Chapter I - Natural Science
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despaired of making the people understand what God,
despaired of making the people understand what God,
through science, said to him, the supreme Soul bade
him cast down his rod, and it became a serpent, and he
fled at first before the serpent, but afterwards took it
up, proving his power over it. And "the hand that
was made leprous as snow," he put into his bosom again
and plucked it out, and behold it was as his other flesh,
and Wisdom said: "It shall come to pass if they will
not hear thee, neither harken to the voice of the first
sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter;"
that is, they will listen to its interpretation, when they
see its demonstration in healing. Jesus also said in his
answer to John's inquiry, "Art thou he that should
come?" "Go and show John again these things ye
see and hear; the blind receive their sight, the lame
walk, etc., and blessed is he who shall not be offended
in me;" in other words, who shall not deny that this
is the demonstration of Truth. Jesus said to his follow-
ers: "Go ye into all the world, heal the sick," etc., and
this was enjoined not on his disciples alone, but on all
Christendom; wherefore, said he: "Neither pray I for
these alone, but for them, who shall understand through
the word." "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was God," the Principle of all being; hence it
was not a person, to be understood, or that healed the
sick, neither mediumship, mesmerism, nor drugs, but
the Principle, that is, Life and Truth.
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In the original Scriptures, metaphor abounded, and
In the original Scriptures, metaphor abounded, and
proper names were significant of spiritual ideas, The
authors of Smith's Bible Dictionary say, "The spiritual
interpretation of the Scripture must rest upon both the
literal and moral." In the original it was written: "Je-
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hovah said, my spirit shall not forever be humbled in
hovah said, my spirit shall not forever be humbled in
man, seeing that they are, or in error they are but
flesh." The science of man was not forever to be cast
aside in explaining him, seeing that man in error was
mortal. But how are we to escape from flesh, or mor-
tality, except through the change called death? By
understanding we never were flesh, that we are Spirit
and not matter.
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When the belief that we inhabit a body is destroyed,
When the belief that we inhabit a body is destroyed,
we shall live, but our body will have no sensation.
We shall find God in God, that is, Spirit in Spirit,
and Intelligence in itself, there will be no loss of sci-
ence as in mixing different species; and not until the
belief that Soul is in body, and Intelligence in matter,
is destroyed, will man be found immortal. The so-called
man that is mortal, is a compound error made up of
many beliefs, and while the science of being is master-
ing one, another presents itself. In these chemical
changes we find it not so easy to overcome sin as sick-
ness, for the dream continues of pleasure in personal
sense, when the belief of pain is willingly relinquished,
and vice versa. Thus the way is straight and narrow that
leads to Life, inasmuch as it is a warfare with the flesh.
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The science of the original word not being appre-
The science of the original word not being appre-
hended by the age in which the Scriptures were written,
was not explained; a single misplaced preposition would
change its scientific meaning from Principle to person;
e.g., wisdom the principle of God; instead of Wisdom,
the Principle, God. From the original quotations, it
appears the Scriptures were not understood by those
who re-read and re-wrote them. The true rendering
was their spiritual sense. Before knowledge increased