Chapter I - Natural Science
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we say, three and three trillions are six trillions; in
we say, three and three trillions are six trillions; in
that we prove with smaller numbers that three added
to three, make six. Because we believe sensation is
nerves, it by no means proves this to be the case; the
inebriate believes he finds pleasure in alcoholic drinks,
and the sinner in sin. The thief believes he has made
a gain in stealing; and the hypocrite in hiding himself;
but the science of Life contradicts these false positions,
and names them simply belief and error; thence, infer-
ring, belief is error, and to understand God and man
would destroy all belief, and give us the understanding
of what constitutes being.
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That pain and pleasure belong to the body is the
That pain and pleasure belong to the body is the
error of earth, that never enters heaven where nothing
is found that worketh a lie. Soul is the only living
consciousness, and Soul neither sins, nor suffers; it is
immortal, and error is mortal; but sin, sorrow, and
sickness, are mortal, destroying themselves, because
they are error. Sickness and death are not the manifes-
tations of Soul, Truth, or Life, hence they are not of
God, and there is no other causation. The tares and
wheat must be separated, the real and unreal blend not;
happiness is real, and Truth is real, but error is unreal;
sin and holiness, sickness and health, Life and death,
proceed not from the same source. Life, health, and
holiness, together with all harmonies, are Truth; sin,
sickness, and death, are error, the opposite of Truth,
harmony and Life, and these opposites never blend.
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Electricity is not a vital fluid; but an element of
Electricity is not a vital fluid; but an element of
mind, the higher link between the grosser strata of
mind, named matter, and the more rarified called mind.
The so-called destructive forces of matter, and the fe-
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rocity of man and beast are animal beliefs, that admit
rocity of man and beast are animal beliefs, that admit
evil because they understand not good. All that is
good is Soul; and its opposite is personal sense; the
emanations of Soul are purity, harmony, and immortal-
ity; those of personal sense, impurity, discord, and
death. Science brings to light Truth, and its suprema-
cy, universal harmony, God's entirety, and matter's
nothingness.
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Doctrines, theories, and knowledge, are but opinions
Doctrines, theories, and knowledge, are but opinions
and beliefs, the impressions and observations of per-
sonal sense, based on no Principle or fundamental
Truth by which to work out harmony. When we reach
immortality, we shall all learn Life is God, that matter
is mortal, and that Spirit alone survives the wreck of
time. Personal sense will make war on science, until
Truth determines the conquest on the side of immutable
right. Science reveals Truth; whereas, personal sense
takes no cognizance of it; also, it reverses all the posi-
tions of sense, and tears away its foundations; hence,
the enmity of mankind towards science, until it battles
its way up by putting beliefs down. Deductions from
a matter-basis are necessarily error; but science taking
its positions from Intelligence, reaches man with har-
mony, and bears the reports only of Truth. These dif-
ferent causes are appreciated better when witnessing
the effects of both, and taking science to heal the sick
in contradistinction to drugs, electricity, etc., we learn
the opposite results of Truth and Error. Systems of
medicine, like narcotics, leave man worse, for the stupor
they induce; while science demanding demonstration
for its proof invites progress, and uses the understand-
ing like a two-edged sword, to amputate error on all