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chapter 2

imposition

and demonstration

phenomena not understood

belong to the things that are

but which we venture not to explain

not having gained their origin and

specific character from science

that which is real is not characterized

by ism

or belief

and the understanding grasping a subject

is satisfied to name it

only as it names itself

phenomena based on science produce good

results only

and never the opposite

this rule is invariable

and should measure every calculation

whatever can work discord

accomplish a sinister purpose

or harm our neighbor

is not science

or the phenomenon of truth

but the manifestation of some belief

and error

what are termed spiritual manifestations

as progress compels the change

will be found not mediumship

but openly defined

and when confined within the limits of

harmony

and it be found impossible to do evil by

means of them

it will be time to consider them

demonstrations of science

but not until then

these

manifestations at present

are the result of tricks

or belief

proceeding from the so-called mind of

man

and not the mind of god

from the mind of body

and not the mind of soul

from person

and not principle

from belief

and not understanding

yea

from matter

and not spirit

mind is divided into idea

and belief

idea is based on

and represents principle

belief

has no foundation in science

and is illusion

what we term the mind of man

is belief

forming the visionary basis of matter

therefore

matter embraces not the reality of man

belief

is not a manifestation of intelligence

but of non-intelligence

to distinguish between the mind of soul

and the so-called mind of body

we must remember

one is idea

and the other

belief

alias the counterfeit

and claimant of mind

even as error claims truth

mind is immortal

but belief

is mortal

it being the so-called mind of mortal

body

whereas the mind of immortal soul is

idea even science

revealing truth

mediumship overlooks the impossibility

for a sensual mind to become spirit

or to possess a spiritual body after

what we term death

while science reveals this more

inconsistent than for stygian darkness

to emit a sunbeam

when we are spirit

we shall have gained the high import of

this scripture

i

and the father are one

and shall find two

this oneness occasions no loss of

identity

but that i

signifies spirit

and not matter

principle and not person

soul

and not body

even the intelligence represented by all

ideas

symbolizing harmony

from the blade of grass to a star

the question at present is

whether this i is principle or person

soul or body

yea

god or man

principle is soul

intelligence

the i am

but where do we place the i

is it spirit in matter

soul in body

life in the flower

or the outside intelligence and life

that form these

is it man

or the soul of man

outside of matter

the science of being reveals god

not in matter

therefore

this i

not body nor in body

but soul outside of matter

the infinite

and not finite

yea

spirit and not person

and through this reckoning

man gains eternal identity

a suffering sinning and dying

condition such as must ever remain while

the belief of soul in body

and intelligence in man or matter

remains

cannot be preferable to the sinless joy

and perfect harmony

that a recognition of life

as spirit

possessing all beauty and good

without a single demand pleasure or pain

of body

confers

why so many called spiritualists

are very gross materialists

is because they make personality a

spirit

and the only conscious existence

and rejecting a personal god

make a god of persons

which is equally fatal to the science of

being

persons called spirits

instead of principle that is spirit and

truth

are their trust

while a belief in spirits

belongs to the darker ages

and is demonology

there is but one spirit

that is

god

truth

in other words

wisdom

life and love

and nothing is real but what is good

or the idea of goodness

evil has neither identity

nor individuality

having no principle

charles sumner was a great man

because of his unswerving adherence to

right

he had

more than others the true idea

and less than others

the beliefs of man

his professions were few

his acts colossal

his might was mind

not person but principle

not man but god

science never caused a retrograde step

in being

or a return to positions outgrown

or that truth has destroyed

to admit the so-called dead and living

commune together

is to decide the unfitness of both for

their separate positions

and that a mistake occurs when a man

dies to sense

or lives to soul

any supposed midway between life outside

of matter

or in it

is a myth

we should either see the so-called dead

materially

or they should be advanced beyond our

sight

conservatism never was right

absolute truth is all that is right

and absolute error is easier made right

than a halfway position

mediumship assigns to their dead a

condition worse than blighted buds or

mortal mildew

even a poor purgatory

where one's chances for something narrow

into nothing

or they must return to the old

standpoints of matter

he is not dead but sleepeth

jesus knew lazarus was in the dream of a

midway condition when truth awakened him

if we could do this

we might claim his spirituality

until the imaginary connection between

the so-called dead

named spirits

and those supposed to be living in

matter

is destroyed

mortal man is not dead

only changed

for the immortal is not gained

and belief can gather itself on the

wrong side of the question

and continue the old conclusion of life

in matter

this however

is far from the science of being

when life is really gained outside of

matter

it is understood

in which case the belief that life was

ever in the body

is gone

and cannot be resurrected

our friends thus advanced our spirit

that never rose from dust

and can no more return to

or commune with matter

then a blossom can return to its bud

the period required for the dream of

life in matter

embracing pleasures and pains of

personal sense to vanish

no man knoweth

not the son

but the father

it will be of longer or shorter duration

according to the period of error

before the reality of being is

understood

and eternal life won

what advantage then would it be to us

or the departed

to prolong this state

by prolonging the belief of life in

matter

there is not as much evidence of

intercommunion

between the so-called dead and living

as the sick have of their positions

relative to disease

which science decides

an error

for it denies all identity

or reality to discord

the entire phenomena of mediumship are

deceptions

or delusions

what is capable of error is not science

but destitute of principle

when the so-called medium understands

even in part the science of being

his belief of mediumship is gone

and the result is

he no longer produces the manifestations

said to originate with departed spirits

but which are really contingent on the

beliefs of the living

instead of the dead

the phenomena of science based on a

demonstrable principle

are explainable

but personal interpreters may create an

ism

in which phenomena are not understood

and subject to gross misjudgings

thus error is engrafted into their

network

and error is not linked to truth

hence the gulf impassible that separates

the so-called life in matter

from life not subject to death

and the mischance and mischief that

characterize the so-called spirit

returns

the natural result of the attempt to

unite such opposites as spirit and

matter

is discord

as soon might fire and frost mingle

for in either case

one would destroy the other

that matter communes with spirit

or that spirit communes by means of

electricity

or personality

with spirit or matter

is impossible

and would destroy the order and harmony

of progress

if communion is possible between the

so-called dead and living

the departed go backward in the scale of

being

even as the oak holding onto its

primitive acorn

for the so-called medium advances to

life independent of matter

like an acorn

becoming instantaneously

an oak

again

if the medium

is on communicable terms with life

spirit

independent of matter

there can be no appearance of life in

the body

no action

animal or organic

and to restore this former condition of

so-called life

would be as impossible as to restore an

acorn absorbed into a germ

risen above soil and seed

the seed that has propagated

is gone

a new germination having taken place

and until the belief of life in matter

is destroyed

the real life that is spirit

is not one

no correspondence or communion exists

between these two opposites

there is but one possible moment

when the so-called dead and living

commune

the moment called death when the link

between them is clasped

in this vestibule

more awake to the welcome of those gone

before

than to present pains of personal sense

the departing sometimes breathe aloud

their vision

naming the face that smiles upon them

and the hand beckoning

them even as a man standing at the falls

of niagara

with eyes only for that wonder

whispers aloud his rapture

forgetful of other scenes

the recognition of spiritual life

and all life is spirit

comes not at once

even beyond the grave existence is but a

belief of personal sense

until the science of being is reached

for error brings its own outer darkness

and self-destruction

both now

and then

there is but one spiritual communication

and this proceeds from soul

personal sense takes no cognizance of it

what are termed spirits

are mere personalities

a shock would not be felt

or sensation held for a moment in the

body

if in reality we communed with

intelligence

spirit

outside of matter

the only living principle of man speaks

through immortal sense

and if mortal sense was touched by this

principle

it would present no appearance of life

possess no sensation

and the immortal would appear in its

stead

and the spiritual take the place of the

material

even as light destroys darkness

and in its place

all is light

soul is the only truthful communicator

with man

mortal belief

and immortal truth

like tares and wheat

grow side by side until the harvest

but to divide

instead of unite these

is the design of wisdom

that separates the wheat

and gathers it away from the tares

that all things are possible to truth

is a scientific position

and that all error is possible to

believe

is equally apparent

secretiveness

jugglery

credulity

superstition and belief

are the foundations of what is termed

mediumship

but the so-called mediums

have a strong hold on the sympathies of

those who mourn the loss of friends

in the sorrows of bereavement

when thought like a fermenting fluid is

ready for a chemical change

they turn the gushing emotions into the

belief they are not separated

and this consolation comes to the

mourner

like heaven's benediction

gaining a strong foothold in the minds

of millions

hence the hold mediumship has on

community

a belief coming at the hour of

individual acceptance

clad with the drapery of heaven

a mystery and marvel

its phenomena not understood

what needeth it more

as the foundation of a new ism

perfection is not expressed through

imperfection

therefore spirit cannot pass through

matter

there are no temporary sieves

even

that strain truth through error

matter controlled by soul

is harmonious

and governed by a demonstrable principle

but when one belief controls another

and this is mediumship

every possible imitation of the real is

made by the unreal

the possible to soul

is the impossible to body

so also the impossible to science

is the possible to belief

the ideas of god never amalgamate

but retain their distinct identities

and are controlled only by the principle

that evoked them

the mineral

vegetable and animal kingdoms have their

distinct identities

wherein

one creates not

or controls the other

all are created and controlled by god

admitting life and intelligence in

matter

admits mediumship

making man create and control man

beast bird and plant create and control

one another

but this reverses the order of creation

introducing

confusion and discord

darkness and light

infancy and manhood

sickness health etc

are distinct beliefs

that cannot blend

to suppose infancy is uttering the idea

of manhood

or thinking its thoughts

would be rejected by reason and

revelation

and vice versa

that darkness represents light

and sickness health

or that we are residing in europe when

we are on the opposite hemisphere

is simply absurd

logic would not attempt to bridge over

these distinct conditions

and they are not more markedly distinct

than the so-called dead and living

that you think to unite again

on planes so

different the one called substance

and the other shadow

matter and spirit communing together

one would inevitably blot out the other

that spirit and matter amalgamate

is the error

progress and science will destroy

mediumship presupposes one man is spirit

and controls another man

that is matter

while both remain the same opposites

that bodies which return to dust

or new bodies called spirits

are experiencing the old sensations

and desires material

and mesmerizing earthly mortals

that shadow is tangible to touch

and imparts electricity

etc

every one of these conclusions are

ridiculous

god is not named in them all

and for the best of reasons

that is that matter is supposed to take

care of itself

and mesmerism

and person take the place of idea and

principle

or man and god

who that has witnessed mesmerism

would say it was science

the truth of being

or that this was electricity

god controls man

and is the only intelligence

attraction

or spirit

any other control

attraction or spirit

supposed to be exercised over man

is a belief

and error

that ought to be known by its fruits

the caterpillar

transformed into an insect of beauty

is no longer a worm

and to push the conclusion that a

butterfly returns again

to affinitize with

or to control the worm

is to take mesmerism to be full reason

change controlled by principle is

science

but some belief may hide its science

progress is the ever more of wisdom

but nothing save science reveals

progress

whatsoever utters falsehood is error

therefore

the impossibility for mediumship to be

science

and governed by truth

our only resignation to the new ism

or some new disease

is the hope that another stir made in

the waters of belief

will help to show their muddy foundation

the electric telegraph is a symbol of

mind speaking to mind

that in progress of time will not

require wires

for spirit destroys matter

electricity etc

but spiritualism would preserve these

to destroy harmony

truth pervades all space

needing no material method of

transmitting its messages

we only know

it blesses man

but cannot tell whence it cometh

the sick are healed by it

the sorrowing comforted

and the sinner reformed

these are the manifestations of soul

not sense

of science

and not mesmerism

soul sends no dispatches on matter

but today the electric wire carries to

europe a submarine whisper

foreshadowing the science that is to

come

little by little

the action of thought is losing its

matter element

becoming spiritualized

expanding outside of fetters

and science is pushing onward the

centuries

the operations of intelligence teach us

god made man upright

but belief has sought out many

inventions

life

truth and love

act through no erring medium

immortal man communes not with the

mortal

and cannot be made manifest through

matter

these are distinct and opposite

conditions

one is the idea of god of spirit outside

of matter

and the other

a belief of spirits

and substance in matter

before we commune with spirit

that is immortal

the belief of death must be destroyed

what would be said of an english scholar

unacquainted with the classics

before he had entered this department of

learning

to claim he understood greek

you would say he was either an imposter

or laboring under some hallucination

what then of believing we are wearing

out life

and hastening towards death

communing with immortality

if indeed this communication was

possible

between the mortal and immortal

the media would never die or pass the

change called death

and if the departed communicate still

with mortality

then are they sinning

suffering

and dying still

in which case

wherefore look to them for proofs of

immortality

and accept them as oracles

communications gathered from ignorance

are pernicious in their tendencies

mediums describe disease

its symptoms

locality

fatality

etc

who know nothing about it

warn people of death

and frighten them into it

this obnoxious practice makes sickness

the case has been proved that a man died

from the belief he was being bled to

death

showing the cause of his death

purely mental

hence the danger of ignorant charlatans

dealing with disease

what science finds requisite to destroy

in order to heal the sick

mediumship strengthens

and perpetuates

jesus cast out spirits

error

did his work

confessed the oneness of god spirit

and never described disease

but healed it

if the sick are made more comfortable

through some error of process

