Chapter X - Science Of Being
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The suppositions that sin is pardoned while unfor-
The suppositions that sin is pardoned while unfor-
saken, that happiness can be genuine in the midst of
sin, that the so-called death of the body frees from sin,
and that God's pardon is aught but the destruction of
sin, – these are grave mistakes. We know that all will
be changed "in the twinkling of an eye," when the last
trump shall sound; but this last call of wisdom cannot
come till mortals have already yielded to each lesser call
in the growth of Christian character. Mortals need not
fancy that belief in the experience of death will awaken
them to glorified being.
Salvation and probation
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Universal salvation rests on progression and probation,
Universal salvation rests on progression and probation,
and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a local-
ity, but a divine state of Mind in which all the
manifestations of Mind are harmonious and
immortal, because sin is not there and man is
found having no righteousness of his own, but in posses-
sion of "the mind of the Lord," as the Scripture says.
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"In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall
"In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall
be." So we read in Ecclesiastes. This text has been
transformed into the popular proverb, "As the tree
falls, so it must lie." As man falleth asleep, so shall he
awake. As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be
after death, until probation and growth shall effect the
needed change. Mind never becomes dust. No resur-
rection from the grave awaits Mind or Life, for the grave
has no power over either.
Day of judgment
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No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-
No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-
day of wisdom comes hourly and continually,
even the judgment by which mortal man is di-
vested of all material error. As for spiritual error there
is none.