Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth
The senses of Soul
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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-
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able philosopher because of his faith in Soul and his in-
able philosopher because of his faith in Soul and his in-
difference to the body.
The serpent of error
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Who shall say that man is alive to-day, but may be dead
Who shall say that man is alive to-day, but may be dead
to-morrow? What has touched Life, God, to such
strange issues? Here theories cease, and Sci-
ence unveils the mystery and solves the prob-
lem of man. Error bites the heel of truth, but cannot kill
truth. Truth bruises the head of error – destroys error.
Spirituality lays open siege to materialism. On which
side are we fighting?
Servants and masters
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The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that
The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that
there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to
destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply
the truth of immortal sense. This understand-
ing makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves,
bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters. If man
is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in sub-
mission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. The
great mistake of mortals is to suppose that man, God's
image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both good
and evil.
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If the decision were left to the corporeal senses, evil
If the decision were left to the corporeal senses, evil
would appear to be the master of good, and sickness to
be the rule of existence, while health would seem the
exception, death the inevitable, and life a paradox. Paul
asked: "What concord hath Christ with Belial?" (2 Cor-
inthians vi. 15.)
Personal identity
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When you say, "Man's body is material," I say with
When you say, "Man's body is material," I say with
Paul: Be "willing rather to be absent from the body,
and to be present with the Lord." Give up
your material belief of mind in matter, and
have but one Mind, even God; for this Mind forms its