Chapter IV - Creation
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of his continuance. All that is discordant is mortal,
of his continuance. All that is discordant is mortal,
and without Principle or understanding. Mind pro-
duces mind; Intelligence produces the idea of Intelli-
gence; and the mortal and material, the beliefs of be-
lief. One is Truth, the other error; one real, the other
unreal; the material produces only the mortal, its basis
is belief, and not Truth.
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Professor Agassiz argues, "man springs from races."
Professor Agassiz argues, "man springs from races."
Mr. Darwin has it, he comes up through all the lower
grades of being, and must be a monkey before he can
be a man. Mr. Darwin is right with regard to mortal
man or matter, but should have made a distinction
between these and the immortal, whose basis is Spirit.
Animality produces animals, and what is good and pure
mingles not with evil or the impure; these are two
diametrically opposite sources and results; the good
comes from God, from Spirit outside of matter, the evil
is a belief of matter; hence, the less material the belief,
the more transparent mind is for God to shine through,
for all that is pure is harmonious and eternal; and the
more God, the Intelligence outside of matter, is seen
through man, but not from him. Matter cannot pro-
duce Spirit, and vice versa. Truth cannot produce
error, therefore it never made a mortal, sick or sinful
man, nor error a spiritual, harmonious or immortal
man. Error reflects error, and Truth is reflected only
by Truth. Spirit gives forth only the image and like-
ness of itself, therefore the idea of God, pure and un-
defiled; a mortal and sinful man is the product of mor-
tality and not of God, of error and not Truth; hence
the scripture's statement of him, that he sprang from
the ground, i.e., from a material basis; and ours,
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that he is a belief only, and error; and Mr. Darwin's
that he is a belief only, and error; and Mr. Darwin's
that his primogenitors are beasts; and Prof. Agassiz's,
that he germinates from an egg. Our views will be
accepted later than the others, only because they are
more spiritual. Prof. Agassiz asked, "What can there
be of a material nature, transmitted through these
bodies, called eggs, themselves composed of the simplest
material elements, by which all peculiarities of ancestry
belonging to either sex, are brought down from genera-
tion to generation." Here we see the darkness and
doubt creeping into the great mind of the great natur-
alist, because of the material base of his reasoning;
starting from matter instead of God, for the basis of im-
mortal man, who by searching can find out God?
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A student said to us, "I understand your explana-
A student said to us, "I understand your explana-
tions of Truth, but I cannot understand error;" and
why? because he made it something, and we, nothing;
he gave to error a local habitation and a name, making
it what it is not, even an entity and power. There is
no mortal man, or reality to error; first, because man
is immortal, and error is not the Truth, or reality of
being; secondly, that these are neither God nor His
idea; all that is real, is eternal. Pains or pleasures of
personal sense are unreal, and the so-called life of mor-
tal man is a myth. The belief of Life in matter is the
so-called mind of man, that suffers because it is a belief
of suffering, and dies because it is an error of belief.
Searching into the origin of Life is vain; no beginning
or end hath Life, for it is from everlasting unto ever-
lasting. Life is Truth, and Truth is Life, not brought
to light through error or sickness, sin, and death;
Truth is immortality, not in mortality, for it is Soul,