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having other gods and believing in more than the one
Mind.
As mortals do not comprehend even mortal existence,
how ignorant must they be of the all-knowing Mind and
of His creations.
Here you may see how so-called material sense creates
its own forms of thought, gives them material names, and
then worships and fears them. With pagan blindness,
it attributes to some material god or medicine an ability
beyond itself. The beliefs of the human mind rob and
enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive
personification, named Satan.
(Action of mortal mind)
The valves of the heart, opening and closing for the passage
of the blood, obey the mandate of mortal
mind as directly as does the hand, admittedly
moved by the will. Anatomy allows the mental
cause of the latter action, but not of the former.
We say, "My hand hath done it." What is this my but
mortal mind, the cause of all materialistic action? All
voluntary, as well as miscalled involuntary, action of the
mortal body is governed by this so-called mind, not by
matter. There is no involuntary action. The divine Mind
includes all action and volition, and man in Science is governed
by this Mind. The human mind tries to classify
action as voluntary and involuntary, and suffers from the
attempt.
(Death and the body)
If you take away this erring mind, the mortal material
body loses all appearance of life or action, and this so-called
mind then calls itself dead; but the human
mind still holds in belief a body, through
which it acts and which appears to the human mind to
live, - a body like the one it had before death. This body
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