Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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sense is comparatively encouraging, it being productive
sense is comparatively encouraging, it being productive
of less sin than its pleasure; but personal sense suffers
only from imaginary self-hood; its pleasures and pains
are all unreal. The belief that matter has Life and sub-
stance is the error that produces all suffering, sin and
death; the chemical action of Truth on this error will
destroy it. Truth gives the idea of Spirit-substance,
and destroys all supposed matter-substance, while error
gives the belief of matter-substance, and hides the idea
of Spirit-substance.
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Immortal man is an idea of Spirit-substance, Life and
Immortal man is an idea of Spirit-substance, Life and
Intelligence; but the mortal is a belief that Intelligence,
Life and substance are in matter. The idea of substance
guided by understanding, becomes the infinite idea,
even as the Soul of immortal man is the infinite Prin-
ciple. Mortal man is a belief of Intelligence, substance
and Life in the body, therefore of a limited Infinite!
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To let oneself out of this nutshell, we must under-
To let oneself out of this nutshell, we must under-
stand the scientific relationship between God and man,
or Principle and its idea; but before this is really un-
derstood, the interval will be filled with approaches to
it through belief; and this will be attended with doubt,
discord and sin.
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The material world, at a future date, will become
The material world, at a future date, will become
a spectacle of disorder and dismay on one hand, and
of science on the other. There will be convulsions of
mind and consequently of matter, spasms of error,
earthquakes, famine and pestilence. Sickness will be-
come more acute, and death more sudden: but to those
who understand this hour, as explained in the science
of being, length of days will increase, and harmony
and immortality be near, even at the door. Knowledge
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will then diminish and lose estimate in the sight of man;
will then diminish and lose estimate in the sight of man;
and Spirit instead of matter be made the basis of gen-
eration. At this period phenomena will be spiritually
discerned, but there will be strong conflicting opinions
and results. Those understanding Life scientifically
will hold in check those, letting go of old opinions, who
would hang an M. D., a mesmerist, or a medium, – thus
curbing the violence of old beliefs exercising retribu-
tive vengeance. The truly scientific will be a law to
themselves of Love, Wisdom and Truth, and "do vio-
lence to no man, neither accuse any falsely." Sin will
make deadly thrusts at the science of Life, as penal code
goes out to give place to higher law. But those con-
trolled by Soul will spare the rod contrary to the relig-
ious persecutions of past history, and save the erring
from the gallows and gibbet. The martyrs will be the
adherents to science, in the coming centuries, and to-day
their fate is foreshadowed. In coming years the person
or mind that hates his neighbor, will have no need to
traverse his fields, to destroy his flocks and herds, and
spoil his vines; or to enter his house to demoralize his
household; for the evil mind will do this through mes-
merism; and not in propria persona be seen commit-
ting the deed. Unless this terrible hour be met and
restrained by Science, mesmerism, that scourge of man,
will leave nothing sacred when mind begins to act un-
der direction of conscious power. Sensuous man makes
war to the death on his enemies; but the spiritual pours
blessings on them unseen and unacknowledged; like the
chamomile, that crushed, yields the sweetest odor, spirit-
ual minds emit an atmosphere of Truth that blesses
their enemies and destroys error while it is persecuting