they are tenfold more the victims of

disease in the end

the mysticism of mediumship

gives force to its words of doom

enabling it to do more harm than drugs

for the sick are more frightened by what

a medium pronounces fatal

than when an md so decides

and this fear is the mental condition

that develops disease

science would have to go over the whole

ground

and uproot every seed of their sowing

to destroy disease

the evidence of belief

is all the medium has to rely on

while science

repudiates belief

with the evidence of understanding

and demands the principle of being to

bring out the harmony of life

at one time a medium informed us we were

ill

said our brain was over tasked

and we must have rest

to this we filed a vigorous objection

contending for the rights of

intelligence

that mind controlled body and brain

and the views she insisted on

were the ones to be rid of

in order to be well

whereupon she stopped the conversation

exclaiming

dr rush is present

and says you must use vulgarism

meaning undoubtedly galvanism

and rest or be

sick

but even this pretended oracular warning

failed to convince us

and the consequence was

we went on in a good state of health

having strong doubts that 50 years of

postmortem experience

had so demoralized the orthography of

that learned man

or perpetuated his old beliefs of matter

thousands of our church members who are

rational on other topics

are sustaining and believing just this

memory

while yet they send forth the cry

against science

as dangerous to christianity

in the summer of 1869

it was stated in the banner of light

published in boston

that the late theodore parker said

through a medium

there never was

and there never would be an immortal

spirit

at the same time this paper was

repeating weekly

that spirit communications were our only

proofs of immortality

while we entertain no doubt of the

humanitarianism

of many spiritualists

we have strong proofs

of the incorrect views of spiritualism

a man's assertion that he is immortal

is no more proof of this

than we would gain of an opposite

condition were he to say

i am mortal

theodore parker was beyond such vague

hypothesis

life

love and truth are immortal

and only when these are realized will

life be understood

truth is eternal life

and science the only medium of truth or

life

hence the saying of christ

i am the way

the truth

and life

and no man cometh unto the father

the principle of being

but through me

though the grass seemeth to wither

and the flower to fade

they reappear

erase the figures that express numbers

shut out the tones of music

give to the worm the body called man

the principle of these survives

despite the so-called laws of matter

and holds its ideas immortal

if the inharmony of belief hides the

harmony of truth

it cannot destroy this principle

for it is god

supreme over all

who doeth according to his own will in

the army of heaven

and among the inhabitants of the earth

and none can stay his hand

or say unto him

what doest thou

matter cannot reply to spirit

but have you ever ruminated on this

heaven and earth expressly declared to

be inhabited by man

controlled alone by supreme wisdom

did you understand there is no other

world

you would be reaching sooner that which

is real of

life where substance is soul and not

matter

and realizing it thus

all would be harmonious and eternal

it should never be said

nothing but god

for all that is real comes with god

the substance life and intelligence of

all

principle and its idea

are god and man

coexistent and eternal

there is no substance matter

the imaginary line called the equator

is not substance

the earth's action and position are

sustained alone by intelligence

that launched the earth into orbit

and said to the proud wave

here shalt thou be stayed

that holds the wind in its fists

numbers the hairs of the head

and furnishes sublime proofs of the

control

spirit holds over matter

even the simple planchette is made to

testify to mind's power over matter

and no longer a mystery and marvel

the point to be determined is

shall we allow science to explain all

action and phenomena

or leave these to speculative belief

to admit one's self-soul instead of body

sets us free to master the infinite idea

it shuts the door on death

and opens it wide on immortality

the belief that god has a separate being

leads to multitudinous errors

in which phenomena are ascribed to

supernatural and personal causes

man is the phenomenon of soul

of intelligence and not matter

and created by god

and not man

divest belief of substance in matter

and the movements and transitions

possible to mind

would be found just as possible to the

body

and then

would spirit identify being without the

loss of body

that we suppose must occur

before this science of being is

acknowledged

the final understanding that we are

spirit

must come

and we might as well improve our time in

solving the so-called mysteries of today

on this principle

at present

we know not what we are

but hereafter

we shall be found love life

and truth

because we understand them

do you say the time has not yet come

in which to recognize soul the only

substance

and gain our entire control over the

universe and man

then we refer you to jesus

who demonstrated this over 18 centuries

ago

and said

the works i do

ye shall do

and

behold the time cometh and now is

when they who worship the father shall

worship him in spirit and in truth

end quote

but this method of understanding god

and doing good

was not electricity

materia medica

mesmerism

or mediumship

matter is neither intelligence

nor a creator

the tree is not the author of itself

sound is not the originator of music

or man the father of man

if seed produces wheat

the latter flower

and one animal another animal

etc

who made intelligence

and how were the loaves and fishes

multiplied without meal or monet

miracles are impossible

they are phenomena not understood

but which their principle explains

and we should reach this explanation

and understand it as did our master

who demonstrated it

controlling man

and matter

the decaying flower

withering grass

blighted bud

gnarled oak

or ferocious beast

together with all discords

including sick

sinning and mortal man

were not created by supreme wisdom

these are the falsities of matter

things of sense

instead of soul

the changing images of mortal mind

not in reality substance

or life

but only a belief of these

the mind of soul embraces immortal ideas

only

but the so-called mind of body

illusion

and not the truth of being

personal sense declares matter substance

but what is this sense but a belief of

life and intelligence in matter

eloquence

is inspiration

not contingent on erudition

but a scientific phenomenon

showing that all things are possible to

intelligence

sometimes it is supposed to arise from

knowledge obtained from books

and again

from mediumship

when eloquence proceeds from the belief

a departed spirit is speaking

and can say what the so-called medium

is incapable of uttering

or even knowing alone

the fetters of mind are unclasped

and forgetting her ignorance

by believing others are speaking for her

she becomes eloquent beyond her usual

self

and because she thinks some individual

and not the one spirit

is helping her

now destroy this belief of aid

and the eloquence disappears

and the old limits personal sense

assigns

are resumed

and she says

i am incapable of words that glow

being uneducated

proving the fact

as a man thinketh

so is he

believing she cannot be eloquent

without book learning her body responds

to this thought

and the tongue grows mute

that before was eloquent

loosened on the scientific basis

that mind is not confined to the

development of educational processes

but possesses primarily

all beauty and poetry

together with the power to express them

harmony is caught and not understood by

the medium

caught through a belief

and dependent on it

but soul gives utterance to itself

when sense is silent

hence the improvement

she was always capable of this

and a spirit or person had nothing to do

with it

the beliefs of personal sense

of soul in body etc

limit mind

soul sets man free

which explains the phenomena of

impromptu poets and uneducated orators

witnessing this in moments falsely

called mediumship

tis construed supernaturally

which circumscribes the phenomenon

by an ism

matter is moved because of mind

through the volition of belief

or the understanding

all harmonious phenomena are produced by

the latter and the inharmonious

by the former

science removes phenomena from mysticism

into the hands of interpretation

in which it is no greater mystery that

mind moves a table without a hand

than that it primarily moves the hand

and secondarily the table

in obedience to the belief

that the only method of doing this

is by seizing hold of it with the hand

mind causes all action in the case

through a belief

that spirits did it

or that electricity caused it

or the more common belief

of voluntary muscular power

in other words

matter moving matter

likenesses of individuals

landscape views

facsimiles of penmanship

certain forms of expression that

belonged to the departed

and even sentences of their saying

may be taken as directly from minds

as from objects cognizant to personal

sense

mind sees what mind embraces

the same as personal sense feels what

personal sense touches

nor is it necessary that the mind

embracing the picture

or paragraph

be individually present with the

clairvoyant

any mental link touching mind

though bodies or leagues apart

is sufficient to reproduce these to the

clairvoyant

if the individuals have passed away

their aroma of thought is left

which is mentally centered

and described

mind has senses sharper than the body

this we know from experience

yet we never believed ourself a medium

and always openly avowed this

is moved solely by mind in accordance

with science

or belief

but mediumship removes phenomena from

rationalism

into mysticism

and gives intelligence to matter

instead of mind

pictures are formed mentally before the

artist gives them to canvas

thus clairvoyance perceiving pictures of

thought

can copy or reproduce them

even though

lost to the recognition of the mind once

they are taken

the strong impressions friendship

or any intense feeling

leaves on mind

is

inefficable except to personal sense

hence another mind can perceive and

reproduce the emotion

clairvoyance is mind reading alone

whereas science

in contradistinction to clairvoyance

reveals truth through the understanding

by which we gain the principle and

explanation of phenomena

these are distinctly opposite

standpoints whence to obtain information

and the right interpretation of cause

and effect belongs alone to science

clairvoyance reaches only the fancied

realities of mortal mind

whereas science admits none of these

things

but reveals truth

outside of mortality and error

we can do good to our neighbor through

the science of being

but through it we cannot do evil also

clairvoyance can do evil accuse

wrongfully

and explain unscientifically

if we act from the standpoint of

spiritual sense

we are

right but if from personal sense

we do evil continually

the sensuous may be clairvoyant

but cannot be scientific

and the scientific cannot be sensual

foretelling events

is to discern them spiritually

outside of personal sense

which is prophecy

and accords with the ancient worthies

or through a belief which is

clairvoyance or mind reading

if advanced in the science of being

sufficiently to blend with the truth of

being

we are seers and prophets involuntarily

not because we are controlled by spirits

persons

but by spirit

which is purity

righteousness

and omnipotence

to know the past present and future

is the office of intelligence

yea it is ever-present truth

and to understand we are not pent up

within the boundaries of personal sense

confined to the ear

and eye for sound and sight

or to muscles bones etc for locomotion

is science

whereby we discern somewhat of being

that is real

though we take the wings of mourning and

flee to the uttermost parts of the earth

behold

thou art there

soul is ever present

embracing its likeness man

and supporting the idea of truth to

carry out proofs of omnipotence

the science of being enables us to read

mind

foretell events that concern the

universal good

to trace records of soul

and receive inspirations from god

but not from idle curiosity

or to work evil

or dip into the experiences of the dead

or connect urine and mortal belief with

principle

and its phenomena

in science

we read mind from the standpoint of soul

and with all the accuracy of the

astronomer calculating the path of the

planets

this mind reading is distinguishable

from clairvoyance

in that it is the understanding of being

back of personal sense

and possessed by individuals highly

spiritual

its intuitions are from soul

revealing what disturbs the harmony of

man

and what promotes it

and enabling us to heal the sick

we can never learn christ as the

principle of healing

except we are able to read mind after

this manner

and discern the error we would destroy

the samaritan woman said

he told me all things that ever i did

is not this the christ

again

as he journeyed with his students

understanding their thoughts

he rebuked them

etc

through this spiritual sense jesus

healed the sick

and events of great moment concerning

the christian era

and the history of the world

were foretold by the glorious old

prophets

through spiritual vision

our master referred to a lack of

spiritual discernment in this direction

when he said

ye hypocrites

that can discern the face of the sky

but cannot discern the signs of these

times

end quote

in other words

whose personal sense was acute

but whose spiritual sense was wanting

he knew it was a wicked and adulterous

generation

who

seeking material signs

lost the prerogatives of soul

his cut at the materialism of the age

was pungent

but requisite

and he never spared hypocrisy the

sternest condemnation

again

he said to this class of believers

quote

ye do the things ye ought not to do and

leave undone those ye should have done

end quote

the great teacher of christian science

knew a good tree sendeth not forth evil

fruit

that soul emits only unerring truth

while that which proceedeth from

personal sense is error

also

that truth and error cannot mingle

they are the tares and wheat

side by side

that never blend

but await the harvest when belief shall

yield to understanding

and error be self-destroyed

at present

truth is trampled upon while error holds

the reins

with virtue at a discount

well done good and faithful villain

is the merit mark for today

and youth seems eager for the prize

such surprising aristocracy of evil

is owing to the gilded falsehood of

individual character

those whited sepulchers that hold the

dead carcasses of conscience

students of the science of life are

responsible above all others

if false to the teachings of conscience

and reason

said the wicked king

i hate him because he prophesieth evil

continually of me

reformists are mostly produced by the

class that feel them most

let the good tell the truth and live it

and the evil publish a lie

and live it

and the former will be doubted

and the latter believed

until the world advances nearer to what

is truth

when their relative positions will be

seen

and appreciated

those who understand the science of

being

bear testimony to truth

in so much as they must understand what

is indispensable to gain it

never refute columny

except for truth's sake

leaving the future years to expose the

slanderer and liar

and reward those who wait on god

fear not the individual falsehood

and promulgate truth sufficiently to

gain some balance for the world

earth holds not a majority of righteous

men

and in proportion as we rise in the

scale of being do we learn this

but because evil boasts of greater

numbers

this hath no advantage for the sinner

today

sin offers a premium

let down the bars of morality

and you are society's favorite

put them up higher than society can leap

and you bring a proprium on the

bartender

woman especially should hold the

standard that rebukes vice

and seth to virtue

join us

and though we battle beneath stripes

we will fall in our armor

or

lay it down on the field of victory

to ask in prosperity

am i right

is wiser than to ask this in adversity

one in a million does this

but can we lessen the number against

that one

right advances slowly

and with bleeding footsteps

but truth can afford to wait

for the eternal years of god are hers

we have investigated the phenomenon

called mediumship

both to convince ourself of its nature

and cause

and to be able to explain it

and have succeeded in the first instance

that may have failed in the second

it is more frequently in company with

those who believe in mediumship

that mediums narrate something of the

departed

describe them personally etc

showing it to be the effect of mind on

this plane

acting on theirs

again

all the information imparted

comes from the minds of the living

instead of the dead

that someone knew the individual

