Chapter I - Natural Science
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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,
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we say, three and three trillions are six trillions; in
we say, three and three trillions are six trillions; in
that we prove with smaller numbers that three added
to three, make six. Because we believe sensation is
nerves, it by no means proves this to be the case; the
inebriate believes he finds pleasure in alcoholic drinks,
and the sinner in sin. The thief believes he has made
a gain in stealing; and the hypocrite in hiding himself;
but the science of Life contradicts these false positions,
and names them simply belief and error; thence, infer-
ring, belief is error, and to understand God and man
would destroy all belief, and give us the understanding
of what constitutes being.
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That pain and pleasure belong to the body is the
That pain and pleasure belong to the body is the
error of earth, that never enters heaven where nothing
is found that worketh a lie. Soul is the only living
consciousness, and Soul neither sins, nor suffers; it is
immortal, and error is mortal; but sin, sorrow, and
sickness, are mortal, destroying themselves, because
they are error. Sickness and death are not the manifes-
tations of Soul, Truth, or Life, hence they are not of
God, and there is no other causation. The tares and
wheat must be separated, the real and unreal blend not;
happiness is real, and Truth is real, but error is unreal;
sin and holiness, sickness and health, Life and death,
proceed not from the same source. Life, health, and
holiness, together with all harmonies, are Truth; sin,
sickness, and death, are error, the opposite of Truth,
harmony and Life, and these opposites never blend.
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Electricity is not a vital fluid; but an element of
Electricity is not a vital fluid; but an element of
mind, the higher link between the grosser strata of
mind, named matter, and the more rarified called mind.
The so-called destructive forces of matter, and the fe-