Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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mystery and disease; "you," the Soul and circumfer-
mystery and disease; "you," the Soul and circumfer-
ence of being, (for the body is but the idea of "you,")
are a law to your members, and the law-giver that makes
your body discordant or harmonious, according to the
ignorance or understanding, the error or Truth that
governs it. Matter has no Intelligence to rule over you;
say then to the error whereby you submit to your body,
"Depart, ye that work iniquity."
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Truth will establish the kingdom of heaven on earth,
Truth will establish the kingdom of heaven on earth,
even the reign of harmony wherein is neither sickness,
sin, nor death, and trample out this trio of error; had
God constituted laws of matter with power to make
man sick, Christ would not have abrogated those laws
by healing the sick, contrary to them. All evidence of
physical law and personal sense is destroyed in the sci-
ence of being.
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Personal sense, takes no cognizance of the earth's
Personal sense, takes no cognizance of the earth's
motion, and beholds the sun making a diurnal round.
Science, contradicting personal sense, taught the olden
astronomer the sun is our solar centre, and the earth
turning on its axis, revolves around it. So at the focus
of optical vision when sky and earth appear to meet,
and clouds and ocean join hands, science proves them
remote as at the nearest points of vision. Again, the
barometer, that little prophet of storm and sunshine,
declares it fair when personal sense sees nothing but
murky clouds and drenching rain-drops. To personal
sense, severing the jugular vein takes Life, and de-
stroys man; but to science, Life goes on the same as
before, it being indestructible and eternal; for man
cannot be destroyed. Science takes all proof out of
the hands of personal sense, and makes void this error,
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interpreting phenomena with reason and revelation
interpreting phenomena with reason and revelation
based on their Principle. Science destroyed Ptolemy's
vague theory that earth is the centre of the solar sys-
tem; and revealed the harmony of the spheres, on a
reversed plan.
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Personal sense declares Life is in man, and matter is
Personal sense declares Life is in man, and matter is
intelligent; that brains, nerves, etc., are seats of pain
or pleasure, also, of disease and death; therefore Soul
is tributary to the body and in mortality. Theories of
anatomy, physiology, etc., make the same blunder with
Soul and body that Ptolemy did with the sun and
earth; he made the sun tributary to the earth, they
make Soul secondary and tributary to the body; but
science has destroyed one, and in time will master the
other error, overruling the evidence of personal sense
altogether, and thus reveal the harmony of man and
the universe, on a reversed statement. The Principle
of man is Soul, and Soul is Spirit, and this is the only
Life, Intelligence, or substance of the universe; all
is tributary to Soul. Earth borrows light and heat
from the sun, the body borrows Life and Intelligence
from Soul. As earth is opaque, having no light of
her own, so the body material is a lifeless, unintelligent
belief; but the spiritual body reflects Life, Love and
Truth.
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Copernicus marked out the pathway of science in the
Copernicus marked out the pathway of science in the
heavens, and we at a later date would point out the
science of Life or Principle of harmonious being; but
before Copernicus spake, astrography was a mystery,
and the geography of the heavens a myth. The Chal-
dean shepherd saw in a comet the fate of empires, and
read the fortunes of man in a star; no higher revela-