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Physical pain is sometimes the means whereby we are pushed on to tap higher energy levels. Evolution, though always kind, is often apparently cruel, driving us out of certain conditions with the lash, as horses are driven from a burning stable, administering the lesser pain that the greater pain may be escaped.

A physician in Washington told me of a patient of his who was confined to her bed and seemingly unable to leave it, though for no organic disability that he could discover. Every organ was normal and functioning properly, but still the patient was bedridden. After exhausting all remedial measures at his command the doctor determined on a psychological treatment, and a severe one at that the setting fire to her bed. The woman did not stir until a leaping tongue

of flame scorched her hand, when, with a shriek of terror, she sprang from her bed and fled from the room. The cure was not only for the moment, but was permanent.

We all, more or less, fall into lethargic states where ideals fail to rouse us to action, and it is then that pain, with stinging lash, drives us from our lethargy, the lethargy that leads to death. We flee our burning beds in the anguish of fear, but in that fleeing we find renewal of life, of energy, of hope and of joy.

We of the New Thought can tap higher levels of energy by putting into practice the principles in which we believe. We know we are actually one with the Eternal Energy, even as the ray is one with the sun. Therefore the Eternal Energy