Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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introduction of the Truth of being, relating to disease,
introduction of the Truth of being, relating to disease,
given a misinterpretation by an ignorance of its real
cause. We look for cause and effect in matter; whereas
science finds all causation, mind; that which is produced
by the mind of Soul, harmonious, and by the so-called
mind of matter, inharmonious. The belief from infancy
to age, that muscles are tired and body inharmonious,
is error, and this error in the premises, leads to the
error in conclusion, viz., that they are tired. Admit-
ting fatigue a sensation of matter that belongs to mus-
cles and nerves, we find rest only in respite from toil,
thus admitting matter intelligent; but when we under-
stand a sense of fatigue is one of mortal mind's beliefs,
and not a sensation of matter, we begin to master it,
and can continue the exercise without the same fatigue
or injury.
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To gain entire immunity from suffering and sin, and
To gain entire immunity from suffering and sin, and
perfect control over the belief of personal sense, or our
bodies, we must be perfect in science; a thing not to
be looked for at this period; but if we abate the de-
mands and sufferings of personal sense, on the Principle
laid down, it is sufficient for a beginning. In doing
this even, it will be found that in science we cannot
multiply where we should divide, and the answer be
right; that we cannot say to muscles, you have strength,
and to nerves, you have sensation, and to matter, you
hold sway as well as Spirit, and then control our body,
with the opposite Principle of being; we must deny all
sensation or Intelligence to matter or the body, with
the understanding that Spirit is all that possesses In-
telligence, before we can demonstrate in harmony the
science of being. We are tired according to one belief,
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and rested according to another, and we should under-
and rested according to another, and we should under-
stand that every condition, or supposed sensation of the
body is but a belief of the mind, and not Truth, the
reality of Life. Understanding this, we remove the
condition of mind, that affects the body, by destroying
the belief producing it, whatever this may be, and the
effect will immediately be seen on the body. On this
Principle we bring our bodies into subjection to Soul,
the immortality of man; and this makes them harmo-
nious and immortal, because it takes them out of the
hands of personal sense and mortality. When matter
or muscles claim, "I am tired," let Spirit contradict
this; first, because matter cannot feel, nor report a feel-
ing; and secondly, that mind can, and that mind, and
not matter is what suffers. Soul, instead of sense, con-
trols the universe and immortal man; but reverse this
order of science, and we say man is controlled by mor-
tality. There is but one God, or Intelligence, and our
bodies are not this Intelligence, and cannot say, I am
tired, or sick. Again, there is but one Spirit, to utter
itself, or report for man, and this voice is Life and
Love that never produce suffering, and never made
man sick, nor a sinner. The Truth, that neither In-
telligence, Life, nor Substance dwelleth in matter, is
the basis of harmony in the universe and man. Even
the desolate regions of the old North, the sunny trop-
ics, the everlasting hills, the winds and mighty billows,
the vale, the flowers and heavens, all point to Intelli-
gence, outside of matter; whereas sickness, sin and
death are our only evidences of Intelligence, God, in
matter, and these do not represent God. In the sci-
ence of creation, man is harmonious and eternal; but