Chapter I - Natural Science
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where art thou? is met with reply from the head, the
where art thou? is met with reply from the head, the
heart, stomach, blood, nerves, etc.; "Lo! here thou
art;" looking for happiness and Life in matter, but find-
ing pain and death.
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To conclude Life, Love, and Truth are attributes of
To conclude Life, Love, and Truth are attributes of
a personal Deity, implies there is something in person
superior to Principle. But nothing is wiser than Wis-
dom, or truer than Truth; and Life, and Love, have
no superlatives, they are primitives and not derivatives.
Person is not the Principle of goodness, and the reality,
or Spirit, is ours only as we are good. Jesus sought
Wisdom of no man, and said: "Call no man Father,
for one is your Father, even God," thus regarding man
begotten of Soul, and not sense; and controlling mat-
ter and triumphing over disease and death, he brought
to light his Principle and the immortality of man.
To test our understanding is to put it in practice; if
we possess Truth, we shall live truly, but personal sense
never aids man in this direction, but wars against spir-
ituality. 'Tis not in all the vanity of the Gentiles to
send a drop of rain, or to make a mortal body the idea
of God. The example Jesus presented for us to follow,
and the Principle he demonstrated in healing, etc., was
beyond question, science; but the error of past and
present ages is our wrong interpretation, of Jesus and
Christ, or man and God. Taught by some doctrine, or
belief, that Principle is in person, and Soul in hody, we
have "gods many," and our standard of Truth changes
hands. Our Master taught his students the demonstra-
tion of Christianity was not alone in the beatitudes of
the Mount, but in healing the sick, also.
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When Moses, the ancient law-giver of Wisdom,
When Moses, the ancient law-giver of Wisdom,
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despaired of making the people understand what God,
despaired of making the people understand what God,
through science, said to him, the supreme Soul bade
him cast down his rod, and it became a serpent, and he
fled at first before the serpent, but afterwards took it
up, proving his power over it. And "the hand that
was made leprous as snow," he put into his bosom again
and plucked it out, and behold it was as his other flesh,
and Wisdom said: "It shall come to pass if they will
not hear thee, neither harken to the voice of the first
sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter;"
that is, they will listen to its interpretation, when they
see its demonstration in healing. Jesus also said in his
answer to John's inquiry, "Art thou he that should
come?" "Go and show John again these things ye
see and hear; the blind receive their sight, the lame
walk, etc., and blessed is he who shall not be offended
in me;" in other words, who shall not deny that this
is the demonstration of Truth. Jesus said to his follow-
ers: "Go ye into all the world, heal the sick," etc., and
this was enjoined not on his disciples alone, but on all
Christendom; wherefore, said he: "Neither pray I for
these alone, but for them, who shall understand through
the word." "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was God," the Principle of all being; hence it
was not a person, to be understood, or that healed the
sick, neither mediumship, mesmerism, nor drugs, but
the Principle, that is, Life and Truth.
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In the original Scriptures, metaphor abounded, and
In the original Scriptures, metaphor abounded, and
proper names were significant of spiritual ideas, The
authors of Smith's Bible Dictionary say, "The spiritual
interpretation of the Scripture must rest upon both the
literal and moral." In the original it was written: "Je-