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A great relinquishment of material things must precede this advanced spiritual understanding; ‘isms but retard it, and mediumship more than most things. This prayer is not faith; it is demonstration; it heals the sick and advances man in the scale of being; it recognizes the falsity of personal sense and the Life that is Soul. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p.294)
