ts of our machinery to the
powerhouse of the Universe. One need remain in hell no longer than one
chooses to; we can rise to any heaven we ourselves choose; and when we
choose so to rise, all the higher powers of the Universe combine to
help us heavenward."[51]

[51] R. W. Trine: In Tune with the Infinite, 26th thousand, N.Y.
1899. I have strung scattered passages together.

Let me now pass from these abstracter statements to some more concrete
accounts of experience with the mind-cure religion. I have many
answers from correspondents--the only difficulty is to choose. The
first two whom I shall quote are my personal friends. One of them, a
woman, writing as follows, expresses well the feeling of continuity
with the Infinite Power, by which all mind-cure disciples are inspired.

"The first underlying cause of all sickness, weakness, or depression is
the human sense of separateness from that Divine Energy which we call
God. The soul which can feel and affirm in serene but jubilant
confidence, as did the Nazarene: 'I and my Father are one,' has no
further need of healer, or of healing. This is the whole truth in a
nutshell, and other foundation for wholeness can no man lay than this
fact of impregnable divine union. Disease can no longer attack one
whose feet are planted on this rock, who feels hourly, momently, the
influx of the Deific Breath. If one with Omnipotence, how can
weariness enter the consciousness, how illness assail that indomitable
spark?

"This possibility of annulling forever the law of fatigue has been
abundantly proven in my own case; for my earlier life bears a record of
many, many years of bedridden invalidism, with spine and lower limbs
paralyzed. My thoughts were no more impure than they are to-day,
although my belief in the necessity of illness was dense and
unenlightened; but since my resurrection in the flesh, I have worked as
a healer unceasingly for fourteen years without a vacation, and can
truthfully assert that I have never known a moment of fatigue or pain,
although coming in touch constantly with excessive weakness, illness,
and disease of all kinds. For how can a conscious part of Deity be
sick?--since 'Greater is he that is with us than all that can strive
against us.'"

My second correspondent, also a woman, sends me the following
statement:--

"Life seemed difficult to me at one time. I was always breaking down,
and had several attacks of what is called nervou