392:24 Reverse the case. Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself har- 392:27 moniously. When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office 392:30 as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the body cannot suffer from them. The issues of pain or 393:1 pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forget- 393:3 ting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance. The strength of Spirit The body seems to be self-acting, only because mortal mind is ignorant of itself, of its own actions, and of their 393:6 results, - ignorant that the predisposing, re- mote, and exciting cause of all bad effects is a law of so-called mortal mind, not of matter. Mind is the 393:9 master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. 393:12 Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on 393:15 man. No pain in matter Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God's govern- 393:18 ment. Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have 393:21 no pain nor 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, 393:24 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, 393:27 not upon the complex humors, lenses, muscles, the iris and pupil, constituting the visual organism. No real disease Man is never sick, for Mind is not sick and matter 393:30 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; 394:1 to be hopeful is still better; but to understand that sick- ness is not real and that Truth can destroy its seeming 394:3 reality, is best of all, for this understanding is the uni- versal and perfect remedy. Recuperation mental