deceased is evident

and it is not more difficult to read

mind far away

than near

we think of an absent individual

as easily as one present

hence the equal ease to discern the

absent mind that we visit mentally

the demand to talk of the dead

proceeds from the mind of the living

who

believing in this process

or yearning for this communion

mentally call for it

and this reaches the mind touched to

response

and brings on the mood called mediumship

all theories and manifestations

growing out of belief

are error

and the important era for this age is

the awakening

or resurrection of understanding

through which the unreal yields to the

real

and isms are given up

the corruptable yields to the

incorruptable

and the belief of life in matter

or soul incense

gives place to the understanding of life

that wisdom

love and truth in which

there is no conscious matter

it follows not that in sleep we

communicate with the dreamer at our side

because of his proximity

or that we both are dreamers wandering

through the mazes of thought

if life has become real to the departed

they cannot return to the unreal

or if they are at our side

and life goes on to them the same as

before

we are not in their conscious existence

nor they in ours

hence

we are debarred into communion

our dreams being distinct they cannot

blend

though we are side by side

if those we call departed

have gained a better understanding of

life than ours

they have advanced beyond us

in which case

we would not if we could draw them back

to our ignorance

in order to meet us

and we could not if we

would neither can we advance to their

plane of understanding

except through their footsteps

and these have not yet been taken

if one man dreams he is crossing the

atlantic

and another the andes

they are not in communion

though they are side by side

and dreamers both

this therefore represents the so-called

dead and living

who are on earthly planes of error

and have not become spirit

but cannot communicate

because their beliefs of death have

separated them

again

supposing one man is dreaming and

another awake

conscious of his friend's illusion

they certainly do not meet mentally and

mingle

even thus

the dead and living are parted

either through a belief that they died

or the understanding of life outside of

matter

memory may repeat the alphabet and mind

hear hold the history of the dead

but if we can read

we never in reality go back to the

alphabet

or find pleasure in it

thus the advanced mind

cannot return to matter

souls vision is independent of optics

but the belief that sight depends on the

eye

and thought must have sound to reach our

apprehension

shuts out the understanding of mind

and reverses the order of science

destroy the belief that we owe to

organization

our hearing

seeing

feeling etc

and we hear without an auditory nerve or

typanim

and see without optics

we shall all er long prove this

and that spiritual senses are true and

the personal

false

an organ is but the symbol of sight

hearing etc

the expression only of these

and to hold it thus

would be to retain our faculties by

right of souls ownership and government

and to hear

see

etc

with mind instead of matter

which is the only scientific statement

of sense

and the principle of immortal man

the real relation between soul and body

reveals the latter without sensation or

intelligence

and the idea of soul

to understand this opens to view the

capabilities of being

untrammeled by personal sense

explains the so-called miracles

and brings out the infinite

possibilities of soul

controlling matter

discerning mind

and restoring man's inalienable

birthright

of dominion

silence the belief we are in the body

and we discern the past and future

as readily as the events of today

but this is the science of life

and not mediumship

the order and naturalness of phenomena

that we deem a mystery and marvel

are perceived when we remember mind

controls mind

and that matter

is only another name for mind

a table or piano is moved by mind

instead of muscle

and we should prove our power in this

and other directions

if we admitted it

but not admitting it

we virtually have it not

like the horse feebly submitting to the

rain

unconscious of his power

phenomena that proceed from belief

lose their power

when we lose the belief that occasions

them

matter

is manifest

mind

misinterpretation hinders the harmony of

phenomenon

and leaves it to ignorance and

abuse

clairvoyance foresees the future and

repeats the past

that is daughertyped on mortal mind only

and based on no principle or truth

it is mortal opinions unworthy obtaining

a past event is memory

a faculty of mind

and a future one is perception

another mental faculty

all events

are mined before matter

mediumship is a belief of individualized

spirits

also that they do much for you

the result of which is you're capable of

doing less for yourself

why some event conversation

or even simple circumstance is more

readily traced by the clairvoyant than

others

is owing to the fact the mental emotions

they produced were more vivid

therefore

they are more distinctly defined in mind

when told by a clairvoyant something you

have long since forgotten

tis useless to say they never read it in

my mind because i recollected it not

it is by no means necessary the memory

of those present retains what the

clairvoyant sees

beliefs and images of thought

are not limited to space or personal

sense

that grosser strata of mortal mind

the clairvoyant sees not by means of

solar rays

or an object striking the retina

and our proof that mortal mind is the

element of all sublunary things is

that they exist to this mind

the same

as to personal sense

the reader must make due distinction

between mediumship

and the individual

there are undoubtedly noble purposes in

the hearts of noble women and men

who believe themselves mediums

the science of life

gained by slow and solemn footsteps

at the expense of all isms and ologies

will unite being into one silken cord of

goodwill to man

and there is but one right way under the

sun

even the pathway of holiness

we should not hang on the skirts of

others

but in our own identity possess some

merit of our own not borrowed from

others

and is there any so blind as not to

admit individual faults

but mediumship well nigh disavows all

individual responsibility

and literally lays the charge of all

good or evil

on the shoulders of the dead

while we cherish all charity for our

fellow beings

we have none for a belief that

inevitably shuts the door on reason and

revelation

and robes the mind in darkness akin to

barbarism

but for the misinterpretation of mental

phenomena

through a belief of mediumship

the signs of science would have been

discerned air this

in the phenomena of today

and what is ascribed to personal

agencies

have rested on the basis of principle

phenomena not understood

had better be let alone

until the explanation is given

that deprives humbug and avarice of

advantage

and contributes to the general welfare

principle demands to be understood

but phenomena not based on principle

you can explain falsely

insomuch as they are creations of sense

instead of soul

when sensation proceeds from soul

instead of body

the impressions are lucid and pure

and the intuitions correct and

harmonious

but when mortal mind or belief produces

them discord disease sin and death are

the result

mesmerism is error that leaves man at

the mercy of matter

will

caprice

and mortal mind

god spirit never mesmerized man or

matter

the simplest object in the hand of a

mesmerized subject

may shock him with a belief of danger

a napkin becomes to him a serpent that

stings him

and this is the sensation that is belief

place in his hand a cold apple

create the belief it is hot

and it produces at once the sensation of

pain the same as fire

destroy this belief of a burn

and the pain disappears

is not this proof that pain is a belief

again

whatever object the mesmerizer presents

mentally to his subject

he sees

do not these facts prove the so-called

senses of the body

mind

instead of organs and nerves

but mesmerism should be put under bonds

not to do evil

at any estimate it is a shameful waste

of reason and honesty

that pain and pleasure are produced by

belief

in the absence of all conditions to

occasion them

is another proof that sensation is mind

and not matter

to admit mind sees hears feels etc

without the agency of matter

is a step toward science

in genuine clairvoyance

there is no sensation in the body during

its continuance

but to see in belief

is not to see in reality

the basis of the science of being

repudiates mesmerism

producing precisely opposite

results it destroys belief

and insists on understanding

personal opinions or belief

cannot be dismissed too soon

to admit that error requires a certain

period in which to prepare us for the

higher school of immortality

is a grave mistake

there is no necessity to do evil that

good might come

science begins right

in order to end right

and it cannot begin right too soon

reasoning from false premises

never presented correct conclusions

god never made evil

error produces error

and belief disappears

when truth is understood

even as a cloud passes from before the

sun

science contradicts mortal sense

and reveals in its stead

the immortal understanding that gives

harmony to man

wisdom is not gained of knowledge

that brought sin and death into the

world

neither is it found in pulp

or the brains of man

this so-called mind

is but a belief that matter embraces

mind

magnetism is without a scientific basis

it is one belief or error

controlling another one

that spirit mesmerizes or vitalizes

matter

giving it life and intelligence

is the fundamental error of mortal man

cannot impart intelligence to

non-intelligence

it has no electricity

etc

emanations of materiality are

electricity

and mesmerism is an unmitigated humbug

the immortal basis of man is not matter

electricity

brains

bones etc

but spirit

that hath understanding

not sense but soul

and phenomena that proceed from this

fundamental principle of being

are real

and harmonious

a desire to do right

may mistake the method of doing it

for belief is changing and unreal

intention may be right

but if the principle of phenomena is

misconstrued

and assigned to a person

electricity etc

its foundation is a belief only

in which case

science is not discerned

and phenomena left to misinterpretation

and discord

it is not very uncommon to find one's

self mistaken in belief

the miser thinks himself rich

but the fact remains he is poor

one individual thinks money makes a man

another

that man is more than money

still another believes man controls man

in partnership with god

but these are grave errors

the md thinks his method right

being learned in the school of

hippocrates

but truth reveals knowledge the cause

instead of the cure of disease

and that there is but one physician that

destroys sickness

and never loses a case

if the patient observes directions

and yet

this doctor is unpopular at

present would you learn his name

it is the science of being

our false reasoning

does all the harm that can be done

it admits power in matter

and divides wisdom between matter and

god

giving them both separate intelligence

and distinct action and power

when there is in reality but one mind

there being but one god

man is not a separate wisdom or

intelligence

god embraces all intelligence

and enters not into partnership with man

or matter

for this would involve the whole firm in

disgrace

and imply at times that truth is beaten

by error

the reign of man

is not the kingdom of heaven

or reign of harmony

for the government of god

requires loyalty to soul

and not sense

but man-made views endorse loyalty to

sense

and a traitor to soul

in fine

they have other gods before me

civilization is not without its idolatry

a drug is its dagon

principle is prayed to

not worked for

and matter controls mortal man

all inharmonies come from this source

nerves

brain

lungs

heart

liver

etc

master man

tea

coffee tobacco liquor etc

are idols

to which he bows down

there is no other volition

action or government but god

and yet the dream of life in matter

denies this

and gives all to personal sense

which would make evil stronger than good

the belief that matter is a power

holding the reins of government over man

predominates

and the result is

broken bones

paralyzed limbs

softened brains

disease

and death

the master healed the sick on the

opposite basis of man

and controlled matter to issues worthy

intelligence

primitive christianity heard the

utterances of wisdom

and cast out spirits

the rochester wrappings inaugurated a

mockery destructive to order and good

morals

physical signs that manifest the

infinite wisdom contradict not truth

manifestations of personal sense

in time or eternity

are the results of error

healing the sick

is not the entire demonstration of the

science of being

but embraces a better understanding of

god

of soul governing sense

then materia medica or mesmerism

healing the sick in science

is truth casting out error

yea

it is taking god the principle of man to

govern the body

but healing the sick with mediumship

mesmerism

drugs etc

is the greater error overcoming the

lesser

and holding forbidden ground stronger

because of this

is it well to expect from drugs a

blessing that wisdom has not

is not god sufficient for the wants of

man

mystery

is the offspring of ignorance

and oppression grows out of governments

not understood

let us choose today

whom we will serve

and abide the decision

frankly naming our master whether it be

god

or matter

no sequel is left to disease destroyed

by truth

never a consumption in consequence of

measles

for this would take the demonstration

out of the hands of wisdom

and give the balance of power to disease

i am

is the intelligence that touches the

cords of man

to every harmonious issue

but the dream that life and intelligence

are in matter

would make this i

both matter and spirit

a thing

impossible

healing the sick through intelligence

is science

in obedience to wisdom that gave man

dominion over serpents

deadly drugs etc

and is the natural and normal control

that soul holds over sense

one of the greatest absurdities of human

reasoning

is to admit person or matter

better doctors than the principle of man

in the universe

learned of science

would we not blush to say man is a

better musician than the principle of

music

physiology

hygiene or materia medica

has no claims in common with

intelligence

the principle of being

and mediumship galvanism

mesmerism etc

are the right hands of humbug

the remark was once made in our hearing

my guardian spirit is nearer to me

than god

this was undoubtedly true

understanding literally nothing of the

science of being

personality was more to him

than principle

and any change of belief would erect a

new standard of conscience

the theory called spiritualism

objects to a personal god

but no ism so directly depends on

personality

the individual exceptions to this error

will reach a higher standard

sooner or later

and leave their material basis such as

electricity

matter conditions

mediumship

dark seances etc

for the science of

life

the word spiritualism

is comically misapplied when made to

designate a sect supposed to hold

commerce with spirits

not spirit

but personality in some instances

sensual and devilish

the true significance of spiritualism

is a reign of spirit over matter

of principle over person

in which soul instead of sense governs

man

any error

is a belief of matter

and cannot proceed from spirit

god

when the departed become spirit

those of earth who believe in substance

matter

can no more communicate with them than

darkness can enter light

that would destroy it

when you reach communion with spirit

you will gain the utterances of truth

only

what is called mediumship

tends to destroy all reliance on

understanding and science

admitting intercommunion between evil

here and there

both in time and eternity

we are a float on the breakers of error

where nothing can stop its flood tides

breaking perpetually on the shores of

time

we learn truth from divine revelation

and our own demonstration

what we cannot understand and

demonstrate with scientific certainty

and harmony

we had better let alone

for it leaves us at the mercy of a

belief

the illustration of mediumship is a

circle inside of which

waits a material body to be mesmerized

by a spiritual one

under the table or perhaps in it

who informs you

he rotates eternally back to things of

time

and this is progress

through which he becomes spirit

god

while in glorious rapport with matter

sensuality and sin

in contradistinction to the ism of

spiritualism

let it be remembered other doctrines

name the name of god with reverence

hold the bible the book of books

teach our infant lips the lord's prayer

and bid man obey the ten commandments

that are perfect in wisdom

its military drills on sabbath

the aboriginal vernacular of its oracles

its rights and ceremonies that choose

darkness rather than light

