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was healed in a few months by this treatment. The same method destroys the uric acid that causes rheumatism.

Should there be weakness in sight or hearing, a simple, easy, and most effective treatment is to picture the Spirit as flowing to the eyes or ears and revitalizing them.

Treatments are like inventions. What we want in them is a lack of superfluous detail, simplicity and adaptation to an end. In these days when we are learning to economize motion we must also learn to economize words. The Spirit does not hear through "much speaking." It acts upon the merest suggestion.

I am sometimes asked if the "Word of Healing" is some special word. It is not. It is any statement of health and wellbeing. If you formulate words in your own way they will be quite as effective as the set phrase or formula given you by a teacher. It is well enough to accept and use such formula until you are able to frame one of your own, but no longer. The sooner a stated formula takes a new form in your own mind, the greater its vibratory power, and the more Spirit it calls forth.

I am also asked if the Word must be spoken aloud in order to be the spoken word. Not of necessity, for to formulate a thought in the mind is equivalent to speaking it, and a word spoken "In the Silence" is surely not the audible word.

There are occultists who contend that the audible word stirs vibrations not possible to the