Chapter I - Natural Science
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clusions drawn from personal sense are foundationless;
clusions drawn from personal sense are foundationless;
understanding is a portion of the infinite Principle
embracing every idea of Truth. Belief has no Princi-
ple; it is a mortal and finite sense of things called
knowledge, a lie of limits that would place Soul in
body, Life and Intelligence in matter to evolve mat-
ter, and call this germination, nature or seed reproduc-
ing itself; not only denying to God the things that are
His, but limiting the Infinite, and thinking to fasten
Wisdom to discord and decay.
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To learn the Truth of things, they must be explained
To learn the Truth of things, they must be explained
from the basis of Soul, and not sense; personal sense is
knowledge, obtained from opinions and beliefs. When
our interpretations proceed from the Principle of things,
we have them right; but if from observation, or the de-
ductions of personal sense, they are wrong, are beliefs
based on the supposition of Life and Intelligence in
matter, which is error.
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Impressions supposed to proceed from the hearing of
Impressions supposed to proceed from the hearing of
the ear, the observations of the eye, from touch, taste,
or smell, are these beliefs, but not the ideas of God.
Every idea proceeds from Principle, gained through
understanding, whereby we arrive at demonstrable
Truth. Belief constitutes mistakes, understanding
never errs, hence it is necessary to the harmony of
mind and body. Inasmuch as belief starts from person,
instead of Principle, it is not the Truth of being, but
the error called mortal man.
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Knowledge is power, even the force that depends on
Knowledge is power, even the force that depends on
organizations for strength, it is neither moral suasion,
moral might, idea, nor Principle; but a faith, supposi-
tion, or belief. Repulsion, attraction, cohesion, and
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power supposed to belong to matter, are constituents
power supposed to belong to matter, are constituents
of mind; knowledge gives these properties to matter,
but science gives them to Intelligence, the Principle of
all; to find inherent properties in matter that act inde-
pendent of mind is impossible. There is no inertia in
Intelligence; but science alone determines whence com-
eth action, from its harmonious Principle, i.e., from
Soul to body, or from belief prolific of error.
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Science reveals all action proceeding from God, the
Science reveals all action proceeding from God, the
universal cause that produces harmony only; and that
discord, sickness, sin, and death, are neither action, nor
being, but beliefs, or error. The absence of Truth, we
name error, but whence cometh error, from God? No;
"the same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter
water." Error is not an idea, it has neither Principle,
nor identity; it is not definable as a person, place, or
thing; as an agent, or actor; and being without sub-
stance, Life, or Intelligence, and neither Principle nor
identity, we learn it came not! but is illusion. Again,
what is belief? Nothing real or true, and to under-
stand this is the only fact concerning it. Sickness, sin,
and death, all that is the opposite and absence of God,
is belief and error presupposing good and evil in mat-
ter and man. But is the question answered, whence
cometh belief? It has no origin, it is neither Principle
nor idea; but illusion, without any real cause or creation.
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We say disease is a reality, and identity, but science
We say disease is a reality, and identity, but science
finds it a belief only; disappearing with mortality, and
cognizant only to personal sense; not to Soul. "God
made all that was made;" there is but one Principle
and its infinite idea; harmony and immortality that
belong to man, are perceived through spiritual sense, but