Chapter IV - Creation
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not in sense and sin. If Life starts in an egg, it is
not in sense and sin. If Life starts in an egg, it is
matter, and mortal; but matter cannot produce Intel-
ligence; whence then is mind? All is mind; there
is no matter. Spirit destroys the belief of matter, as
Truth destroys error. If possible for Spirit, God, to
enter into a body of sin and death, then harmony en-
ters discord, and discord destroys harmony; can good
dwell in evil, or evil represent good? The poor logic
and lack of Truth that would blend Spirit and matter,
immortality and mortality, sin and goodness in one
body, and call it man, was the error Jesus argued
against as the foundation of all discord, showing its
falsity by parable and proof; Christ, Truth, casts out
this error and heals the sick, beginning at once to de-
stroy mortality with its own immortality. The wicked
often return evil for good, when the Truth of being
comes in contact with their error to destroy it; there-
fore the followers of Christ, Truth, must love their ene-
mies and go forth as lambs among wolves. The sick
sometimes pass through severe sufferings in the changes
Truth produces, before it destroys the error or disease;
and the chronic sinner, or hidden hypocrite suffers
from the introduction into his mind of the science of
being, and often hates its teacher. Man's immortality
rests on a spiritual, and not a material basis, and his
health on Soul and not sense. We have no foundation
for man's immortality, if the perfect is not distinct from
the imperfect; and what evidence have we of God, or
perfection, where we admit imperfection germinates
from God? The good we are, the order, beauty, and
loveliness we behold, all assure us God is Life, Truth,
and Love, and that matter embraces all error, while
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Spirit is perfect. Spiritual science reveals all matter
Spirit is perfect. Spiritual science reveals all matter
inanimate, while personal sense would make it both
animate and evil; but which is the standard of Truth,
personal sense, or science?
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That harmony, Intelligence and Life, are outside of
That harmony, Intelligence and Life, are outside of
matter, wholly apart and distinct from error, and mor-
tality, even the leaf and flower, too beautiful to die,
declare. A consciousness of Truth, Life, and Love, is
Soul, not body. The Psalmist saith, "When I con-
sider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon
and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man
that thou art mindful of him? thou madest him to have
dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put
all things under his feet." Matter is as clouds, and
Spirit the sun, that appears to us only as the clouds
disappear. The sun is not in the cloud, but shines
beyond it; thus it is with the Soul of man; when the
belief of Substance, or Life in matter disappears, we
take up existence as Spirit, and our body is transparent
to Soul, and no longer a belief of substance-matter, or
personal sense, but the idea of Intelligence, harmony,
and Life. Truth separated Jesus, its idea, from the
world of error, and the world of sense felt the effect of
Truth, because it was tearing away the foundations of
error, that could not understand the need there was of
this; hence the unappreciated labor and love of Jesus,
the great demonstrator of the science of Life. Had
Jesus defended error, admitted its positions, and justi-
fied them, he would have been the world's favorite.
But this was impossible to him who chose his master of
Spirit. He could not destroy sickness with the Truth,
that Life is God, and be a stickler for personal sense,