Chapter X - Science Of Being
Jewish traditions
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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,
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the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life
the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life
and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter.
This pantheistic error, or so-called serpent, in-
sists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying,
"Ye shall be as gods;" that is, I will make error as real
and eternal as Truth.
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Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that
Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that
there is more than one intelligence or God. It says:
"There shall be lords and gods many. I declare that God
makes evil minds and evil spirits, and that I aid Him.
Truth shall change sides and be unlike Spirit. I will
put spirit into what I call matter, and matter shall seem
to have life as much as God, Spirit, who is the only life."
Bad results from error
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This error has proved itself to be error. Its life is found
This error has proved itself to be error. Its life is found
to be not Life, but only a transient, false sense of an ex-
istence which ends in death. Error charges
its lie to Truth and says: "The Lord knows
it. He has made man mortal and material, out of mat-
ter instead of Spirit." Thus error partakes of its own
nature and utters its own falsities. If we regard matter
as intelligent, and Mind as both good and evil, every sin
or supposed material pain and pleasure seems normal,
a part of God's creation, and so weighs against our course
Spiritward.
Higher statutes
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Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul
Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul
of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man
was not created from a material basis, nor
bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never
made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher
law of Mind.
The great question
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Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice
Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice
of Truth still calls: "Adam, where art thou? Conscious-