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chapter 1

natural science

a few years since we clipped the

following from the reports on science

quote

at the university at oxford a prize of

100 pounds was offered for the best

essay on natural science

to refute the materialism of the present

age

or the tendency to attribute physical

effects to physical causes

rather than to a final spiritual cause

end quote

this demand for metaphysics

coming from the very fount of erudition

meets the want of the age

and is the one question towering above

all others

in so much as it relates more intimately

to the happiness and perfection of man

the control mind holds over matter

becomes no longer a question

when with mathematical certainty we gain

its proof

and can demonstrate the facts assumed

this proof we claim to have gained

and reduced to its statement in science

that furnishes a key to the harmony of

man

and reveals what destroys sickness sin

and death

metaphysical science explains cause and

effect

removing the veil of mystery and doubt

from soul and body

and from man and god

it unwinds the interlaced ambiguities of

spirit and matter

and sets free the imprisoned

intelligence

explains the phenomenon man

on the basis of his principle

and how to gain his harmony in science

which seems to us more important morally

and physically

than the discovery of the powers of

steam

the electric telegraph

or any other advanced idea that science

has revealed

views taken on trust

cause conflicting opinions and beliefs

that emit a poisonous atmosphere of mind

more destructive to the harmony of body

than the miasma of matter

understanding cools and purifies this

atmosphere

and thus invigorates the body

but before this result is obtained

understanding and belief

or truth and error

must meet in a war of ideas

and the thunderbolt of public opinion

burst overhead

but when this outburst of opinion is

spent of its fury

like the raindrops on the earth

it will have moistened the parched

thought

whereby

the rich buds and blossoms that come

from the tree of life

may put forth new beauty

because christendom may resist the word

science

we shall lose no faith in christianity

and because we shall apply this word to

truth

christianity will lose no hold on us

we shall let the principle of things

alone interpret them

and never take an opinion or belief to

steady the altar of science

the principle of the universe in man

embraces the understanding and

explanation of soul and body

and is the basis of all science

but opinions and beliefs regarding god

and man

or soul and body

are the foundations of all error

there is no physical science

the principle of science is god

intelligence

and not matter

therefore

science is spiritual

for god is spirit

and the principle of the universe and

man

we learned from science mind is

universal

the first and only cause of all that

really is

also

that the real and unreal constitute what

is and what is not

that the real is spirit

which is immortality

and the unreal

matter

or mortality

the real is truth

life

love and intelligence

all of which are spirit

and spirit is god

and god soul

the principle of the universe and man

spirit is the only immortal basis

matter is mortality

it has no principle

but is change and decay

embracing what we term sickness sin and

death

god is not the author of these

hence

spirit is not the author of matter

discords are the unreal that make up the

opposite to harmony

or the real

that emanates truth

and not error

spirit never requires matter to aid it

or through which to act

no partnership or fellowship exists

between them

matter cannot cooperate with spirit

the mortal and unreal with the real and

eternal

the mutable and imperfect with the

immutable

and perfect

the inharmonious and self-destroying

with the harmonious and undying

spirit is truth

matter its opposite

namely

error

and these two forces control man and the

universe

and are the tares and wheat that never

mingle

but grow side by side until the harvest

until matter

is self-destroyed

for not until then do we learn ourselves

spirit

and yield up the ghost of error

that would make substance

life and intelligence matter

god and his idea are all that is real

primitively

all is mind

and mind produces mind only

nature

reason

and revelation decide

that like produces like

matter does not produce mind

nor vice versa

we name matter error

it being a false claim to life and

intelligence

that returns to dust

ignored by spirit

that is supreme

over all

and knows nothing of matter

natural history presents the mineral

vegetable and animal kingdoms preserving

their original species in reproduction

a mineral is not produced by a vegetable

and vice versa

throughout the entire round of universal

nature

this rule relating to genus and species

holds good

this therefore is science

but error claims the very opposite

namely

that spirit produces matter

making spirit or god

the author of evil as well as good

and harmony the author of discord

evil presenting as much of god as good

which contradicts self-evident truth

in the science of being

we learn all discord such as sickness

sin or death

is distinct from spirit

and not produced by god

also

that god is the soul or principle of man

the truth

unerring and eternal

again that matter claiming mind

or making itself the basis of mind

is error

and this error

the so-called intelligent body named man

with intelligent nerves

brain

stomach and so forth

the only reality of being

is the truth of it

and that life and intelligence are in

matter

is not truth

but it's opposite

error

therefore

illusion

mind and matter are opposites

that mind is in matter

or that matter is the medium through

which mind is made manifest

is not more real than that a tree

embraces a rock in the heart of it

and is the natural medium through which

the rock grows

and is identified

nature and revelation

afford no grounds for the belief that

spirit

god

created

or is in a body of sickness

sin

and death

and the only excuse for such a belief is

that the falsity of this opinion of life

is not seen

until we begin to learn the science of

life

and enter into our god being

wherein

we learn that spirit and matter no more

commingle

than light and darkness

then god and his opposite called devil

which reduced to their statement in

science

are truth and error

in other words

spirit and matter

forever distinct

one possessing immortality

the other

mortality

said the apostle

the flesh worth against the spirit

and the spirit against the flesh

mind the basis of all things

cannot cross its species and produce

matter

but in order to classify mind that is

real

from belief or the unreal

we name one mind

and the other matter

the recollect matter

is but a belief

and mind the only reality

error can only be defined as belief

which is not mind

but illusion

the belief that life substance and

intelligence are where and what they are

not

is error

spirit is the understanding and

possession of truth

life and intelligence

belief

and understanding

never mingle

more than matter and

spirit one is error

the other truth

all discord is what we term matter

and discord is mortal

nothingness

harmony is real and immortal

for it belongs to spirit

is produced by it

and proceeds from it

immortal mind is spirit

an utterance of soul

proceeding from harmony and immortality

the mind that we name matter

is the so-called mind of the body

and what is termed sinful and mortal man

but this man is a myth

neither mind nor matter

but a belief

that embraces all error

god truth

never produced error

soul and intelligence never originated

in harmony

and at some future date

we shall learn all that is mortal or

discordant

hath no origin

existence or reality

but is the absence of the real

yea

native nothingness

the chaos and night out of which error

would simulate the creations of truth

from dust

instead of deity

error presupposes man

both mind and matter

but this is not the science of being

but science disputing personal sense

beards so relentlessly our belief

we naturally ask what are we

and what is man

we are spirit

soul

and not body

and all is good that is spirit

god

and the idea of god are real

and nothing else is real

harmony and its results are real

but discord and what comes of it

are the unreal

it were well to begin from this hour

as you read these pages

to reckon life only in what is good and

true

putting aside evil as unreal

not the offspring of god

and unworthy to be named man

him

whom spirit produces

the image and likeness of god

but whom matter claims to create in sin

admitting error

produces it

but who or what is it that admits error

not god

spirit

for error is not the result of

intelligence

error is a self-admission

and admission of selfhood where man is

not

and this is all there is to it

admitting a temptation is the only

danger in it

to believe in the possibility of

pleasurable sin

makes all that is sin

say then to the whole liturgy of

intelligent matter as jesus said

quote

you were a liar from the beginning

end quote

mind is spirit

outside of matter

and this is the only mind or

understanding

the mind

called brains or matter

is belief only

hence

the more material man is the stronger

belief

and the weaker manifestation of soul

or understanding

belief is what we term personal sense

and personal sense is a

belief that matter is intelligent

that nerves feel

brains think

and sin

that a stomach makes man cross

limbs him

and matter kills him

is a belief

and this belief

error

opposed to the truth of being

sin

sickness and death proceed from the

so-called five personal senses

that we are taught to revere and

cultivate

but which truth at length destroys

through age

experience

or spiritual growth

and in place of sentient bodies

we find sensationless bodies

and immortal soul as the recognition of

being harmonious

and eternal

the body mortal is not man

for man is immortal

but with sensation in the body he is not

immortal

and cannot be spirit

which is soul

to admit physical effects

is to conclude matter cause and effect

once it follows

there are two causes

namely

mind and matter

else that mind produces matter

or matter produces mind

which contradicts the science of life in

its demonstration

and is like saying dust originated man

and a serpent a dove

soul

is intelligence

but the so-called mind of body

is belief only

the limited and mortal that embraces not

the boundless and eternal

for such is intelligence

hence we learn that soul

therefore spirit which is god

is not in man

and that man is idea

and soul the principle

life substance and intelligence of man

having drawn the line between immortal

