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392 mortal mind, not of matter. Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, just as it conquers sin. Exercise this authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. Rise, in the strength of Spirit, to resist all that is unlike God. He has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed.

Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and man should reflect His government. Have

no fears that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed, from a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain or 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.

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; to be hopeful is still better; but to understand that sickness is not real, and that Truth can destroy it, is best of all, for it is the universal and perfect remedy.

By conceding to discord such great power, a large majority of doctors depress mental energy, which is the