Chapter I - Natural Science
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than God and His opposite, called devil, which reduced
than God and His opposite, called devil, which reduced
to their statement in science, are Truth and error; in
other words, Spirit and matter, forever distinct, one
possessing immortality, the other mortality. Said the
Apostle, "The flesh warreth against the Spirit and the
Spirit against the flesh."
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Mind, the basis of all things, cannot cross its species,
Mind, the basis of all things, cannot cross its species,
and produce matter. But in order to classify mind that
is real, from belief or the unreal, we name one mind,
and the other matter; but recollect matter is but a be-
lief, and mind the only reality. Error can only be de-
fined as belief, which is not mind but illusion. The
belief, that Life, Substance, and Intelligence are where
and what they are not, is error. Spirit is the under-
standing and possession of Truth, Life and Intelligence.
Belief and understanding never mingle, more than
matter and Spirit; one is error, the other Truth. All
discord is what we term matter, and discord is mortal,
nothingness; harmony is real and immortal, for it be-
longs to Spirit, is produced by it and proceeds from it.
Immortal mind is Spirit, an utterance of Soul proceed-
ing from harmony and immortality. The mind, that
we name matter, is the so-called mind of the body, and
what is termed sinful and mortal man; but this man is
a myth, neither mind nor matter, but a belief that em-
braces all error. God, Truth, never produced error;
Soul and Intelligence never originated inharmony; and
at some future date we shall learn all that is mortal or
discordant hath no origin, existence or reality, but is
the absence of the real; yea, native nothingness, the
chaos and night out of which error would simulate the
creations of Truth, from dust instead of Deity. Error
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pre-supposes man both mind and matter, but this is not
pre-supposes man both mind and matter, but this is not
the science of being, but science disputing personal
sense beards so relentlessly our belief, we naturally ask
what are we, and what is man? We are Spirit, Soul,
and not body, and all is good that is Spirit; God and
the idea of God are real, and nothing else is real. Har-
mony and its results are real, but discord and what
comes of it are the unreal. It were well to begin from
this hour, as you read these pages, to reckon Life only
in what is good and true; putting aside evil as unreal,
not the offspring of God, and unworthy to be named
man, him whom Spirit produces "the image and like-
ness of God," but whom matter claims to create in sin.
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Admitting error, produces it; but who or what is it
Admitting error, produces it; but who or what is it
that admits error? Not God, Spirit, for error is not the
result of Intelligence; error is a self-admission, and ad-
mission of self-hood where man is not, and this is all
there is to it; admitting a temptation is the only danger
in it. To believe in the possibility of pleasurable sin,
makes all that is sin; say then to the whole liturgy of
intelligent matter, as Jesus said, "You were a liar from
the beginning."
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Mind is Spirit, outside of matter, and this is the only
Mind is Spirit, outside of matter, and this is the only
mind or understanding; the mind called brains, or mat-
ter, is belief only; hence, the more material man is the
stronger belief, and the weaker manifestation of Soul,
or understanding. Belief is what we term personal
sense, and personal sense is a belief. That matter is intel-
ligent, that nerves feel, brains think, and sin, that a
stomach makes man cross, limbs cripple him, and mat-
ter kills him, is a belief, and this belief, error, opposed
to the Truth of being. Sin, sickness and death proceed