and above all its loose morals

do not entitle spiritualism to the

standing it has gained in society

hence aside from these its worst

features

it has a

humanitarianism

and liberality

that should redeem it from under the

infatuation of mediumship

spirit has neither life nor intelligence

in matter

and if our departed friends are spirit

and we believe ourselves in matter

we cannot commune together

or if they are yet in matter beliefs

we have shut them out of our

consciousness by a belief of the change

death has wrought

making them no longer tangible to

personal sense

again

if we would commune through the

affections

we must be on the same plane of belief

or understanding with them

to make this possible

and if their body is changed to us

as is manifest by its burial

so are their affections changed

and we cannot commune on former terms of

personal sense and sympathy

we are separated mentally according to

our own views

and on our own grounds

as effectually as distance here

separates our bodies

mediumship is mind reading on this plane

and nothing more

someone here knows all the mediums tell

the imagery with which they clothe

expression is but futile conjecture and

imagination

else thoughts let loose from the limits

of personal sense

and the regret is

that in this step

they should not understand it

mediums describe sickness sin and death

and this description is supposed to come

from spirit

that is wholly unconscious of matter or

error

thus perpetuating the error that needs

to be dissected and destroyed

mediums have a certain circumference

and never go outside of these limits

at the same time protesting mediumship

is progress that takes hold of

immortality

but the majority of what is termed

mediumship

is simply imposition

not even clairvoyance or mind reading

but a catch penny fraud

until the so-called communications

between the dead and living are stopped

sickness sin and death will continue

talking error and believing it

make all the reality there is to it

what is termed mediumship

rises no higher than personal opinions

and mortal

views a ball propelled upward or onward

and subject to gravitation

will never pierce immensity

the gravitation earthward

must be withdrawn

or the ball stops

so with mind that would leave matter

and would you fetter the unbound with

ties of earth to matter conditions

but you cannot if you would

we commune together only as spirit with

spirit

the immortal with the undying

or matter with matter

the mortal with mortality

and do you hold yourself free from

mortal fetters

or your dear departed bound with you

the dream of life and intelligence in

matter

is destroyed when heaven

man's harmony is

reached

the dead to personal sense

are alive to soul

and preserve all the prerogatives of

being

but because personal sense buries their

bodies

it loses sight of this fact

showing virtually we are separated

and they no longer in sympathy with us

for there is no conscious change to

themselves

hence we lose sight of each other

we are holding a belief of them as dead

in one sense

and pursuing it

and they the opposite understanding

and pursuing that

therefore our directions commence from

that hour apart

if they commence in science

for ours is error

else we would not bury the body

and the old and familiar faces would not

disappear

a new field of action should be taken by

the so-called dead

and the old left to us

any departure from this natural result

in progress

is but a belief

and error

some mind here retains the image of the

departed

or they have left this image in the

atmosphere of mind in general

the words and acts of great men

other minds may repeat

at least in part

belief says the departed produced the

phenomenon of spirit communing with

matter

but all there is to mediumship

is belief

to say the dead assert the reality of

sickness and death

after the falsity of these are proved by

those who have learned disease did not

kill them

while we say it did

is a very erroneous effort through

post-mortem evidence

to confirm an error of personal sense

that ought to be fading away to the

departed and to us

the science of soul

destroys the dream of life in matter

consequently of sickness sin and death

saying

let the dead bury their dead

that is

let the error of personal sense be

destroyed and not resurrected through

mediumship

and follow thou truth

the life of man

enter communion between the so-called

dead and living

is a belief only

and not a reality

it is another ism

that makes war on science

and opens wide a pandora box on mankind

just as the age is getting ready to

emerge from dogmatical error

to have the fountains of thought

poisoned and dammed up with such mystery

and madness

is a miserable catch-penny plot

or an ignorance worthy the dark ages

as mind throws off its cruder beliefs of

matter

and becomes more spiritualized

phenomena resulting there from will

become more wonderful

and should be understood on the basis of

soul

throwing off its own idea of

intelligence and life

and opinions of mount bank and charlatan

that perpetuate sickness and sin

discord and mortality

be held back

but here the advanced thinker must wait

before some ism

and the vain pause before cast

so the vultures that prey on the hour

have it much in their own hands

supineness and hypocrisy on the one hand

and persecution on the other

are porters at the door of error

to shut out glimpses of truth

although the science of being is greatly

in advance of today as our iniquities

declare

it is demanded even more for this

and he that layeth not down all for

truth

is not worthy of it

every step of spirituality

is linked to wisdom

but it carries us thither through much

tribulation

greater violence will be done truth as

the capacities of mind develop

until mind is better understood

and can be met and restrained with

science

penal law may restrain the

manifestations of error and punish them

but cannot reach the subtle thought

before it is manifested

but the higher law of science destroys

the mental error before it results in

deeds

thus avoiding the penalty

and affording a remedy for dismay and

wickedness

between the periods of materiality

and spirituality

the contest between error and truth

whereby all isms will finally disappear

and the age pass into science

has been going on with pen and tongue

for centuries

and yet

sin sickness and death abound

because science that called the battle

has been suffocated with opinions and

theories

we boast of material law

but find it fails to save from sickness

sin and death

what we need is spiritual law

the soul's jurisdiction over sense

more potent than man to work out

salvation in obedience to the command

work out your own salvation

for god worketh with you

mankind have wrought centuries on

material platforms

now

let us labor on a spiritual one

for succeeding generations

and the body will become harmonious and

immortal

any mode of treating the sick

through manipulation

willpower or mesmerism

is a very poor substitute for science

in the first place

it is morally wrong

because it does wrong by inoculating

error

and it is better to take the inanimate

poison

than the evil of some people's nature

the less limited the power of an evil

mind

the more sin it commits

it is the escaped felon that ventures on

more daring crimes according to

opportunity

unless the moral growth equals the

knowledge you obtain of the powers of

mind to meet and restrain them

confining them to doing good only

this developed power is to be dreaded

stealing is not worse physically than

metaphysically

and you have no more business to control

your neighbor's mind

except to do him good

than to control his body

or his household

any attempts to do this should be

exposed and punished

mind should be protected as well as body

and any interference there with

outside the moral law of science

is a flagrant wrong

the higher law of justice forbids this

evil action

and in spiritual science

your quickened sense of right

makes it impossible

we may know how a felon steals on the

sleeper

and for his purse plunges a dagger in

his breast

but a common moralist even could not do

this

to bring the truth of being to the

consciousness and understanding of the

sick

is the science that heals them

and lifts its possessor above such a

crime

but to control minds for purposes of

avarice or revenge

sinks a practice to the committal of any

error

the law of truth

written on the soul is the governing

motive in science

and he who pours into the minds of

patients falsehoods

for his own sinister purposes

has made a fatal mistake that will be

seen in his patience

it will not only hinder their recovery

but render the practitioner unfit to

name the name of christ

and thus make truth powerless in his

hands

all he accomplishes after this

is through mesmerism

any interference in practice

with the mind's free and unbiased action

farther than what relates to disease

and bearing one another's burdens

and so fulfilling the law of christ

is averse to science

and leaves the wrongdoer only the

alternative of talking science

and practicing mesmerism

if sentence against an evil work be not

executed speedily

this sin is not without a witness

the mischievous link between mind and

matter

called planchette

uttering its many falsehoods

is a prototype of the poor work some

people make

of the passage from their old natures

up to a better man

we are accustomed to think seeing

without optic is second sight

but this is first sight

even our normal condition of being

he that formed the eye

did he not see

hath not spirit every faculty of

intelligence

that sight is not in the eye is apparent

when the mesmerized subject sees through

different portions of the head

leaving this optional with belief

the question is at issue with mankind

whether we begin to demonstrate being in

science

or leave it longer in the hands of

belief

and at the mercy of theories

to heal the sick with intelligence

or hold on to lifeless drugs

to do the work of wisdom

and call on departed personalities

to direct our lives

what we need is understanding the spirit

that is truth

and not spirits

for there is but one spirit

even universal soul

that knoweth all things

moving matter

mentally seeing

feeling etc

has its scientific explanation thus

but phenomena not understood

are at the mercy of belief

and their true interpretation will not

be gained

until the belief be destroyed

again

the understanding of truth is not gained

by what we see

hear or feel

for a personal sense of things depends

on belief alone

therefore

the starting point for the evidence of

mediumship

is unscientific

if the belief was as positive

that we converse with the dead

see

hear

and feel them

as our belief of life in matter is

they would be as apparent to us

and yet

this would not present the truth of

being

a body without sensation

soul and its manifestations

are all that is real

whatsoever can make

discord or utter a lie

is proved without principle

and not the idea of truth

when the science of our being is gained

tricksters will lose their occupation

in the onward march of truth

error will bury its dead

and never resurrect error

but before this hour it may take to

itself seven beliefs

more erroneous than at first

and launched deeper into the dark

this babble has already begun

mediumship helps becloud the way of

truth

greater discord is inaugurated because

of it

a link formed between the error of

another plane of existence and this

would be another error for truth finally

to destroy

we say of matter

it is opaque or luminous

but this should be said of mind that is

transparent

its images readily perceived

or that absorbs and reflects

but little

a mind transparent

reflects the thoughts of other minds

and reproduces them

and this is supposed to be the work of

the departed

ledger main or sleight of hand

has produced more remarkable

manifestations

than mediumship

and what is done understandingly

is better than mysteriously

skill is more rational at this age

than superstition

matter is moved

history repeated

and pictures drawn by mind on this plane

and that which we understand not

we know nothing

of we may say matter moves matter here

but that spirit moves it there

let us have the interpretations of

science on these points

and link not error to error throughout

time and eternity

lacking the basis of science we say

intelligence is in matter

that mind alone cannot produce phenomena

also

that body is diseased independent of

mind

that matter is self-acting

etc

a circumstance was related to us by an

old gentleman

a distinguished mesmerist

he said to a mesmerized subject

under control of his will

you have a burn on your hand

and he immediately appeared to suffer

the flesh rose up in a blister that was

opened and discharged a watery fluid

then continued the narrator

i destroyed the belief that he was

burned

and the cuticle became smooth and

natural as before

we did not witness this test of belief

but having seen the mesmerizer's

performances on other occasions

and knowing the man's veracity

and the power of belief

we could not doubt it

the evidence of one of the personal

senses

is not more improbable

than that of another

mentally to see another's mind is not

more impossible than to feel it

then wherefore doubt that we see what

mind contains

as well as feel it

we can feel the pain of the sick

and the sorrow that is not ours causes

us to weep

the fact is

we both see and feel

hear

taste and smell

because of mind

and not matter

and from sympathy with mind

all is mind

and matter one of its beliefs

but for the interpretations of ignorance

the basis of all physical manifestations

would have been discovered long ago

and given a scientific explanation

thought awake to this subject would have

discerned the signs of science in

phenomenon

had not a belief as usual

misinterpreted it

an absence of eloquence is caused by the

belief that schools and colleges possess

alone the key to it

or that some a special endowment is

wanting

destroy this belief

and you break the shackles of mind that

imprison its faculties

and set the captive free

to utter the beauties of being

flowers birds

waves

mountains and storms are eloquent

and so is man

even the sons of the forest are

sometimes orators beyond their learned

neighbors

for the reason the nearer we approach

our native being

the more we give utterance to soul

and it is this universal intelligence

outside of language that supplies all

that is sublime or beautiful in words

it was inquired concerning jesus how

this man knew letters

having never learned

eloquence is the voice of soul

the god utterance untrammeled by books

conventionality

or the fear of man

even the self-accusing reminder he is

unlearned

cannot disturb the inspired man

i have seen learned men at the mercy of

books

and the unlearned eloquent beyond them

the so-called mediums let go their

beliefs by supposing somebody else is

talking for them

and thus speak beyond the admitted

limits of their own capacities

soul is infinite in eloquence

as in all else

but sense is finite in this as in all

else

the soul inspired are not comprehended

by the man of sins

and the sense inspired are mediums

deceived in the origin of what they say

the victim of delirium sees objects

through the shadowy evidence of delusion

and so does the sleeper

the medium or clairvoyant

and mortal man

where neither certainty of phenomena nor

evidence of principle exists

there is no real foundation

all theories founded on the belief that

soul is in body

god in man

and intelligence in matter

therefore that we must develop from

within outwardly

are false

and fatal to science

wisdom is from without

development is to learn this

to leave the belief of wisdom within a

skull bone

and take hold of our god being

outside of matter

there is no inner life

for life is god

and god never migrated from man

cause

was never in its effect

in common practice we make no attempt to

put the greater into the less

and if soul is superior to body

it is outside of it

and if god is superior to man

he is not in man

and furthermore

man must get out of six feet of

intelligence

before he is immortal in soul

wisdom cometh from without

principle

is circumference

and idea center

soul is principle

and man the central idea of soul

science reverses the conclusions of

personal sense in every instance

and abides by a given statement of man

to bring out the harmony and immortality

that theories have failed to do

no condition of matter can change the

fact in numbers

that four times three is twelve

science should govern thought

and nothing can mar or destroy

man

controlled by science

mediumship is without a scientific

statement or proof

and claims to gather wisdom from spirits

personalities

outside of

while the basis of its evidence is

admitted to be matter conditions

the theory called spiritualism admits

that god is principle but leaves this

admission without practical proof

if god is principle

science alone reveals god

then wherefore ask personalities of

another plane

to explain life

truth

and love

why not strive to reach these beatitudes

