Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth
Music, rhythm of head and heart
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it is possible that the impressions from Truth were as
it is possible that the impressions from Truth were as
distinct as sound, and that they came as sound to the
primitive prophets. If the medium of hearing is wholly
spiritual, it is normal and indestructible.
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If Enoch's perception had been confined to the evidence
If Enoch's perception had been confined to the evidence
before his material senses, he could never have "walked
with God," nor been guided into the demonstration of
life eternal.
Adam and the senses
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Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from
Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from
dust, is an object-lesson for the human mind. The mate-
rial senses, like Adam, originate in matter and
return to dust, – are proved non-intelligent.
They go out as they came in, for they are still the error,
not the truth of being. When it is learned that the spirit-
ual sense, and not the material, conveys the impressions
of Mind to man, then being will be understood and found
to be harmonious.
Idolatrous illusions
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We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts
We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts
of God like the pagan idolater. Mortals are inclined to
fear and to obey what they consider a material
body more than they do a spiritual God. All
material knowledge, like the original "tree of knowledge,"
multiplies their pains, for mortal illusions would rob God,
slay man, and meanwhile would spread their table with
cannibal tidbits and give thanks.
The senses of Soul
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How transient a sense is mortal sight, when a wound on
How transient a sense is mortal sight, when a wound on
the retina may end the power of light and lens! But the
real sight or sense is not lost. Neither age nor
accident can interfere with the senses of Soul,
and there are no other real senses. It is evident that the
body as matter has no sensation of its own, and there is no
oblivion for Soul and its faculties. Spirit's senses are with-
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out pain, and they are forever at peace. Nothing can hide
out pain, and they are forever at peace. Nothing can hide
from them the harmony of all things and the might and
permanence of Truth.
Real being never lost
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If Spirit, Soul, could sin or be lost, then being and im-
If Spirit, Soul, could sin or be lost, then being and im-
mortality would be lost, together with all the faculties of
Mind; but being cannot be lost while God ex-
ists. Soul and matter are at variance from the
very necessity of their opposite natures. Mortals are
unacquainted with the reality of existence, because matter
and mortality do not reflect the facts of Spirit.
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Spiritual vision is not subordinate to geometric alti-
Spiritual vision is not subordinate to geometric alti-
tudes. Whatever is governed by God, is never for an
instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence
and Life.
Light and darkness
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We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real
We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real
as light; but Science affirms darkness to be only a mortal
sense of the absence of light, at the coming of
which darkness loses the appearance of reality.
So sin and sorrow, disease and death, are the suppositional
absence of Life, God, and flee as phantoms of error before
truth and love.
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With its divine proof, Science reverses the evidence of
With its divine proof, Science reverses the evidence of
material sense. Every quality and condition of mortality
is lost, swallowed up in immortality. Mortal man is the
antipode of immortal man in origin, in existence, and in his
relation to God.
Faith of Socrates
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Because he understood the superiority and immor-
Because he understood the superiority and immor-
tality of good, Socrates feared not the hemlock poison.
Even the faith of his philosophy spurned phys-
ical timidity. Having sought man's spiritual
state, he recognized the immortality of man. The igno-
rance and malice of the age would have killed the vener-