man

or the reality of being

and the unreal or mortal

that is but a personal recognizance of

life

god

which is impossible

we also learn

that pain or pleasure in matter

is equally impossible

things

as they appear from the standpoint of

personal sense

are diametrically opposite to science

or immortal man seen from the standpoint

of soul

hence the difficulty sensuous man has to

understand this science

and his opposition to it

for the carnal man is at enmity with god

mortal man and personal sense

are not mind

but belief

mind is understanding

belief is ignorance

even the error that truth consigns to

oblivion

what is deemed life in vegetable and

animal becomes a self-evident falsehood

when all that is left of it is death

the science of being alone reveals life

or principle

that reverses every position of personal

sense

showing also that sickness sin and death

disappear

with the understanding of being

and our real existence

for in this alone are we harmonious

sinless

and eternal

will man lose his identity in conscious

infinitude of being

it is impossible

that he should lose ought that tends to

his completeness

in a state through which he gains all

matter embracing sickness sin and death

is all that will ever be lost

life

is not structural and organic

for life is spirit

soul and not sense

and without beginning and without end

life is principle

and not person

joy

and not sorrow

holiness

not sin

and harmony

without a tone of discord

in science we learn there is but one god

also

that god is spirit

hence

there is but one spirit

for there is not an evil god

to gain the harmony of being

and be perfect even as the father

god must be understood

which means

the principle of man must be understood

believing in god

never made a christian

the only immortal basis of man

is soul

hence the importance to plant one's self

on the basis of being

and work from this to gain our ultimate

harmony

soul

and not sense reveals the glorious

possibilities of man

even the circumference of his being

unlimited by a belief of life in matter

getting out of material nutshells

we get out of error

whereby we learn the last shall be first

and the first last

that which was first in matter

will be last

alias

nothing in spirit

science puts not new wine into old

bottles

we cannot adhere to a belief regarding a

subject

and at the same time grasp the truth of

it

we must yield the old

or the new is spilled

doctrines and opinions based on a

personal god

are nothing more or less than beliefs of

intelligent matter

that we must yield

or spill the inspiration and whine of

truth

that enables man to demonstrate life

higher

and to reach practical christianity

that casts out devils and heals the sick

we will now consider more minutely the

principle or soul of man

named god

learn what it is and how man is

harmonious and immortal

the scriptures inform us

god is love

truth and life

and these certainly imply

he is principle

not person

again

principle explains person

but person cannot explain principle

god interprets man

but man cannot explain god

spirit explains matter

but matter cannot define spirit

soul explains body

but body cannot interpret soul

we must commence with god to explain

immortal man remembering god is spirit

and spirit the only substance

because it is intelligence

holding the earth in equipoise

marking out the pathway of the stars

forming the minutia of identity

and comprehending the universe and man

in the harmony of being

believes nothing

because it understands all

and is life

not subject to death

because it is exempt from matter

it is mind alone that embraces sensation

therefore

the senses are spirit and not matter

and belong to soul instead of body

they are not personal

but spiritual

intelligence passes from mind to body

that is

from principle to its idea

but cannot pass from body to mind

for matter is neither cognizant of evil

or good

of pain or pleasure

soul is not in body

it is the unlimited intelligence

impossible to limit

and the immortality

that mingles not with mortality

as light and darkness are opposites

so are spirit and matter

without the least affinity

light dwelling in darkness

would destroy the darkness

thus would the sinless and immortal

destroy the sinning and mortal

but darkness extinguishes not light

and matter cannot destroy spirit

body cannot destroy soul

but soul can and does destroy matter

man is not matter

brains are not intelligence

they are not the organ of the infinite

life and intelligence are not in matter

nor do they act by means of organization

matter is a creation of belief

a shimmer of personal sense

that reverses science

as we shall hear after show

idea is inseparable from its

principle man is idea

and soul the principle that produces it

therefore

man and his maker

are inseparable

opinions and beliefs have no principle

they are erring and mortal

neither expressing god

nor immortal man

but the offspring of personal sense

embracing sin

sickness and death

yea

the dream of life in matter

materia medica

physiology

mesmerism etc

are opinions and beliefs

predicated on intelligent matter

which is error

and the discord and doubt attending them

are owing to the false position they

occupy

ideas

like numbers and notes

admit no opinions or beliefs regarding

them

when once their principle is understood

beliefs are theories that change

and are falsely stated

because they are not understood

the identity of every idea

is in its principle where it is learned

immortal man is harmonious

and eternal

matter is the offspring of mortal belief

soul or understanding

has no part in it

philosophy in general finds cause in

effect

soul in body

principle in idea

and life and intelligence in matter

materia medica seeking cause in effect

would learn of matter what are the

conditions of man

examining the liver heart lungs etc

to ascertain how much harmony they are

permitting man

thus admitting matter instead of mind

causation

and producing life or death

pain or pleasure

action or stagnation

without the mind's consent

this would place man and god

or body and soul

at the disposal and control of matter

physiology finds mind unequal to matter

cause not master of effect

the so-called laws of nature

failing in their fulfillment to give

health to man

making the infinite insufficient to

govern the finite

principle not controlling its idea

and the intelligence or soul of man

unable to govern the body

to prevent disease or the effects of

damp atmospheres

violent exertions

a heavy meal etc destroying man

we say

laws of matter are our only hope

leaving spirit powerless

mesmerism

placing life and intelligence in

electricity

finds matter superior to god

and the governing principle of man

an aura of brains

the lack or excess

quality or quantity of which

determines his discord or harmony

theology would make the supreme being a

person

in other words

matter

embracing spirit

god

dwelling in man

life in the things it creates

cause in effect

soul in body

the infinite and limitless

within limits

with this theory

to be omnipresent

god must pass in personal identity over

earth

or possess a body that encompasseth

universal space

in which case what would be the

personality of god

spirit is not matter

nor is it both within and without matter

such were the case

they would be one in substance and

intelligence

else

limited to the range of personal sense

or personal sense raised to the capacity

of omnipresence

which is again impossible

our beliefs of a personal deity

place infinite life and love

within the stature of a man

make man god

or put god into matter

which is atheism

error is the basis of all belief

we need instead the true idea

based on the understanding of god

the impersonal principle

truth

and life of man

which is not body

but soul

the artist is not in his painting

the picture is a thought of his

an emanation of spirit

not matter

the creator is not in what he creates

the potter is not in the clay

but has power over the clay

god produces his own personality

and cannot get into it

because it is in him the circumference

and infinite soul

outside of matter and man

the five personal senses are beliefs of

life substance and intelligence in

matter

even the fount of error

all discord proceeds from this false

source

in reality

there is no personal sense

for matter is not intelligent

the line of demarcation between the

principle that is intelligence and life

and the belief of life and intelligence

in person

is the boundary between belief and

science

otherwise between error

and truth

science contradicts personal sense in

every instance

as we shall hear after show

understanding

is the only admissible evidence of truth

conclusions drawn from personal sense

are foundationless

understanding is a portion of the

infinite principle

embracing every idea of truth

belief

has no principle

it is a mortal and finite sense of

things called knowledge

a lie of limits

that would place soul in body

life and intelligence in matter

to evolve matter

and call this germination nature

or seed reproducing itself

not only denying to god the things that

are his

but limiting the infinite

and thinking to fasten wisdom to discord

and decay

to learn the truth of things

they must be explained from the basis of

soul

and not sense

personal sense is knowledge obtained

from opinions and beliefs

when our interpretations proceed from

the principle of things

we have them right

but if from observation

or the deductions of personal sense

they are

wrong are beliefs based upon the

supposition of life and intelligence in

matter

which is error

impressions supposed to proceed from the

hearing of the ear

the observations of the eye

from touch

taste or smell

are these beliefs

but not the ideas of god

every idea proceeds from principle

gained through understanding

whereby we arrive at demonstrable truth

belief constitutes mistakes

understanding

never errs

hence

it is necessary to the harmony of mind

and body

inasmuch as belief starts from person

instead of principle

it is not the truth of being

but the error

called mortal man

knowledge is power

even the force that depends on

organizations for strength

it is neither moral suasion moral might

idea

nor principle

but of faith

supposition

or belief

repulsion attraction

cohesion and power

supposed to belong to matter

are constituents of mind

knowledge gives these properties to

matter

but science gives them to intelligence

the principle of all

to find inherent properties in matter

that act independent of mind

is impossible

there is no inertia in intelligence

but science alone determines whence

cometh action

from its harmonious principle

