Chapter IV - Creation
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belief of Life in matter, which belief embraces also,
belief of Life in matter, which belief embraces also,
sickness, sin and death, – all that is mortal. To admit
God made man of dust, and afterwards breathed Intel-
ligence into matter, and it became a living Soul, is
rank atheism, that would submerge supreme Wisdom
in the things it creates; this statement of man and God,
makes both mortal. "In Adam, (error,) all died,"
"and in Christ," (Truth,) "shall all be made alive."
The Truth of being casts out error, heals the sick, and
raises the dead; understanding Life exempt from mor-
tality, and no sensation, or Intelligence in the body, is
the ultimatum of being; the way, the Truth and Life,
that points out the footsteps of science. Life is not in
matter, unless Truth is in matter; Life is God, as the
scriptures declare, and God never germinated. He is
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; outside of all
He creates, and the creator of all. If God breathed
into the body, into matter, Wisdom, then matter be-
came Spirit, and the stronger rules out the weaker and
matter is God; error claimed this when it said, "I will
make you as Gods"; but Truth replied to this belief,
"Thou shalt die." Life, Truth, and Love never formed
their image and likeness of dust, nor breathed into
dust, (matter), Truth and Love. We should naturally
shrink from the error and belief, (if it were only un-
derstood) that presupposes another God, or that the
Supreme Being entered man that He had made, or that
matter embraces God. The statement that God made
man of matter, and then put Himself, into personal
sense and sin, should be understood the very opposite
of the Truth of being; and if this was so understood,
sin, sickness, and death would disappear.
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Error makes man a slave to matter, but this error
Error makes man a slave to matter, but this error
came from "knowledge," and was mortal. Truth gave
man immortality and dominion over matter. The mist
that went up from the ground, causing it to produce,
was figurative of the belief that matter germinates, and
man's Life is matter instead of Spirit. This belief
takes the explanation of man out of the hands of sci-
ence, wherein man is the product of Spirit, and gives
it to personal sense; denying the express declarations
of God, that man was made the image and likeness of
Spirit. Truth said, partake not of this knowledge, it
is error, denouncing it as fatal; but error replied oppo-
sitely, "In the day ye eat thereof ye shall become as
Gods;" that is, there shall be more than one intelli-
gence, for matter shall be permeated with Spirit, brains,
nerves, etc., shall be intelligent of good and evil, and
pain and pleasure, Life and death shall be mixed and
named personal sense.
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We cannot fail to see the great contradiction between
We cannot fail to see the great contradiction between
the spiritual creation of the universe and man; and the
so-called material creation of these through Darwinian
evolution or propagation. Mortal and material man is
purely mythical; this man started from what? "the
ground," i.e., his basis was matter; and woman was
evolved from this man; mythologically stated, she came
from his rib. Afterwards male and female physically
were made the foundations of man, making races and
an egg the author of being. But this evolution or Dar-
win theory is false; there is no Life and Intelligence
in matter, passing alike from vegetable, mineral and
animal, bearing the while Wisdom's denunciation, so
unlike the blessings and honor bestowed on man's