Chapter IV - Creation
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imparts spirituality, and not materiality; this was the
imparts spirituality, and not materiality; this was the
science and the Principle of his consistent demonstra-
tion, that healed the sick, and cast out error. Any
hypothesis of birth and death, is unworthy Intelligence.
What is real is eternal, eliminated and sustained by
Spirit alone, that matter cannot express, and much less
control or destroy. All the formations of God are
based on Spirit and immortality, and that which is
formed by Soul, and not sense, is harmless, harmonious
and eternal.
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Heaven and earth, together with every animal, min-
Heaven and earth, together with every animal, min-
eral, and vegetable that God hath made, are harmoni-
ous and eternal. The belief of Life in matter, produces
its own kind, for it is predicated on error, that brings
forth that which is sinful, ferocious, impure, and mortal.
Vertebrates, articulates, mollusks and radiates are sim-
ply what mind makes them. They are technicalized
mortality, that will disappear when the radiates of
Spirit illumine sense, and destroy forever the belief of
Life and Intelligence in matter.
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The voice of Christian science crieth in the wilder-
The voice of Christian science crieth in the wilder-
ness to-day, with scarcely an adherent on earth, but we
also know, it is preparing the way for the Principle of
being to be understood, and its demonstration given
that casts out error and heals the sick. Death brings
not at once spiritualization, nor is it the stepping stone
to a distant day of final judgment, when a personal
God shall pass sentence on man. The sentence of
Truth against error is already passed; every loss and
experience of the falsity of earthly things, pronounce
it. Truth sentences error, now and forever, and
the final judgment to which olden tenets pointed,
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is when the belief of Life or death in matter is de-
is when the belief of Life or death in matter is de-
stroyed. When the strong fetters of personal sense are
broken, man will be free to do God's will, and then will
we behold the "new heaven and new earth, for the
former things shall have passed away;" and the mate-
rial given place to the spiritual; Spirit destroys matter.
The harmonious and immortal heavens, earth, and
man, will be revealed and understood when science
shall take the place of personal sense, and error yield
to Truth. The sharp experiences of earth, and the
tender Wisdom that take away idols, help to hasten
this hour, and to destroy the belief of happiness in
personal sense. Why the pleasure-loving world cannot
discern the science of Life, is "because carnal man
cannot discern spiritual things." When personal sense
yields up the ghost, and Life is found, Soul understood,
it will be the resurrection of man in Truth; but Spirit
can never be apprehended until matter is understood a
myth. Life, that is Spirit, is not reached until all error
is destroyed.
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The belief that death is the door to spirituality and
The belief that death is the door to spirituality and
Life, is the error that prevents a better understanding
and improvement of being, by which alone, immortality
is won. We gain immortality through the footsteps of
science that reveal Truth, Life, and Love, to our under-
standing, in which we learn there are no physical laws,
no necessary fulfillment of material conditions, no sin,
sickness, or death, in Life that is Soul. That death is
a step towards Life, is error that begets mortality; for
belief fulfills the conditions of a belief, and therefore
will continue to die until the falsehood and error of
Life or death in matter, is destroyed. Death is but