Chapter I - Natural Science
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Spiritual sense belongs to Soul, and is the only real
Spiritual sense belongs to Soul, and is the only real
sense; it takes no cognizance of substance in matter,
of suffering, sin, or death; Spiritual sense recognizes all
that is Truth, Life, and Love; hence there is nothing
left personal sense to enjoy or suffer. Personal sense
is the dream of Life in matter, a supposition only of
reality and substance, of Life and Intelligence, of good
and evil, that would limit Soul, and doom all things to
decay. Sensation in matter is one of its beliefs, and
belief is the opinion, personal, that supports only what
is untrue, selfish, or debased; all these mistakes are
but the error we name mortal man. God and man
will never be understood, until we listen alone to the
senses attached to Principle instead of person, to Soul
instead of body.
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Personal sense being error, all evidence obtained
Personal sense being error, all evidence obtained
therefrom is belief without Principle, or immortal proof.
Spiritual, in contradistinction to personal sense, reveals
man idea; not substance; his Life and Intelligence,
God, in other words, Soul, and not body; and thus se-
cure from chance and change he is harmonious and
eternal. The demonstration of this statement will de-
stroy sickness, sin and death, and because of this, it is
important to understand at present as well as hereafter,
the great Truth which must displace the opposite error
that brought sin and death into the world, shutting out
the pure sense of immortality; and which ought to be
learned to-day.
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God is, and was, and ever will be; and if this Intel-
God is, and was, and ever will be; and if this Intel-
ligence exists, there is also the idea of it, named man,
that cannot be separated for a single moment from this,
its principle and Soul. We look on a corpse, or the
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body called man, but is it man? No! Is Soul in it?
body called man, but is it man? No! Is Soul in it?
certainly not; has Soul escaped? No! where was the
outside, infinite Spirit, if Spirit was in man? Can Soul
be lost? impossible, for the immortal is without end;
and Soul is Spirit, and Spirit, God. Is man lost? not
if Soul be left! for Soul is Principle, and man its idea,
and these forever inseparable; God would be lost, if
man was blotted out, for entity signifies the particular
nature of being; and God, without the idea, image, and
likeness of Himself, would be a nonentity! Man is
the complex idea of God, hence, they cannot be sepa-
rated.
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Contemplating a corpse, we behold the going out
Contemplating a corpse, we behold the going out
of a belief; we have been accustomed to this belief of
mind in matter, but not the Truth of man, whose Soul
is God and his body the harmonious idea of Him.
The belief of Life in matter is all that dies. The
Principle, Soul, and Life of man, is not in the body,
and cannot die. When Paul's optical sense yielded to
science, the vision of Soul, he realized nothing could
separate him from God; understanding as he did that
the real man is never separated from the sweet sense
and presence of Life and Love.
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A sick man is not a sinner above all others; and yet
A sick man is not a sinner above all others; and yet
he is not the idea of God; weary of matter that claims
so much suffering, the sick become more spiritually in-
clined, inasmuch as the belief of Life in matter begins
to give up its ghosts; all error must finally yield, to the
Truth of man.
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A wicked man is not an idea of God; he is nothing
A wicked man is not an idea of God; he is nothing
more than the belief that hatred, malice, pride, envy,
hypocrisy, etc., are coupled with Life, God! but Life,