Chapter I - Natural Science
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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
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is perceived, and its radical points admitted, we can-
is perceived, and its radical points admitted, we can-
not reach the demonstration of which it is capable.
Exchange our stand-point of Intelligence and Life,
from matter to Spirit, and we shall gain the perfect
Life, and the control that Soul holds over body; and
receive Christ, Truth, in Principle and not person,
and through the understanding and not belief. This
is the difficult point, but it must be achieved before
man is harmonious and immortal, and to gather our
thoughts in this direction to-day is highly important, in
view of the vast amount to be accomplished before the
final recognition of Life outside of matter. If we make
no progress toward the science of Life here, the here-
after will strip off our rags of error, leaving us naked,
until we are clothed upon by Truth, the immortality of
man.
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Not understanding the Principle of being, we shall
Not understanding the Principle of being, we shall
seek in another world happiness in sense, and then, as
now, receive sorrow instead of gladness because of this
error; pain, sickness, sin, and death, will continue so
long as the belief remains of Life, happiness, and Intel-
ligence in the body. If the change called death dispos-
sessed man of the belief of pleasure and pain in the
body, universal happiness were secure at the moment
of dissolution; but this is not so: "they that are filthy
shall be filthy still"; every sin and error we possess at
the moment of death, remains after it the same as be-
fore, and our only redemption is in God, the Principle
of man that destroys the belief of intelligent bodies.
When we gain the freedom of the Sons of God, we shall
master sense with Soul. As progress compels this ripen-
ing process through which man resigns the belief of