through science

and hold them your own

instead of another's to bestow on you

person cannot interpret love

for love alone explains itself

science reveals and explains principle

but man cannot explain god

six feet

nor the stature of ancient giants can

represent the fullness of the stature of

man in christ

in other words

the idea of truth

measurement may represent the man of

personal sense

but this is not the man of soul

mediumship communes with person instead

of principle

the only intelligence

life and love

and accepts a personal version of

principle

praying god to be god as if love was

idle

and omnipotence uninformed

to call on light for light

is absurd

let there be light is the will of wisdom

and this full effulgence has nothing to

do with mortal stint

but shines for all

universal love bestows all good without

respect to persons

and man receives or rejects it

but a prayer or tear changes not divine

economy

or eternal order

sin shuts out light and blessings

and is the author of all tears and

prayers

wisdom helps those only who help

themselves

and cannot bless evil

it destroys sin only as man gives up sin

acting in this direction only as we act

we have seen patients who could not be

healed through science

until they gave up the belief of

mediumship

and controlled their own bodies

for man is not governed in science

except

by his own spirit

harmonious man is governed by the

principle of being

the inharmonious by a belief of

personality

therefore

the folly to desire personal control

that leads into all error

there is no truth except principle

the one god

and thou shouldst have no other

we learn in science that god and his

idea are all that is immortal

but mediumship would establish the

immortality of error

science reveals progression only

but mediumship

retrogression

should a pupil continue in the primary

school

when fitted for a higher school

if the departed are unfit for the

advanced understanding of life

through which they take a spiritual

place

in the scale of being beyond us

why impose their ignorance on us as

oracular

and think mediumship privileged to be a

strainer for error

that the so-called dead return to

torment us

or to comfort us

or to seek aid from us

is but a belief

and error

when wandering in australia

are you seeking comfort

or giving support to another

dwelling in the snow caverns of the

eskimo

two different dreams

or different awakenings

separate consciousness

what is named mediumship

is a phenomenon of belief

without reality or science

and we ought to know the consequences of

launching into new and stronger

fellowship with error

when we are already in it

up to our necks

in an age of sin and sensuality

hastening to greater development of

power

tis fearful to consider the influence of

belief without more honesty and

understanding

to steer clear of the fearful shoals on

this dangerous and unexplored coast

the peril of salem witchcraft even is

not passed

until that error be met by the

understanding

and destroyed

not the gallows but explanation

destroys error

science must be allowed to explain this

phenomenon of belief

in contradistinction to that of truth

and intelligence

controlling man

an evil and artful mind is all the satan

there is

and this is the fallen angel

or abused capacity

such a mind learning its control over

other minds

will take the reins into its teeth

and truth alone must take them out

and guide it

as of old this mind works its spell in

some manner on all it would harm

because the barriers against evil

influences from such a source

are not understood by the world in

general

and the door is not readily closed

against them

to this end

metaphysics are important

study mind more and matter less

for we must find refuge in soul

to escape the error of the latter days

and mediumship and mesmerism more than

all else contribute to a terrible future

development

of discord

we should strongly insist on the majesty

of truth and its control over error

and begin today

denying right or reality to ought but

god

and the true idea

saying

depart from me all ye that work iniquity

and thus break up the reign of error

and let the world of harmony and truth

reappear

if spirit returns were possible

they would grow beautifully less

at every advanced stage of existence

for the departed would pass away from

our ignorance

and we away from the belief of

mediumship

until the beliefs of matter were gone

and we

united through science

and the will of god done on earth

as it is done in heaven

the mind of soul has no fellowship or

communion with the so-called mind of the

body

the changing sinful and erring thought

is not immortal spirit

matter and brains are not mind

notwithstanding opinions and beliefs to

the contrary

but we welcome the increase of knowledge

even though it never has borne the

fruits of harmony and

immortality and never will approach the

demonstration that jesus gave

because knowledge must have its day

and we want that day over

the so-called mind of body is belief and

error

but the mind of soul

is understanding

even the science of being

paul learned

that to be present with truth

we must be absent to the body

but cain concluded very naturally

if man gave life

he had the right to take it away

and attempted to kill his brother

showing this belief of life in matter

or man

was error from the beginning

we name a mistaken thought

mind

while it is error only

without intelligence

but imitating it

without principle

but claiming to be truth

mistakes are impossible to understanding

and understanding is all the mind there

is

ignorance and evil

are not intelligence

soul is the only intelligence

and a creator not at the mercy of its

creation

we see

hear

feel etc

not because of eyes or

ears these faculties are symbols or

expressions of understanding

which is the mind of soul

the mind of body loses them if an organ

be destroyed

but they cannot perish or be marred in

spirit

the senses of soul are not matter

but

spirit that apprehend and reflect

intelligence

and life

hence

their immortality

inspiration is the utterance of soul

giving forth its own idea

or spiritual sense

it is safe to trust this communication

but it would no longer be so if matter

or personal sense interpreted it

the garment in which belief

error

hides itself is

that soul is in matter

holiness in unholiness

and literally

god in man

midnight foretells the dawn

and beholding a solitary star

the wise men of old were led by

spiritual vision

to foretell the hour of truth

but what shepherd sage today seeing the

light

is allowed to explain the darkness

the world is asleep

lulled by stupefying beliefs

in the cradle of infancy

dreaming away the hours under its spell

entering upon an unknown eternity

personal sense will be found as an

outlaw

escaping to a foreign land

where he is doomed to an unlooked for

death

the footsteps of belief have not

advanced man a single league toward

immortality

and the unwillingness to learn man and

god of science

holds christendom in chains

so much hypocrisy swells the catalog of

society

the honesty that demands demonstration

is not desired

and incurs the enmity of mankind

science never plays the hypocrite

to claim you understand a problem of

euclid and failed to demonstrate it

would exhibit folly

or dishonesty

but to solve the simple problem

according to its rule

proves you perceive the principle

science is the rule of harmonious and

immortal man

jesus the example

and christ the principle

this rule of man is embraced in life

love

and truth

and the spiritual sense of the scripture

reveals the science of being

the prophets did anciently what the

worshipers of baal failed to do

yet in some instances artifice and the

faith of belief feigned the work of

wisdom

necromancy and ledger domain are the

inventions of man

that originate in brains

or the so-called mind of matter

science is the mind of god

one proceeds from soul

and the other from sense

the beliefs of man manifest error only

but this is sometimes called a

phenomenon of truth

that proceeds from spirits

the phenomena of principle

are outside of matter and not in the

least dependent on person

mesmerism and mediumship

are dependent wholly on belief

or the so-called person of man

mind evolves images of thought

and these are the apparitions seen by

the so-called medium

it is not more mysterious

only because it is less common for us to

see

than to feel a thought

to feel the grief of another's mind is

not unusual

but we think

to see the mind's images of departed

friends

is to see them in reality

here are two equal senses

seeing

and feeling

that we separate in power

there are those that feel another's pain

as quickly as their own

the sick may not have touched them

or spoken on the subject

and yet they feel their pains

and can tell their locality

and this because of sympathy

the same as yawning is produced

seeing belongs no less to personal sense

or belief

than feeling

then why more difficult to see a thought

than to feel it

education alone determines the

difference

and in reality

it is not more marvelous

haunted houses

unusual noises

voices apparitions

dark seances etc

are tricks produced by tricksters

else they are images and sounds evolved

by mind on this plane

the mind of soul embraces all that is

real and immortal

and the so-called mind of body

which we name the mind of man

embraces all

that is unreal and mortal

truth proceeds from spirit

error from the material body

the mind of soul spirit is science

giving only the idea of truth

but the so-called mind of body or man

is belief giving false appearances

because there is no mind of man

that is no material mind

thoughts said to emanate from body or

brain are delusions

how may we determine the ideas of truth

from belief

by learning their origin

thoughts from the soul

are ideas

and from the brain

beliefs

the former proceed from spiritual sense

are not substance and are harmonious

the latter are the product of personal

sense

and are supposed substance at one time

and spirit at another

and are inharmonious

the former or understanding

the latter beliefs begotten of error

to love our neighbor as our self is an

idea from soul

yea

from wisdom

love and truth

and this idea personal sense cannot see

feel or understand

but spiritual sense can

the carnal mind cannot discern spiritual

things

matter is but a grosser strata of mortal

mind

wherein

one belief introduces and destroys

another

in darwinian process

as before stated

spirit is

intelligence whereas the basis of matter

is belief

the former is science

the latter

mesmerism

the body that is mortal

is an individualized belief

that germinates grows and decays

dust unto dust

and mortal man is just this belief

even a phenomenon of mesmerism

an error construing man

matter

excite the organ of veneration

or the religious tone of this belief

and it manifests the most profound

adoration

but changed the action to an opposite

development

and it blasphemes

mesmerism is a belief

constituting mortal mind

error is all there is to it

which is the very antipode of science

the immortal mind

the former is hallucination

the latter reality

one

a wholesale mistake

the other the truth of being

mesmerism assures the sick they are

recovering

when there is no evidence or basis for

this conclusion

turns belief whithersoever it wills

and is the blind leading the blind

nothing can be more antagonistic to

science

it hides the truth that man is the image

and likeness of god

and as such

cannot be sick

sinning or dying

and claims that mortal mind

and substance matter constitute man

thus admitting through personal sense

what soul denies in science

mesmerism is a direct appeal to personal

sense

proceeds from it

and derives its only prestige from

belief

it is predicated on the supposition that

life is in matter

and a nervo vital fluid at that

whereas

science reveals man's life

god

and therefore dwelling not in matter

mesmerism is error

and belief in conflict

but science masters error and belief

with the understanding of truth

and reveals man immortal

sinless

and undying

mesmerism is one error at war with

another

a kingdom divided against itself that

cannot stand

but science is harmonious and eternal

mesmerism is personal sense giving the

lie to its own statements

denying the pains but admitting the

pleasures of sense

whereas

science denies all sensation to matter

and holds the reins in the hands of

spirit

the gulf fixed between science and

mesmerism

is impassable

vitalized matter is a grave mistake

electricity is the last boundary between

personal sense and soul

and although it stands at the threshold

of spirit

it cannot enter into it

but the nearer matter approaches mind

the more potent it becomes

to produce supposed good or evil

the lightning is fierce

and the electric telegram swift

the more ethereal matter becomes

according to accepted theories

the more powerful it is

for example

the homeopathic drugs

steam and electricity

until possessing less and less

materiality

it passes into essence

and is admitted mortal mind

not intelligence but belief

not truth

but error

but the nearer belief approaches truth

without passing the boundary

where it is no longer belief

but understanding

the more plausible and dangerous is the

error

mesmerism attracts man to matter

science attracts to principle

therefore to spirit

or god

the more material man is

the more mesmerism he possesses

but the more spiritual

the less mesmerism

and the more science

and the higher his demonstration of

truth

in reality

brains and matter are one

but we call them mind and matter

but if the brain be the organ of mind

and to destroy this organ destroys

mortal mind

how can you distinguish between them

what we call mind and matter man

is mind only

but this mortal mind grows finer towards

the core

and we name its exterior matter

and the interior mind

in contradistinction to the truth of

being

that reveals all intelligence

outside of matter

the generic name of matter is mind

its different species

are the beliefs that say intelligence

life sensation

substance

good and evil

are matter

and the body called man

also

that spirit and matter commingle

and form mortal man

on the foundation of sickness

sin

and death

this theory

is not the truth of being

but its opposite

error

life is not organization

intelligence takes no cognizance of

matter

these are god

spirit

and to spirit

there is only principle and

idea the so-called man of matter

together with every material belief of a

material world

must pass away before sorrow

sickness

sin and death

can disappear

the millennial glory cometh only as

science reveals intelligence and life

outside of matter

alas

that man should take a material sword to

slay error

when the two-edged sword of truth

destroys it so much more effectually

the history of the chinese empire

derives its antiquity and renown

from the truer idea

the buddhist entertains of god

contrasted with the tyranny

intolerance and bloodshed

based on the belief that truth

life

and love are in matter

and the great jehovah formed after

error's pattern of mortal man

or intelligent matter

to suppose matter and spirit

mingle is the error that hides science

on which to base our conclusions of god

and man

of soul and body

and our proof of immortality

at one time

we define law intelligence

and again matter over which intelligence

holds no control

as in sickness sin

and death

the law of spirit

is the only law

and this is truth

destroying the so-called laws of nature

and its idea is walking the wave

destroying error

healing the sick

and raising the dead

this is soul

triumphing over personal sense

putting to flight belief

walking over sin

and matter conditions

jesus taught and proved this truth the

prerogative of spirit

and left his example for us saying

the works that i do ye shall do

paul was not one of his disciples or

contemporaries

and yet he tested these teachings

and demonstrated their principle

conclude man and the universe are

governed in general by material law

but occasionally that spirit walks over

this law

and holds the control in its own hands

is to divide the capacity of omnipotence

and wisdom

with matter

and to give the latter

the more general claim

these are the false conclusions of

belief

understanding rebels at such folly

mortal belief produces and governs all

that sins suffers and dies

there is but one law

and but one law giver

the former is science

the latter god

soul the only life

substance and intelligence of man and

the universe

and not in the least dependent on matter

conditions

or acting by reason of them

but destroying them all

this truth knocks at the door of history

it is for us to say

whether we will open and receive it

materia medica

hygiene

physiology

creeds and ritualism

will lose their power for good or evil

when man loses his belief in them

and makes life its own proof of harmony

and god

that which is right is immortal

and the opposite of right

is mortal

when truth lays its hands on error to

wipe it out

all will be growing immortal

but before the final doom of error

