Chapter III - Spirit and Matter
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enabled him to restore sight to the blind, hearing to the
enabled him to restore sight to the blind, hearing to the
deaf, and speech to the dumb.
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If it be true that sensation is in nerves, hearing in
If it be true that sensation is in nerves, hearing in
the ear, sight in the eye, etc.; when these organs are
lost our faculties are gone, therefore they cannot be
immortal in Spirit, when the reality is they are immor-
tal only thus; personal sense returns to dust, and gives
place to spiritual sense, wherein we find not a faculty
lost, and nothing gone except sin and suffering. Be-
cause the so-called personal senses are mortal we must
admit them error, a belief, and not the Truth of man.
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What we call laws of nature are as able to destroy
What we call laws of nature are as able to destroy
the immortality of Soul, as body, or take from man
one jot of what God hath given. "To the unknown
God, whom therefore ye ignorantly worship," be these
laws inscribed. Idolatry keeps pace with civilization,
when instead of wood or stone we bow to drugs, flesh-
brush, flannel, etc., etc. Thou shalt have no other
gods before Me, is the command of Wisdom; no Intel-
ligence in matter, no imaginary physical law, but the
one supreme spiritual law of being, namely, the Truth
of Soul and body.
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Discord and suffering proceed not from God, from
Discord and suffering proceed not from God, from
Soul, but sense; should man obey Intelligence alone,
happiness and harmony would be universal. In the
days of Jesus and his students, Truth healed the sick;
and would to-day do this, and make man perfect; if we ad-
mitted the Truth, there is but one Intelligence, and
this, God, governing man, yea, Spirit triumphing over
matter. Man worships material forms of religion, crin-
ges to popular favor, delves deeper into matter, strain-
ing at gnats and swallowing camels; popular humbug
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is the more merited name for modern knowledge, that
is the more merited name for modern knowledge, that
like the ancient "tree," greatly multiplies our pains, sin
and mortality.
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An absolute and perfect Principle, named God, gov-
An absolute and perfect Principle, named God, gov-
erns man and the universe harmoniously; belief, and
personal sense never yet made a harmonious man, or
universe. Jesus taught and proved by demonstration,
our dominion over matter; also, that a sinless and im-
mortal existence is obtained only through triumph over
the body. The Scripture saith, all things are possible
to Spirit; but our theories practically deny this, and
make healing the sick possible only to matter; but the-
ories are false and the Scripture true. Beliefs rob God
and slay man, then spread their table with cannibal titbits
and give thanks. Christianity is not dishonest, but our
religions are; to rule mankind and conciliate society at
the expense of Truth, yea, to be popular is the weak-
ness of the world. He that leaves all for Truth, and
is falsely accused and hated because of Christianity,
is wise; the world will believe error and be slow to
admit Truth. In this manner the man of sorrows gave
to a mocking world the demonstration of the science of
being. The cross is the central emblem of history, in-
dividually and collectively; all must take it up, and
deny pleasure or pain, of personal sense. The history
of science over eighteen centuries ago, will repeat itself;
persecution for righteousness sake has begun, and those
very sects that bore the lash in the past, are the first
to flog progress to-day. Jewish rites and ceremonies,
and the more modern creed, and ritual, as types and
shadows, point to the coming of the Truth of being
when the substance or Spirit of those emblems shall