Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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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
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attempt to put Soul in body, and sensation in matter,
attempt to put Soul in body, and sensation in matter,
and we lose the key of harmonious being, and discord
continually. The head says I am diseased, or the
stomach, I am deranged, and the body, I am sick, or
filled with lusts, hatred, malice, envy, and all manner
of concupiscence; and what renders the case hopeless,
is the belief that Spirit cannot stay all this jargon.
Error has another shift, that God created this state of
things, and that sickness, sin and death, are His mes-
sengers, sent by Wisdom who is not able or willing to
destroy them. Then wherefore pray for the recovery
of the sick, or that God will turn the sinner from his
evil way, and employ a doctor to do what Omnipotence
refuses to do? "In Him we live, move, and have
being"; what, then, is this power independent of God,
that causes disease and then cures it? Does God make
man sick, and leave him to cure himself, Spirit send
disease and leave its remedy with matter? Life, Love,
and Truth never produced disease and death, nor
caused man to sin, and then punished him for sinning,
nor made man sick, in order to heal him. Man is not
supreme, and God secondary, body first, and Soul last;
and evil stronger than good; this is not the science of
being, but the error of sense. The clay cannot reply to
the potter, why hast thou made me thus? head, heart,
lungs, etc., cannot say we are sick, sinning and mortal,
and Spirit, the immortal and unerring Principle of man
has made us thus, and is the author of all this discord,
He that made man in his own image and likeness.
Man that God created is the offspring of Spirit, and
not matter, the product of God and not man, and is
immortal and harmonious. The base, the foul, and