Chapter IV - Creation
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of matter re-produced beliefs only, is the conclusion
of matter re-produced beliefs only, is the conclusion
that accords with natural history and the science of
being. Again, we state, all is mind; there is no matter,
and, this needs only to be understood to establish har-
mony perpetual. Mind is the only actor, and produces
mind, viz., the Truth or error of man; matter is not an
entity or reality. From the deep sleep that fell upon
Adam, Eve was produced. In sleep, cause and effect
are beliefs only, that which seems, and not that which
really is. This was the advent of mortal and material
man. Sickness, sin and death, had no real basis, for
they originated not with God, Spirit, but were beliefs
of matter, hence the very opposite of understanding,
and without Principle or immortality, therefore they
proceeded not from the creative Wisdom. All that
originated in Adam (that supposed addenda to crea-
tion) was not "good," it was illusion, the offspring
of a dream; hence it was a belief only, and not the
reality of being. Sin, sickness, and death were em-
braced in this belief of Life in matter, and are the
dream, and not the reality of Life. We classify belief
error, insomuch as it embraces all that is mortal dis-
cord; it changed the stand-point of being from Spirit
to matter, from understanding to belief, yea, from
God to man. Adam was the impersonation of error,
but man was the type and image of Truth. Adam
constituted matter and mortality; man represented
immortality and Spirit; but the dream or belief of
Life in matter is, that Adam is man, and that error
is Truth. There was no more foundation for calling
sin, sickness, and death, man, than for saying, "I will
make man as God." Should universal mind or belief
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adopt the appearing of a star as its formula of crea-
adopt the appearing of a star as its formula of crea-
tion, the advent of mortal man would commence with a
star. The belief regarding the origin of mortal man has
changed since Adam produced Eve, and the only reason
a rib is not the present mode of evolution, is because
of this change, and more mortal opinions to contend
against now, than when error first said, "Believe in me."
Conditions of matter are conditions of mind instead,
therefore the supposed conditions becomes imperative
as mind only. Error, named Adam, is the belief, or
alpha and omega of what is termed Life in matter.
When mortal belief says an egg produces man, this
condition becomes as fixed and imperative as the orig-
inal one of a rib. That we must breathe in order to live
is another belief, whereas the reality of being is Life, and
its phenomena not dependent on matter. Do you say
man was formed before knowing his origin, then where-
fore any belief on this subject? But Eve embodied
the maternal egg, and was the offspring of Adam's
dream, the germ of belief, and mortals since appearing
are these beliefs. There is no mortal man; the sleep
of Adam was what to-day we term mesmerism, in which
belief creates, and controls all it creates! In mesmer-
ism matter is made not to appear solid, and the harm-
less stick becomes a serpent; according to what mind
says of matter, it appears, hence we learn all material
things are formed by mind, first and last. Belief may
adopt any condition whatever, and that will become
its imperative mode of cause and effect. The infinite
and all-wise Maker condemned this creation, but let it
have its experience before the sentence of our God was
executed upon it.