny that any such things have, or could have, power to make us unhappy; second, to deny that these things do in reality 2 exist at all.

The word deny has two definitions, according to Webster. To deny, in one sense, is "to refuse to grant," as to deny bread to the hungry. To deny, in another sense (and we believe it was in this latter way that Jesus used it) is "to declare untrue," to repudiate as utterly false. To deny oneself; then, is

2. Reality in the Absolute, not the relative reality we live in daily.