Chapter I - Natural Science
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to-day, and forever. Life is Intelligence, the Principle
to-day, and forever. Life is Intelligence, the Principle
that is Soul or Spirit, and there is but one Spirit or
Soul of the universe and man. If Life was in man,
matter would govern itself, and Spirit would be a por-
tion of matter; therefore, God would be Spirit and mat-
ter. No portion of the Infinite can enter the finite;
Life and Intelligence that are infinite are not mortal
man. But may there not be a portion of God in man
and matter? This is equally impossible, for the least
part of Spirit would destroy matter, for matter is non‑
Intelligence, not a power matched against Spirit; it is
mortality only, and the immortal is Spirit.
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God is Principle, – the Truth, and Soul of man, and
God is Principle, – the Truth, and Soul of man, and
man is "the image and likeness of God." Again, God
is substance and Life, hence man is but the image and
likeness of these; man is not Truth, Life, or Love.
God is Spirit, and man the image and likeness of Him;
therefore, man is not matter, but idea, and idea no more
contains its Principle than figures embrace the rule of
mathematics. We have no resort but to reduce God to
a level with man, or look away from man for his Sub-
stance, Life, and Intelligence, all of which must be out-
side of matter, or at the mercy of sin, sickness, and
death. Darkness may hide the sun, but cannot put it
out. Sickness, sin, and death are darkness, or moral
ignorance that hide Truth, Life, and Love, but cannot
extinguish them, or their idea, cannot destroy God or
man. The stand-point whence to reckon man is not
matter, but Spirit. The Soul of man is never lost, in-
somuch as it is God, Principle, and man its idea, and
both are eternal; hence the immortality of Soul and
body. Infinite Soul embraces perfect understanding,
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the light that neither diminishes nor increases, for "no
the light that neither diminishes nor increases, for "no
night is there." Day declines, and shadows hide the
sun, but darkness flees when the earth has turned on
its axis; because the solar centre is the same. Thus
the darkness of belief hides, but cannot put out the
light of science.
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Soul is self-existent and eternal; that immortal man
Soul is self-existent and eternal; that immortal man
is tributary to Soul instead of body, is the science of
being, but we shall never understand it, believing Soul
is in the body, or that matter embraces Intelligence and
Life. If we understood the Truth of being it would
prove Principle and its idea, that is, Soul and body im-
mortal; and instead of requiring laws of health that
never yet made man immortal, to save Life, we should
be a law of Life and Truth to our own bodies, even
that higher law of Soul that prevails over sense, and
gives harmony and immortality to all it controls. "Man
hath sought out many inventions," but none of them
can solve a problem without its Principle; numbers
are harmonious only when governed by Intelligence,
outside the figures; but ignorance might deny this fact
did not self-evident proof force the conclusion. Un-
derstanding the science of Life, we gain unfailing evi-
dence of its correctness in healing, etc. Those who
obtain even glimpses of it are convinced of its Truth,
and those who advance higher are more undoubting
than of other proofs.
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How can a belief of Life in matter find Life, God?
How can a belief of Life in matter find Life, God?
This is not more possible than "for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle." To inquire of our bodies
what prospect we have for health or Life, is taking the
thing out of the hands of God altogether.