Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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ate the drug, the more potent becomes the dose, and its
ate the drug, the more potent becomes the dose, and its
pharmacy is your process of mentalizing the vehicle, as
you shake and count; the higher attenuations become
more potent, as mind, instead of matter, and with spir-
itual natures, the less matter and more Truth is the
grand secret of success in healing.
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The ages are passing from the material to the spirit-
The ages are passing from the material to the spirit-
ual, and to make this passage more pleasant and bene-
ficial we should welcome the fact, and aid it with the
understanding. As the cruder foot-prints of the past
disappear, let us retain primitive simplicity as much as
possible in our customs and habits; resting assured
that no imaginary pleasure of sense is lost without its
higher recompense in Soul. For being to quicken into
Truth and Life, outside of matter, is not a trance, nor
the change called death; nor is there anything in it to
awaken dread, or superstition; it is the foot-steps of
progress, that we all must take to be immortal; in
science, it is as natural and painless a development,
as the unfolding of buds into blossoms. When we shut
out the belief of Life in matter, the transition from
matter to Spirit, will not be through death; but Truth
and Life, brought to light; the Master said, "I will
not leave you comfortless, I, Truth, will come unto
you."
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Life is not realized in the belief of death, nor of Life
Life is not realized in the belief of death, nor of Life
in matter; we must empty the mind of all this error,
before Truth can flow in. Life in matter is but a
dream that must be exchanged for reality, by awaking
to the science of Life, wherein Spirit is found the
only real being. If we would gain the harmony of
being, we must begin by admitting the delusion of
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personal sense, otherwise error will continue until the
personal sense, otherwise error will continue until the
awakening comes with the tortures of "the rich man,"
and the dream of Life in matter ends in suffering, thus
proving itself error.
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Life is harmony and immortality, impossible to har-
Life is harmony and immortality, impossible to har-
ness to sickness, discord, and death. Love is universal
goodness and blessedness, that mixes not with suffering
and sin. Truth is infinite understanding, without an
error to obscure its perfect peace, and these three are
one in Soul, but many to sense; then do you lose hap-
piness or caste by finding yourself Soul, instead of
sense. Material man loses his individuality, but the
spiritual, never; his identity is as immortal as the Soul
of man. The man of personal sense loses his identity
with all its pleasures and pains, but the man of Soul
possesses his individuality on this safe platform, to wit:
that there is no personality; being is spirit.
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Man gives neither shape or comeliness to beauty;
Man gives neither shape or comeliness to beauty;
it has these before he perceives them; distinct outline,
coloring, etc., are of Soul, else their idea were not
given in the universe and man; therefore, beauty is a
thing of Life, the offspring of Intelligence, and not mat-
ter. The world would collapse without Intelligence
and its idea; there is no chance for argument here,
philosophy nor skepticism can change the scientific
fact that God is and was; and that man, His reflex
shadow is, and was forever. We find no diminution of
happiness in learning we are Spirit and not matter,
Soul and not body; but a vast increase of all that ele-
vates, purifies, and blesses man. Sickness, sin, and
death are all that is mortal, and these come only from
ignorance, that clings to personal sense and silences