in other words from soul to body

or from belief prolific of error

science reveals all action proceeding

from god

the universal cause

that produces harmony only

and that discord sickness sin and death

are neither action

nor being

but beliefs

or error

the absence of truth we name error

but whence cometh error

from god

no

the same fountain sendeth not forth

sweet and bitter water

error is not an idea

it has neither principle nor identity

it is not definable as a person

place or thing

as an agent or actor

and being without substance

life or intelligence

and neither principle nor identity

we learn it came not

but

is illusion

again

what is belief

nothing real or true

and to understand this

is the only fact concerning it

sickness sin and death

all that is the opposite and absence of

god

is belief

and error

presupposing good and evil

in matter

and man

but is the question answered

whence cometh belief

it has no origin

it is neither principle

nor idea

but illusion

without any real cause or creation

we say

disease is a reality

and identity

but science finds it a belief only

disappearing with mortality

and cognizant only to personal sense not

to soul

god made all that was made

there is but one principle and its

infinite idea

harmony and immortality that belong to

man

are perceived through spiritual sense

but not personal

belief has no intelligence

having neither principle nor

understanding

therefore

it is error

and error is the so-called mind of

mortal man

totally depraved

sinning

suffering and dying

this

is the absence of god

man has no mind in matter

the belief that he has

is error

there is but one intelligence

even god

the infinite love

truth and life

and god

is not man

matter

is not intelligent

brains are not mind

and man is not soul

a separate god or intelligence

jesus laid much stress on this point

quote

thou shalt have no other gods before me

end quote

while we daily behold in belief the zeal

of error to gain the opposite point

in other words i will make ye as gods

science informs us immortal mind is

spirit

but personal sense would have mind both

spirit and matter

a moral impossibility

spirit cannot act through matter

they are diametrically opposed to each

other

and never mingle

personal sense is the only foundation

for the theory that spirit and matter

mingle

and time and eternity are wearing away

this support

mind is not confined to organization

nor limited by materiality

immortal mind is the atmosphere of soul

pervading all space

and regarding even the sparrow's fall

no power can compress it within a skull

bone

matter confines it not

the strongest barrier opposed to

intelligence is as nothing

the only clog or limit given mind

is mortal belief

errors synonym

understanding constructs not and has no

cognizance of limits

it is finite belief that would limit

mind

and there is no finite intelligence

there is finite error

that presupposes mind in matter

but this is the evil and not the good

the belief and not the reality

yea the error

and not the truth of man

spiritual sense belongs to soul

and is the only real

sense it takes no cognizance of

substance in matter

of suffering

sin

or death

spiritual sense recognizes all that is

truth

life

and love

hence there is nothing left personal

sense to enjoy

or suffer

personal sense is the dream of life in

matter

a supposition only of reality and

substance

of life and intelligence

of good and evil

that would limit soul

and doom all things to decay

sensation in matter

is one of its beliefs

and belief is the opinion

personal

that supports only what is untrue

selfish

or debased

all these mistakes are but the error we

name mortal man

god and man will never be understood

until we listen alone

to the senses attached to principle

instead of person

to soul

instead of body

personal sense being error

all evidence obtained therefrom is

belief

without principle

or immortal proof

spiritual

in contradistinction to personal sense

reveals man

idea not substance

his life in intelligence god

in other words soul and not body

and thus secure from chance and change

he is harmonious and eternal

the demonstration of this statement

will destroy sickness

sin

and death

and because of this

it is important to understand at present

as well as hereafter

the great truth which must displace the

opposite error

that brought sin and death into the

world

shutting out the pure sense of

immortality

and which ought to be learned today

god is

and was

and ever will be

and if this intelligence exists

there is also the idea of it

named man

that cannot be separated for a single

moment from this

its principle and soul

we look on a corpse

or the body called man

but is it man

no

is soul in it

certainly not

has soul escaped

no

where was the outside infinite spirit

if spirit was in man

can soul be lost

impossible

for the immortal is without end

and soul is spirit

and spirit

god

is man lost

not if soul be left

for soul is principle

and man its idea

and these forever inseparable

god would be lost

if man was blotted out

for entity signifies the particular

nature of being

and god

without the idea

image and likeness of himself

would be a non-entity

man is the complex idea of god

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hence

they cannot be separated

contemplating a corpse

we behold the going out of a belief

we have been accustomed to this belief

of mind in matter but not the truth of

man

whose soul is god

and his body the harmonious idea of him

the belief of life in matter

is all that dies

the principle

soul

and life of man

is not in the body

and cannot die

when paul's optical sense yielded to

science

the vision of soul

he realized nothing could separate him

from god

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understanding as he did

that the real man is never separated

from the sweet sense and presence

of life

and love

a sick man is not a sinner above all

others

and yet

he is not the idea of god

weary of matter that claims so much

suffering

the sick become more spiritually

inclined

inasmuch as the belief of life in matter

begins to give up its ghosts

all error

must finally yield to the truth of man

a wicked man is not an idea of god

he is nothing more than the belief that

hatred

malice

pride

envy hypocrisy etc

are coupled with life

god

but life

love and truth

never made a sick man

nor a sinner

the same fountains sendeth not forth

sweet and bitter water

life and its idea are neither sick

nor sinning

but eternal and harmonious

never mingling with mortal man

the scripture saith

mortal man is conceived in sin

and brought forth in iniquity

his origin is error then

is it not

and this error the belief that man is an

intelligence and creator

after all was made that was made

if all that worketh a lie is ultimately

destroyed

this man must perish

the understanding of truth

and its demonstration

is eternal life

a belief can never attain this

contradicting all accepted theories on

this subject

and diametrically opposing the evidences

of personal sense

science comes

laying the ax at the root of the tree

and cutting down all that brings not

forth good fruit

fence

healing the sick

and casting out error

there is no escape from sin sickness and

death

except on the principle that god is the

only life and intelligence of man

so long as we admit life

sensation and intelligence in matter

man will be governed by his body

and at the mercy of death

sickness

and sin

harmony is not at the mercy of matter

nor happiness at the disposal of sense

nor life at the command of death

do you ask what proof have you there is

no sensation in matter

or in other words

no personal sense

we have tested this statement in healing

the sick sufficiently

to find its principle invariable

our position is taken from proofs

obtained through our own demonstration

and allowing their principle to point

higher

and acknowledging the relationship

between the lower and higher

demonstrations with the same logic

we say

three and three trillions are six

trillions

in that we prove with smaller numbers

that three added to three make six

because we believe sensation is nerves

it by no means proves this to be the

case

the inebriate believes he finds pleasure

in alcoholic drinks

and the sinner in sin

the thief believes he has made a gain in

stealing

and the hypocrite in hiding himself

but the science of life contradicts

these false positions

and names them simply belief

and error

fence inferring

belief is error

and to understand god and man

would destroy all belief

and give us the understanding of what

constitutes being

that pain and pleasure belong to the

body

is the error of earth

that never enters heaven where nothing

is found that worketh a lie

soul

is the only living consciousness

and soul neither sins nor suffers

it is immortal

and error is mortal

but sin sorrow and sickness are mortal

destroying themselves

because they are error

sickness and death are not the

manifestations of soul

truth

or life

hence they are not of god

and there is no other causation

the tares and wheat must be separated

the real and unreal

blend

not happiness is real

and truth is real

but error is unreal

sin and holiness

sickness and health

life and death

proceed not from the same source

life

health and holiness

together with all harmonies are truth

sin

sickness and death are error

the opposite of truth

harmony and life

and these opposites never blend

electricity is not a vital fluid

but an element of mind

the higher link between the grosser

strata of mind named matter

and the more rarefied called mind

the so-called destructive forces of

matter

and the ferocity of man and beast

are animal beliefs

that admit evil because they understand

not good

all that is good

is soul

and its opposite is personal sense

the emanations of soul are purity

harmony

and immortality

those of personal sense

impurity

discord

and death

science brings to light truth

and its supremacy

universal harmony

god's entirety

and matters nothingness

doctrines theories and knowledge are but

opinions and beliefs

the impressions and observations of

personal sense

based on no principle

or fundamental truth

by which to work out harmony

when we reach immortality

we shall all learn

life is god

that matter is mortal

and that spirit alone survives the wreck

of time

personal sense will make war on science

until truth determines the conquest on

the side of immutable right

science reveals

truth whereas personal sense takes no

cognizance of it

also

it reverses all the positions of sense

and tears away its foundations

hence the enmity of mankind towards

science

until it battles its way up

