Mortal mind

“ Mortal mind is the acknowledged seat of motives. It forms material concepts, and produces every discordant Antagonistic fountains. action of the body. If action proceeds from the divine Mind, it is harmonious. If it comes from erring mortal mind, it is discordant, and ends in sin, sickness, death. Those two opposite sources never mingle in fount or stream. The perfect Mind sends forth perfection, for Mind is God. Imperfect mortal mind sends forth its own resemblances, of which the wise man said, “All is vanity.”
Nature voices natural law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets her. ”

“ There is no mortal mind out of which to make a mortal body, built from the illusions of sickness, sin, and death. There is but One Mind, the unerring and immortal; and this One contains no mortal opinions. Sin, sickness, and death are beliefs, misnamed mind. All that is real, good, or eternal is included in Immortal Mind.
To be made whole, we have only to forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of belief to Truth, and gain the facts of being from Immortal Mind. ”

“ What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say, “I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well.” It is Matter mindless. mortal mind which speaks thus, and appears (to this so-called mind) to make good its own claim. To mortal sense, sin and suffering are real; but immortal sense includes no evil or pestilence. Because it has no error of sense, it has no sense of error, therefore it is immortal. ”

“ But if that centre, That tiny part of eye, be eaten through, Forthwith the vision fails and darkness comes, Though in all else the unblemished ball be clear. 'Tis by like compact that the soul and mind Are each to other bound forevermore.
THE SOUL IS MORTAL Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil. ”

“ Mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; illusion; intelligence, substance, and life in non-intelligence and mortality; life resulting in death, and death in life; sensation in the sensationless; mind originating in matter; the opposite of Truth; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of God; that of which immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belief. ”

“ It is mortal mind which convulses its substratum called matter. These movements arise from the volition of belief, but are neither Scientific nor rational. Mortal mind produces table-tipping, and believes that this wonder emanates from spirits and electricity; and this belief rests on the common conviction that matter acts upon matter, both visibly and invisibly. ”

“ Mortal man has made a covenant with his eyes, to belittle Deity with human conceptions. Being in league with personal sense mortals take limited views of all things. Eye hath not seen Spirit, nor ear heard His voice.
With the microscope of Spirit you may discern the heart of humanity, and so comprehend the generic term man. Man is not distorted, for he reflects the Infinite; nor is he an isolated solitary thought, for he belongs to the sum of Infinite Mind. ”

“ The so-called material senses are found, upon examination, to be mortally mental, instead of material. Reduced to its proper denomination, matter is mortal mind; yet, strictly speaking, there is no mortal mind, for Mind is immortal, and is not matter, but Spirit. ”

“ Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an improper use of the word mind. As Mind is immortal, Imperfect terminology the phrase mortal mind implies something untrue and therefore unreal; and as the phrase is used in teaching Christian Science, it is meant to designate that which has no real existence. ”

“ Mortal mind inverts the true likeness, and confers animal names and natures upon its own misconceptions. Ignorant of the origin and operations of mortal mind, — that is, ignorant of itself, — this so-called mind puts forth its own qualities, and claims God as their author ”

“ As, at the approach of death, the powers of the mind rally, and the mortal, faint and feeble, with but a few sparks of decaying life within him, arouses to a sense of his condition, and puts forth all his energies, to meet the hour of parting with earth and turning his face to heaven ”

“ That statement is not confined to spiritual Life, but includes both the spiritual and physical. Mortal mind must part with error until it puts off “the old man, with his deeds,” and is clothed with immortality. ”

“ Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense, and mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a Soul impeccable. sense of temporary loss or absence of soul. This state of error is the mortal dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is directly opposite to the immortal reality of Being. ”

“ All that is called mortal thought is made up of error. The theoretical mind is matter, named brain, or material Brainology. consciousness, the exact opposite of real Mind, or Spirit. Brainology teaches that mortals are created to suffer and die. It further teaches that when man is dead, the immortal Principle, or Soul, is resurrected from death and mortality. Thus error theorizes that spirit is born of matter and returns to matter, and has a resurrection from dust; whereas Science unfolds the eternal verity, — that man and angels are spiritual reflections of God. ”

“ Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illusion that life, or mind, is in the material body; and it will eventually destroy this illusion, through the self-destruction of all error, and a beatified understanding of the Science of Life, which overcomes death.
A decided error is the belief that pain and pleasure, Error defined. life and death, holiness and unholiness, mingle in man; and that mortal, material man is the likeness of God. ”

“ Which ought to be substantial to us, — the erring, changing, and dying, the mutable and mortal, or the unerring, immutable, and immortal? A New Testament writer plainly describes faith, a quality of Mind, as “the substance of things hoped for.”
The mortality of matter establishes the conclusion that matter never originates, never did originate, in the Material mortality. immortal, and is therefore not eternal Substance. Life, or Intelligence. ”

