"Can we free ourselves and others from the effects of the serpent’s deception? Yes. By faithfully practicing what Jesus taught his followers, and by prayerfully striving to emulate his example, we can know the truth about ourselves and others, and it is the truth which makes us free. Now, if it is truth that makes us free, obviously that which impedes or obstructs our freedom is truth’s opposite, — that which is not true. What becomes of that which is untrue when we know the truth? It simply vanishes, like darkness that has been exposed to the light.
"There are a few simple steps which you may find helpful in praying more effectively, and in knowing the truth more thoroughly and consistently. Why these steps? Because a systematic and disciplined approach to prayer is always more desirable than a hit and miss effort which misses more often than it hits. Don’t forget, the claim that there actually is a carnal mind is both subtle and persistent in its enmity against God, — its hypnotic attempts to obscure the truth in our thinking. Remember also how comfortable and familiar we have become with the deceptions, and how accustomed we are to believing that which is not true.
"The prayerful steps illustrated in the following pages are intended to provide you with a systematic means of demonstrating your innate spirituality, your power and authority as the image and likeness of God, and your inherent exemption from sin, sickness, and death. They are also intended to encourage and to facilitate your ongoing practice of spiritual healing through prayer. We define spiritual healing as that process whereby truth is made to outweigh error in your thinking, and which results in the enlightened state of mind that Paul describes as 'spiritually minded'. This enlightened state of thought is less susceptible to the deceptive arguments of error, and much more awake to the spiritual facts of being, — to the Kingdom of God, which Luke defines, (Luke 17:21), as 'within you' ."
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