by putting beliefs down

deductions from a matter basis are

necessarily error

but science

taking its positions from intelligence

reaches man with harmony

and bears the reports only of truth

these different causes are appreciated

better when witnessing the effects of

both

and taking science to heal the sick in

contradistinction to drugs

electricity etc

we learn the opposite results

of truth

and error

systems of medicine like narcotics

leave man worse

for the stupor they induce

while science

demanding demonstration for its proof

invites progress

and uses the understanding like a

two-edged sword

to amputate error on all sides

after this surgery

mankind will find themselves better

doctrines opinions and belief

are the tree of knowledge

against which

wisdom warned man

knowledge is obtained from false

premises

from personal sense

that affords only the mortal evidences

of man

presupposing soul's audience chamber the

brain

falsely claiming the prerogatives of

intelligence

god

reasoning from such standpoints

produces all the discords of mind and

body

that must eventually go down

obedient to the mandate

thou shalt surely die

researches after truth

ought to leave matter for principle

and bring the contemplation of life

outside of sense

thus gathering us nearer harmony and

immortality

and proportionately away from sickness

sin and death

soul is not in the body

the belief that intelligence is in

matter

is error in the premises and conclusions

of man

life

intelligence or substance

is not in or of matter

neither can they be art but soul

and because we shall ultimately prove

this science to individual consciousness

we should begin its first lessons today

in order to gain the understanding of

god and man

soul and body

harmony and immortality

we must base all our conclusions of man

on principle

instead of person

on soul

instead of body

or we shall never reach the science of

being

truth

life and love are god

the soul of the universe and

man and the only substance and

intelligence

these are not mixed with change

sin

or death

nor with matter

the body mortal

the erring

changing and dying blend not with that

which is the same yesterday

today

and forever

life is intelligence

the principle that is soul or spirit

and there is but one spirit or soul of

the universe and man

if life was in man

matter would govern itself

and spirit would be a portion of matter

therefore

god would be spirit and matter

no portion of the infinite

can enter the finite

life and intelligence that are infinite

are not mortal man

but may there not be a portion of god in

man

and matter

this

is equally impossible

for the least part of spirit

would destroy matter

for matter is non-intelligence

not a power matched against spirit

it is mortality only

and the immortal is spirit

god is principle

the truth and soul of man

and man is the image and likeness of god

again

god is substance and life

hence

man is but the image and likeness of

these

man is not truth life or love

god is spirit

and man the image and likeness of him

therefore

man is not matter but idea

and idea no more contains its principle

then figures embrace the rule of

mathematics

we have no resort but to reduce god to a

level with man

or look away from man for his substance

life and intelligence

all of which must be outside of matter

or at the mercy of sin sickness and

death

darkness may hide the sun

but cannot put it out

sickness sin and death are darkness

or moral ignorance that hide truth

life and love

but cannot extinguish them

or their idea cannot destroy god or man

the standpoint whence to reckon man

is not matter

but spirit

the soul of man is never lost

in so much

as it is god

principle

and man its idea

and both are eternal

hence the immortality of soul

and body

infinite soul embraces perfect

understanding

the light that neither diminishes nor

increases

for no night is there

day declines and shadows hide the sun

but darkness flees when the earth has

turned on its axis

because the solar center is the same

thus the darkness of belief hides

but cannot put out the light of science

soul is self-existent and eternal

that immortal man is tributary to soul

instead of body

is the science of being

but we shall never understand it

believing soul is in the body

or that matter embraces intelligence and

life

if we understood the truth of being

it would prove principle and its idea

that is

soul

and body immortal

and instead of requiring laws of health

that never yet made man immortal

to save life

we should be a law of life and truth to

our own bodies

even that higher law of soul

that prevails over sense

and gives harmony and immortality

to all it controls

man hath sought out many inventions

but none of them can solve a problem

without its principle

numbers are harmonious only when

governed by intelligence

outside the figures

but ignorance might deny this fact

did not self-evident proof

force the conclusion

understanding the science of life

we gain unfailing evidence of its

correctness in healing

etc

those who obtain even glimpses of it are

convinced of its truth

and those who advance higher

are more undoubting than of other proofs

how can a belief of life in matter

find life god

this is not more possible than for a

camel to go through the eye of a needle

to inquire of our bodies

what prospect we have for health or life

is taking the thing out of the hands of

god

altogether

to suppose we find pleasure or pain

happiness or misery

life or death in the body

is not finding god our life

and a present help in times of trouble

also

to admit the same fountain sendeth forth

sweet and bitter water

is contrary to our master's teachings

life supposed to originate in soil and

seed

in animality or the earth

is a belief of life only

and not the principle that is life

without beginning or end of days

belief is mortality's self

nothing whatever but

illusion we have no doubt but belief

could make its mortal man

an amphibious animal

phenomena illustrative of our views will

appear

as the ages awaken from the dream of

life in matter

belief can adopt any position

strange and new

but life will be found less at the mercy

of matter

as belief gives up the ghost

and the science of life is sufficiently

understood to be fairly demonstrated

then man will be found immortal

spirit controls matter

when this is fairly understood

phenomena at present so unaccountable to

a belief

holding soul pent up in body

will be explained

and mystery and miracle

fast disappear

a belief of life in matter

leaves man at the mercy of death

for if this belief should change to one

of death

he is supposed to die

but the fact remains

that man is immortal

and if death in matter or the body be

proved false

life in matter or the body is proved

false also

the true relation of soul to body

is that of god to man

in other words of principle to its idea

these are forever inseparable

and when the true idea which is the

immortal body is perceptible

we shall have become acquainted with its

principle

therefore acquaint now thyself with god

a sweet combination of sounds informs

man

this is not governed by chance

that harmony is not

accident we have undeniable proof that

the intelligence producing music

separating light from darkness etc

guides and controls all

the belief that man is the intelligence

that governs sound

would destroy harmony

for music left to personal sense

is at the mercy of misapprehension

and discord

controlled by belief

instead of the understanding

it would be lost

even thus

man would be discord and death

without a governing principle

or left to personal sense

god and man

are principle and idea

and god is the truth

life

and love

controlling this idea

then what can separate man from harmony

and immortality

saint paul says

neither height nor depth nor any other

creature can separate me from the love

of god

love cannot be debarred a manifestation

and is joy

and not sorrow

good and not evil

life

and not death

hence the perfect idea god gave of

himself in immortal man

the object of divine affections

soul and body are principle and idea

or god and man united

indissolubly but the man of god is the

good and perfect idea of him

governed by soul

instead of sense

this idea

expresses the sinless and infinite

not the finite and dying

anatomy and theology

never defined the man of god

the first explains the man of man

the second how to make this man a

christian

whose life held in matter is separated

from god

these are some of the beliefs that serve

as milestones to point out the rough

places

science must make smooth

the man of sin

sickness and death

is not the image and likeness of love

truth and life

and all the vanity of the gentiles

and doctrines preached under the sun

can never make that man immortal

or the image of god

science lays the ax at the root of error

and cutting down the belief of life in

matter

of soul in body

and god in man

exchange is fable for fact

turns thought into new channels away

from personality to principle

through which alone

man is able to reach life

for life to be eternal

it must be self-existent

therefore

independent of matter

even the i am

that was and is

and that nothing can efface

christ said

i am the resurrection and life

man is not saved in matter

but out of it in god

denying personal sense

having but one god

taking up the cross and following christ

truth

is the only christianity

but doctrines and creeds have little to

do with this

life

substance and intelligence are soul

outside of personal sense

what appears to be these in man

is simply a belief

and dream of life in matter

the unreal

that is the opposite of the real

the figurative tree of life

was the principle of man bringing forth

fruits of immortality

sin sickness and death are the fruits of

the tree of knowledge

and the scripture instructs us to judge

of the tree by its fruits

the resistance to metaphysical science

will yield slowly

but surely

we had sangrian hopes of its present

prosperity

until we learned its vastness

the fixedness of folly

and man's hatred

of truth

not through the footsteps of personal

sense do we gain wisdom

the infinite is achieved only as we turn

from the finite

and from the personal error

to the impersonal truth of being

until the scientific relationship

between god and man is perceived

and its radical points admitted

we cannot reach the demonstration of

which it is capable

exchange our standpoint of intelligence

and life

from matter to spirit

and we shall gain the perfect life

and the control that soul holds over

body

and receive christ's truth in principle

and not person

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and through the understanding

