Chapter IV - Creation
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inherited of the inspired page. But the understanding
inherited of the inspired page. But the understanding
of scripture is what we need, to restore the harmony of
being and gain its Principle, the Father's house, where
the prodigal returns, and the perfection of man appears.
Christ said, "Believe me that I am in the Father and
the Father in me, else believe me for my works' sake,"
i.e., understand that I am Intelligence, and not mat-
ter, and that Intelligence is God, (there is no evil In-
telligence) else believe this for the demonstration it
brings, healing the sick, and casting out error. We
cannot doubt the inspiration that opened to us the
spiritual sense of the Bible, when it lifted us from dis-
ease and death, giving us triumph over the body.
Standing at the threshold of scientific being, and there
beholding the falsity of earthly things, "the Spirit and
bride say, come, and whosoever will, let him drink
of the waters of Life, freely." Humbly, as fervently,
we join grateful issue with the Truth of being, that
separates Adam, error, forever from the presence of
God, and says to the body, no personal sense, no Life,
Intelligence or Substance in matter. In the atmosphere
or mind of Soul, man is seen the image and likeness of
goodness and perfection, and cannot lose this estate, he
being the only heir to the abundant affluence of Life,
Truth, and Love, that said, "Let us make man in our
own image." Mortal, and material man, is simply a
belief of Life in matter; we say a belief, because he is
not the reality of man, and never can reach Life that
is outside of matter, where alone is our real, be-
cause our harmonious being. Looking and thinking
from a material point only, we never shall gain the
science of being. In the dark ourselves, how can we
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see the darkness or the light even. The belief of sin
see the darkness or the light even. The belief of sin
and sickness, or of death, or Life in matter, hides man's
Life in harmony, that is Soul and not sense; but who
will "believe our report, to whom the arm of the Lord
hath not been revealed." The sun, that is light and
heat, gives little warmth or brightness until the clouds
pass from before it; thus the science of being is seen
only as sense is hushed, and Life is learned spiritually.
Every agony of mortal man wafts him onward over the
billows until error is finally destroyed, and "There is
no more sea." This is the new birth, the travail of error
before it is self-destroyed, and man is born of Spirit
and not matter. In the allegory in Genesis, error said,
"Believe me, I will make you as Gods." But Truth
replied, to this belief "I will greatly multiply thy sor-
row and conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth,
and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule
over thee." The first intimation of sickness, sorrow,
and man's tyranny, came with the belief of Life and In-
telligence in matter. "My son, give me thy heart,"
restores concord to all the dependencies and relations
of being. Our Master's impotent foes, were the world
of sense; but he feared them not; that which killed
the body but was not able to destroy Soul, the Life and
Principle of man, had no terrors for him.
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Treating of the growth of eggs, Prof. Agassiz said,
Treating of the growth of eggs, Prof. Agassiz said,
"It is very possible that many general statements cur-
rent now, about birth and generation, will be changed
with the progress of information." Had the great nat-
uralist gained through his tireless researches the scien-
tific basis of being independent of growth and organi-
zation, the blessing of that ardent mind would have