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should address himself to the work of destroying it through
the power of the divine Mind.
The systems of physics act against metaphysics, and
vice versa. When mortals forsake the material for the
spiritual basis of action, drugs lose their healing force,
for they have no innate power. Unsupported by the
faith reposed in it, the inanimate drug becomes
powerless.
(Obedient muscles)
The motion of the arm is no more dependent upon the
direction of mortal mind, than are the organic action and
secretion of the viscera. When this so-called
mind quits the body, the heart becomes as torpid
as the hand.
(Anatomy and mind)
Anatomy finds a necessity for nerves to convey the mandate
of mind to muscle and so cause action; but what does
anatomy say when the cords contract and become
immovable? Has mortal mind ceased
speaking to them, or has it bidden them to be impotent?
Can muscles, bones, blood, and nerves rebel against mind
in one instance and not in another, and become cramped
despite the mental protest?
Unless muscles are self-acting at all times, they are
never so, - never capable of acting contrary to mental
direction. If muscles can cease to act and become rigid
of their own preference, - be deformed or symmetrical,
as they please or as disease directs, - they must be
self-directing. Why then consult anatomy to learn how mortal
mind governs muscle, if we are only to learn from
anatomy that muscle is not so governed?
(Mind over matter)
Is man a material fungus without Mind
to help him? Is a stiff joint or a contracted
muscle as much a result of law as the supple and
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