there will be interruptions in what we

call the order of nature

and earth will become dreary and

desolate

not that summer and winter

seedtime and harvest shall utterly cease

before the final spiritualization of all

things

but that their order will be interrupted

owing to the change in belief

the next step in progress

is to learn how mind controls matter and

how to destroy error

the science of being emancipates man

from belief

giving him understanding

through which his harmony and

immortality are obtained

there is neither mortal mind nor

substance matter

mind is the emanation and atmosphere of

principle

and not person

it proceeds from god

and not man

from spirit and not matter

from soul

and not sense

therefore mind is not in mortality

and man has not a separate mind from

deity

for that would make other intelligences

and there would be more than one god

when truth is admitted

and thinking brains and intelligent

bodies are found a myth

then will the harmony and immortality of

man and the universe appear

when we learn

matter has neither intelligence

substance nor life

and neither suffers nor enjoys

disease will be found a belief only

and healed by destroying this belief

and giving man the understanding of

himself

personal sense contradicts the science

of being

and so do dreams contradict the daily

experiences of sense

personal sense and science are opposites

that dispute each other

in dreams you fly

or meet a far-off friend

and hold your body with your mind

carrying it through the air

or over the ocean

and this dream of sleep is nearer man's

being in science

than the waking dream

of life in matter

because personal sense governs it

less the era of science comes in on this

statement and its proofs

that all is mined

and there is no matter

sickness sin and death are creations of

mortal mind

that life and truth destroy

order and beauty emanate from the mind

of soul

that is immortal

and the scientific statement that all is

mind

will gain its first proofs

in healing the sick on this principle

a single demonstration of this is

important evidence

a lady having an internal tumor

and greatly fearing a surgical operation

called on us

we conducted her case according to the

science here stated

never touched her person

or used a drug

or an instrument

and the tumor was wholly removed within

one or two days

we refer to this case to prove the

principle

we have stated all is mind

but the distinction between what we call

substance and essence

is made by naming one matter

and the other mind

christ understanding that soul and body

our intelligence and its idea

destroyed the belief that matter is

something to be feared

and that sickness and death are superior

to harmony and life

his kingdom was not of this world

he understood himself soul

and not body

therefore he triumphed over the flesh

over sin

and death

he came to teach and fulfill this truth

that established the kingdom of heaven

or reign of harmony on earth

the demonstration he made of this

principle and truth of being

is the strongest proof that god is the

only intelligence that produces a

perfect man

and is the life that is without death

and holiness

without sin

only the science of being reveals the

possibility of meeting the command

be ye perfect

even as your father in heaven

the principle of man

is perfect

let us then yield the belief that man is

a separate intelligence from god

and reach his unerring principle of

being

and be governed by life and love

outside of matter

as music is harmonious

controlled by its principle

so man governed by his principle of

being

by soul and not sense

is harmonious

sinless

and immortal

the error of belief regarding soul and

body

and god and man

introduces discord into the

demonstration of man

even the sickness sin and death of which

we complain

the idea of life

is obtained only from its perfect

principle

and gained through science in which man

is sinless and immortal

sickness sin and death

belong not more naturally to immortal

man

than to god

to body

than to soul

for it is morally impossible that these

should adhere to either

and what gave jesus authority over

sickness sin and death

was the understanding of his scientific

being

he stood boldly up in the face of all

accredited evidences of personal sense

pharisaical creeds

etc

and refuted them all with his healing

we never read of his saying

a creed or a prayer makes a christian

or searching into disease to learn of

discord if it was acute or chronic

recommending laws of health

giving drugs

etc

or even asking the will of god regarding

man's life

for this he already understood

he reckoned sickness sin and death

liars from the beginning

and destroyed them with the truth of

being that was self-evident to him

and his only physician

he kept the commandment

thou shalt have no other gods before me

and we must do likewise

and adopt this truth of being

before we obtain its harmony

or immortality

while jesus rendered to caesar the

things that were caesar's

he also rendered to god the things that

were his

that is

truth

life

and love

and we too

should acknowledge these

god

and sufficient to destroy every discord

of man

jesus paid no homage to diplomas

to forms of church worship

or the theories of man

but acted and spake as he was moved by

spirit

the principle of being

to the believing rabbi and pharisee he

said

even the publicans and harlots go into

the kingdom of heaven before you

not that he scoffed at christianity

but he knew

there is neither spirit

life

nor truth in mere forms of religion

and that a man can be baptized

partake of the sacrament

support the clergy

observe the sabbath day

and make long prayers

while yet a sensualist and hypocrite

forms of personal worship

may not be voluntarily wrong

but involuntarily so

inasmuch as they hinder the spirit

to be a hypocrite in the science of

christianity

is morally impossible

for here

christianity is based on demonstration

or proof

and yet many will come falsely in its

name

as predicted

when god is understood

man will need nothing besides god

to make him healthy and harmonious

jesus established his church on this

very understanding

and taught his followers it cast out

error

and healed the sick

instead of believing christ a person

he said

christ is truth and life

and i and the father are one

thus claiming no separate intelligence

action or life

from god

and despite the persecution and cross

this earned from a pharisee

he wrought out on its principle

harmonious being

the question was then as now

at issue with mankind

how did jesus through christ

his god-being

heal the sick

jesus answered this question

in the explanation that the world

rejects

when he appealed to his students

thinking they would better understand

him

and asked

whom do men say that i am

referring to the eye

that healed and cast out error

and they replied

some say elias

others jeremiah

etc

but these men were dead

therefore

their answer implied that some thought

jesus a medium

controlled by the so-called spirits of

the departed

we cannot doubt the belief of mediumship

prevailed to some extent at that time

for herod had before given the same

definitions of christ's healing

saying

john the baptist has come back

and therefore mighty works show forth

themselves in him

that this wicked king and debauched

husband

should gain no higher interpretation of

the science of being

and the great work our master did was

not surprising

a sinner could not be supposed to

comprehend this science

if the disciples understood it not fully

they comprehended his spiritual

explanations

better than did others

but the connection they had with man's

physical harmony

or their application to heal the sick

they did not yet fully understand

so their master patiently persisted in

teaching and demonstrating to them

that the truth of being healed the sick

cast out error

and raised the dead

this science of life

was not comprehended by his students

until his final demonstration

when their great teachers stood before

them the victor

not only over sickness and sin

but over death

in secret yearnings to be better

understood

the master turned in confidence to peter

saying

but whom say ye that i am

this inquiry meant simply

who or what is it that casts out error

and heals the sick

and because he turned from the other

disciples answer

and put anew the question to peter

it plainly indicated he disapproved the

belief he was a medium as he had before

signified saying

i and the father are one

peter's reply

so unlike the others

admitting he was christ truth

that healed the sick and cast out error

called forth the answer

our father in heaven

that is the principle of man

hath shown thee this

in the science of being

and also

that jesus is the son of god

the offspring of soul

and not sense

on this principle

and with this truth

he wrought all his so-called miracles

it was not man

or medicine that healed the sick

but god

not matter that controlled man

but spirit that controlled matter

this

his interpretation of god and man

was the rock or foundation

on which jesus built his church

that is

established his demonstration of truth

god

against which the gates of error could

not prevail

but there was neither a creed nor right

named in it

and mediumship

plainly denied

to be christlike

is to triumph over sickness

sin and death

to open the prison doors to the captive

that is

to break the fetters of personal sense

and give to being

full scope and recompense

this is the ultimate of the command to

love our neighbor as our self

and an idea from soul

yea

from wisdom

love and truth

but this idea

personal sense cannot see

feel

or understand

whereas spiritual sense can

the carnal mind cannot discern spiritual

things

this idea is vague to personal sense

but to spiritual sense it is harmony

to favor his faults conciliates the man

of error

but it prolongs discord

belief produces all the errors of

personal sense

and soul condemns them

those hated by personal sense are loved

of soul and for the very things

sense hates them

the foundation error that makes a mortal

man is

that personal sense is truth

the next

that it is pleasure

the third

that it is pain

but from this point dates its

destruction

hence the so-called pain of personal

sense

is comparatively encouraging

it being productive of less sin than its

pleasure

but personal sense suffers only from

imaginary selfhood

its pleasures and pains

are all unreal

the belief that matter has life and

substance

is the error that produces all suffering

sin

and death

the chemical action of truth on this

error

will destroy it

truth gives the idea of spirit substance

and destroys all supposed matter

substance

while error gives the belief of matter

substance

and hides the idea of spirit substance

immortal man is an idea of spirit

substance

life

and intelligence

but the mortal is a belief that

intelligence life and substance

are in matter

the idea of substance guided by

understanding

becomes the infinite idea

even as the soul of immortal man

is the infinite principle

mortal man is a belief of intelligence

substance and life in the body

therefore

of a limited infinite

to let oneself out of this nutshell

we must understand the scientific

relationship between god and man

or principle

and its idea

but before this is really understood

the interval will be filled with

approaches to it through belief

and this will be attended with doubt

discord

and sin

the material world at a future date

will become a spectacle of disorder and

dismay on one hand

and of science on the other

there will be convulsions of mind and

consequently of matter

spasms of error

earthquakes

famine

and pestilence

sickness will become more acute

and death more sudden

but to those who understand this hour

as explained in the science of being

length of days will increase

and harmony and immortality be near even

at the door

knowledge will then diminish

and lose estimate in the sight of man

and spirit

instead of matter be made the basis of

generation

at this period

phenomena will be spiritually discerned

but there will be strong conflicting

opinions and results

those understanding life scientifically

will hold in check those

letting go of old opinions

who would hang an md a mesmerist or a

medium

thus curbing the violence of old beliefs

exercising retributive vengeance

the truly scientific

will be a law to themselves of love

wisdom and truth

and do violence to no man

neither accuse any falsely

sin will make deadly thrusts at the

science of life

as penal code goes out to give place to

higher law

but those controlled by soul

will spare the rod contrary to the

religious persecutions of past history

and save the urine from the gallows and

gibbet

the martyrs will be the adherence to

science in the coming centuries

and today

their fate is foreshadowed

in coming years

the person or mind that hates his

neighbor

will have no need to traverse his fields

to destroy his flocks and herds

and spoil his

vines or to enter his house to

demoralize his household

for the evil mind will do this through

mesmerism

and not in propria persona

be seen committing the deed

unless this terrible hour be met and

restrained by science

mesmerism

that scourge of man

will leave nothing sacred when mind

begins to act under direction of

conscious power

sensuous man makes war to the death on

his enemies

but the spiritual pours blessings on

them

unseen

and unacknowledged

like the chamomile that crushed yields

the sweetest odor

spiritual minds emit an atmosphere of

truth that blesses their enemies

and destroys error

while it is persecuting them

but stir the evil sensual mind

and worse than the deadly yupas are the

plagues it emits

those who gain the essential points of

the science of life

will suffer from the sensual world

more than even the primitive prophets

and disciples did

but the science of being

supports its followers amid shoals and

quicksands

spirituality is the only christianity

and its basis is

to be absent from the body and present

with the lord

sensuality is personality ever present

with the body

we have already sufficient professions

of goodness without the spirit

too many religions and not enough

christianity

is the genius of the age

man knows already too well

how to make long prayers

to be heard for his much speaking

and to enlarge the pharisaical borders

to steal in private

and give in public

but this is political

not christian

economy

what we want is

christ and him crucified

in other words

truth

and the cross bearing that attends it

to make mankind better

because a man has uttered the law and

tend commandments to fashionable

audiences

some quarter of a century

it does not follow that he can

demonstrate the christianity of the

prophets

and of jesus who cast out error

and healed the sick

sometimes people resort to a cup of tea

or coffee

to help them preach

as if matter was superior to truth in

this direction

is the truth we utter matter

or god

and if the latter

giving does not impoverish

nor withholding enrich

have we less of the spirit that is god

for having given utterance to it

and is matter or spirit our strength

because a man has obtained a high social

and public position

are we to conclude he must be a good man

the soft palm upturned to a lordly

salary

and architectural power

making dome inspire tremulous with

beauty

that turns the poor in stranger from the

gate

shuts the door on christianity

it is a skeleton of religion

that requires a doctor of physic

to save the body

and a doctor of divinity

to save

what

immortal soul

that is already saved

this is not having christ in you the

hope of glory

nor does it cast out devils and heal the

sick

the manger and cross

tell in vain their story to pride and

prejudice

taking wealth

popularity and sensuality by the right

hand

takes god by the left

and palsies that hand

making moral lepers

instead of christians

hear our master's words on this subject

ye cannot serve god and mammon

ministers should make the pulpit the

rostrum of truth

whipping creeds and pride out of their

synagogues

to let in humility

and the science of god

using those strong arguments

cords that jesus twisted together

to scourge out of synagogues the money

changers

and make them temples of truth

the prophet of today

beholds in the spiritual horizon

the bow of promise

the demonstration of christianity that

our master gave is again required

and no other sign shall be given you

christianity brings with it

a phenomenon

that will be misinterpreted by the

material age in which it appears

because

it is the phenomenon of soul

and not

matter that personal sense cannot

comprehend

but when spiritually discerned

will be found to destroy sickness

sin

and death

creeds doctrines and beliefs do not

express it

much less can they demonstrate it

we must understand god

to demonstrate truth

jesus of nazareth

the fittest teacher of mankind possessed

this understanding

but the scorning rabbi

the rival pharisee

gethsemane and the cross

were ready to devour him

over 18 centuries ago

