Chapter X - Science Of Being
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relates most nearly to the happiness of being. To seek
relates most nearly to the happiness of being. To seek
Truth through belief in a human doctrine is not to un-
derstand the infinite. We must not seek the immutable
and immortal through the finite, mutable, and mortal,
and so depend upon belief instead of demonstration, for
this is fatal to a knowledge of Science. The understand-
ing of Truth gives full faith in Truth, and spiritual un-
derstanding is better than all burnt offerings.
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The Master said, "No man cometh unto the Father
The Master said, "No man cometh unto the Father
[the divine Principle of being] but by me," Christ,
Life, Truth, Love; for Christ says, "I am the way."
Physical causation was put aside from first to
last by this original man, Jesus. He knew that the
divine Principle, Love, creates and governs all that
is real.
Goodness a portion of God
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In the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term
In the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term
for God. The Scriptures declare all that He
made to be good, like Himself, – good in
Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual
universe is good, and reflects God as He is.
Spiritual thoughts
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God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance
God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance
and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human,
involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the
only cause, they lack a divine cause. The
temporal and material are not then creations of Spirit.
They are but counterfeits of the spiritual and eternal.
Transitory thoughts are the antipodes of everlasting
Truth, though (by the supposition of opposite qualities)
error must also say, "I am true." But by this saying
error, the lie, destroys itself.
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Sin, sickness, and death are comprised in human ma-
Sin, sickness, and death are comprised in human ma-
terial belief, and belong not to the divine Mind. They
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are without a real origin or existence. They have neither
are without a real origin or existence. They have neither
Principle nor permanence, but belong, with all that is
material and temporal, to the nothingness of error, which
simulates the creations of Truth. All creations of Spirit
are eternal; but creations of matter must return to dust.
Error supposes man to be both mental and material.
Divine Science contradicts this postulate and maintains
man's spiritual identity.
Divine allness
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We call the absence of Truth, error. Truth and error
We call the absence of Truth, error. Truth and error
are unlike. In Science, Truth is divine, and the infinite
God can have no unlikeness. Did God, Truth,
create error? No! "Doth a fountain send
forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" God
being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent
or suggest the absence of omnipresence and omnipotence?
How can there be more than all?
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Neither understanding nor truth accompanies error,
Neither understanding nor truth accompanies error,
nor is error the offshoot of Mind. Evil calls itself some-
thing, when it is nothing. It saith, "I am man, but I am
not the image and likeness of God;" whereas the Scrip-
tures declare that man was made in God's likeness.
Error unveiled
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Error is false, mortal belief; it is illusion, without spir-
Error is false, mortal belief; it is illusion, without spir-
itual identity or foundation, and it has no real existence.
The supposition that life, substance, and in-
telligence are in matter, or of it, is an error.
Matter is neither a thing nor a person, but merely the
objective supposition of Spirit's opposite. The five mate-
rial senses testify to truth and error as united in a mind
both good and evil. Their false evidence will finally
yield to Truth, – to the recognition of Spirit and of the
spiritual creation.
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Truth cannot be contaminated by error. The state-
Truth cannot be contaminated by error. The state-