Chapter X - Science Of Being
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Soul is not compassed by finiteness. Principle is not to
Soul is not compassed by finiteness. Principle is not to
be found in fragmentary ideas.
Identity not lost
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The material body and mind are temporal, but the
The material body and mind are temporal, but the
real man is spiritual and eternal. The identity of the
real man is not lost, but found through this
explanation; for the conscious infinitude of
existence and of all identity is thereby discerned and re-
mains unchanged. It is impossible that man should lose
aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his. The
notion that mind is in matter, and that the so-called pleas-
ures and pains, the birth, sin, sickness, and death of
matter, are real, is a mortal belief; and this belief is all
that will ever be lost.
Definition of man
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Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that
Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that
harmonious and immortal man has existed forever, and
is always beyond and above the mortal illu-
sion of any life, substance and intelligence
as existent in matter. This statement is based on fact,
not fable. The Science of being reveals man as perfect,
even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind,
of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all
being, and because this real man is governed by Soul
instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called
laws of matter.
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God is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Prin-
God is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Prin-
ciple, called Person or God. Man's true consciousness
is in the mental, not in any bodily or personal likeness
to Spirit. Indeed, the body presents no proper likeness
of divinity, though mortal sense would fain have us so
believe.
Mental propagation
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Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's
Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's
individual ideas is but the reflection of the creative power
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of the divine Principle of those ideas. The reflection,
of the divine Principle of those ideas. The reflection,
through mental manifestation, of the multitudinous
forms of Mind which people the realm of
the real is controlled by Mind, the Principle
governing the reflection. Multiplication of God's chil-
dren comes from no power of propagation in matter, it
is the reflection of Spirit.
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The minutiae of lesser individualities reflect the one di-
The minutiae of lesser individualities reflect the one di-
vine individuality and are comprehended in and formed
by Spirit, not by material sensation. Whatever reflects
Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, is spiritually conceived and
brought forth; but the statement that man is conceived
and evolved both spiritually and materially, or by both
God and man, contradicts this eternal truth. All the
vanity of the ages can never make both these contraries
true. Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illu-
sion that life, or mind, is formed by or is in the material
body, and Science will eventually destroy this illusion
through the self-destruction of all error and the beatified
understanding of the Science of Life.
Error defined
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The belief that pain and pleasure, life and death, holi-
The belief that pain and pleasure, life and death, holi-
ness and unholiness, mingle in man, – that
mortal, material man is the likeness of God
and is himself a creator, – is a fatal error.
Man's entity spiritual
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God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would
God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would
be a nonentity, or Mind unexpressed. He would be
without a witness or proof of His own na-
ture. Spiritual man is the image or idea of
God, an idea which cannot be lost nor sep-
arated from its divine Principle. When the evidence
before the material senses yielded to spiritual sense, the
apostle declared that nothing could alienate him from