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pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman
forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting
that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.
(The strength of Spirit)
The body seems to be self-acting, only because mortal
mind is ignorant of itself, of its own actions, and of their
results, - ignorant that the predisposing, remote,
and exciting cause of all bad effects is a
law of so-called mortal mind, not of matter. Mind is the
master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness,
sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take
possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action.
Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike
good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing
can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on
man.
(No pain in matter)
Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind
governs, and that in Science man reflects God's
government. Have no fear that matter can ache,
swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law
of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have
no pain nor inflammation. Your body would suffer no
more from tension or wounds than the trunk of a tree
which you gash or the electric wire which you stretch,
were it not for mortal mind.
When Jesus declares that "the light of the body is the
eye," he certainly means that light depends upon Mind,
not upon the complex humors, lenses, muscles, the iris
and pupil, constituting the visual organism.
(No real disease)
Man is never sick, for Mind is not sick and matter
cannot be. A false belief is both the tempter
and the tempted, the sin and the sinner, the
disease and its cause. It is well to be calm in sickness;
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