Chapter I - Natural Science
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not personal. Belief has no Intelligence, having neither
not personal. Belief has no Intelligence, having neither
Principle nor understanding, therefore it is error, and
error is the so-called mind of mortal man! totally de-
praved, sinning, suffering, and dying; this is the ab-
sence of God. Man has no mind in matter; the
belief that he has, is error. There is but one Intelli-
gence, even God, the infinite Love, Truth, and Life;
and God is not man. Matter is not intelligent; brains
are not mind; and man is not Soul, a separate God or
Intelligence. Jesus laid much stress on this point:
"Thou shall have no other gods before Me;" while
we daily behold in belief the zeal of error to gain the
opposite point, viz.: "I will make ye as gods."
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Science informs us immortal mind is Spirit; but per-
Science informs us immortal mind is Spirit; but per-
sonal sense would have mind both Spirit and matter; a
moral impossibility. Spirit cannot act through matter,
they are diametrically opposed to each other, and never
mingle; personal sense is the only foundation for the
theory that Spirit and matter mingle, and time and
eternity are wearing away this support. Mind is not
confined to organization, nor limited by materiality.
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Immortal mind is the atmosphere of Soul pervading
Immortal mind is the atmosphere of Soul pervading
all space; and regarding even "the sparrow's fall;" no
power can compress it within a skull-bone! matter con-
fines it not, the strongest barrier opposed to Intelligence
is as nothing; the only clog, or limit given mind, is mor-
tal belief, error's synonym; understanding constructs
not, and has no cognizance of limits; it is finite belief that
would limit mind; and there is no finite Intelligence.
There is finite error, that pre-supposes mind in matter;
but this is the evil and not the good, the belief and not
the reality; yea, the error, and not the Truth of man.
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Spiritual sense belongs to Soul, and is the only real
Spiritual sense belongs to Soul, and is the only real
sense; it takes no cognizance of substance in matter,
of suffering, sin, or death; Spiritual sense recognizes all
that is Truth, Life, and Love; hence there is nothing
left personal sense to enjoy or suffer. Personal sense
is the dream of Life in matter, a supposition only of
reality and substance, of Life and Intelligence, of good
and evil, that would limit Soul, and doom all things to
decay. Sensation in matter is one of its beliefs, and
belief is the opinion, personal, that supports only what
is untrue, selfish, or debased; all these mistakes are
but the error we name mortal man. God and man
will never be understood, until we listen alone to the
senses attached to Principle instead of person, to Soul
instead of body.
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Personal sense being error, all evidence obtained
Personal sense being error, all evidence obtained
therefrom is belief without Principle, or immortal proof.
Spiritual, in contradistinction to personal sense, reveals
man idea; not substance; his Life and Intelligence,
God, in other words, Soul, and not body; and thus se-
cure from chance and change he is harmonious and
eternal. The demonstration of this statement will de-
stroy sickness, sin and death, and because of this, it is
important to understand at present as well as hereafter,
the great Truth which must displace the opposite error
that brought sin and death into the world, shutting out
the pure sense of immortality; and which ought to be
learned to-day.
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God is, and was, and ever will be; and if this Intel-
God is, and was, and ever will be; and if this Intel-
ligence exists, there is also the idea of it, named man,
that cannot be separated for a single moment from this,
its principle and Soul. We look on a corpse, or the