“ Mortals must disappear for immortals, as babes have disappeared at the age of adults.
All that is material is mortal. To the five personal senses, man appears to be matter and mind; but Science reveals him as the idea of God, and declares the material senses to be mortal and erring illusions.
Question. — What are body and Soul?
Answer. — Body is the reflection of Spirit, in multifarious embodiments of this living Principle. Soul is the Substance, Life, Intelligence of this idea, or reflection. God, or Principle, is not in the reflection. Hence Soul cannot be in body, or matter. ”

“ If Soul sins it is mortal; and because Soul is immortal, sin, sickness, or death is no part of Soul or Spirit.
Ques. What is the scientific statement of being?
Ans. There is no Life, substance, or intelligence in matter; all is Mind, there is no matter. Spirit is immortal Truth, matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal, matter the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness; hence, man is spiritual and not material. ”

“ The conscious mind has been called mortal or carnal mind.
It is the human mind and sees life as it appears to be. It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty and limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious. ”

“ This make-weight mind once decreed man's temporal damnation, under the theory that this mortal life is for the subjugation and repression and crucifixion of man. Mind now begins to declare that this mortal life is man's opportunity to possess and expand and enjoy. ”

“ For never a man Dying appears to feel the soul go forth As one sure whole from all his body at once, Nor first come up the throat and into mouth; But feels it failing in a certain spot, Even as he knows the senses too dissolve Each in its own location in the frame. But were this mind of ours immortal mind, Dying 'twould scarce bewail a dissolution, But rather the going, the leaving of its coat, Like to a snake. Wherefore, when once the body Hath passed away, admit we must that soul, Shivered in all that body, perished too. ”

“ These changes are the mutations of material sense,
311:1 the varying clouds of mortal belief, which hide the truth
of being.
311:3 What we term mortal mind or carnal mind, dependent
on matter for manifestation, is not Mind. God is Mind:
all that Mind, God, is, or hath made, is good, and He
311:6 made all. Hence evil is not made and is not real.
Sin only of the flesh
Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no ele-
ment of self-destruction. is man lost spiritually? ”

“ Mortal thought transmits its own images, and forms its offspring after human concepts. Immortal models Immortal models. — pure, perfect, and enduring — are transmitted by the divine Mind through Science, which corrects error with the ideals of Truth, and demands spiritual thoughts, divine concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious results. ”

“ At such times, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate. ”

“ Yes, and that it was immortal, too! You see a body, and therefore you believe in it. You see that it is mortal and therefore you believe in its mortality. You do not see the soul--therefore you believe in one? ”

“ “’Tis true, ’tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains: The form subsists without the body’s aid, Aerial semblance, and an empty shade! ”

“ Ah! ’tis on a tiny space of earth thou art creeping through life—a pigmy soul carrying a dead body to its grave.
“Let death put thee upon the consideration both of thy body and thy soul: what an atom of all matter hath been distributed to thee; what a little particle of the universal mind. Turn thy body about, and consider what thing it is, and that which old age, and lust, and the languor of disease can make of it. ”

“ But though on this plane of existence the body does but clothe a spirit which was before, and will be after, how can mortal sense make us aware of spiritual beings, or these have knowledge of us? To each, its own! ”

“ But each of these newly arrived immortal souls would be placed in a mortal body in contact and conflict with the two mortal souls of appetite, disturbance, and mutiny against the divine laws of reason. ”

“ This metaphysical statement understood, ultimates in eternal harmony, and brings to light the eternal and unerring idea of God; whereas the opposite belief, namely, that man has a beginning and ending, that he is both Soul and body, and that both are sinning, sick, and dying, is seen to ultimate in discord and nothingness, even the “dust to dust” called mortal man. This very mortality is our proof that error is ingrafted into the premises and conclusions of material and mortal man. ”

“ Those who reach this transition, called death, without having rightly improved the lessons of this primary school of mortal existence, — and still believe in matter's reality, pleasure, and pain, — are not ready to understand Immortality. ”

“ Sin, sickness and death proceed from the so-called five personal senses that we are taught to revere and cultivate, but which Truth at length destroys, through age, experience or spiritual growth, and in place of sentient bodies, we find sensationless bodies, and immortal Soul, as the recognition of being harmonious and eternal. The body mortal is not man, for man is immortal; but with sensation in the body he is not immortal, and cannot be Spirit, which is Soul. ”

“ Though the way is dark in mortal sense, divine Life and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal thought, the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error. Christian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud and blossom as the rose. ”