Chapter IV - Creation
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existent with God. The fact that modern researches
existent with God. The fact that modern researches
prove animal existence in some instances free from its
lowest instinct, is worthy our philanthropy, and points
to the future footsteps of the science of being. The
great point, is to understand the Principle of being, –
the Life that is eternal, without beginning and without
end, and this study will absorb the attention of sage and
philosopher at a not far-distant day; but the Christian
alone will fathom it, for he it is that understands better
the Life that is God. We cannot reach this Principle
unless it be understood; man's immortality even, hangs
on understanding the science of being. Because God
is the only Life and Principle of man, that which is
good is all that is immortal; but to prove our ignorance
of this, we have only to point to the tenacity with
which we cling to beliefs of sickness, sin and death.
Had we the understanding of our God-being or the
omnipotence of Truth, we should have no fear of matter,
and having none, our bodies would become harmonious
and immortal; a belief of Substance-matter would then
give place to the understanding of Substance-Spirit;
for the spiritual body is the only real one, and tan-
gible as the material. Ontology receives but little
attention from the working-day world, and the signi-
fication of psychology is shockingly perverted. The
science of Soul is not mesmerism, by any means, and
is less understood than all other questions; little jus-
tice is done metaphysics by a utilitarian people where
the race is to the swift.
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The domestic economy of the bee, and its method of
The domestic economy of the bee, and its method of
multiplying, foreshadows the understanding of being
yet to come. That mind produces mind, and our beliefs
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of matter re-produced beliefs only, is the conclusion
of matter re-produced beliefs only, is the conclusion
that accords with natural history and the science of
being. Again, we state, all is mind; there is no matter,
and, this needs only to be understood to establish har-
mony perpetual. Mind is the only actor, and produces
mind, viz., the Truth or error of man; matter is not an
entity or reality. From the deep sleep that fell upon
Adam, Eve was produced. In sleep, cause and effect
are beliefs only, that which seems, and not that which
really is. This was the advent of mortal and material
man. Sickness, sin and death, had no real basis, for
they originated not with God, Spirit, but were beliefs
of matter, hence the very opposite of understanding,
and without Principle or immortality, therefore they
proceeded not from the creative Wisdom. All that
originated in Adam (that supposed addenda to crea-
tion) was not "good," it was illusion, the offspring
of a dream; hence it was a belief only, and not the
reality of being. Sin, sickness, and death were em-
braced in this belief of Life in matter, and are the
dream, and not the reality of Life. We classify belief
error, insomuch as it embraces all that is mortal dis-
cord; it changed the stand-point of being from Spirit
to matter, from understanding to belief, yea, from
God to man. Adam was the impersonation of error,
but man was the type and image of Truth. Adam
constituted matter and mortality; man represented
immortality and Spirit; but the dream or belief of
Life in matter is, that Adam is man, and that error
is Truth. There was no more foundation for calling
sin, sickness, and death, man, than for saying, "I will
make man as God." Should universal mind or belief