and not belief

this is the difficult point

but it must be achieved before man is

harmonious and immortal

and to gather our thoughts in this

direction today is highly important

in view of the vast amount to be

accomplished before the final

recognition of life

outside of matter

if we make no progress toward the

science of life

here the hereafter will strip off our

rags of error

leaving us naked

until we are clothed upon by truth

the immortality

of man

not understanding the principle of being

we shall seek in another world happiness

incense

and then

as now

receive sorrow instead of gladness

because of this error

pain

sickness sin

and death

will continue so long as the belief

remains of life

happiness and intelligence in the body

if the change called death dispossessed

man of the belief of pleasure and pain

in the body

universal happiness were secure at the

moment of disillusion

but this is not so

they that are filthy

shall be filthy still

every sin and error we possess at the

moment of death

remains after it the same as before

and our only redemption

is in god

the principle of man that destroys the

belief of intelligent bodies

when we gain the freedom of the sons of

god

we shall master sense with soul

as progress compels this ripening

process

through which man resigns the belief of

life and intelligence in matter

there will be great tribulation

such as not been since the beginning

when pleasures of saints

are taken away through anguish

even the amputation of right hands

and plucking out of right eyes

man at ease in error

when stricken suddenly down by death

cannot understand life

mortal man knows nothing about life

that is learned by relinquishing

pleasure and pain of sense

and how long the pangs necessary for

error's amputation continue

depends on the tenacity of the belief of

happiness in personal sense

when remembering god is our only life

and contemplating our present adherence

to the belief of life in matter

we may well tremble for the days in

which we shall say

i have no pleasure in them

the false views entertained of pardoned

sin

or universal and immediate happiness in

the midst of sin

or

that we are changed in a moment from sin

to holiness

are grave mistakes

to suddenly drop our earthly character

and become partakers of eternal life

without the pangs of a new birth

is morally impossible

we know all will be changed in the

twinkling of an eye when the last trump

shall sound

but the last call of wisdom

is not the first call in the growth of

christian character

while man is selfish

unjust

hypocritical and sensual

to conclude the last call of wisdom has

been heard that awakens him to glorified

being

is preposterous

science forbids such feats of

imagination

and looks us in the face

with reason

and revelation

as the tree falleth

so shall it lie

as man goeth to sleep

so shall he waken

when the belief of death closes our eyes

on this phase of the dream of life in

matter

we shall awaken

not to a final judgment or resurrection

not with a single change in character

but for the same judgment of wisdom to

go on in process of purification as

before

until truth finally destroys error

when the final triumph of soul over

sense is achieved

the last trump has sounded

and not until then

this hour no man knoweth

not the son but the father

here prophecy stops

and proof is wanting

but science sees beyond the grave the

certainty of immortality

the science of life

is the only certainty of existence

truth is harmony and immortality

universal salvation holds its grounds on

the basis of progression

in which case man cannot commence too

soon

the severest lessons of science

whereby

to gain happiness and immortality

heaven is not a local habitation

but the harmony of mind and body

and we obtain this not of belief

but understanding

not of sense

but science

from the sudden surprise of finding all

that is mortal

unreal

a belief only

without creation or truth

the question arises

who or what is it that believes

we have before said

god is the only intelligence

and cannot believe

because he understands

there is neither substance nor

intelligence in the mountain mirage that

seemeth

what it is not

and such is mortal man

nor in a face reflected from the mirror

but such is not immortal man the image

of god

intelligence is soul

and not sense

spirit and not matter

and god is the only intelligence

and there is but one god

hence

there are no believers

so far as this statement is understood

will it be admitted

and the true idea of god

which is the only real man will appear

to the understanding

and the old belief of intelligence and

life in matter

named by paul

the old man

will disappear

or be put off

for dust thou art and unto dust shalt

thou return

man never dies

it is only a belief of man

apprehending god

the only life and intelligence of man

is the foundation of harmony

but to gain this understanding of soul

the principle that gave man dominion

over earth

is necessary to understand one's self

spirit

and not matter

jesus established his demonstration in

healing the sick etc

on this very basis

thereby holding all being and

prerogative

soul

and not personal sense

reason is right

only when starting from cause

instead of effect

from soul

instead of sense

conclusions based on the evidences of

personal sense

are drawn from mortality

ology and ism tend to the conviction

that god who is universal cause

is effect also

in so much as they all make intelligence

moral and physical

or mind and matter

the time has come to separate the belief

of personal sense on the one hand

from science on the other

hitherto

man has called on man to interpret god

and on matter and its supposed laws to

heal the sick

but as progress compels the change

we shall seek outside of personal sense

in the principle of things

their true interpretation

and remedy

to seek truth through belief

is to ask the changing and erroring

for the immutable and

immortal or to call belief truth

is ignorance of god

we learn from the scripture

god is love

and this certainly is principle instead

of a person

hence

god should be understood and

demonstrated

belief can neither explain principle

nor demonstrate god

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to understand

instead of believe

what most concerns our happiness

is essential

and to know we are right cannot be

construed irreverence to truth

our master ventured to say

he was truth and life

and no man cometh unto the father

the principle of his being

except through me

truth

principle is the father of man

and science alone reveals principle

hence

it is the comforter

that leads into all truth

jesus regarded himself principle

instead of person

hear his words

i am the way

the truth

and life

god is the soul of man

and the only intelligence

life

or substance

and man is the reflex shadow of god

belief is error

and mortal man is a belief

understanding is intelligence

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belief is personal sense

the so-called mind of matter

understanding

is soul

which is spirit

belief is knowledge

and that which said

i will make ye as gods

is mortal error

alias

mortal man

wisdom said of knowledge

in the day thou eatest thereof thou

shalt surely die

christianity is god

understood

and demonstrated

there is no death in truth

and vice versa

error is mortal

the very opposite of truth and its idea

which is the perfect and immortal man

and universe

doctrines and theories

placing god in man

soul in body

are founded on belief

and are the offspring of personal sense

we entertain no belief

with regard to what we understand

and cannot demonstrate

what is not understood

when soul is accepted as the only

intelligence

we shall depend on this ever-present

truth to control its own body

and to understand this principle of man

is indispensable to his harmony

to know we are soul

and not body

is starting right

matter is not substance if god is

substance

for matter and spirit are not one

which shall be substance

the erring mutable and mortal

or the changeless

unerring and immortal

soul is spirit

and spirit the only substance

in so much

as it is the principle of man

and the universe

to regard matter a law of itself

or produced by intelligence

is error

matter is change

decay

and

death and principle is not in decay

life is not in death

soul

is not in body

god is not in the things he hath made

and all that he hath made

is good

if soul was in body

spirit and matter were one

but soul is not personal sense

and vice versa

god is the principle

or soul

of all that is real and nothing is real

that does not express him

and is controlled by him

and immortal

soul is lost sight of by personal sense

but cannot be lost in science

there is neither growth

maturity

nor decay to soul

these are the mutations of sins

the clouds before soul that we call

substance

but they are only vapor

metaphysically speaking

a belief of life in matter

is what might be termed a loss of soul

for seeking life and happiness in error

we lose sight of truth

the idea of god

is the heaven earth

and immortal man

that is unerring and eternal

because they are controlled by principle

that is

by soul

and not sense

by understanding

and not belief

that which is mortal

is a dream of life intelligence and

substance in

matter a belief that idea creates

principle

and shadow

substance

in this error

truth is lost

in other words

error loses sight of soul

or the principle of man

and a belief of intelligent matter

takes the place of the science of man

soul is self-existent

the forever

i am

that enters not into sin

and

mortality the parent of all discord

is this strange hypothesis

that soul is in body

and life in matter

this error

spreads its table with sickness

sin

and death

and partakes of its own bounty

in the resurrection of understanding

life

soul

and substance will be recognized one

and outside of matter

and the intelligence of all that is

immortal

the idea of life

is embraced in soul

and not sense

in the immortal

and not the mortal

the most scientific man of whom we have

any record

jesus of nazareth

called the mortal body that we suppose

substance

ghost

and his body that others called spirit

flesh and bones

showing that substance to his

understanding was the deathless

principle that embraces man

and is forever inseparable from soul

but the jews

strongly material

called the real idea of god

