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Mentality has a still as well as an active phase. Still thought holds our settled convictions, inherited beliefs --- the beliefs in which we have been trained --- the received and accepted opinions about life. Conclusions we have drawn from appearances and experiences are all settled and fixed in some part of our mentality that we may call the subconscious thought to distinguish it from the daily active thought that is still weighing, judging, deciding. We prefer to say conscious and sub-conscious thought, rather than Mind.

Many of us have learned in Truth to govern the active daily thought, but have failed to examine closely the under-current of our thoughts. Until every opinion and belief is eradicated from the depths of our mentality, we are subject to any belief held there though it be not in active operation. It is our great work to uproot these inherited and accepted opinions, based as they are, upon human experiences, instead of upon Eternal Principles. Say to the sub-conscious as well as to the conscious thought, There is nothing in you but the Light of the One Presence and Power. You know the Truth of Life --- its perfection --- and are not bound by any opposite opinion. You are perfect.

Until you have freed your sub-conscious thought from the claim of accident, or ills, you are