Chapter I - Natural Science
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To suppose we find pleasure or pain, happiness or
To suppose we find pleasure or pain, happiness or
misery, Life or death in the body, is not finding God
our Life, and "a present help in times of trouble;"
also, to admit the same fountain sendeth forth sweet
and bitter water, is contrary to our Master's teachings.
Life supposed to originate in soil and seed, in animalty,
or the earth, is a belief of Life only, and not the Prin-
ciple that is Life, without beginning or end of days.
Belief is mortality's self, nothing whatever but illusion;
we have no doubt but belief could make its mortal man
an amphibious animal. Phenomena illustrative of our
views will appear as the ages waken from the dream of
Life in matter: belief can adopt any position, strange
and new, but Life will be found less at the mercy of
matter, as belief gives up the ghost, and the science of
Life is sufficiently understood to be fairly demonstrated;
then man will be found immortal.
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Spirit controls matter; when this is fairly understood,
Spirit controls matter; when this is fairly understood,
phenomena at present so unaccountable to a belief
holding Soul pent up in body, will be explained, and
mystery and miracle fast disappear. A belief of Life in
matter leaves man at the mercy of death, for if this
belief should change to one of death he is supposed to
die, but the fact remains that man is immortal, and if
death in matter or the body, be proved false, Life in
matter or the body is proved false also.
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The true relation of Soul to body is that of God to
The true relation of Soul to body is that of God to
man; in other words, of Principle to its idea; these are
forever inseparable; and when the true idea, which is
the immortal body, is perceptible, we shall have become
acquainted with its Principle; "therefore, acquaint
now thyself with God."
33:1
A sweet combination of sounds informs man this
A sweet combination of sounds informs man this
is not governed by chance; that harmony is not acci-
dent; we have undeniable proof that the Intelligence
producing music, separating light from darkness, etc.,
guides and controls all. The belief that man is the
Intelligence that governs sound, would destroy harmo-
ny; for music left to personal sense is at the mercy of
misapprehension and discord; controlled by belief in-
stead of the understanding, it would be lost; even thus
man would be discord and death without a governing
Principle, or left to personal sense. God and man are
Principle and idea, and God is the Truth, Life and
Love controlling this idea. Then what can separate
man from harmony and immortality? St. Paul says:
"Neither height nor depth nor any other creature can
separate me from the love of God." Love cannot be
debarred a manifestation, and is joy and not sorrow,
good and not evil, Life and not death; hence the per-
fect idea God gave of Himself in immortal man, the
object of divine affections.
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Soul and body are Principle and idea, or God and
Soul and body are Principle and idea, or God and
man united indissolubly, but the man of God is the good
and perfect idea of Him governed by Soul instead of
sense. This idea expresses the sinless and infinite; not
the finite and dying.
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Anatomy and theology never defined the man of God;
Anatomy and theology never defined the man of God;
the first, explains the man of man; the second, how to
make this man a Christian, whose life held in matter is
separated from God. These are some of the beliefs that
serve as mile-stones to point out the rough places sci-
ence must make smooth. The man of sin, sickness,
and death is not "the image and likeness" of Love,