Chapter I - Natural Science
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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
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we have proved by demonstration in hundreds of cases.
we have proved by demonstration in hundreds of cases.
Belief makes up the sum total of mortal man, but this
statement is confounded by those not understanding
science, blending the mortal and immortal, and making
man God, Intelligence, instead of its idea. Belief is all
there is to mortal man, and if this belief is wretched-
ness only, no circumstance can make it happiness,
and if happiness, no circumstance can change it, or
make it wretchedness, until the belief of the differ
ent conditions are changed; "for as error thinketh so is
it." The science of being is as necessary to those in
the belief of health as sickness, for a single change of
belief would make the well sick, when, if they under-
stood these conditions depended on mind, instead of
matter, they might continue to be well by grounding
their belief in the case and letting Intelligence be mas-
ter of the situation. Ignorance, pride and prejudice
close the door on all that contradicts the past or opens
it on things not stereotyped. When the science of Life
is understood every man will be his own physician, and
the doctor's occupation gone, hence materia medica will
fight it to the end. But why should the new be scorned
when the old has proved incapable of making man
healthy or harmonious in mind or body, and the new
commences at once to do this; the command remains,
"Be ye perfect even as your Father is perfect," and yet
we must be smitten for insisting on this demonstration.
The science of being, that alone can stay the progress
of disease and sin, and the atheism that unites matter
and God, will be called, in this century, anti-christian.
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The belief that man is intelligent matter, subject to
The belief that man is intelligent matter, subject to
birth and death would make Soul mortal, and governed