Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth
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over faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in "new
over faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in "new
tongues;" and these are interpreted by the translation of
the spiritual original into the language which human
thought can comprehend.
Jesus' disregard of matter
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The Principle and proof of Christianity are discerned
The Principle and proof of Christianity are discerned
by spiritual sense. They are set forth in Jesus' demon-
strations, which show – by his healing the
sick, casting out evils, and destroying death,
"the last enemy that shall be destroyed," –
his disregard of matter and its so-called laws.
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Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever
Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever
manifested through man, the Master healed the sick,
gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the
lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the
divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving
a better understanding of Soul and salvation. Jesus
healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical
process.
Mind not mortal
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The expression mortal mind is really a solecism, for
The expression mortal mind is really a solecism, for
Mind is immortal, and Truth pierces the error of mortality
as a sunbeam penetrates the cloud. Because,
in obedience to the immutable law of Spirit,
this so-called mind is self-destructive, I name it mortal.
Error soweth the wind and reapeth the whirlwind.
Matter mindless
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What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say,
What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say,
"I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well." It is the so‑
called mortal mind which voices this and ap-
pears to itself to make good its claim. To
mortal sense, sin and suffering are real, but immortal
sense includes no evil nor pestilence. Because immortal
sense has no error of sense, it has no sense of error; there-
fore it is without a destructive element.
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If brain, nerves, stomach, are intelligent, – if they talk
If brain, nerves, stomach, are intelligent, – if they talk
to us, tell us their condition, and report how they feel, –
then Spirit and matter, Truth and error, commingle
and produce sickness and health, good and evil, life and
death; and who shall say whether Truth or error is the
greater?
Matter sensationless
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The sensations of the body must either be the sensa-
The sensations of the body must either be the sensa-
tions of a so-called mortal mind or of matter. Nerves
are not mind. Is it not provable that Mind is
not mortal and that matter has no sensation?
Is it not equally true that matter does not appear in the
spiritual understanding of being?
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The sensation of sickness and the impulse to sin seem
The sensation of sickness and the impulse to sin seem
to obtain in mortal mind. When a tear starts, does not
this so-called mind produce the effect seen in the lachry-
mal gland? Without mortal mind, the tear could not
appear; and this action shows the nature of all so-called
material cause and effect.
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It should no longer be said in Israel that "the fathers
It should no longer be said in Israel that "the fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set
on edge." Sympathy with error should disappear. The
transfer of the thoughts of one erring mind to another,
Science renders impossible.
Nerves painless
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If it is true that nerves have sensation, that matter has
If it is true that nerves have sensation, that matter has
intelligence, that the material organism causes the eyes to
see and the ears to hear, then, when the body
is dematerialized, these faculties must be lost,
for their immortality is not in Spirit; whereas the fact
is that only through dematerialization and spiritualiza-
tion of thought can these faculties be conceived of as
immortal.
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Nerves are not the source of pain or pleasure. We
Nerves are not the source of pain or pleasure. We