Chapter IV - Creation
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duces like, is not only true in homoeopathy, but holds
duces like, is not only true in homoeopathy, but holds
good in the science of being. Embryology affords no
instances of one specie producing another; of a serpent
germinating a bird, or a lion a lamb; this would be
gathering grapes of thorns, and figs of thistles. Such
amalgamation would be deemed monstrous, and out of
the order of things. A pure fountain sendeth not
forth impure streams, and vice versa. Then how can
Spirit germinate matter, the holy the unholy, and the
immortal, mortality. The difference is not as great
between opposite species, as between matter and
Spirit, so utterly unlike in substance and Intelligence.
That Spirit propagates matter, or matter Spirit, is mor-
ally impossible; science repudiates the thought, and
personal sense alone, must father it, because it is un-
natural, unreal, and impossible. Germinating Intelli-
gence is germinating God; how very absurd! Intelli-
gence in matter would make matter the circumference
of mind. Intelligence produces, or is produced, which
is it? Is matter first and mind afterward? matter the
primogenitor of mind, or does Intelligence germinate
non-Intelligence? Like produces like; Intelligence is
Spirit that germinates idea, and not matter; therefore
matter is neither effect nor cause. All is mind; matter
is but a belief, and error. Natural history shows that
each specie produces its like only; the bird is not the
father of the beast; the egg germinates the parent
stock, and the seed the original plant; hybrids are
rapes upon nature, and not the common order. Har-
monious and immortal man is the offspring of Intelli-
gence, of the unerring and infinite understanding that
said, "Let us make man," hence the scientific certainty
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of his continuance. All that is discordant is mortal,
of his continuance. All that is discordant is mortal,
and without Principle or understanding. Mind pro-
duces mind; Intelligence produces the idea of Intelli-
gence; and the mortal and material, the beliefs of be-
lief. One is Truth, the other error; one real, the other
unreal; the material produces only the mortal, its basis
is belief, and not Truth.
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Professor Agassiz argues, "man springs from races."
Professor Agassiz argues, "man springs from races."
Mr. Darwin has it, he comes up through all the lower
grades of being, and must be a monkey before he can
be a man. Mr. Darwin is right with regard to mortal
man or matter, but should have made a distinction
between these and the immortal, whose basis is Spirit.
Animality produces animals, and what is good and pure
mingles not with evil or the impure; these are two
diametrically opposite sources and results; the good
comes from God, from Spirit outside of matter, the evil
is a belief of matter; hence, the less material the belief,
the more transparent mind is for God to shine through,
for all that is pure is harmonious and eternal; and the
more God, the Intelligence outside of matter, is seen
through man, but not from him. Matter cannot pro-
duce Spirit, and vice versa. Truth cannot produce
error, therefore it never made a mortal, sick or sinful
man, nor error a spiritual, harmonious or immortal
man. Error reflects error, and Truth is reflected only
by Truth. Spirit gives forth only the image and like-
ness of itself, therefore the idea of God, pure and un-
defiled; a mortal and sinful man is the product of mor-
tality and not of God, of error and not Truth; hence
the scripture's statement of him, that he sprang from
the ground, i.e., from a material basis; and ours,