Chapter X - Science Of Being
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the varying clouds of mortal belief, which hide the truth
the varying clouds of mortal belief, which hide the truth
of being.
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What we term mortal mind or carnal mind, dependent
What we term mortal mind or carnal mind, dependent
on matter for manifestation, is not Mind. God is Mind:
all that Mind, God, is, or hath made, is good, and He
made all. Hence evil is not made and is not real.
Sin only of the flesh
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Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no ele-
Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no ele-
ment of self-destruction. Is man lost spiritually? No,
he can only lose a sense material. All sin is
of the flesh. It cannot be spiritual. Sin exists
here or hereafter only so long as the illusion of mind in
matter remains. It is a sense of sin, and not a sinful soul,
which is lost. Evil is destroyed by the sense of good.
Soul impeccable
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Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense
Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense
and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a
sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spir-
itual truth. This state of error is the mortal
dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is
directly opposite to the immortal reality of being. So long
as we believe that soul can sin or that immortal Soul is in
mortal body, we can never understand the Science of be-
ing. When humanity does understand this Science, it
will become the law of Life to man, – even the higher law
of Soul, which prevails over material sense through har-
mony and immortality.
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The objects cognized by the physical senses have not
The objects cognized by the physical senses have not
the reality of substance. They are only what mortal
belief calls them. Matter, sin, and mortality lose all
supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence, as
mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelli-
gence, but the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by
these phases of mortality.
Sense-dreams
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How true it is that whatever is learned through material
How true it is that whatever is learned through material
sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is
reversed by the spiritual facts of being in
Science. That which material sense calls
intangible, is found to be substance. What to material
sense seems substance, becomes nothingness, as the sense‑
dream vanishes and reality appears.
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The senses regard a corpse, not as man, but simply as
The senses regard a corpse, not as man, but simply as
matter. People say, "Man is dead;" but this death is
the departure of a mortal's mind, not of matter. The
matter is still there. The belief of that mortal that he
must die occasioned his departure; yet you say that
matter has caused his death.
Vain ecstasies
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People go into ecstasies over the sense of a corporeal
People go into ecstasies over the sense of a corporeal
Jehovah, though with scarcely a spark of love in their
hearts; yet God is love, and without Love,
God, immortality cannot appear. Mortals try
to believe without understanding Truth; yet God is
Truth. Mortals claim that death is inevitable; but man's
eternal Principle is ever-present life. Mortals believe in
a finite personal God; while God is infinite Love, which
must be unlimited.
Man-made theories
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Our theories are based on finite premises, which can-
Our theories are based on finite premises, which can-
not penetrate beyond matter. A personal sense of God
and of man's capabilities necessarily limits
faith and hinders spiritual understanding. It
divides faith and understanding between matter and Spirit,
the finite and the infinite, and so turns away from the
intelligent and divine healing Principle to the inanimate
drug.
The one anointed
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Jesus' spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine
Jesus' spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine
Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship