Chapter X - Science Of Being
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the hands of ignorance, placed at the disposal of illusions,
the hands of ignorance, placed at the disposal of illusions,
subjected to material sense which is discord. A discon-
tented, discordant mortal is no more a man than discord
is music.
Human reflection
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A picture in the camera or a face reflected in the mirror
A picture in the camera or a face reflected in the mirror
is not the original, though resembling it. Man, in the
likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light
of being, the invisible God. As there is no cor-
poreality in the mirrored form, which is but a reflection,
so man, like all things real, reflects God, his divine Prin-
ciple, not in a mortal body.
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Gender also is a quality, not of God, but a character-
Gender also is a quality, not of God, but a character-
istic of mortal mind. The verity that God's image is not
a creator, though he reflects the creation of Mind, God,
constitutes the underlying reality of reflection. "Then
answered Jesus and said unto them: Verily, verily I say
unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he
seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth,
these also doeth the Son likewise."
Inverted images
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The inverted images presented by the senses, the de-
The inverted images presented by the senses, the de-
flections of matter as opposed to the Science of spirit-
ual reflection, are all unlike Spirit, God. In
the illusion of life that is here to-day and
gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were
it not that Love, the divine Principle that obtains in
divine Science, destroys all error and brings immor-
tality to light. Because man is the reflection of his
Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, de-
cay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not
divine.
Jewish traditions
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The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrec-
The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrec-
tion, but not so blindly as the Pharisees, who believed
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error to be as immortal as Truth. The Pharisees thought
error to be as immortal as Truth. The Pharisees thought
that they could raise the spiritual from the material. They
would first make life result in death, and then
resort to death to reproduce spiritual life.
Jesus taught them how death was to be overcome by
spiritual Life, and demonstrated this beyond cavil.
Divinity not childless
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Life demonstrates Life. The immortality of Soul makes
Life demonstrates Life. The immortality of Soul makes
man immortal. If God, who is Life, were parted for a
moment from His reflection, man, during that
moment there would be no divinity reflected.
The Ego would be unexpressed, and the Father would be
childless, – no Father.
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If Life or Soul and its representative, man, unite for
If Life or Soul and its representative, man, unite for
a period and then are separated as by a law of divorce to
be brought together again at some uncertain future time
and in a manner unknown, – and this is the general
religious opinion of mankind, – we are left without a
rational proof of immortality. But man cannot be sep-
arated for an instant from God, if man reflects God.
Thus Science proves man's existence to be intact.
Thought-forms
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The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest
The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest
as matter, are not more distinct nor real to the mate-
rial senses than are the Soul-created forms
to spiritual sense, which cognizes Life as per-
manent. Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the
material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding
to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,
– is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and
eternal.
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God's man, spiritually created, is not material and
God's man, spiritually created, is not material and
mortal.
The serpent's whisper
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The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream,
The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream,