Chapter I - Natural Science
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There are but two realities, viz., God, and the idea
There are but two realities, viz., God, and the idea
of God; in other words, Spirit, and what it shadows
forth. Theology teaches supreme love to God, and
this is a glorious privilege, but we cannot love God
supremely and personal sense or matter more. God is
Love, and affections are the offspring of Soul. The
understanding of Life outside of matter is the basis of
Christianity by which the flesh is denied, the cross taken
up, and the guidance of personal sense exchanged for
Principle that makes perfect. Doctrines and theories
of Life in matter, Soul in body, and God in man, are
virtually atheism that must fall to the ground, and
those are the days wherein there will be tribulations,
such as has not been since the beginning of this belief.
Earth will echo back the shock when the cry goes forth,
"Why art thou (Truth) come hither to torment me
before the time? "The belief of Life in matter results
in the belief of death. Life demonstrates Life, and not
death, but Life is God, and none but the pure in heart
shall see God. Personal sense affords no evidence, not
the smallest idea of Truth, Life or Love. Messages of
Soul are man's teachers, and these are inspirations not
borne into matter, but the outside Intelligence, where
Spirit is, and speaks to man. We must recognize our-
self Soul, and not body, and outside the body, else Soul
is deemed subject to matter, mortality, sin, and death.
But in order to do this we must grow away from all
that is error and become pure in Spirit to receive or
impart the lessons of Spirit.
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The messages from God to man, in other words, from
The messages from God to man, in other words, from
Principle to idea, are purity, the atmosphere of Soul,
not winged messengers, but that whereby we gain the
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idea of spiritual man, in the science of his being; the
idea of spiritual man, in the science of his being; the
inspirations of truth that are demonstrable when un-
derstood, and never understood until demonstrated.
Truth is practical, not theoretical, and we shall never
have more until we practice what we already have.
Not until the sick and the sinner feel their need of
Truth that saves from sickness, sin and death, will they
apprehend it. Understanding the Truth of Man's being
is all that can make him harmonious or immortal, and
is the stepping-stone to the understanding of God, the
giver of every good, "whom to know aright is life
eternal." Man is immortal only as the idea of God,
the representative of Spirit and not matter, of Soul and
not body. As a belief of Soul in body, or Intelligence
and Life in matter, he is only mortal. The science of
being never mistakes the real for the unreal, or charges
Soul with a single belief of personal sense.
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Soul is God, for it is Spirit and Intelligence, and
Soul is God, for it is Spirit and Intelligence, and
there is but one Spirit or Intelligence. To call matter
substance does not require Intelligence, but a belief,
insomuch as Intelligence understands there is no sub-
stance or solidity in matter that can rule out mind from
piercing it and reducing it to shadow wherein Soul is
found its only substance, and that which holds man,
idea, that cannot be lost. It does not require Intelli-
gence to lie, but demands Soul to utter the Truth of
man. Intelligence or soul is never in error. Personal
sense is the error that embraces all mistakes, wherein
falsehood is considered fact until it be understood other-
wise and the belief is destroyed. One of the beliefs of
personal sense, named sickness, we destroy mentally
with the Truth of being, and the sickness is gone; this