Chapter I - Natural Science
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sense than some of the lower animals. They could
sense than some of the lower animals. They could
teach him affection! but convince his reason that is
above the brutes, of the nothingness of personal sense,
and you have saved him.
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Reasoning incorrectly on Soul and body, leads to
Reasoning incorrectly on Soul and body, leads to
error of action; understanding the science of being ex-
plains personal sense and also destroys it; in science
you cannot be a hypocrite in secret even; you will
become spiritual, find happiness in the moral resources
of being and in Love that is Truth; even as the babe
finds peace and nutriment from the mother's bosom.
To waken from the dream of personal sense, or pleasure
and pain in matter, is the work of time and eternity.
The greater your error the harder its struggle will be
with Truth when it touches it. The aged are not old
when the vail lifts, and sense gives place to Soul. But
the hoary error must be met and mastered in time or
eternity, and would have been easier controlled in its
youth. Man never obtains immortality until the stand‑
point whence he reckons himself in all the summing up
of Life and Intelligence, is Soul and not sense. What
a pitiful sight is malice finding pleasure in revenge! 'tis
sad to think evil is man's highest belief of good until
his grasp on goodness grows stronger. We should nat-
urally shrink from madness that rushes forth to clamor
with midnight and the tempest. All error is the image
of the beast that must be effaced by the sweat of agony,
before the crown is laid upon the brow.
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A picture on the camera, or a face reflected from the
A picture on the camera, or a face reflected from the
mirror is not substance; then why do we name man
substance, and contradict the Scripture that saith man
is the image and likeness of God? We know the face
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and form of a man reflected from the mirror is not man,
and form of a man reflected from the mirror is not man,
that he is not in the shadow of himself; hence the error
to suppose the Intelligence, substance and Life of man,
are man, or in him. Again, who believes that gender
belongs to the man in the mirror? Gender is Principle
and not person, and man is shadow and not substance;
why he is mortal to personal sense, is because it sup-
poses him substance, Life and Intelligence. Mortal
man is but a dream of Intelligence, substance and Life
in matter, not the man of God, but the man of man,
and shadow of shadows, therefore he reflects no Princi-
ple, and is without any real basis. To personal sense
science is presumptive logic; nevertheless it reveals
Truth: the ultimatum of being corroborates the state-
ment that man is shadow and not substance; we are
daily hastening to this proof, and must reach its recog-
nition to gain immortality, for the Truth of man alone
makes him immortal. The belief, that Soul is in body,
turns to matter instead of Spirit for help in times of
trouble, and with reluctant consent acknowledges a
supreme being.
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Theology embraces no creed or faith sufficient to heal
Theology embraces no creed or faith sufficient to heal
the sick, while our master made this the first article of
his faith, and proved that faith by works.
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It seems ancient Christianity adhered more to Jesus'
It seems ancient Christianity adhered more to Jesus'
teachings than modern systems of religion do. Diplo-
mas have rendered it fashionable to appeal to drugs be-
fore God; and the result is stereotyped beliefs originat-
ing in knowledge, "that forbidden tree," and wanting
in the vital point whereby Jesus demonstrated Chris-
tianity in the control Soul holds over sense.
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The so-called man, born to-day and dying to-morrow,
The so-called man, born to-day and dying to-morrow,