Chapter I - Natural Science
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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,
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Truth and Life; and all the vanity of the Gentiles,
Truth and Life; and all the vanity of the Gentiles,
and doctrines preached under the sun, can never make
that man immortal, or the image of God. Science lays
the axe at the root of error and cutting down the belief
of Life in matter, of Soul in body, and God in man,
exchanges fable for fact, turns thought into new chan-
nels away from personality to Principle, through which
alone man is able to reach Life.
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For Life to be eternal, it must be self-existent, there-
For Life to be eternal, it must be self-existent, there-
fore independent of matter; even the "I am" that was,
and is, and that nothing can efface. Christ said, "I am
the resurrection and Life." Man is not saved in mat-
ter, but out of it in God. Denying personal sense,
having but one God, taking up the cross and following
Christ, Truth, is the only Christianity, but doctrines
and creeds have little to do with this.
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Life, substance, and Intelligence are Soul outside of
Life, substance, and Intelligence are Soul outside of
personal sense; what appears to be these in man, is
simply a belief and dream of Life in matter; the unreal,
that is the opposite of the real. The figurative "Tree
of Life" was the Principle of man bringing forth fruits
of immortality. Sin, sickness, and death are the fruits
of the "tree of knowledge;" and the Scripture in-
structs us to judge of the tree by its fruits.
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The resistance to metaphysical science will yield
The resistance to metaphysical science will yield
slowly but surely; we had sanguine hopes of its present
prosperity until we learned its vastness, the fixedness of
folly, and man's hatred of Truth. Not through the foot-
steps of personal sense do we gain Wisdom; the infinite
is achieved only as we turn from the finite, and from
the personal error to the impersonal Truth of being.
Until the scientific relationship between God and man