Chapter IV - Creation
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Error makes man a slave to matter, but this error
Error makes man a slave to matter, but this error
came from "knowledge," and was mortal. Truth gave
man immortality and dominion over matter. The mist
that went up from the ground, causing it to produce,
was figurative of the belief that matter germinates, and
man's Life is matter instead of Spirit. This belief
takes the explanation of man out of the hands of sci-
ence, wherein man is the product of Spirit, and gives
it to personal sense; denying the express declarations
of God, that man was made the image and likeness of
Spirit. Truth said, partake not of this knowledge, it
is error, denouncing it as fatal; but error replied oppo-
sitely, "In the day ye eat thereof ye shall become as
Gods;" that is, there shall be more than one intelli-
gence, for matter shall be permeated with Spirit, brains,
nerves, etc., shall be intelligent of good and evil, and
pain and pleasure, Life and death shall be mixed and
named personal sense.
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We cannot fail to see the great contradiction between
We cannot fail to see the great contradiction between
the spiritual creation of the universe and man; and the
so-called material creation of these through Darwinian
evolution or propagation. Mortal and material man is
purely mythical; this man started from what? "the
ground," i.e., his basis was matter; and woman was
evolved from this man; mythologically stated, she came
from his rib. Afterwards male and female physically
were made the foundations of man, making races and
an egg the author of being. But this evolution or Dar-
win theory is false; there is no Life and Intelligence
in matter, passing alike from vegetable, mineral and
animal, bearing the while Wisdom's denunciation, so
unlike the blessings and honor bestowed on man's
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origin in Spirit, and the offspring of God. Immortal
origin in Spirit, and the offspring of God. Immortal
man was sustained by Spirit, the mortal by matter and
the sweat of his brow.
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One held Life in Soul, the other in sense; one was
One held Life in Soul, the other in sense; one was
"good" and blessed, the other accursed. A misconcep-
tion of man pervades the whole statement of mortal, or
material man, from his origin in dust, until he returns
thither; his entire history is the origin and end of error,
and not man.
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"I have gotten a man from the Lord," was a false-
"I have gotten a man from the Lord," was a false-
hood, from the beginning; for this man was a foul
murderer, and Truth and Love never created hatred
and sin; supreme harmony never produced the Adam
and his progeny; that which is not God, or His idea,
is not only evil and mortal, but unreal, yea illusion.
A wrong version of the scriptures, has hidden their
Truth. The Prophet Isaiah is recorded to have said,
"God makes peace and he creates evil"; but turn to
Jeremiah, and you find this contradicted. Jesus, also,
takes the opposite grounds for the basis of his demon-
stration, showing that God casts out sin, sickness, and
death, instead of creating them.
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What would we say of the musician whose harmony
What would we say of the musician whose harmony
produced discord? Science sets right these knotty
points, and renders to God the things that are His.
We learn error by its results. Sickness, sin and death
are the fruits of error; Truth gives harmony and im-
mortality; thus Wisdom adjusted it, and "Thou shalt
die" was not spoken in vain of what purports to be
Life, Substance and Intelligence in matter, God in man,
and Soul in body. Adam, made of dust, was not the
image or likeness of God, Spirit; therefore partaking of