Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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slaves to personal sense, that are hopeless servants,
slaves to personal sense, that are hopeless servants,
knowing not how to obtain their freedom. The lame,
the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick and sensual are
wearing out years of servitude, dragging their slow
length along, chained to the belief the body is their
master; and this belief must be abolished, or mankind
submit hopelessly to the worst form of slavery. This
state of man, however, is not legitimate, and cannot
continue forever; even now, in prophetic vision, we see
man free as the sons of God, and matter no longer his
master; the abolitionists of negro slavery, in discern-
ing the rights of man, foresaw the doom of slavery.
Sickness, sin and death belong not to the govern-
ment of God; neither are we their helpless slaves;
they could not conquer man in a single instance, did
he understand his authority over them, and assert
his freedom in the name of Almighty God, adopt-
ing the scientific position that Intelligence controls
matter.
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A few sentences of the science of being, understood,
A few sentences of the science of being, understood,
would enable man to grasp the standard of liberty.
Citizens of the world, accept their glorious import and
gain your freedom! This is your divine right; a belief
and not law has bound you, and to a condition of mind
and not matter; all the sickness, sin and death on earth
are caused by mind, even the belief of man; matter is
not cause, and when you destroy the belief that it is,
its power over you will flee; you possess your own
body and make it harmonious and immortal, or discord-
ant and mortal. You, the Intelligence, embrace the
body in comprehension and completeness; put away,
then, the error of belief that matter embraces you in
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mystery and disease; "you," the Soul and circumfer-
mystery and disease; "you," the Soul and circumfer-
ence of being, (for the body is but the idea of "you,")
are a law to your members, and the law-giver that makes
your body discordant or harmonious, according to the
ignorance or understanding, the error or Truth that
governs it. Matter has no Intelligence to rule over you;
say then to the error whereby you submit to your body,
"Depart, ye that work iniquity."
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Truth will establish the kingdom of heaven on earth,
Truth will establish the kingdom of heaven on earth,
even the reign of harmony wherein is neither sickness,
sin, nor death, and trample out this trio of error; had
God constituted laws of matter with power to make
man sick, Christ would not have abrogated those laws
by healing the sick, contrary to them. All evidence of
physical law and personal sense is destroyed in the sci-
ence of being.
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Personal sense, takes no cognizance of the earth's
Personal sense, takes no cognizance of the earth's
motion, and beholds the sun making a diurnal round.
Science, contradicting personal sense, taught the olden
astronomer the sun is our solar centre, and the earth
turning on its axis, revolves around it. So at the focus
of optical vision when sky and earth appear to meet,
and clouds and ocean join hands, science proves them
remote as at the nearest points of vision. Again, the
barometer, that little prophet of storm and sunshine,
declares it fair when personal sense sees nothing but
murky clouds and drenching rain-drops. To personal
sense, severing the jugular vein takes Life, and de-
stroys man; but to science, Life goes on the same as
before, it being indestructible and eternal; for man
cannot be destroyed. Science takes all proof out of
the hands of personal sense, and makes void this error,