Chapter I - Natural Science
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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
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some of the Soul-inspired patriarchs gave good proofs
some of the Soul-inspired patriarchs gave good proofs
of understanding God. Jacob wrestled with a man,
that is, strove against the belief of Life and Intelligence
in matter," until day-break;" until the light of sci-
ence shone upon his understanding, enabling him to
restore the shrank sinew; this was the spiritual sense;
the literal – the hour of dawn. The shrank sinew he
restored, understanding simply that he possessed con-
trol over matter, and that man is immortal, the image
and likeness of God, that cannot lose one jot of its
completeness. When Jacob became the demonstrator,
even in a limited capacity of this Truth, he was named
Israel, the chosen of Wisdom, and thereafter those
building on this foundation, were of the house of
Israel.
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Why Jesus of Nazareth stood higher in the scale of
Why Jesus of Nazareth stood higher in the scale of
being, and rose proportionately beyond other men in
demonstrating God, we impute to his spiritual origin.
He was the offspring of Soul, and not sense; yea, the
Son of God. The science of being was revealed to the
virgin mother, who, in part proved the great Truth,
that God is the only origin of man. The conception of
Jesus illustrated this Truth, and finished the example
of creation. Jesus was the idea of this Principle, but
born of woman, that is, having in part a personal origin,
he blended the idea of Life, that is God, with the belief
of Life in matter, and became the connecting link be-
tween science and personal sense; "and took upon
himself flesh," became apparent as the half-way posi-
tion of positive science; thus to mediate between God
and man; in other words, to present the idea of God
that revealed Life outside of matter, in contradistinc-