The cause of all so-called disease is mental, a mortal 377:27 fear, a mistaken belief or conviction of the necessity and power of ill-health; also a fear that Mind is helpless to defend the life of man and incompetent to control it. With- 377:30 out this ignorant human belief, any circumstance is of it- self powerless to produce suffering. It is latent belief in disease, as well as the fear of disease, which associates sick- 378:1 ness with certain circumstances and causes the two to appear conjoined, even as poetry and music are repro- 378:3 duced in union by human memory. Disease has no in- telligence. Unwittingly you sentence yourself to suffer. The understanding of this will enable you to commute this 378:6 self-sentence, and meet every circumstance with truth. Disease is less than mind, and Mind can control it. Latent power Without the so-called human mind, there can be no 378:9 inflammatory nor torpid action of the system. Remove the error, and you destroy its effects. By looking a tiger fearlessly in the eye, Sir Charles 378:12 Napier sent it cowering back into the jungle. An ani- mal may infuriate another by looking it in the eye, and both will fight for nothing. A man's gaze, fastened 378:15 fearlessly on a ferocious beast, often causes the beast to retreat in terror. This latter occurrence represents the power of Truth over error, - the might of intelligence 378:18 exercised over mortal beliefs to destroy them; whereas hypnotism and hygienic drilling and drugging, adopted to cure matter, is represented by two material erroneous 378:21 bases. Disease powerless Disease is not an intelligence to dispute the empire of Mind or to dethrone Mind and take the government into 378:24 its own hands. Sickness is not a God-given, nor a self-constituted material power, which copes astutely with Mind and finally conquers it. God 378:27 never endowed matter with power to disable Life or to chill harmony with a long and cold night of discord. Such a power, without the divine permission, is incon- 378:30 ceivable; and if such a power could be divinely directed, it would manifest less wisdom than we usually find dis- played in human governments. Jurisdiction of Mind 379:1 If disease can attack and control the body without the consent of mortals, sin can do the same, for both 379:3 are errors, announced as partners in the be- ginning. The Christian Scientist finds only effects, where the ordinary physician looks for causes. 379:6 The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind.