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It is a mistake to believe that because any art of healing--whether it be a material or a spiritual one--is able to heal a particular kind of sickness once, it is consequently able to heal all similar cases of sickness by its own merits. Forces outside it have something to do with the matter. There are some cases where failure by material methods is preordained by the higher power of destiny. There are others where failure by spiritual methods is also inevitable, because the heart of the sick man has not been touched. As elsewhere, there are limits to human effort set here by certain laws.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 18