Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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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
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anatomy of him, calling bones, sinews, head, heart, etc.,
anatomy of him, calling bones, sinews, head, heart, etc.,
man. These theories cannot be true, if man is immor-
tal, and science and revelation reveal him the "image
and likeness of God"; man, therefore, is immortal, and
that which is mortal, is not man. If we understood
God we should have reached nearer the Principle that
proves him immortal; our grand mistake is to suppose
man both mortal and immortal. The question arises
at every point of theories, what is Truth? and the
answer to this, Christ built his church upon over eigh-
teen hundred years ago, namely, I am God, and man
is the offspring of Soul and not sense; but this answer
was not understood then, and has since been interpreted
variously. His garment of truth we have rent and
cast lots for, but the answer Jesus accepted as ex-
plaining man and God is the unchanging and eternal
science of being; "Thou art Christ, the son of the
living God," for "I am the Truth and Life," takes
all Intelligence out of matter, and yields no homage
to personality, making Christianity the foundation of
right-thinking and right-acting, and through which
we reach our God-being, and not rites and ceremo-
nies, nor the persecuting clans that would stereotype
progress. Peter said, "Thou art Christ," and on this
statement that Intelligence is Spirit, and not matter,
and that "I," is God, and not man, was built the
church of Christ, the superstructure of Truth and its
demonstration, which was, casting out error and heal-
ing the sick. Jesus reiterated this when saying "I
and the Father are one"; in other words, that "I" sig-
nifies Spirit and not matter, Principle and not person,
and "no man cometh unto the Father" (the under-