Old age is a mental blindfold we should refuse to wear. It is woven of mortal thought called time. It is self-imposed. When we glimpse the simple fact that decrepitude is an illusion, we will begin to rise above it, through the right understanding of God and man.
As God, good, is infinite, All, and we are His perfect expression, He does not sentence us to evil of any sort. Mortal mind alone, the belief in a mind apart from God, claims to do this. Can ideas grow old? Can zeal, joy, truthfulness, and love, all life-giving qualities of God, wear out or diminish? They cannot; and therefore we cannot, because we live only by expressing them as the unfailing reflection of their source. Therefore in overcoming the belief of aging we must constantly and consistently cultivate and express these life-giving qualities of divine Mind. This medicine will heal decrepitude.
Mortal mind governs the action of every part of the mortal body with good or bad results. "You say, 'I have burned my finger,'" Mrs. Eddy points out. "This is an exact statement, more exact than you suppose; for mortal mind, and not matter, burns it."Science and Health, p. 161 She tells of an instance of death imposed by imagination: "A felon, on whom certain English students experimented, fancied himself bleeding to death, and died because of that belief, when only a stream of warm water was trickling over his arm."p. 379
