Chapter I - Natural Science
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understanding, belief is ignorance, even the error that
understanding, belief is ignorance, even the error that
Truth consigns to oblivion.
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What is deemed Life in vegetable and animal be-
What is deemed Life in vegetable and animal be-
comes a self-evident falsehood, when all that is left of
it is death. The science of being alone reveals Life or
Principle, that reverses every position of personal
sense; showing also that sickness, sin and death dis-
appear with the understanding of being and our real
existence, for in this alone are we harmonious, sinless,
and eternal.
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Will man lose his identity in conscious infinitude of
Will man lose his identity in conscious infinitude of
being? It is impossible that he should lose aught that
tends to his completeness, in a state through which he
gains all; matter, embracing sickness, sin and death, is
all that will ever be lost. Life is not structural and
organic, for Life is Spirit, Soul, and not sense, and
without beginning and without end. Life is Principle,
and not person; joy and not sorrow; holiness, not sin,
and harmony, without a tone of discord. In science we
learn there is but one God, also that God is Spirit;
hence there is but one Spirit, for there is not an evil
God. To gain the harmony of being, and be perfect
even as the Father, God must be understood, which
means, the Principle of man must be understood; be-
lieving in God never made a Christian.
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The only immortal basis of man is Soul; hence the
The only immortal basis of man is Soul; hence the
importance to plant one's self on the basis of being, and
work from this to gain our ultimate harmony. Soul
and not sense reveals the glorious possibilities of man,
even the circumference of his being unlimited by a be-
lief of Life in matter; getting out of material nutshells
we get out of error, whereby we learn the last shall be
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first, and the first last; that which was first in matter
first, and the first last; that which was first in matter
will be last, alias, nothing in Spirit. Science puts not
new wine into old bottles; we cannot adhere to a
belief regarding a subject, and at the same time grasp
the Truth of it; we must yield the old, or the new is
spilled.
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Doctrines and opinions based on a personal God are
Doctrines and opinions based on a personal God are
nothing more or less than beliefs of intelligent matter,
that we must yield, or spill the inspiration and wine of
Truth that enables man to demonstrate Life higher,
and to reach practical Christianity that casts out devils
and heals the sick.
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We will now consider more minutely the Principle,
We will now consider more minutely the Principle,
or Soul of man, named God; learn what it is, and how
man is harmonious and immortal. The Scriptures in-
form us, "God is Love," "Truth and Life," and these
certainly imply He is Principle, not person. Again,
Principle explains person, but person cannot explain
Principle. God interprets man, but man cannot ex-
plain God, Spirit explains matter, but matter cannot
define Spirit, Soul explains body, but body cannot in-
terpret Soul. We must commence with God to explain
immortal man, remembering God is Spirit, and Spirit
the only substance, because it is Intelligence; holding
the earth in equipoise, marking out the pathway of the
stars, forming the minutia of identity, and comprehend-
ing the universe and man in the harmony of being.
Spirit believes nothing, because it understands all, and
is Life, not subject to death because it is exempt from
matter.
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It is mind alone that embraces sensation, therefore,
It is mind alone that embraces sensation, therefore,
the senses are Spirit and not matter, and belong to Soul