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There never was a greater misconception. Dr. Paul Gibier, of the Pasteur Institute, very truly says: "We are unceasingly deceived by general appearances. And thus, knowing as we do the imperfection and unreliability of our senses, we may advance as a manner of axiom that the strongest illusion is what we call reality."

Dr. Gibier, of course, does not mean Reality itself, but what is called reality and which depends upon the testimony of the senses. If, instead of the sensory illusion, we could see the actual state of the stone, the constant agitation, the vorticular whirl, we should know that its electrons in their activity are closely related to the vibrations of Mind in their fineness and subtlety of motion, and we should not feel it impossible to affect even a stone by the action upon it of Mind. Then, seeing this truth concerning Matter and Mind, we should know for a certainty that Mind can change the electrons of the body, even to its bone structure, for bone has greater plasticity than a stone.

God manifests His Spirit on this earth through Matter, and is only knowable to us in terms of TIME and SPACE. Thoughts have form and are therefore Matter, for Spirit itself has no form, though it ensouls forms. Spirit organizes Matter in forms both high and low. Thoughts are high forms of Matter and dominate the lower forms. As we call more Spirit into manifestation in our thoughts the greater becomes our control over material things. It was thus that Jesus