Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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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
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is in mortality or error; but nothing real is mortal. If
is in mortality or error; but nothing real is mortal. If
matter can heal the sick, and mind cannot, it is more
powerful than mind, and if God sends sickness, it is
opposed to His government to heal it; and if matter
produces its own conditions, it acts against itself, and
will be self-destroyed. Our opposite views abuse the
science of being, and give the lie to Truth. Has the
clay power over the potter, is matter self-acting and
independent of God, thus prior and superior to Spirit?
To reap where Truth hath not sown, is to gather error;
such contradictory statements as these "soweth the
wind and reapeth the whirlwind." It is belief alone or
mortal man, that holds matter as God, intelligent, self‑
creative, and self-acting; Truth finds it unintelligent,
neither living nor dying, sick nor well. God has no
part in suffering, sin or death, and there is no reality
where God is not. If God made man to be sick, it is
right that he should be so, and wrong to heal him; man
cannot if he would, and should not if he could, annul
the decrees of Wisdom. If sickness is a reality, it is a
condition of Truth; and do you claim that drugs can
destroy a condition of Truth? But if, as is the case,
sickness is but a belief, therefore but a dream and illu-
sion, the waking must come from Truth and under-
standing, that alone can destroy it; and this is Christ
healing the sick.
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If man is at the disposal of man and matter, of drugs
If man is at the disposal of man and matter, of drugs
and worms, he is not "the image of God," and is mor-
tal, but mortality is not man – it is nothingness, the
sooner gone the better, for reason and revelation repu-
diate it. Man is immortal, but he is not Intelligence in
matter, else he were mortal; man is the idea of God, the