even the body that was not matter

a spirit

or ghost

and the body they laid in a sepulcher

substance

by this error

they lost logic and truth

therefore

lost sight of jesus

at the very moment when he presented

more than ever

the real idea of god

and because of this belief

the idea was taken from them

the higher he wrought the problem of

being through spiritual science

the more odious he became to the

materialistic world

that understood him not

life

intelligence and substance to them

were matter

but to him they were god

the truth of man

therefore he reckoned himself

not matter

but spirit

not sense

but soul

said he

spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye

see me have

but this he said three days after his

burial

before relinquishing the belief of

substance matter

after that

his disciples even could not see him

jesus said

i and the father are one

and this separated him from theology and

the rabbis

understanding himself soul instead of

body

and that soul was god

brought down upon him the anatomist of a

world

this statement of himself

understood in science was

that life

substance and intelligence

are not man

but god

not body

but soul

reversing this

belief could not see the idea of truth

or harmonious man

and the sinning sick and mortal error

that crucified jesus

occupied the place

of god's idea

mortal and sinful man

is not the product of god

sin and death never proceeded from life

love and truth

matter being unintelligent

there is no material

law governing man and the universe

and spirit is free by divine right

soul

is the master of man and matter

truth is not learned through laws of

matter

for there are no such laws

matter is not a law giver

wisdom demanded man to hold dominion

over earth

and all things therein

making him obedient only to higher law

the truth of man saith he is superior to

matter

but the opposite error says

he is inferior to it

truth says

i give you power over all things

that nothing shall by any means harm you

power to handle serpents

to take deadly drugs

etc

but while our missionaries are carrying

the bible to hindustan

and explaining it according to a belief

hundreds are dying annually of the bite

of serpents

creeds and ritualism

never enable us to follow jesus

and give the demonstration he gave of

god

life cannot be separated from its idea

therefore

soul and body

god and man

are inseparable

all good proceeds from god

in the order and harmony of science

evil is its opposite

or knowledge that proceeds from personal

sense

and usurps the place of wisdom

the 30 000 different readings given the

old

and the 300 000 the new testament

account for the discrepancies that

sometimes appear in the scriptures

the science of the bible is manifest

from genesis to revelations

and the demonstration that jesus gave

conclusive evidence of its entire truth

the opposite of sickness sin and death

jesus knew was alone able to destroy

them and bring to light immortality

this was the platform on which he

labored

and cast out devils

in other words

destroy the belief of intelligence and

life in matter

and it casts out all error

and heals the sick

this was

truth and the stone the builders

rejected

while yet it must become the head of the

corner

this the rock on which christ truth

built its church

that the gates of hell

the beliefs of man

cannot prevail against

the image and likeness of god

was lost sight of through belief

and is regained only through

understanding

to suppose laws of matter control man

is the error it would be to say that

figures govern numbers

when we should find examples wrought on

this plan would cause the figures to be

erased

that the principle might be allowed to

reproduce its own idea

harmonious man

is the immortal idea of god

but the inharmonious

is mortal belief

the voice of truth calls

man

where art

thou and who will meet this inquiry

today

with the answer of science

man is safe in soul

the principle of being

but out of this

he is a reed shaken with the wind

the ignis fattus of belief

tossed about with every wind of doctrine

until the body is sensationless through

science

man is not safe

every feeling there betrays where he

holds

himself every pain and pleasure of sense

every hope

ambition

and joy

that has its foundation in matter

reckons against the science of our

course

and must be destroyed

man

where art thou

is met with reply from the head

the heart

stomach blood

nerves etc

lo

hear thou art

looking for happiness and life in matter

but finding pain and death

to conclude life love and truth or

attributes of a personal deity

implies there is something in person

superior to principle

but nothing is wiser than wisdom

or truer than truth

and life and love

have no superlatives

they are primitives

and not derivatives

person is not the principle of goodness

and the reality or spirit

is ours only as we are good

jesus sought wisdom of no man

and said

call no man father

for one is your father

even god

thus regarding man begotten of soul

and not sense

and controlling matter and triumphing

over disease and death

he brought to light his principle

and the immortality of man

to test our understanding

is to put it in practice

if we possess truth

we shall live truly

but personal sense never aids man in

this direction

but wars against spirituality

tis not in all the vanity of the

gentiles to send a drop of rain

or to make a mortal body

the idea of god

the example jesus presented for us to

follow

and the principle he demonstrated in

healing

etc

was beyond question science

but the error of past and present ages

is our wrong interpretation

of jesus and christ

or man and god

taught by some doctrine

or belief

that principle is in person

and soul in body

we have god's many

and our standard of truth changes hands

our master taught his students the

demonstration of christianity

was not alone in the beatitudes of the

mount

but in healing the sick also

when moses

the ancient law giver of wisdom

despaired of making the people

understand what god

through science said to him the supreme

soul bat him cast down his rod

and it became a serpent

and he fled at first before the serpent

but afterwards took it up

proving his power over it

and the hand that was made leprous as

snow

he put into his bosom again

and plucked it out

and behold

it was as his other flesh

and wisdom said

it shall come to pass

if they will not hear thee

neither hearken to the voice of the

first sign

that they will believe the voice of the

latter

that is

they will listen to its interpretation

when they see its demonstration in

healing

jesus also said in his answer to john's

inquiry

art thou he that should come

go

and show john again these things ye see

and hear

the blind receive their sight

the lame walk

etc

and blessed is he who shall not be

offended in me

in other words

who shall not deny that this is the

demonstration of truth

jesus said to his followers

go ye into all the world

heal the sick

etc

and this was enjoined not on his

disciples alone

but on all christendom

wherefore said he

neither pray i for these alone

but for them

who shall understand through the word

in the beginning was the word

and the word was god

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the principle of all being

hence it was not a person to be

understood

or that healed the sick

neither mediumship

mesmerism nor drugs

but the principle

that is

life

and truth

in the original scriptures metaphor

abounded

and proper names were significant of

spiritual ideas

the authors of smith's bible dictionary

say

the spiritual interpretation of the

scripture must rest upon both the

literal

and moral

in the original it was written

jehovah said

my spirit shall not forever be humbled

in man

seeing that they are

or in error they are but flesh

the science of man was not forever to be

cast aside in explaining him

seeing that man in error was mortal

but how are we to escape from flesh or

mortality

except through the change called death

by understanding we never were flesh

that we are spirit

and not matter

when the belief that we inhabit a body

is destroyed

we shall live

but our body will have no sensation

we shall find god in god

that is

spirit in

spirit and intelligence in itself

there will be no loss of science

as in mixing different species

and not until the belief that soul is in

body

and intelligence in matter

is destroyed

will man be found immortal

the so-called man that is mortal

is a compound error

made up of many beliefs

and while the science of being is

mastering one another presents itself

in these chemical changes

we find it not so easy to overcome sin

as sickness

for the dream continues of pleasure

in personal sense

when the belief of pain is willingly

relinquished

and vice versa

thus

the way is straight and narrow

that leads to life

in as much as it is a warfare with the

flesh

the science of the original word

not being apprehended by the age in

which the scriptures were written

was not explained

a single misplaced preposition

would change its scientific meaning

from principle to person

for example

wisdom the principle of god

instead of wisdom the principle

god

from the original quotations

it appears the scriptures were not

understood by those who re-read

and rewrote them

the true rendering was their spiritual

sense

before knowledge increased

some of the soul-inspired patriarchs

gave good proofs of understanding god

jacob wrestled with a man

that is

strove against the belief of life and

intelligence in matter

until daybreak

until the light of science shone upon

his understanding

enabling him to restore the shrank sinew

this was the spiritual sense

the literal

the hour of dawn

the shrank sinew he restored

understanding simply that he possessed

control over matter

and that man is immortal

the image and likeness of god

that cannot lose one jot of its

completeness

when jacob became the demonstrator

even in a limited capacity of this truth

he was named israel

the chosen of wisdom

and thereafter

those building on this foundation

were of the house of israel

why jesus of nazareth stood higher in

the scale of being

and rose proportionately beyond other

men in demonstrating god

we impute to his spiritual origin

he was the offspring of soul

and not sense

yea

the son of god

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the science of being was revealed to the

