Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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standing of this Principle), "but through Me," Truth.
standing of this Principle), "but through Me," Truth.
Sin has no foundation when we admit our bodies are
not intelligent. Sickness is without a foothold on this
platform; it is the Truth of man that destroys per-
sonal sense; therefore, that alone can destroy sickness,
sin, and death. The mission of Jesus was to separate
material belief from spiritual understanding, and to
show that Truth never mixes with error. Good and
evil, Spirit and matter, are separate now and forever.
Jesus knew we must understand this, or never reach
the harmony of being. This is the science of Life that
enables us to come out from the world and be sepa-
rate; to reach the moral distance between Life that is
Spirit and the supposed life of matter, and we apart
from all that is sickness, sin, or death. This is the
Truth that brings to light immortality. Jesus knew
personal sense was error, and that there is no personal
sense or Intelligence in matter; therefore that all the
reports of this sense are chimeras that the Truth of
being overthrows. This advanced standard of being
is not yet understood, although it is over eighteen
centuries ago that Jesus taught it, and they received
not his sayings. Science, not personal sense, Prin-
ciple and not person, understanding and not belief,
must interpret Jesus' demonstration; for Truth and
not error, Life and not death, health and not sickness,
is its Principle. In order to follow Christ, Truth, we
must show by our example, what Truth demonstrates;
namely, that it casts out error and heals the sick; and
then shall we fulfill the prediction of Jesus when he
said, "The works I do ye shall do." The doctrines of
man are not built upon the Rock of Truth; theology
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leaves in mystery the science of God that Jesus not
leaves in mystery the science of God that Jesus not
only explained but demonstrated. There is no Life or
Principle in man that proves him immortal, hence we
have no resource but to annihilate the belief of Life and
Intelligence in matter, and understand God, the Prin-
ciple of man and his immortality.
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Beauty is eternal; but the beauty of matter passes
Beauty is eternal; but the beauty of matter passes
away, fading at length into decay and ugliness. Cus-
tom, habit, opinions and belief form the transient stan-
dard of material beauty; but beauty is a thing of Life,
exempt from age or decay, and to be this it must be a
thing of Spirit. Immortal man and woman (and there
are none other), are unfading perfection, models of
beauty that reflect all loveliness insomuch as they are
"the image and likeness of God," of Soul and not sense.
But in order to reflect beauty the body must represent
only the perfect and immortal. To become less sense
and more Soul, is the recipe for beauty; but to reach
its standard we must put all sin, sickness and sorrow
under the feet of our God-being, and rise superior to
them; retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the
body, to the unchanging quiet and glorious freedom
of impersonal bliss. The embellishments of person
are a poor substitute for the beauty of Spirit shining
resplendant and eternal, over age and decay. Measur-
ing Life by solar years robs youth, and hourly gives
uncomeliness to age. The rising sun of virtue and
Truth is the morning of being, and its manhood
eternal noon, unmarked by a setting sun. When
beauty fades to personal sense, it is not lost to Soul,
and affection marvels our friend could seem aught but
beautiful. It is the belief of sickness, sorrow, and of