Chapter IV - Creation
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was made," "In Him was Life," etc.? Simply this,
was made," "In Him was Life," etc.? Simply this,
that Life never created death, nor Truth error; it is
error alone, that produces error. The belief of Life in
matter, named Adam, brought sickness, sin and death
into the world, and God denounced this error, or Adam,
and said it was mortal; "For dust thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou return." This was not spoken of Soul,
nor of man created by God; Life which is God, never
entered into sin and death. Spirit was not the compo-
nent part of Adam, or mortal man. The history of
Adam is allegorical throughout, a description of error
and its results, opposed to the Truth of being, and con-
tradicting the divine economy; it makes Intelligence,
Life, and Substance, matter instead of Spirit, saying,
"Believe in me and I will make ye as gods;" more than
one God was its starting point. Truth gives the immor-
tal idea or man from Spirit, but error, the mortal belief
from matter. The express image and likeness of God
was immortal man, and there is none other, or ever a
man since created. Through a belief of pain and sor-
row, error claimed to create man, but Truth gave its
idea of God in joy, blessing, and dominion. Error's
process of creating, bases Intelligence on matter, or
would put Intelligence in matter; either of which is
impossible, insomuch as it would make Intelligence
both God and devil; i.e., both good and evil; this
belief is proved error, in that it produces sickness, sin
and death, hence the sentence of Wisdom, "Thou shalt
die." The science of being never produced sickness,
sin, or death, but destroys them. The symbol of
error was the "tree of knowledge" which God, the
Truth of being, forbade man; it symbolized the belief
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of Life and Intelligence in matter, of which Truth said,
of Life and Intelligence in matter, of which Truth said,
partake not, lest ye die; but error replied, Truth is at
fault, if you acquire knowledge, "your eyes shall be
opened and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good from
evil," i.e., men shall be intelligences, Gods! and these
Gods, matter, called men, to distinguish them from
another personal God. Is not this Idolatry, and walk-
ing over the spiritual law, "Thou shalt have no other
Gods before me? "Spirit in matter and Soul in sense,
makes "lords many and Gods many"; theology, ma-
teria medica, mesmerism, and every other 'ology and
'ism under the sun, originated in this very error.
Intelligence and Life are God, omnipotent and eternal,
and God never in matter, but producing spiritual, har-
monious, and immortal man. There is but one God,
one Life and Intelligence, one Principle of being, and
this heals the sick, gives sight to the blind, destroys
error instead of creating it, preaches the gospel to the
poor, and is measurably explained in this science of
being; the followers of Christ, Truth, were not the
Rabbis, for it came to its own and was not received.
Knowledge never enabled man to judge between good
and evil, therefore it was a falsehood from the begin-
ning, as Jesus said, "You were a liar from the begin-
ning, and Truth, Life, abode not in you," for Truth
was never in matter, and mortal man is matter, and
knowledge was his projenitor; mortal man is a belief
of Life and death, of pain and pleasure, sickness and
health, good and evil, mixed in one mass, called intel-
ligent matter or personal sense. Adam impersonated
this error, and Adam illustrated simply a belief, which
we have endeavored to explain in its nothingness,