virgin mother

who

in part proved the great truth

that god

is the only origin of man

the conception of jesus illustrated this

truth

and finished the example of creation

jesus was the idea of this principle

but born of woman

that is

having in part a personal origin

he blended the idea of life

that is god

with the belief of life in matter

and became the connecting link between

science and personal sense

and took upon himself flesh

became apparent as the halfway position

of positive science

thus

to mediate between god and man

in other words

to present the idea of god that revealed

life outside of matter

in contradistinction

to the belief of life in matter

and demonstrated the truth

that man is idea

and not substance

that god is all and in all

and the principle of man

that controls matter

jesus walked the wave

stilled the tempest

and yet

this idea of god was not comprehended by

those who deemed god a person

and life in matter

and man substance and intelligence

paul said

and if christ

truth be not risen

then is my preaching vain

that is if it be not understood

that god is the only life

then are the explanations of jesus vain

again the scripture seth

i am the resurrection and life

he that believeth in me

shall not see death

in other words

he that understands soul is god

the only life and intelligence of man

that the body has not a separate being

but hath life abiding only in spirit

shall never die

this idea of truth

was literally scourged by the rabbis

over 18 centuries ago

despised and rejected of men

while yet it bore their infirmities

healed their sicknesses

raised the dead

and sat down at the right hand of the

father

was embraced in the principle of man

that wrought out the harmony of the

universe

as of old

the pharisees thrust this idea from

their synagogues

and the learned jews sought to kill

jesus

so today

church and state unconscious of the

reappearing of this idea of truth

would silence what cometh

as of old

doing good to its enemies

casting out error

healing the sick

and bringing freedom and salvation to

man

prophesying its rejection christ said

when i come again

shall i find faith on earth

to control our bodies

paul said

was our only reasonable service

but who can presume to reach the sublime

heights of our master

who is begotten of sense

or a servant to it

the time cometh

when the true origin of man will be

regained

being understood

truth

like the light shineth on darkness

that is

first on belief and opinions

and the darkness

or belief

comprehendeth it not

then on the advanced thought etc

until it is understood

truth is ruled out by belief

in as much as it rules out a personal

god

and life

and intelligence in matter

and restores the scientific origin of

man

and the only true demonstration of god

it is ruled out by materia medica

in so much as it rules out drugs

one of the errors that seth

intelligence and life

are in matter

the science of man and the universe

understood

would divest drugs of all efficacy

control matter

and bear man over the wave

despite the fable of solids and fluids

but alas

who can test the principle of this

saying today

this truth

is the stranger within our gates

that is not remembered

while its elevating proof is ready to

show practically

its honest merit

jesus never spake of disease as

difficult or dangerous

but of having authority over it

he recommended not obedience to the

so-called laws of matter

and in his opposite teachings the

scripture saith

he uttered things that had been secret

from the foundation of the world

unperceived

since knowledge had usurped man's

government

hence

truth cometh today

bringing not peace

but a sword

our master forborn not to declare the

whole truth

even the impersonal god

though it's severely amputated error

set households at variance etc

whosoever therefore

shall declare what he taught

must accept the hatred of error

and find peace and confidence in the

realization

that wisdom is acknowledged only by her

children

realizing all this the master said

if the world hates you

you may know that it hated me before it

hated you

this was the blessed test

benediction and consolation he offered

his followers

doctrines opinions and beliefs

the so-called laws of matter

remedies for soul and body

physiology

theology

materia medica

etc

are error

the very opposites of what jesus taught

and demonstrated

regarding soul and body

or god and

man this may seem severe

but is said with honest convictions of

its truth

with reverence for god

and love for man

the door to the sheepfold through which

we gain god

shuts them all out

those who would follow christ's truth

heal the sick etc

through doctrines and beliefs

or matter remedies

are climbing up another way

and unconsciously

though it be robbing god

life

love

and truth

our father which art in heaven

teach man health

happiness

and immortality

our only rightful law giver is god

fulfilling all law in righteousness

and visiting not on man the penalty of

sin

except for moral transgression

but destroying sin

and death

and triumphing over the grave

materia medica

anatomy

and physiology

together with every belief that spake

from the tree of knowledge

would give death and the grave victory

over man

but jesus said to his followers

i give you power over all things

that nothing shall by any means harm you

the true idea of god

took away the sting of death

mastered sickness and sin

and caused the lion to lie down with the

lamb

even the beliefs that would rob god

to fall at the feet of love

if man tarries in the storm

until the body be frozen

or rushes into the flames and it be

devoured

this is not obedience to the wisdom that

gave him dominion over earth

unless we understand how to avoid such

results

we should keep from their occasion

to do otherwise

is the blunder a pupil in addition would

make to attempt to solve a problem of

euclid

and because he has not reached this

point in mathematics

to fail in his demonstration

and others perceiving this

to deny the principle of the problem

jesus taught truth

and demonstrated it

and the result of this was

it healed the sick

and cast out error

christ

is god

the principle and soul of the man jesus

constituting christ jesus

that is

principle

and idea

but the person of our master

was not less tangible or real

because his life was hid with christ in

god

that is

because he held life

soul

and not sense

this put all things under his feet

giving him triumph over matter

and the body

over sin

sickness and death

holding himself in science

death was lost to him in infinite life

and jesus the idea of christ

truth

was as deathless as this its principle

this scientific understanding of being

gave him control over matter

enabling him to heal the sick

and cast out the opposite belief that

makes matter

or the body

the master of man

turned the water into wine

fed the multitude

etc

and finally triumphed over death

and presented to his students the body

they thought buried in a sepulcher

that body however had not risen

which was their dead belief of him

the print of the nails and spear alone

convinced thomas

who would lean on personal sense instead

of soul

for proofs of immortality

but when partially aroused from the

error

or dream of life in matter

to the scientific understanding of soul

and body

or god and man

exclaimed in awe

my lord and my god

man is the idea of his principle

and only as the image and likeness of

intelligence and life substance and

spirit

is he beyond the reach of death

in the science of being

where nothing can harm or destroy him

of that which is materialized it can

only be said

dust thou art

and unto dust shalt thou return

when the sharp experiences of supposed

life in matter

its disappointments

and ceaseless woes

turn us from it as a tired child to a

home in the bosom of love

then are we fit to understand life apart

from vanity

and lies

but without this weaning process

who by searching can find out god

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if through the wholesome discipline of

chastisement we become his children

understanding in part

righteousness and purity

we behold the truth of spiritual science

where enraptured thought walks boundless

and conception unconfined

has wings to reach its glory

but to gain truth and life

we must not only seek

but strive to enter in

and the strife consists in destroying

the error of personal sense

but here we learn

tis easier to desire truth

than to get rid of error

theories of a personal god

based on the false premises of life and

intelligence in matter

must yield to science

and the dream of sense

to the life that is soul

we must leave the foundations of

time-honored systems

to gain christ's truth

come out from the world and be separate

for we have no part and lot in this

matter

the so-called laws material

presuppose body and soul one for a

period

until separated by a temporary law of

divorcement

to come together again

at some uncertain future

and in a manner wholly unknown

which is even less logical than

annihilation

to be sure

the sadducees

reasoned falsely on the resurrection

but not more so than the pharisees

when we admit the immortality of soul

we have admitted the immortal body

also

for if soul can be separated from man

principle can be severed from its idea

which is fatal to a self-existent

intelligence

and equal to saying

there may be a time when god

is without a single expression of

himself

we ask instinctively for something

beyond the things of personal sense

and whence cometh these unsatisfied

cravings for immortality

pleasures of sins are broken reeds

that pierce us to the heart

but the joys of soul are imperishable

and attainable even here

for the hereafter

commences here

tomorrow

grows out of today

we cannot realize the truth of being in

a moment

but we can let go somewhat the belief

that would fasten immortal soul

within a mortal body

the motive to realize life and happiness

apart from sense

may be gained today

and this point one

we have started right to admit a greater

influx of light

the realization of truth is sometimes

sudden

and

severe as it came of old to saul of

tarsus

when personal sense was blind he beheld

the vision of soul

what i hath not seen

or ear heard

we will specify three of the footsteps

that enter in by the door

or enable us to become receptive of

truth first

to become as a little child

in that we are willing to leave the old

for the new

and look beyond landmarks

theories doctrines and beliefs

pleasures or pains of sense

but here we must watch that we receive

not truth from person

but principle

the test being

that whatever cometh from truth

is demonstrable

and brings forth good fruits

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our lives must testify to this

