Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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bodies the source of happiness and being, but find these
bodies the source of happiness and being, but find these
Soul, and not sense; even the Principle of being that
produces harmonious and immortal man. Opposed to
this science are the vast array of beliefs, saying lo!
here, and lo! there; that would reach perfection and
immortality on the merit of another's suffering and ex-
perience, instead of the higher understanding of God.
We have no schools of healing on the Principle that
Jesus taught; yet he required of his followers, all, to
preach the gospel, heal the sick, and leave all for Truth.
A religion privileged through wealth and fraternity of
interests, is not the first step towards Christianity. A
popular 'ism was not what our Master pinned his faith
upon; he taught taking up our cross, denying sense,
and living Soul, to follow Truth; and this did not
include sickness, sin, and death, nor pre-suppose that
brain, nerves, stomach and so forth, hold the issues of
Life. Truth made man upright; it was error that
sought out the invention of sin, sickness, etc., of wrong‑
thinking and wrong-acting, saying man is both a sinner
and saint, dust and Deity; these were the beliefs
of personal sense or different phases of mesmerism.
Children were blessed by Christ, Truth, because of
their emptiness of these beliefs by which they were
better able than adults to enter into the science of
being. While age is halting between two opinions, or
battling with some personal sense, children make easy
and rapid strides towards Truth. A little girl who
had listened to our explanations, severely wounding
her finger, proved this, concluding, "it cannot hurt
me, for there is no sensation in matter," this result
followed to the delight of all, and the next day
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she came running to her mother with laughing eyes and
she came running to her mother with laughing eyes and
cheeks aglow, informing her "my finger is not a bit
sore, and you have done nothing for it." It might have
taken months or years for her parents to have gained her
position, and laid aside their drugs. We see, through
the daily proofs of this science, the power of education
on the mind, and how "out of the mouth of babes hast
Thou perfected praise." The older and stubborn be-
liefs of adults may even choke this good seed in the
minds of their offspring; like unto the "fowls of the
air" they carry it away, because of their want of under-
standing, before it can take root.
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As in mathematics a reversed statement proves the
As in mathematics a reversed statement proves the
rule, so, also, in the science of life, for example:
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There is no pain in Truth, and no Truth in pain; no
There is no pain in Truth, and no Truth in pain; no
matter in mind, and no mind in matter; no nerve in
Intelligence, and no Intelligence in nerve; no matter in
Spirit, and no Spirit in matter, etc. That man should
lose his identity because Soul is not in body, and Intel-
ligence in matter, is quite as impossible as that tones of
music should be lost in their Principle. Theories and
doctrines have never yet explained Spirit and matter,
but the Scriptures have, and as science demonstrates
them, namely, Life and its idea. "Thou shalt surely
die," is the sentence of Wisdom daily executed on the
belief of Life and Substance in matter, and yet man is
not dead; then wherefore doubt belief is error, and
man idea and not Substance, and Spirit the only Sub-
stance, because it is the Principle of man and the uni-
verse. This science of being cannot be seen at once
in the midst of so many beliefs that deny all explana-
tions of man, spiritually, and accept only a material