Chapter X - Science Of Being
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of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal
of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal
life. Mortal man can never rise from the temporal debris
of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns
that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensa-
tion are in the body should be overcome by the under-
standing of what constitutes man as the image of God.
Then Spirit will have overcome the flesh.
Wickedness is not man
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little
else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,
lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life
abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life
and life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men
sick, sinful, or mortal.
Death but an illusion
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The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still
The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still
overcomes death proves the "king of terrors" to be but
a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys
with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this
shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a
mortal illusion, for to the real man and the real universe
there is no death-process.
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The belief that matter has life results, by the universal
The belief that matter has life results, by the universal
law of mortal mind, in a belief in death. So man, tree,
and flower are supposed to die; but the fact remains,
that God's universe is spiritual and immortal.
Spiritual offspring
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The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are
The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are
contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the
material must be untrue. Life is not in matter.
Therefore it cannot be said to pass out of mat-
ter. Matter and death are mortal illusions. Spirit and
all things spiritual are the real and eternal.
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Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, – of
Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, – of
Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be
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eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I AM, the Be-
eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I AM, the Be-
ing who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase.
Death no advantage
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If the Principle, rule, and demonstration of man's being
If the Principle, rule, and demonstration of man's being
are not in the least understood before what is termed death
overtakes mortals, they will rise no higher spir-
itually in the scale of existence on account of
that single experience, but will remain as material as be-
fore the transition, still seeking happiness through a ma-
terial, instead of through a spiritual sense of life, and from
selfish and inferior motives. That Life or Mind is finite
and physical or is manifested through brain and nerves,
is false. Hence Truth comes to destroy this error and
its effects, – sickness, sin, and death. To the spiritual
class, relates the Scripture: "On such the second death
hath no power."
Future purification
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If the change called death destroyed the belief in sin,
If the change called death destroyed the belief in sin,
sickness, and death, happiness would be won at the mo-
ment of dissolution, and be forever permanent;
but this is not so. Perfection is gained only
by perfection. They who are unrighteous shall be un-
righteous still, until in divine Science Christ, Truth, re-
moves all ignorance and sin.
Sin is punished
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The sin and error which possess us at the instant of
The sin and error which possess us at the instant of
death do not cease at that moment, but endure until the
death of these errors. To be wholly spiritual,
man must be sinless, and he becomes thus only
when he reaches perfection. The murderer, though slain
in the act, does not thereby forsake sin. He is no more
spiritual for believing that his body died and learning that
his cruel mind died not. His thoughts are no purer until
evil is disarmed by good. His body is as material as his
mind, and vice versa.