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If Mind is not the master of sin, sickness, and death,
they are immortal, for it is already proved that matter
has not destroyed them, but is their basis and
support.
(No union of opposites)
We should hesitate to say that Jehovah sins or suffers;
but if sin and suffering are realities of being, whence did
they emanate? God made all that was made,
and Mind signifies God, - infinity, not finity.
Not far removed from infidelity is the belief which
unites such opposites as sickness and health, holiness
and unholiness, calls both the offspring of spirit, and
at the same time admits that Spirit is God, - virtually
declaring Him good in one instance and evil in
another.
(Self-constituted law)
By universal consent, mortal belief has constituted
itself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death.
This customary belief is misnamed material
law, and the individual who upholds it is mistaken
in theory and in practice. The so-called law of
mortal mind, conjectural and speculative, is made void
by the law of immortal Mind, and false law should be
trampled under foot.
(Sickness from mortal mind)
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good,
and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He
makes is good and will stand forever. If the
transgression of God's law produces sickness, it
is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should
not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the
transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of
matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of
sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter, - the truth that
disease is unreal.
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