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no power, no intelligence, for God is good, and therefore
good is infinite, is All.
(Corporeal combinations)
You say that certain material combinations produce
disease; but if the material body causes disease, can
matter cure what matter has caused? Mortal
mind prescribes the drug, and administers it.
Mortal mind plans the exercise, and puts the body through
certain motions. No gastric gas accumulates, not a secretion
nor combination can operate, apart from the
action of mortal thought, alias mortal mind.
(Automatic mechanism)
So-called mortal mind sends its despatches over its
body, but this so-called mind is both the service and
message of this telegraphy. Nerves are unable
to talk, and matter can return no answer
to immortal Mind. If Mind is the only actor, how
can mechanism be automatic? Mortal mind perpetuates
its own thought. It constructs a machine, manages it,
and then calls it material. A mill at work or the action
of a water-wheel is but a derivative from, and continuation
of, the primitive mortal mind. Without this force
the body is devoid of action, and this deadness shows
that so-called mortal life is mortal mind, not matter.
(Mental strength)
Scientifically speaking, there is no mortal mind out of
which to make material beliefs, springing from illusion.
This misnamed mind is not an entity. It is
only a false sense of matter, since matter is not
sensible. The one Mind, God, contains no mortal
opinions. All that is real is included in this immortal Mind.
(Confirmation in a parable)
Our Master asked: "How can one enter into a strong
man's house and spoil his goods, except he first
bind the strong man?" In other words: How
can I heal the body, without beginning with so-called
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