the mere religionist was willing to hail

christ truth

with pomp and scepter

but it came not thus

and though the modern scourge is a scoff

instead of the lash

the doors of some churches are quite as

effectually closed against christ today

as then

truth bids man watch

but is there guard or control held over

personal sense by mere religionists

the christianity of jesus

was the science of being

it destroyed sickness sin and death

denied personal sense

bore the cross

and reached the right hand of god

even the perfect principle of man

our master

meekly

and yet as a victor

bore the mockery of his self-conscious

god-being

he maketh himself as god

was the foundation of all accusations

against him

and the indignities he met his followers

must now meet

until this truth is understood

he overcame the world

temptations

and sins proving their nothingness

he wrought through the science of being

the example of salvation from sin

sickness and death

and established the proof

that he was christ

and that christ is god

the soul and life of man

every good word and work of our master

evoked but denial

in gratitude and persecution

from sensualism and malice

of the ten lepers he healed but one

returned to give god thanks

that is

to acknowledge the principle that healed

him

therefore

but one interpreted his healing a right

and yet he wrought on for his enemies

he felt their sicknesses

but more he felt their sins

despised and rejected of men

yet returning blessing for cursing

his spirituality must destroy their

materiality

and through his stripes must they be

healed

because error had felt the blow truth

gave it

the scourge and cross awaited jesus

the man of sorrows was not in danger

from salaries or popularity

deserving the homage of a world and

sharing preeminently the approval of

soul

brief was his triumphant entry into

jerusalem

and followed by the desertion of all

save a few mourners at the cross

this is what it means to be spiritual in

an age of materiality

the impossibility for worldly favor to

attend christianity

is seen in its great moral distance from

it

when personal sense approves soul

condemns

and where man praises

god receives no thanks

one of the evidences of materialism and

error is when the belief of life in

matter

is full of worldly prosperity

history informs us that jesus

feeling the gross materialism that

surrounded him

at times experienced a momentary

weakness

and turning asked

who hath touched me

the more material thought this inquiry

was occasioned by contact with his body

but he knew it was mind in the multitude

that called on him for aid to destroy

its beliefs

and make it more spiritual

even as himself

his quick apprehension of this

arose from his spirituality

and their misconception

from their materiality

not that he deserved less the advantages

of adroitness

because of his goodness

but possessing the insight and honor

that cometh from soul only

he had less personal sense

these two

come from opposite directions

and the treasures of our master were

laid up in spirit

not matter

christianity turns from sense to soul

as naturally as the flower turns from

darkness to light

those things i hath not seen

or ear heard

neither hath it entered into the heart

of man to conceive

belong to it

paul and the loving john

had a very clear sense of the science of

being

they knew a man achieves not worldly

honors except he labors for them

and lays a sacrifice upon the altar of

mammon

by giving his affections to the world

and they also knew

to make this offering to wealth or fame

was not to leave all for christ truth

that comes from the opposite direction

and from opposite means and aims

also

that a man walks in the direction he is

looking

and that where his treasure is

there is his heart also

if our hopes are spiritual

we are not looking or yearning for the

material

but will wear the image and likeness of

god

at any worldly cost

in reality we are coming out from the

world of sense

and being separated from it

the favor of sectarianism

the homage of wealth

and smiles of ambition

flee before christianity

but wisdom crowns its brow

if my friends are going to europe and i

am making my way to california

we are no longer journeying together

but have separate time boards to consult

and different routes to pursue

in fine

our paths have parted

and we have no interests in common to

help each other on in opposite

directions

but if they will pursue my course

i will give them my railroad guide

and interest myself to make their

passage pleasant

or

if i will take theirs

they will help me on

and our companionship will continue

thus the scientist must choose his

course

and be honest

acting consistent with that choice

his route lies not with the world of

sense

and if he gravitates through the world

he is like a man who travels one day

east and another west

but thinking the passage west a more

fashionable route

the company more alluring

and its pleasures more enticing

changes tactics and journeys six days

westerly

and the seventh day toward the east

vehemently protesting he is traveling in

one direction only

you would say of that man

he is untrue and cannot be trusted

and don't let him cajole you into the

belief

he is really going east

because he produces from his pocket a

ticket

earned by some toil worn pilgrim

who has explored the way

and from whom he begged it

and with this passport

means to make his passage

unless a man advances spiritually

he is not scientific

and if he is scientific he must start

honestly

and journey some every day

and however long he is in reaching the

desired goal

if his honesty be preserved

he will finish his course

many starting with the letter of science

will omit the spirit

and make shipwreck of their course

we must not only seek

but strive

or we cannot enter the narrow path of

science

for broad is the opposite one of sense

that leadeth to destruction

and many go in there at

jesus experienced few of the so-called

pleasures of personal sense

perhaps he knew its pains

for he bore our infirmities that through

his stripes we might be healed

truth in contact with error produced

chemicalization

hence our master's sufferings came

through contact with sinners

but christ the soul of man never

suffered

jesus mapped out the path of the science

of being

and through poverty of sense was

enriched by soul

but to those buried in the belief of

life in matter

and insisting that we see alone with

eyes and hear with ears

and feel through nerves

he said

having eyes ye see not

and ears ye hear not

that ye might understand and be

converted

and i might heal you

their belief of personal sense shut out

the communications of soul

hence the saying

ye cannot serve two masters

jesus adhered to one only

was guided by spiritual sense

therefore

the sensualism of the age separated from

him

and hated him

his affections were pure

there's carnal

his senses were truth

theirs but error

therefore love with him was spiritual

science

with them

it was material sense

their imperfection and impurity

felt his perfection and purity

and ever-present rebuke

hence the world's hatred of the just and

more spiritual jesus

and the prophet's foresight of the

reception it would give him

the people knew not how to interpret

their uncomfortableness

arising from his presence with them

and the chemical changes he instituted

in their being

when those opposites met

had they understood the meaning of the

stir it produced

they would

like peter

have wept at the warning

and begun a warfare with personal sense

that opposed truth

they in their ignorance of the science

of life

never regarded the fact that the good

are hated only by the evil

while the former suffer for the latter

in life-long sacrifice

he bore their sins in his own person

that is

he felt the suffering their error

brought

and through this consciousness

destroyed error

had the master utterly conquered the

belief of life in matter

he would not have felt their infirmities

he had not yet risen to this his final

demonstration

or had he partaken equally of their

sensuous being

he would not have so suffered from them

nor they from him

by overcoming his own temptations he had

measurably conquered for them

even while they knew it not

he demonstrated purity and truth

and their power to heal the sick

and assured others they might give his

demonstration

but for their disbelief in its science

though they saw not his righteousness

they must all gain the harmony of being

from the truth he taught

and plant their demonstration on the

foundations he laid

on what he had experienced for them

and poured liberally into their ears

this was the cup drank by the pioneer of

the science of life

by him who came with those higher proofs

and practices of truth and love

unperceived by the age in which they

appeared

they neither understood him

nor his works

and would not accept his explanation

who did understand them

anomalous though it seems

i have no doubt that jesus was shunned

and deemed a bad man at the period of

his public labors

by all

saved the few unpretentious ones

whose christianity enabled them to

understand him

this was the cup drank to the dregs by

our master

he also spake of those who followed him

drinking this very cup

which must indeed be the case if they

are in advance of the public sentiment

referring to himself as doing nothing

beyond the ability of others to do

he said

the works i do ye shall do

and greater

before this he had established the

platform that a tree is known by its

fruits

indicating

if they healed the sick on the principle

that he healed

they must be christians

though it is in vain we stretch our

weary wings to the full realization of

that saying today

yet

in centuries to come

i look for its fulfillment

whosoever shall triumph over personal

sense

and lay down his earthly all on the

altar of the science of being

will drink his cup

and be able to give the demonstration of

healing the sick

casting out error

raising the dead

and triumphing over the grave

that our blessed master gave for our

example

but earth hath no recompense for such a

life

personal sense can neither give nor

receive this reward

the understanding of god is its only

recompense that lifts being above mortal

discord

and gives it immortal harmony

a person may reward unjustly

but principle cannot

that we receive all deserved punishment

on earth

is quite as false

as that all our rewards are mundane

and who that toils and sacrifices

unceasingly

bearing the cross

only to see their existence mocked

will say this is sufficient from the

hand of love

or again

that those have suffered all they have

to experience

who still gloating in sensuality and

hypocrisy

or murder and repine

succeeding in all villainies up to the

time they pass suddenly from sight in

this loathsomeness

are pardoned

and pushed straight into glory

their punishment here was certainly

insufficient to reform them

which is the design of wisdom

and the good man's heaven

would be to them a hell

how can they find bliss impurity and

truth

to whom these are the very opposites of

themselves

there is nothing in mercy or love

that can pardon the necessity in science

for sinners to suffer after death

to destroy the penalty due to sin

would be for truth to pardon error

in which case the sinner is no wiser for

what he has experienced

for if he escapes the punishment he

deserves

it is not according to god's government

in which justice is the handmaid of

mercy

for sin to produce suffering

is the only way to destroy it

to him who believes in the pleasures of

sin

when man admits there is no pleasure in

sin

he has begun to save himself

contemplating history from every moral

data

down to the present

we learn the faith in christ truth

that caused our martyrs to be burned

and the rights of man to be christened

on the gallows

repeats itself in the just suffering for

the unjust

then how has god pardoned sin

we all suffer because of sin

and must

until science destroys sin

and its sufferings

did the martyrdom of john brown make one

of the crimes of jefferson davis less

or less deserving its reward

what awaits the god-inspired martyr

is the crown of thorns here

and the victor's palm hereafter

but what awaits the pampered hypocrite

is the laurel here

and the thorns there

the demonstration jesus gave of god

did for the world more than a problem

wrought and explained in mathematics

does for the learner

it taught the human race how to

demonstrate a right the principle

that is god

and if this demonstration had been

understood

man would have reached the example of

jesus

and solved his being

harmoniously air this

the martyr spirit

is the stepping stone

from the human to the divine

martyrs are the luminaries of soul that

go down to personal sense

like the sun

to appear again in the amplitude of

their being

when sensuality shall give place to

spirituality

and the leader's standpoint is reached

truth is self-conscious right

that brings its own reward

but not amid the smoke of battle is it

seen

or appreciated

the personal belief of god that holds

spirit person instead of principle

making soul intelligent matter

and possessing all the tyranny and

passion a belief of life in matter

manifests

was the very error that crucified jesus

and that today

is shutting out the reign of harmony

jesus knew there was but one god

hence

that man's intelligence was god

and not man

principle and not person

therefore said he

i and the father are one

and because of this scientific statement

and the demonstration it brought with it

the rulers cried out

crucify him

he maketh himself as god

and what further witness need we against

him

today this very statement is met with

the same opposition from sensualism it

ever was

and why

because it cuts off right hands

and plucks out eyes by denying personal

sense

and lays the ax at the root of the tree

cutting off the medium of all sin

god is perfect

and if there be no other intelligence

we can have no

imperfection

the only way to destroy error is to

divest it of supposed intelligence

by which

it can give pain

or pleasure

now to admit there is a separate

intelligence from good

called evil

is the error that admits two powers

namely

god

and devil

simultaneous

but gives superiority

and all worldly success to the latter

this error is waning somewhat

and today

his satanic majesty is not deemed so

much a distinct individual

as a universal power

the next step in progress is to learn

there is no devil

that error and sin have no intelligence

the scriptures deny ought but god

and his creation

and assert there was nothing made

without him

while

out of the mouth of the most high

proceedeth not good and

evil in other words

that god never made a demon

for a pure fountain sends not forth

corrupt streams

and nothing but god is self-existent

jesus stripped all disguise from this

error

had he only been understood

he explained it impossible to have

another intelligence than god

or for him to create evil

and demonstrated this by healing the

sick

and casting out devils

showing

that god destroyed satan instead of

making it

in other words

that truth destroys error

by proving its nothingness

the personal belief that man is a

separate mind from god

and that this mind comprehends

feels and exists

an entity within the cranium

and sins and suffers

ablabetum

is the only personal devil there is

and the one we should begin to cast out

this error is not the result of brains

but is a belief that brains are

intelligence

in other words

that god is in matter

it is not the result of intelligence in

matter

but a belief that matter is intelligent

not the product of man's mind

but a belief

there is mind in man

and this belief is delusion

and delusion

error

do you ask who or what is it that

believes

in so much as you admit god is not the

author of error

and that all things were made by him

and without him nothing was made

we answer

no one believes

it is only that error is a belief

and a belief is error

the prerogative of soul is understanding

but personal sense has no claims

whatever to

this

we need not cite anatomy

physiology

materia medica etc

that place intelligence in personal man

but will cover the ground with the

scripture metaphor

that named belief

the tree of knowledge

whence sprang sickness

sin

and death

a belief

is not intelligence

nor its result

neither god

nor the result of this principle

it is not soul

nor its manifestation

what then is it

the opposite of soul

called brains and personal sense

error is the opposite of intelligence

and imitates it only by falsehood

calling principle

person

god

man

thus presupposing man intelligent matter

is it an error to believe truth

it is impossible to do this

all we receive of truth comes through

the understanding

the so-called mind of man can be

deranged or destroyed by a blow on the

cranium

but intelligence

that governs man in the universe

is not lost

intelligence is life love and truth

and by no means personal sense

sin

sickness and death

the mind of intelligence

understands

and never believes

and the body of intelligence is

spiritual

not material

