Chapter I - Natural Science
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rocity of man and beast are animal beliefs, that admit
rocity of man and beast are animal beliefs, that admit
evil because they understand not good. All that is
good is Soul; and its opposite is personal sense; the
emanations of Soul are purity, harmony, and immortal-
ity; those of personal sense, impurity, discord, and
death. Science brings to light Truth, and its suprema-
cy, universal harmony, God's entirety, and matter's
nothingness.
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Doctrines, theories, and knowledge, are but opinions
Doctrines, theories, and knowledge, are but opinions
and beliefs, the impressions and observations of per-
sonal sense, based on no Principle or fundamental
Truth by which to work out harmony. When we reach
immortality, we shall all learn Life is God, that matter
is mortal, and that Spirit alone survives the wreck of
time. Personal sense will make war on science, until
Truth determines the conquest on the side of immutable
right. Science reveals Truth; whereas, personal sense
takes no cognizance of it; also, it reverses all the posi-
tions of sense, and tears away its foundations; hence,
the enmity of mankind towards science, until it battles
its way up by putting beliefs down. Deductions from
a matter-basis are necessarily error; but science taking
its positions from Intelligence, reaches man with har-
mony, and bears the reports only of Truth. These dif-
ferent causes are appreciated better when witnessing
the effects of both, and taking science to heal the sick
in contradistinction to drugs, electricity, etc., we learn
the opposite results of Truth and Error. Systems of
medicine, like narcotics, leave man worse, for the stupor
they induce; while science demanding demonstration
for its proof invites progress, and uses the understand-
ing like a two-edged sword, to amputate error on all
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sides. After this surgery, mankind will find themselves
sides. After this surgery, mankind will find themselves
better.
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Doctrines, opinions and belief are the "tree of
Doctrines, opinions and belief are the "tree of
knowledge" against which Wisdom warned man;
knowledge is obtained from false premises, from per-
sonal sense, that affords only the mortal evidences of
man, presupposing Soul's audience-chamber the brain,
falsely claiming the prerogatives of Intelligence, God.
Reasoning from such stand-points produces all the dis-
cords of mind and body, that must eventually go down,
obedient to the mandate, "Thou shalt surely die." Re-
searches after Truth ought to leave matter for Princi-
ple, and bring the contemplation of Life outside of
sense, thus gathering us nearer harmony and immortal-
ity, and proportionately away from sickness, sin, and
death.
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Soul is not in the body. The belief that Intelligence
Soul is not in the body. The belief that Intelligence
is in matter is error in the premises and conclusions of
man. Life, Intelligence, or substance, is not in or of
matter, neither can they be aught but Soul, and because
we shall ultimately prove this science to individual
consciousness, we should begin its first lessons to-day.
In order to gain the understanding of God and man,
Soul and body, harmony and immortality, we must base
all our conclusions of man on Principle instead of per-
son, on Soul instead of body, or we shall never reach
the science of being.
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Truth, Life, and Love are God, the Soul of the uni-
Truth, Life, and Love are God, the Soul of the uni-
verse and man, and the only substance and Intelligence:
these are not mixed with change, sin, or death, nor with
matter, the body mortal; the erring, changing and dy-
ing blend not with that which is the same yesterday,