Chapter I - Natural Science
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through Intelligence, because Life is Soul outside of
through Intelligence, because Life is Soul outside of
sense. This is the stepping-stone to the understanding
of Soul which, to know aright is eternal Life; man is
immortal only as the idea of God, and not as a belief of
Life or Soul in the body. Love is God; but error
would couple Love and hate together; vainly think-
ing to mingle good and evil. Soul's attraction is Truth;
but the attraction of sense is error. The former ele-
vates and immortalizes man, the latter debases and
makes mortal. The two cannot blend; one rules out
the other as light shuts out darkness and darkness light.
God is not in matter, and there is neither Life, Intelli-
gence nor Truth where He is not; the body we call
man is matter. Love is safe in Truth, but not in man,
safe in Principle, but not person.
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Does Wisdom find pleasure in drunkenness? But
Does Wisdom find pleasure in drunkenness? But
personal sense does! and you cannot make the inebriate
we call man averse to foul besottedness until this belief
is destroyed; when he will turn as naturally from his
cup, as the dreamer from incubus. Tell a man intoxi-
cation will kill him, cause him to believe this, and pos-
sibly it will deter him from listening to this lie of per-
sonal sense, viz., that there is pleasure in intoxication;
but is he reformed? Abstinence, if it cherishes the
desire for intemperance, is not reformation; and this
so-called man will fall again whenever the fear is re-
moved. The fear of punishment in time or eternity
never made an honest man; it is not a scientific posi-
tion; moral courage instead of fear is requisite to over-
come sin and sickness. But how reform the sensualist
through conscience? He traffics little in this commod-
ity: has even less Soul because he has more personal
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sense than some of the lower animals. They could
sense than some of the lower animals. They could
teach him affection! but convince his reason that is
above the brutes, of the nothingness of personal sense,
and you have saved him.
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Reasoning incorrectly on Soul and body, leads to
Reasoning incorrectly on Soul and body, leads to
error of action; understanding the science of being ex-
plains personal sense and also destroys it; in science
you cannot be a hypocrite in secret even; you will
become spiritual, find happiness in the moral resources
of being and in Love that is Truth; even as the babe
finds peace and nutriment from the mother's bosom.
To waken from the dream of personal sense, or pleasure
and pain in matter, is the work of time and eternity.
The greater your error the harder its struggle will be
with Truth when it touches it. The aged are not old
when the vail lifts, and sense gives place to Soul. But
the hoary error must be met and mastered in time or
eternity, and would have been easier controlled in its
youth. Man never obtains immortality until the stand‑
point whence he reckons himself in all the summing up
of Life and Intelligence, is Soul and not sense. What
a pitiful sight is malice finding pleasure in revenge! 'tis
sad to think evil is man's highest belief of good until
his grasp on goodness grows stronger. We should nat-
urally shrink from madness that rushes forth to clamor
with midnight and the tempest. All error is the image
of the beast that must be effaced by the sweat of agony,
before the crown is laid upon the brow.
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A picture on the camera, or a face reflected from the
A picture on the camera, or a face reflected from the
mirror is not substance; then why do we name man
substance, and contradict the Scripture that saith man
is the image and likeness of God? We know the face