Chapter VII - Physiology
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claims to be a creator, is a fiction, in which paganism and
claims to be a creator, is a fiction, in which paganism and
lust are so sanctioned by society that mankind has caught
their moral contagion.
Paradise regained
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Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of ma-
Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of ma-
teriality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will
reopen with the key of divine Science the gates
of Paradise which human beliefs have closed,
and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free,
not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either
of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brain‑
ology to learn how much of a man he is.
A closed question
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Mind's control over the universe, including man, is
Mind's control over the universe, including man, is
no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science.
Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the
power of immortal Mind by healing sickness
and sin and destroying the foundations of death.
Matter versus Spirit
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Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to
Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to
be combined matter and Spirit. He believes that Spirit
is sifted through matter, carried on a nerve, ex-
posed to ejection by the operation of matter.
The intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, – yea, the image
of infinite Mind, – subject to non-intelligence!
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No more sympathy exists between the flesh and Spirit
No more sympathy exists between the flesh and Spirit
than between Belial and Christ.
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The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false be-
The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false be-
liefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind
is not. These false beliefs are the procuring cause of all
sin and disease. The opposite truth, that intelligence and
life are spiritual, never material, destroys sin, sickness,
and death.
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The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man
The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man
is a material outgrowth and that the cognizance of good
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or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, con-
or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, con-
stitutes his happiness or misery.
Godless Evolution
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Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms
Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms
to monkeys and from monkeys into men
amounts to nothing in the right direction and
very much in the wrong.
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Materialism grades the human species as rising from
Materialism grades the human species as rising from
matter upward. How then is the material species main-
tained, if man passes through what we call death and
death is the Rubicon of spirituality? Spirit can form
no real link in this supposed chain of material being.
But divine Science reveals the eternal chain of existence
as uninterrupted and wholly spiritual; yet this can be
realized only as the false sense of being disappears.
Degrees of development
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If man was first a material being, he must have passed
If man was first a material being, he must have passed
through all the forms of matter in order to become man.
If the material body is man, he is a portion of
matter, or dust. On the contrary, man is the
image and likeness of Spirit; and the belief that there is
Soul in sense or Life in matter obtains in mortals, alias
mortal mind, to which the apostle refers when he says
that we must "put off the old man."
Identity not lost
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What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the
What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the
material structure? If the real man is in the material
body, you take away a portion of the man when
you amputate a limb; the surgeon destroys
manhood, and worms annihilate it. But the loss of a limb
or injury to a tissue is sometimes the quickener of manli-
ness; and the unfortunate cripple may present more no-
bility than the statuesque athlete, – teaching us by his
very deprivations, that "a man's a man, for a' that."
When man is man
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When we admit that matter (heart, blood, brain, acting
When we admit that matter (heart, blood, brain, acting