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108 continued, in belief, to pain the owner. If the sensation of pain in the limb can return, and be prolonged, why could not the limb reappear?

Why need pain, rather than pleasure, come to this mortal sense? Because the memory of pain is more vivid. I have seen an unwitting attempt to scratch the end of a finger which had been cut off for months. When the nerve is gone, which we say was the occasion of pain, and yet the pain remains, it proves sensation to be in the human mind, not in matter. Reverse the process, take away this mind instead of a piece of the flesh, and nerves have no sensation.

Mortal mind has a modus of its own, undirected and unsustained by God. It produces a rose through seed

and soil, and brings thc rose into contact with the olfactory nerves, that they may smell it. In legerdemain and credulous frenzy mortal mind believes that unseen spirits produce the flowers. God alone makes and clothes the lilies, and this He does through Mind.

Because all the methods of Mind are not understood, we say the lips or hands must move in order to convey

thought, that the undulatious of the air convey gound, and possibly that other methods involve so-called miracles. The realities of Being, its normal action, and the origin of all things, are unseen to mortal sense; whereas the unreal and imitative movements of finite belief (which would reverse the infinite modus and action) are styled the real. Whoever contradicts that supposition is called a deceiver, or said to be deceived. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,” and as a man spiritually understandeth, so is he in Truth.