Chapter IV - Creation
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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,
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and Life in matter. Had he believed with them on
and Life in matter. Had he believed with them on
this point, he would have mingled amicably with hypo-
crites and the sensuous man, and not rebuked them,
and been hated for it; but hypocrisy was more repug-
nant to goodness and Truth, than other forms of evil.
The fact that Christ was Truth, error soon found out,
and the world of personal sense hated Jesus, for he re-
buked it, and chose not an 'ism, or 'ology, to define
Christianity, or to aid him in its practice. Had he
believed as others did, he would not have so suffered
from the world, or had he preached better than he prac-
ticed, he would have mixed error with error, and no
chemical change, or separation from the world would
have followed his preaching; but he could not and
would not cast out devils with Beelzebub; he might
have been a popular man, on this common basis, but
then he could not have been a Christian; he might have
talked well, and not been good enough for that good-
ness to prove itself, by making war on error, and he
would have passed for a good man. The world of sense
and error felt him, for he was destroying it; those
whom he blessed, cursed him, yet he loved his enemies,
and while they thought of him only to condemn, his
better thoughts answered theirs, healing them of sick-
ness and casting out their errors. Such was the effect
of his mind on all it touched, whether enemy or friend,
and such will be the effect on mankind, of every real
follower of Christ. His mind, pure and spiritual,
touched theirs to higher issues, and restored harmony
to the body. He knew that like produces like, that his
higher being in contact with others, changed and lifted
them higher, that Truth germinates Truth, and Spirit