Chapter VII - Physiology
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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
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through the five physical senses) constitutes man, we fail
through the five physical senses) constitutes man, we fail
to see how anatomy can distinguish between
humanity and the brute, or determine when
man is really man and has progressed farther than his
animal progenitors.
Individualization
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When the supposition, that Spirit is within what it
When the supposition, that Spirit is within what it
creates and the potter is subject to the clay,
is individualized, Truth is reduced to the level
of error, and the sensible is required to be made manifest
through the insensible.
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What is termed matter manifests nothing but a material
What is termed matter manifests nothing but a material
mentality. Neither the substance nor the manifestation
of Spirit is obtainable through matter. Spirit is positive.
Matter is Spirit's contrary, the absence of Spirit. For
positive Spirit to pass through a negative condition
would be Spirit's destruction.
Man not structural
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Anatomy declares man to be structural. Physiology
Anatomy declares man to be structural. Physiology
continues this explanation, measuring human
strength by bones and sinews, and human life
by material law. Man is spiritual, individual, and eter-
nal; material structure is mortal.
Phrenology makes man knavish or honest according to
the development of the cranium; but anatomy, physiology,
phrenology, do not define the image of God, the real im-
mortal man.
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Human reason and religion come slowly to the recogni-
Human reason and religion come slowly to the recogni-
tion of spiritual facts, and so continue to call upon
matter to remove the error which the human mind alone
has created.
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The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health
The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health
and longevity than are the idols of barbarism. The idols
of civilization call into action less faith than Buddhism