Mind, not matter, is causation. A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal 208:27 man possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace 208:30 your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. You should banish all thoughts of disease and sin and of other beliefs 209:1 included in matter. Man, being immortal, has a perfect indestructible life. It is the mortal belief which makes 209:3 the body discordant and diseased in proportion as igno- rance, /fear/, or human will governs mortals. Allness of Truth Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing 209:6 them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind. The 209:9 material and mortal body or mind is not the man. The world would collapse without Mind, without the in- telligence which holds the winds in its grasp. Neither 209:12 philosophy nor skepticism can hinder the march of the Science which reveals the supremacy of Mind. The im- manent sense of Mind-power enhances the glory of Mind. 209:15 Nearness, not distance, lends enchantment to this view. Spiritual translation The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent 209:18 masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember 209:21 that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be 209:24 found harmonious and eternal. Material substances or mundane formations, astro- nomical calculations, and all the paraphernalia of specu- 209:27 lative theories, based on the hypothesis of material law or life and intelligence resident in matter, will ulti- mately vanish, swallowed up in the infinite calculus of 209:30 Spirit. Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to un- derstand God. It shows the superiority of faith by works 210:1 over faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in "new tongues;" and these are interpreted by the translation of 210:3 the spiritual original into the language which human thought can comprehend. Jesus' disregard of matter