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398 this telegraphy. Nerves are unable to talk, and matter can return no answer to 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 primitive, mortal mind. Without this mind the body is devoid of action; and this deadness shows where the belief of life was, — namely, in mind, not in matter.

According to Christian Science there is no mortal mind out of which to make mortal beliefs, springing

from illusion. Mortal mind is not an entity. It is only a false sense of matter, since matter is not sensible. The One Mind contains no mortal opinions. All that is real is included in this Mind.

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 mortal mind, which directly controls it? When disease is once destroyed in mind, the fear of it is gone, and therefore it is thoroughly cured. Mortal error is “the strong man,” which must be held in subjection before its influence upon health and morals can be touched. This error conquered, we can despoil “the strong man” of his goods, — namely, sin and disease.

Mortals obtain the harmony of health, only as they forsake discord, acknowledge the supremacy of Mind,

and abandon their material beliefs. Eradicate the image of disease from the perturbed thought, before it has taken tangible shape in conscious