Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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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
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mortal, malice, lust and lies, God has nothing to do
mortal, malice, lust and lies, God has nothing to do
with, nor do these belong to immortal man, who is the
representative of Spirit and Truth; they are what we
term mortal man, but are in fact nothing but error;
for man is not mortal, and error has no reality; it is
neither God, nor His idea. Perfection acts not through
imperfection. God has nothing to do with the belief of
Life in matter. The Principle of being never produced
sin and discord, therefore they never were produced.
"God made all that was made," and God has nothing
to do with sin, sickness, or death, only to destroy these
beliefs. Jesus demonstrated this for man. Spirit is
cause, and there is no effect from any other cause;
hence there is no reality in what proceedeth not from
this great and only cause. Sin is error, and error the
absence of all that is real or true; sickness and death
are error; therefore they are neither real nor true.
Matter has neither action nor Intelligence of its own;
it can dictate no terms to man, and because God sends
not sickness, sin and death, that surely never came
from Life, Truth and Love – they never were sent,
and are but the dream and illusion of personal sense,
or Life in matter. We know this Truth will not be
seen and acknowledged until this dream be disturbed
by it, or broken up, nevertheless it is Truth, and the
science of being. The only evidence we have of sick-
ness or death is from personal sense, that is inadequate
to recognize Soul, or the immortality of man, that alone
reveals his harmony.
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Again, sickness, sin and death are without evidence
Again, sickness, sin and death are without evidence
in truth, which is the immortality of man; there they
disappear; the only evidence we have of their reality