Chapter IV - Creation
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from an ignorance of our origin and immortal being, and
from an ignorance of our origin and immortal being, and
to be harmonious and immortal we must understand the
science of Life, that changes our reckonings of Life from
body to Soul, and from matter to Spirit. Knowing we
are Intelligence, and not intelligent matter; Soul and
not sense, is the Truth that destroys all sickness, sin,
and death. Once perceiving the mental hallucination
that embitters existence, we shall unmake what mind
has made. God sends not one of our diseases, and mat-
ter cannot create sensation, nor can it govern mind.
Error alone, produces error, and all sickness, and every
discord of earth is error.
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Thought, let loose somewhat from the old basic
Thought, let loose somewhat from the old basic
theories amalgamates with other forms of belief, and
changes them; this we see prototyped in the floral
kingdom, in blended tints of leaf and flower. The
metaphysical, however, will end as the physical, when,
according to Agassiz, "the intermixing of different
species, urged to its final limits, results in the distinct
original species." Error must be destroyed at its foun-
tain head, or it will resume its old proportions and
relations. Mind must settle down on an improved
basis, even the Truth of being, or health will never be
universally established, and when this is done, harmo-
nious and immortal man will be the only man. Prof.
Agassiz has given the origin of mortal and material
man; he has traced what we term animal existence,
through various stages of its embryology, and with
most important observations that ought to awaken
thought to the higher and purer contemplation of man's
origin that must precede the understanding of being.
Man is not the offspring of sense, but Soul, and co‑
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existent with God. The fact that modern researches
existent with God. The fact that modern researches
prove animal existence in some instances free from its
lowest instinct, is worthy our philanthropy, and points
to the future footsteps of the science of being. The
great point, is to understand the Principle of being, –
the Life that is eternal, without beginning and without
end, and this study will absorb the attention of sage and
philosopher at a not far-distant day; but the Christian
alone will fathom it, for he it is that understands better
the Life that is God. We cannot reach this Principle
unless it be understood; man's immortality even, hangs
on understanding the science of being. Because God
is the only Life and Principle of man, that which is
good is all that is immortal; but to prove our ignorance
of this, we have only to point to the tenacity with
which we cling to beliefs of sickness, sin and death.
Had we the understanding of our God-being or the
omnipotence of Truth, we should have no fear of matter,
and having none, our bodies would become harmonious
and immortal; a belief of Substance-matter would then
give place to the understanding of Substance-Spirit;
for the spiritual body is the only real one, and tan-
gible as the material. Ontology receives but little
attention from the working-day world, and the signi-
fication of psychology is shockingly perverted. The
science of Soul is not mesmerism, by any means, and
is less understood than all other questions; little jus-
tice is done metaphysics by a utilitarian people where
the race is to the swift.
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The domestic economy of the bee, and its method of
The domestic economy of the bee, and its method of
multiplying, foreshadows the understanding of being
yet to come. That mind produces mind, and our beliefs