Chapter I - Natural Science
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Natural history presents the mineral, vegetable and
Natural history presents the mineral, vegetable and
animal kingdoms preserving their original species in
reproduction; a mineral is not produced by a vege-
table, and vice versa; throughout the entire round of
universal nature, this rule relating to genus and species
holds good; this therefore is science. But error claims
the very opposite, viz., that Spirit produces matter;
making Spirit, or God, the author of evil as well as
good, and harmony the author of discord, evil presenting
as much of God as good, which contradicts self-evident
Truth. In the science of being we learn all discord,
such as sickness, sin or death, is distinct from Spirit,
and not produced by God; also, that God is the Soul,
or Principle of man, the Truth, unerring and eternal;
again, that matter claiming mind, or making itself the
basis of mind, is error, and this error, the so-called in-
telligent body named man, with intelligent nerves,
brain, stomach, and so forth. The only reality of being
is the Truth of it, and that Life and Intelligence are in
matter, is not Truth but its opposite, error; therefore,
illusion. Mind and matter are opposites; that mind is
in matter, or that matter is the medium through which
mind is made manifest is not more real than that a tree
embraces a rock in the heart of it, and is the natural
medium through which the rock grows, and is identi-
fied. Nature and revelation afford no grounds for the
belief that Spirit, God, created, or is in a body of sick-
ness, sin, and death, and the only excuse for such a be-
lief is, that the falsity of this opinion of Life is not seen
until we begin to learn the science of Life, and enter
into our God-being, wherein we learn that Spirit and
matter no more commingle, than light and darkness,
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than God and His opposite, called devil, which reduced
than God and His opposite, called devil, which reduced
to their statement in science, are Truth and error; in
other words, Spirit and matter, forever distinct, one
possessing immortality, the other mortality. Said the
Apostle, "The flesh warreth against the Spirit and the
Spirit against the flesh."
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Mind, the basis of all things, cannot cross its species,
Mind, the basis of all things, cannot cross its species,
and produce matter. But in order to classify mind that
is real, from belief or the unreal, we name one mind,
and the other matter; but recollect matter is but a be-
lief, and mind the only reality. Error can only be de-
fined as belief, which is not mind but illusion. The
belief, that Life, Substance, and Intelligence are where
and what they are not, is error. Spirit is the under-
standing and possession of Truth, Life and Intelligence.
Belief and understanding never mingle, more than
matter and Spirit; one is error, the other Truth. All
discord is what we term matter, and discord is mortal,
nothingness; harmony is real and immortal, for it be-
longs to Spirit, is produced by it and proceeds from it.
Immortal mind is Spirit, an utterance of Soul proceed-
ing from harmony and immortality. The mind, that
we name matter, is the so-called mind of the body, and
what is termed sinful and mortal man; but this man is
a myth, neither mind nor matter, but a belief that em-
braces all error. God, Truth, never produced error;
Soul and Intelligence never originated inharmony; and
at some future date we shall learn all that is mortal or
discordant hath no origin, existence or reality, but is
the absence of the real; yea, native nothingness, the
chaos and night out of which error would simulate the
creations of Truth, from dust instead of Deity. Error