idea

and not substance

yea

it is the reflex shadow of soul

even man that is the image and likeness

of god

what besides this we name man

is but a belief

and error

dust to dust

hereby we learn a lie is all the satan

there is

and marking its footsteps we gain this

proof

all the discords of earth proceed from

false conceptions of god and man

besides

falsehood preys on harmony in society

and hides individual character

truth is generally unperceived

because a lie is a more natural

conclusion for the wicked

expose sin

and it turns the lie on you

a sinner for the time prospers in secret

wrongdoing

until the final hour

that whatsoever is hidden shall be

revealed

we must tell the truth concerning sin

and sinners

because of the moral necessity

not to cover iniquity

they will deny what we say of course

but at the same time it produces the

desired effect

and we receive our reward

for it introduces new light

and makes sinners afraid to repeat the

offense

when they are found out

the higher you rise in the scale of

truth

the more intense and multiplied are the

lies concerning you

the louder god speaks

the higher the devil lifts its voice to

be heard above

him the more truth you bring

the more error is stirred by it

until the final conquest

on the side of right

jesus taught his students the science he

understood

but they never reached his demonstration

and rose toward it only as they followed

implicitly his directions

it is of little importance whether

self-abnegation

and faithfulness are rewarded in the

present or future

their recompense is sure

there must be a going out of personal

sense

and coming in of the spiritual

to understand the science of being

and to give a higher sense of

omnipotence whereby

to control man and matter

jesus taught and practiced the science

of being

tested the reception it would meet

before it was understood

and not withstanding the malice that

error aimed at truth

fulfilled his soul mission

triumphed over since

and sat down at the right hand of the

father

having solved being on its principle

which is truth

life

and love

he who was god

and not in man

was no respecter of persons

therefore claimed no personal worship

persecuted from city to city

he went about doing good

for which he was maligned

and stoned

jesus taught us

principle is god

and god is love

but pharisee and priest affirmed god is

person

that can love and hate

truth that is felt is hated by the

sinner

for it cuts off right hands

plucks out the eyes and calls on him to

become wise

the belief of god in matter

or a personal deity

never yet made a christian

and will go down in a moral chemical

that has already begun

and will continue

until god is admitted soul

outside of sense and the only

intelligence

the basis of all health

sinlessness and immortality

is the one great truth

that god is the only intelligence

and for this truth

the great teacher of the science of life

was martyred

the reward of our master was not on

earth

and not in matter

but spirit

while all his sufferings came from the

materiality of the age

and were not because

of his own sins

but the sins of others

then was it just for him to suffer

no

but it was inevitable in this wicked

world

where the good suffer because of the

evil

even as the evil derive blessings from

the good

jesus taught us

that the way of truth is the way of

salvation

which is spiritual

material religion consists of rites

ceremonies a personal god etc

but this is not christianity

70 students jesus sent forth whom he had

faithfully taught

but of twelve only have we any a special

record

and one of those had a devil

his final crucifixion drew near the hour

of triumph over personal sense

and all the pains this world could

occasion

the hour that gave the highest proof of

the science of being

proof so important to mankind

judas thought to take advantage of the

world's ingratitude to his teacher

and betray him

into the hands of his enemies

for thirty pieces

and the smile of a pharisee

well did the pitiful traitor know his

time

for the world was then in mystery

concerning him and his teachings

perhaps judas feared the period

approached that should reveal the great

goodness

which enabled his master to demonstrate

above him

and to rebuke the sinner as none other

could

the moral distance between himself and

his teacher

had already created his enmity

wherein

greed for gold held empire over

gratitude

he also knew the sensuous world loved a

judas

better than it did at jesus

and this was another point through which

to victimize his teacher

and raise himself with the people

judas had all the world's weapons

jesus none of them

therefore he chose not to defend himself

before those who understood not that

defense

so he opened not his mouth

the great exponent of truth and love

silent before error and hate

they to whom he had given the highest

proofs of the science of being

misinterpreted them

and said derivingly

he maketh himself as god

those who turn aside the right of a man

before the face of the most high

esteemed him stricken and smitten of god

he was brought as a lamb to the

slaughter

and as a sheep dumb before her shearers

and who should declare his generation

who in future should say whence cometh

truth

and answer the question

what is truth

the rabbis could not decide this

momentous inquiry

they must wait on the centuries

but the women at the cross dared say he

was right

who had inspired their devotions

winged their faith with understanding

healed the sick

cast out error

and caused those he sent forth to say

even devils are subject to us through

thy name

but where were the seventy whom he had

taught

were all conspirators save eleven

had they forgotten his weary years of

explanations and patient waiting

all his labors of love as day by day he

taught them the science of life

and spake to them the truth of man

could they not give him even a cup of

cold water in its name

and satisfy for a moment his yearning

for one proof of their fidelity

to what he had taught

from early boyhood he had been about his

master's business

and they about theirs

but their masters were unlike

one was spirit

and the other matter

one god

the other

man

one was soul

the other personal sense

he had suffered and experienced for them

to give liberally his dearbot bounty

unto their famine

but what was his reward

forsaken of all

save a loving few

who knelt in woe

at the scene of his crucifixion

peter would have smitten the enemies of

his master

but he bad him put up the sword

and take not the world's weapons to

defend truth

jesus disdaining artifice or brute

courage

when truth could not protect him from

the false accusation

was able to submit to a felon's death

his mission was to vindicate a principle

and not a person

while their highest ambition was the

applause of man

jesus could no doubt have withdrawn from

his enemies

but he permitted them the opportunity to

destroy his body mortal

that he might furnish the proof of his

immortal body

in corroboration of what he had taught

that the life of man was god

and that body and soul

are inseparable

the opposite belief was the error he

came to destroy

neither spear nor cross could harm him

let them think to kill the body

and after this

he would convince those he had taught

this science

he was not dead

and possessed the same body as before

why his disciples saw him after the

burial when others saw him not

was because they understood better his

explanations of this phenomenon

he had given them the principle of it

in healing the sick

hence the unsatisfied malignity of his

foes

that he was not dead

but furnished a higher demonstration

than ever

of the principle he taught

and for which

they had hoped to kill him

another important feature was

that he sought not the protection of law

from their unjust wrath

but chose in every instance

to demonstrate the higher law that

governed being

that cast out error

healed the sick

and was about to prove its triumph over

death

over the beliefs of personal sense and

life and substance in matter

jesus knew the body is but a reflex

shadow of immortal soul

also

that it is impossible to lose this

for as the scripture saith

it is the image of god

alone

the meek demonstrator of god

and fittest teacher of man

met his fate

no eye to pity

no arm to save

he who had saved others

a solemn faithful sentinel at the

threshold of the great truth he would

establish

unprotected by man

was ready to be transformed by its

renewing

he had taught what he was about to prove

that life was god

and superior to all conditions of matter

above the wrath of man

and able to triumph over the cross and

grave

in the garden night walk that hour of

gloom and glory

the utter error of supposed life in

matter

its pain

ignorance

superstition

malice and hate

reached him in their fullest sense

his students slept

can you not watch with me one hour

was the supplication of the great

spiritual teacher

but receiving no response to this last

human yearning

he turned forever away from earth to

heaven from sense to soul

and from man

to god

the triumph of soul over sense demanded

by the great principle of being must be

proved

and jesus availed himself of life and

glory outside of matter

in this supreme hour

and final demonstration of the science

of being

and yet

viewing its utter magnitude

and feeling the lack of all human

sympathy

he momently exclaimed

hast thou forsaken me

had this appeal been made to a person

we might have doubted the justice or

affection of that father who for an

instant could withhold the clear

recognition of his presence to sustain

and bless

so faithful a son

but it was not made to a person

it was made to truth

life

and love

the principle he was to prove

and the momentary fear was

that his understanding

of these

was not sufficient to meet that hour of

the world's hate

jesus knew god is love

that he not man was love

in so much as love is soul

and not personal sense

but suppose this recognition should

falter under stress of circumstances

what would his accusers say

even what they did

that truth should be confounded

and there should be no reappearing of

jesus

the weight of mind bearing on him at

that hour from the throng of

disbelievers

in the great principle

for which he was crucified

weighed heavily

not the spear

nor the cross

but the ingratitude of the world drew

forth the half-suppressed

ali

zabakthani

that unpinioned for a moment the wings

of faith

the world's hatred of truth caused that

moment of agony

harder to bear than the cross

up the hill of grief

a life that was love

all the good he did

rewarded with a cup of gall

behold the sweat of blood falling in

holy benediction on the grass of

gethsemane

and say was christianity then the

privileged of earth

and can the followers today of that

truth

so persecuted then

expect the world's approval

principle bestows few poems

until we reach through demonstration

its fullness

love must triumph over hate

and truth and life over error and death

before the thorns are laid off for the

crown of glory

and well done

good and faithful

bestows immortal honors

our master had realized and demonstrated

the science of life

when he was found talking with his

disciples after the burial

and whom the rabbis had hoped to bury in

a sepulchre

today

is acknowledged god

and this god

and this truth

that jesus taught and proved over 18

centuries ago

in days to come

will be understood

soul triumphed over personal sense

and said to death

where is thy sting

and where thy victory

grave

but many who saw this phenomenon

misconstrued it

his disciples even

called him a spirit

but his reply was

spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye

see me have

jesus demonstrated man's unchanged

condition after what we call

death also

that spirit is not person or man

and to convince thomas of this

he caused him to examine the prince of

the nails and spear

he proved for time and eternity

that death is but a belief of personal

sense

because life is spirit

alias god

and god the immortality and soul of man

but those consenting to the martyrdom of

a righteous man

were only willing out of their wicked

work to make a doctrinal platform for

saving souls

his students

not sufficiently advanced to understand

the lesson of that hour

performed not their wonderful healing

until their master reappeared

and talked with them of its science

and at length

rose out of their sight

that is

his third demonstration

was so beyond their understanding

we have no farther record of him to

explain

then received they the holy ghost

in other words

the fuller interpretation that science

gives of god

and wrought after the example of their

teacher

when they had no longer a person

but a principle to lean upon

in the crucifixion of our master

human error and divine truth met

and truth conquered through the man of

sorrows

who best understands the nothingness of

life in matter

and the substance of life truth and love

because jesus was the fuller

manifestation of spirit

therefore the higher representative of

god among men

the world of sense hated him

fully comprehending this

he said to his disciples

you hath it loved but me hath it hated

proving that mortal man is not allied to

life

truth or love

that personal sense is the very opposite

of soul

in its attractions

joys and sorrows

herod and pilate could lay aside old

feuds

to unite in putting to derision and

death

the best man on earth

they could take up common cause against

the exponent of truth

because they both secretly hated it

and were united in their malice against

him that upheld it

to get rid of jesus and his accusing

wisdom

was the design of them both

said the rabbi and pharisee

he stirreth up seditions

he maketh himself as god

he is a glutton and a wine bibber

he casteth out devils through beelzebub

and is the friend of sinners

the last was the only correct view taken

of him

because his life was nearer truth

he was more belied than all other men

and because he was the friend of sinners

he failed not to rebuke them pointedly

and unflinchingly

hence they regarded him their strongest

enemy

and so he was

the strongest foe to error

but the friend of man

through demonstration

jesus established the foundations of the

science of life

controlled matter

and proved intelligence neither matter

nor man

but the principle of man

able to hold and govern the body

and to destroy

sin

sickness and death

people's opinions of jesus

were the very opposite of the man

and mark you wisely what will be said

today of the science he taught and its

followers

and see if there be no resemblance

between the reception it received in the

past

and that accorded it at present

we have few demonstrators today

in part even

of the great truth taught by jesus

but we hesitate not to say it is the

privilege and possibility of all

christians

to follow his example

and what they claim to do

but they must keep his first command to

heal the sick

as proof

they understand this example

and the principle that healed

we see some amelioration of the stake

and gibbet in this age

but the vengeance with which doctrines

and beliefs pursue truth

has not ceased in this century

when the science of being's purity

confronts the impurity of sense

and

humanitarianism lifts a voice above

sectarianism

blows will fall liberally on science

its true followers will be traduced and

persecuted

and imposition and malice

will smite their destroyer

doctors in general will trample on it

in so much as it heals the sick without

drugs

and must ultimately destroy sickness

when their occupation will be gone

but shall we serve the old masters

because truth has enemies and disturbs

the tranquility of error

wisdom has given us more foresight than

this

to the advanced thinkers perceiving the

scope and tendency of truth

we may look for support

while others will say to the science of

being

as did one of old

to please the rabbis

go thy way for this time

the highest standpoint of being

is its

science but opinions doctrines and

beliefs

afford no demonstrable principle to

reach it

and enable man to work out his own

salvation

tis truth

the principle of man that does this

but is there not a smoother and broader

path to harmony or heaven

and cannot christianity be coupled with

worldly peace and prosperity

the very nature of it is peace and

blessedness

but its joys and triumphs are not

earthly

they are passing away from matter to

spirit

by this we do not mean death

nor a sudden ecstasy

but the gradual fading out of material

things

of earthly desires

possessions and pleasures

and the coming in of purity

truth and immortality

the demands of personal sense will grow

less

the appetite becomes simple

pride malice and all sin yield to

meekness

mercy

and love

until finally the belief of life in

matter yields to the consciousness

that life is spirit

and spirit

god

all good thoughts and deeds are science

that proceeds not from a doctrinal basis

but is soul

subduing sin

personal belief

personal pleasure or pain

and revealing all

harmony

righteousness and blessedness

in our god-being