One morning when I was dressing I noticed a lump on my body

One morning when I was dressing I noticed a lump on my body. My first reaction was one of surprise, my next was one of great fear, but the next instant I denied the reality of evil emphatically and positively.

I said: "I absolutely refuse to accept the suggestion that anything can be added to man or anything taken from him. I will not honor it by believing it and I will not contend with it. I simply refuse to accept it."

I denied the suggestion of evil so completely that it only came to my thought twice that day and then both times I said: "No! I refuse to accept you—depart from me. I know you not."

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April 2, 1966
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