Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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existent; Jesus stripped all disguise from this error,
existent; Jesus stripped all disguise from this error,
had he only been understood; he explained it impossi-
ble to have another Intelligence than God, or for Him
to create evil, and demonstrated this by healing the
sick, and casting out devils, showing that God destroyed
satan instead of making it; in other words, that Truth
destroys error by proving its nothingness. The per-
sonal belief that man is a separate mind from God, and
that this mind comprehends, feels, and exists, an entity
within the cranium, and sins, and suffers, ad libitum, is
the only personal devil there is, and the one we should
begin to cast out.
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This error is not the result of brains, but is a belief
This error is not the result of brains, but is a belief
that brains are Intelligence; in other words, that God
is in matter: it is not the result of Intelligence in mat-
ter, but a belief that matter is intelligent; not the
product of man's mind, but a belief there is mind in
man, and this belief is delusion, and delusion, error.
Do you ask who or what is it that believes? Insomuch
as you admit God is not the author of error, and that
"all things were made by him and without him nothing
was made," we answer no one believes: it is only that
error is a belief, and a belief is error. The prerogative
of Soul is understanding, but personal sense has no
claims whatever to this. We need not cite anatomy,
physiology, materia medica, etc., that place Intelligence
in personal man, but will cover the ground with the
Scripture metaphor that named belief the "tree of
knowledge," whence sprang sickness, sin and death.
A belief is not Intelligence, nor its result, neither God,
nor the result of this Principle; it is not Soul, nor its
manifestation. What then is it? The opposite of Soul,
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called brains, and personal sense. Error is the opposite
called brains, and personal sense. Error is the opposite
of Intelligence and imitates it only by falsehood, calling
Principle, person, God, man; thus pre-supposing man
intelligent matter. Is it an error to believe Truth? It
is impossible to do this; all we receive of Truth comes
through the understanding. The so-called mind of man
can be deranged or destroyed by a blow on the cranium;
but Intelligence, that governs man and the universe, is
not lost. Intelligence is Life, Love and Truth, and by
no means personal sense, sin, sickness and death. The
mind of Intelligence understands and never believes,
and the body of Intelligence is spiritual not material;
idea, and not substance; yea, it is the reflex shadow of
Soul, even man that is "the image and likeness of
God;" what besides this we name man, is but a belief
and error, dust to dust. Hereby we learn a lie is all
the satan there is, and marking its footsteps we gain
this proof, all the discords of earth proceed from false
conceptions of God and man; besides, falsehood preys
on harmony in society, and hides individual character.
Truth is generally unperceived, because a lie is a more
natural conclusion for the wicked. Expose sin, and it
turns the lie on you; a sinner for the time prospers in
secret wrong-doing until the final hour that "whatso-
ever is hidden shall be revealed." We must tell the
Truth concerning sin and sinners, because of the moral
necessity not to cover iniquity; they will deny what
we say, of course, but at the same time it produces the
desired effect, and we receive our reward, for it intro-
duces new light and makes sinners afraid to repeat the
offence when they are found out. The higher you rise
in the scale of Truth, the more intense and multiplied