Chapter I - Natural Science
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If man tarries in the storm until the body be frozen;
If man tarries in the storm until the body be frozen;
or rushes into the flames and it be devoured; this is not
obedience to the Wisdom that gave him "dominion
over earth;" unless we understand how to avoid such
results, we should keep from their occasion; to do
otherwise is the blunder a pupil in addition would make
to attempt to solve a problem of Euclid, and because
he has not reached this point in mathematics, to fail in
his demonstration, and others perceiving this, to deny
the Principle of the problem. Jesus taught Truth, and
demonstrated it, and the result of this was, it healed the
sick, and cast out error.
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Christ is God, the Principle and Soul of the man
Christ is God, the Principle and Soul of the man
Jesus; constituting Christ- Jesus, that is, Principle and
idea. But the person of our Master was not less tangi-
ble or real, because "his Life was hid with Christ in
God," that is, because he held Life, Soul, and not sense;
this nut all things under his feet, giving him triumph
over matter, and the body, over sin, sickness, and death.
Holding himself in science, death was lost to Him in
infinite Life, and Jesus the idea of Christ, Truth, was
as deathless as this its Principle. This scientific un-
derstanding of being gave him control over matter,
enabling him to heal the sick and cast out the opposite
belief that makes matter, or the body, the master of
man; turned the water into wine; fed the multitude,
etc.; and finally triumphed over death, and presented
to his students the body they thought buried in a sepul-
chre; that body, however, had not risen, which was
their dead belief of him. The print of the nails and
spear alone convinced Thomas, who would lean on per-
sonal sense instead of Soul, for proofs of immortality;
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but when partially aroused from the error, or dream
but when partially aroused from the error, or dream
of Life in matter, to the scientific understanding of
Soul and body, or God and man, exclaimed, in awe,
"My Lord, and my God!"
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Man is the idea of his Principle, and only as the im-
Man is the idea of his Principle, and only as the im-
age and likeness of Intelligence and Life, substance and
Spirit, is he beyond the reach of death, in the science
of being, where nothing can harm or destroy him; of
that which is materialized it can only be said, "dust
thou art and unto dust shalt thou return."
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When the sharp experiences of supposed Life in mat-
When the sharp experiences of supposed Life in mat-
ter, its disappointments, and ceaseless woes, turn us
from it as a tired child to a home in the bosom of Love,
then are we fit to understand Life apart from vanity
and lies; but without this weaning process, "who by
searching can find out God?" If through the whole-
some discipline of chastisement we become His children,
understanding in part, righteousness and purity, we
behold the Truth of spiritual science, where enraptured
thought walks boundless, and conception unconfined
has wings to reach its glory. But to gain Truth and
Life, we must not only seek, but "strive to enter in; "
and the strife consists in destroying the error of per-
sonal sense; but here we learn 'tis easier to desire Truth
than to get rid of error.
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Theories of a personal God, based on the false prem-
Theories of a personal God, based on the false prem-
ises of Life and Intelligence in matter, must yield to
science; and the dream of sense, to the Life that is
Soul. We must leave the foundations of time-honored
systems, to gain Christ, Truth; come out from the world
and be separate, or we have no part and lot in this mat-
ter. The so-called laws material, presuppose body and