Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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body, sets us free to master the infinite idea; it shuts
body, sets us free to master the infinite idea; it shuts
the door on death, and opens it wide on immortality,
The belief that God has a separate being leads to mul-
titudinous errors, in which phenomena are ascribed to
supernatural and personal causes. Man is the phenom-
enon of Soul, of Intelligence and not matter, and created
by God and not man.
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Divest belief of substance in matter, and the move-
Divest belief of substance in matter, and the move-
ments and transitions possible to mind would be found
just as possible to the body; and then would Spirit
identify being without the loss of body, that we suppose
must occur before this science of being is acknowledged.
The final understanding that we are Spirit must come,
and we might as well improve our time in solving the
so-called mysteries of to-day on this Principle. At
present we know not what we are, but hereafter we
shall be found Love, Life, and Truth, because we un-
derstand them. Do you say the time has not yet come,
in which to recognize Soul the only substance, and gain
our entire control over the universe and man? Then
we refer you to Jesus, who demonstrated this over
eighteen centuries ago, and said, "The works I do, ye
shall do," and "Behold the time cometh and now is,
when they who worship the Father shall worship Him
in Spirit and in Truth"; but this method of understand-
ing God and doing good was not electricity, materia
medica, mesmerism, or mediumship.
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Matter is neither Intelligence, nor a creator; the tree
Matter is neither Intelligence, nor a creator; the tree
is not the author of itself; sound is not the originator of
music, or man the father of man. If seed produces
wheat, the latter flour, and one animal another animal,
etc., who made Intelligence, and how were the loaves
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and fishes multiplied without meal or monad? Miracles
and fishes multiplied without meal or monad? Miracles
are impossible; they are phenomena not understood,
but which their Principle explains, and we should reach
this explanation and understand it as did our Master,
who demonstrated it controlling man and matter. The
decaying flower, withering grass, blighted bud, gnarled
oak, or ferocious beast, together with all discords in-
cluding sick,' sinning and mortal man, were not created
by supreme Wisdom; these are the falsities of matter,
things of sense instead of Soul, the changing images of
mortal mind, not in reality substance, or Life, but only
a belief of these. The mind of Soul embraces immortal
ideas only, but the so-called mind of body illusion, and
not the Truth of being. Personal sense declares matter
substance, but what is this sense but a belief of Life and
Intelligence in matter.
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Eloquence is inspiration, not contingent on erudition,
Eloquence is inspiration, not contingent on erudition,
but a scientific phenomenon, showing that all things are
possible to Intelligence; sometimes it is supposed to
arise from knowledge obtained from books, and again
from mediumship. When eloquence proceeds from the
belief a departed "spirit" is speaking, and can say what
the so-called medium is incapable of uttering, or even
knowing alone, the fetters of mind are unclasped, and
forgetting her ignorance, by believing others are speak-
ing for her, she becomes eloquent beyond her usual
self, and because she thinks some individual, and not
the one Spirit, is. helping her. Now destroy this belief
of aid, and the eloquence disappears, and the old limits
personal sense assigns are resumed, and she says I am
incapable of "words that glow," being uneducated,
proving the fact, "as a man thinketh, so is he." Be-