Chapter I - Natural Science
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Our Master ventured to say he was "Truth and Life,
Our Master ventured to say he was "Truth and Life,
and no man cometh unto the Father" (the Principle of
his being) "except through me," Truth. Principle is
the Father of man, and science alone reveals Principle,
hence it is the "Comforter" that leads into all Truth.
Jesus regarded himself Principle instead of person:
hear his words: "I am the way, the Truth, and Life.
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God is the Soul of man and the only Intelligence,
God is the Soul of man and the only Intelligence,
Life or Substance: and man is the reflex shadow of
God. Belief is error, and mortal man is a belief: un-
derstanding is Intelligence; belief is personal sense, the
so-called mind of matter; understanding is Soul, which
is Spirit, belief is knowledge and that which said "I
will make ye as gods," is mortal error, alias mortal
man. Wisdom said of knowledge, "In the day thou eat-
est thereof thou shalt surely die." Christianity is God
understood and demonstrated. There is no death in
Truth, and vice versa. Error is mortal; the very oppo-
site of Truth and its idea which is the perfect and im-
mortal man and universe. Doctrines and theories plac-
ing God in man, Soul in body, are founded on belief,
and are the offspring of personal sense. We entertain
no belief with regard to what we understand, and can-
not demonstrate what is not understood. When Soul
is accepted as the only Intelligence, we shall depend on
this ever-present Truth to control its own body; and to
understand this Principle of man, is indispensable to his
harmony; to know we are Soul and not body is starting
right.
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Matter is not substance, if God is substance; for
Matter is not substance, if God is substance; for
matter and Spirit are not one. Which shall be sub-
stance, the erring, mutable and mortal, or the change-
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less, unerring and immortal. Soul is Spirit and Spirit
less, unerring and immortal. Soul is Spirit and Spirit
the only substance, insomuch as it is the Principle of
man, and the universe. To regard matter a law of
itself, or produced by Intelligence is error. Matter is
change, decay, and death, and Principle is not in decay,
Life is not in death, Soul is not in body. God is not
in the things He hath made, and all that he hath made
is "good." If Soul was in body, Spirit and matter
were one; but Soul is not personal sense, and vice versa.
God is the Principle, or Soul of all that is real, and
nothing is real that does not express Him and is con-
trolled by Him, and immortal. Soul is lost sight of by
personal sense, but cannot be lost in science. There is
neither growth, maturity, nor decay to Soul: these are
the mutations of sense, the clouds before Soul that we
call substance, but they are only vapor. Metaphysically
speaking, a belief of Life in matter is what might be
termed a loss of Soul; for seeking Life and happiness
in error, we lose sight of Truth. The idea of God, is
the heaven, earth, and immortal man that is unerring,
and eternal, because they are controlled by Principle,
that is, by Soul, and not sense, by understanding and
not belief. That which is mortal, is a dream of Life,
Intelligence and substance in matter; a belief that idea
creates Principle, and shadow substance! In this error
Truth is lost; in other words, error loses sight of Soul
or the Principle of man, and a belief of intelligent mat-
ter takes the place of the science of man. Soul is self‑
existent, the forever "I am," that enters not into sin
and mortality. The parent of all discord is this strange
hypothesis, that Soul is in body, and Life in matter;
this error spreads its table with sickness, sin and death,