Chapter I - Natural Science
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body called man, but is it man? No! Is Soul in it?
body called man, but is it man? No! Is Soul in it?
certainly not; has Soul escaped? No! where was the
outside, infinite Spirit, if Spirit was in man? Can Soul
be lost? impossible, for the immortal is without end;
and Soul is Spirit, and Spirit, God. Is man lost? not
if Soul be left! for Soul is Principle, and man its idea,
and these forever inseparable; God would be lost, if
man was blotted out, for entity signifies the particular
nature of being; and God, without the idea, image, and
likeness of Himself, would be a nonentity! Man is
the complex idea of God, hence, they cannot be sepa-
rated.
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Contemplating a corpse, we behold the going out
Contemplating a corpse, we behold the going out
of a belief; we have been accustomed to this belief of
mind in matter, but not the Truth of man, whose Soul
is God and his body the harmonious idea of Him.
The belief of Life in matter is all that dies. The
Principle, Soul, and Life of man, is not in the body,
and cannot die. When Paul's optical sense yielded to
science, the vision of Soul, he realized nothing could
separate him from God; understanding as he did that
the real man is never separated from the sweet sense
and presence of Life and Love.
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A sick man is not a sinner above all others; and yet
A sick man is not a sinner above all others; and yet
he is not the idea of God; weary of matter that claims
so much suffering, the sick become more spiritually in-
clined, inasmuch as the belief of Life in matter begins
to give up its ghosts; all error must finally yield, to the
Truth of man.
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A wicked man is not an idea of God; he is nothing
A wicked man is not an idea of God; he is nothing
more than the belief that hatred, malice, pride, envy,
hypocrisy, etc., are coupled with Life, God! but Life,
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Love, and Truth, never made a sick man, nor a sinner!
Love, and Truth, never made a sick man, nor a sinner!
the same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter
water. Life and its idea, are neither sick, nor sinning,
but eternal and harmonious; never mingling with mor-
tal man. The Scripture saith mortal man "is conceived
in sin and brought forth in iniquity;" his origin is error,
then, is it not? and this error the belief that man is an
Intelligence, and creator, after "all was made that was
made!" If all that worketh a lie is ultimately destroyed,
this man must perish.
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The understanding of Truth, and its demonstration,
The understanding of Truth, and its demonstration,
is eternal Life; a belief can never attain this. Contra-
dicting all accepted theories on this subject, and dia-
metrically opposing the evidences of personal sense, sci-
ence comes "laying the axe at the root of the tree,"
and cutting down all that brings not forth good fruit;
thence healing the sick, and casting out error. There
is no escape from sin, sickness, and death, except on
the Principle that God is the only Life and Intelli-
gence of man. So long as we admit Life, sensation,
and Intelligence in matter, man will be governed by
his body, and at the mercy of death, sickness, and sin.
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Harmony is not at the mercy of matter; nor happi-
Harmony is not at the mercy of matter; nor happi-
ness at the disposal of sense; nor Life at the command
of death. Do you ask what proof have you there is no
sensation in matter, or in other words, no personal
sense? We have tested this statement in healing the
sick sufficiently to find its Principle invariable. Our
position is taken from proofs obtained through our own
demonstration; and allowing their Principle to point
higher, and acknowledging the relationship between the
lower and higher demonstrations with the same logic,