secondly

purity is the foundation of the science

of life

none but the pure in heart shall see god

inspiration is the highest means to

convey messages from principle to idea

for example

from god to man

but these messages are never born into

matter

therefore

to be recipient of truth

we must begin to recognize ourselves

soul

and not body

and receive and impart the teachings of

spirit

such messages are angels

but not winged messengers

they are the aroma of soul

passing to man

the impressions that guide him are right

and are demonstrable when understood

and not understood

unless demonstrated

thirdly

to rightly apprehend and receive more

truth

we must put into practice what we

already possess

this higher understanding

of the relationship between god and man

will not be recognized by the opposite

belief

of life and intelligence in matter

and the explanations or the wholesome

rebukes of our father

even wisdom and love

will often be deemed severity

but we must avoid the yielding to error

demanded by error

remembering

love often moves the sinner to hate

in that it stirs this opposite element

before destroying it

and not until the sinner and the sick

feel their need of truth to save them

from sickness or sin

will they become receptive of it

it will be seen in scientific statement

that gender belongs to principle

and not person

that all formation is through

intelligence

because life is soul

outside of sense

this is the stepping stone to the

understanding of soul

which

to know a right

is eternal life

man is immortal

only as the idea of god

and not as a belief of life or soul in

the body

love is god

but error would couple love and hate

together

vainly thinking to mingle good and evil

souls attraction

is truth

but the attraction of sense is error

the former elevates and immortalizes man

the latter debases

and makes mortal

the two cannot blend

one rules out the other

as light shuts out darkness

and darkness

light god is not in matter

and there is neither life

intelligence nor truth

where he is not

the body we call man is matter

love is safe in truth

but not in man

safe in principle

but not person

does wisdom find pleasure in drunkenness

but personal sense does

and you cannot make the inebriate we

call man a verse to foul besottedness

until this belief is destroyed

when he will turn as naturally from his

cup

as the dreamer from incapus

tell a man intoxication will kill him

cause him to believe this

and possibly it will deter him from

listening to this lie of personal sense

namely

that there is pleasure in intoxication

but is he reformed

abstinence

if it cherishes the desire for

intemperance

is not reformation

and this so-called man will fall again

whenever the fear is removed

the fear of punishment in time or

eternity

never made an honest man

it is not a scientific position

moral courage instead of fear is

requisite

to overcome sin and sickness

but how reform the sensualist

through conscience

he trafficks little in this commodity

has even less soul

because he has more personal sense

than some of the lower animals

they could teach him affection

but convince his reason

that is above the brutes

of the nothingness of personal sense

and you have saved him

reasoning incorrectly on soul and body

leads to error of action

understanding the science of being

explains personal sense

and also destroys it

in science

you cannot be a hypocrite in secret

even you will become spiritual

find happiness in the moral resources of

being and in love that is truth

even as the babe finds peace and

nutriment from the mother's bosom

to awaken from the dream of personal

sense

or pleasure and pain in matter

is the work of time and eternity

the greater your error

the harder its struggle will be with

truth

when it touches it

the aged

are not old when the veil lifts

and sense gives place to soul

but the hoary error must be met and

mastered in time or

eternity

and would have been easier controlled in

its youth

man never obtains immortality

until the standpoint whence he reckons

himself in all the summing up of life

and intelligence

is soul

and not sense

what a pitiful sight is malice

finding pleasure in revenge

tis sad to think evil is man's highest

belief of good

until his grasp on goodness grows

stronger

we should naturally shrink from madness

that rushes forth to clamor with

midnight and the tempest

all error is the image of the beast

that must be effaced by the sweat of

agony

before the crown is laid upon the brow

a picture on the camera

or a face reflected from the mirror

is not substance

then why do we name man substance

and contradict the scripture that saith

man is the image and likeness of god

we know the face and form of a man

reflected from the mirror

is not man

that he is not in the shadow of himself

hence the error to suppose the

intelligence substance and life of man

are man

or in him

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again

who believes that gender belongs to the

man in the mirror

gender is principle

and not person

and man is shadow and not substance

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why he is mortal to personal sense

is because it supposes him substance

life

and intelligence

mortal man is but a dream of

intelligence

substance and life in matter

not the man of god

but the man of man

and shadow of shadows

therefore he reflects no principle

and is without any real basis

to personal sense

science is presumptive logic

nevertheless it reveals truth

the ultimatum of being corroborates the

statement that man is shadow and not

substance

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we are daily hastening to this proof and

must reach its recognition to gain

immortality

for the truth of man alone

makes him immortal

the belief that soul is in body

turns to matter instead of spirit for

help in times of trouble

and with reluctant consent

acknowledges a supreme being

theology embraces no creed or faith

sufficient to heal the sick

while our master made this the first

article of his faith

and proved that faith by works

it seems ancient christianity adhered

more to jesus teachings

than modern systems of religion do

diplomas have rendered it fashionable to

appeal to drugs before god

and the result is stereotyped beliefs

originating in knowledge

that forbidden tree

and wanting in the vital point

whereby jesus demonstrated christianity

in the control soul holds over sense

the so-called man

born today

and dying

as if something was newly created

and lost

is a dream and illusion

and this definition of him

is not more contradictory to personal

sense

than science demands

the scriptures inform us clearly on this

point

john declares

all things were made by god

and without him there was nothing made

that was made

this plainly denies any new existence in

the past or present

or any creation except what sprang

directly from god

the intelligence

that made man

hence we have the authority of scripture

for saying

mortal man and woman since appearing

are unreal

a belief only

and illusion

the question is

did john understand the science that was

the basis of his statement

he certainly foresaw its principle

and partly demonstrated it

thus proving his claim to make that

statement

the master instructs us

our proof of truth is the fruit it bears

and the science of being destroying sin

sickness and death

demonstrates itself

truth

it is presumptuous to conclude love

wisdom and truth

created what is unfit to be eternal

and when did truth ever destroy its own

idea

god cannot destroy man

because he is the reflection of god

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therefore

christ

truth

casting out sin

healing the sick

and destroying death

proves these are not of god

the only certainty of immortality

is found in the relationship between

principle and idea

that is

god and man

soul and body

life love and truth

the triune principle

created nothing to be blotted out

because god made man he is immortal

that the sick

sinning and dying are not made by him

we learn of the science of being

and through the demonstration of jesus

there are but two realities

namely

god

and the idea of god

in other words

spirit

and what it shadows forth

theology teaches supreme love to god

and this is a glorious privilege

but we cannot love god supremely

and personal sense or matter more

god is love and affections are the

offspring of soul

the understanding of life outside of

matter

is the basis of christianity

by which the flesh is denied

the cross taken up

and the guidance of personal sense

exchanged for principle

that makes perfect

doctrines and theories of life in matter

soul and body

and god in man

are virtually atheism

that must fall to the ground

and those are the days wherein there

will be tribulations

such as has not been since the beginning

of this belief

earth will echo back the shock when the

cry goes forth

why art thou

truth

come hither to torment me before the

time

the belief of life in matter

results in the belief of death

life

demonstrates life and not death

but life is god

and none but the pure in heart shall see

god

personal sense affords no evidence

not the smallest idea of truth

life or love

messages of soul

are man's teachers

and these are inspirations not born into

matter

but the outside intelligence

where spirit is

and speaks to man

we must recognize our self soul

and not body

and outside the body

else

soul is deemed subject to matter

mortality

sin

and death

but in order to do this

we must grow away from all that is error

and become pure in spirit

to receive or impart the lessons of

spirit

the messages from god to man

in other words from principle to idea

are purity

the atmosphere of soul

not winged messengers

but that whereby we gain the idea of

spiritual man

in the science of his being

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the inspirations of truth that are

demonstrable when understood

and never understood

until demonstrated

truth is practical

not

theoretical and we shall never have more

until we practice what we already have

not until the sick and the sinner feel

their need of truth that saves from

sickness sin and death

will they apprehend it

understanding the truth of man's being

is all that can make him harmonious or

immortal

and is the stepping stone to the

understanding of god

the giver of every good

whom to know a right

is life eternal

man is immortal

only as the idea of god

the representative of spirit and not

matter

of soul

and not body

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as a belief of soul in body

or intelligence and life in matter

he is only mortal

the science of being

never mistakes the real

for the unreal

or charges soul with a single belief of

personal sense

soul is god

for it is spirit and intelligence

and there is but one spirit

or intelligence

to call matter substance

does not require intelligence

but a belief

in so much as intelligence understands

there is no substance or solidity in

matter

that can rule out mind from piercing it

and reducing it to shadow

wherein soul is found its only substance

and that which holds man

idea

that cannot be lost

it does not require intelligence to lie

but demands soul to utter the truth of

man

intelligence or soul

is never in error

personal sense is the error

that embraces all mistakes

wherein

falsehood is considered fact

until it be understood otherwise

and the belief

is destroyed

one of the beliefs of personal sense

named sickness

we destroy mentally with the truth of

being

and the sickness is gone

this we have proved by demonstration in

hundreds of cases

belief makes up the sum total of mortal

man

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but this statement is confounded by

those not understanding science

blending the mortal and immortal

and making man god

intelligence

instead of its idea

belief is all there is to mortal man

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and if this belief is wretchedness only

no circumstance can make it

happiness and if happiness

no circumstance can change it

or make it wretchedness

until the belief of the different

conditions are changed

for as error thinketh

so is it

the science of being is as necessary to

those in the belief of health

as sickness

for a single change of belief would make

the well sick

when

if they understood these conditions

depended on mind

instead of matter they might continue to

be well

by grounding their belief in the case

and letting intelligence be master of

the situation

ignorance

pride and prejudice

close the door on all that contradicts

the past

or opens it on things not stereotyped

when the science of life is understood

every man will be his own physician

and the doctor's occupation gone

hence materia medica will fight it to

the end

but why should the new be scorned

when the old has proved incapable of

making man healthy

or harmonious

in mind or body

and the new commences at once to do this

the command

remains be ye perfect

even as your father is perfect

and yet we must be smitten for insisting

on this demonstration

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the science of being

that alone can stay the progress of

disease and sin

and the atheism that unites matter and

god

will be called

in this century

anti-christian

the belief that man is intelligent

matter

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subject to birth and death

would make soul mortal

and governed by material laws

god in the things he has made

sin

sickness and death blending with truth

and life

and the former

having the mastery over the latter

there is but one spirit

even god

therefore no evil can be in spirit

there being nothing to make evil of

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jesus cast out spirits that is

beliefs in other intelligences

and healed the sick with the truth of

being

he admitted no intelligence in evil

hence his authority over it

if spirit sins

it must die

for all error is mortal

spirit is god

and there is but one god

hence to talk of spirits

is to believe in gods and demons

we reason wrong on all points relating

to god and man

soul and body

when we start from matter

to draw conclusions of spirit

this renders it impossible for such

conclusions to be correct

our present standpoint is body

not soul

personality

instead of principle

hence our mistaken views

and their consequences

in sin

sickness

and death

we go into ecstasies over a personal god

with scarcely a spark of love in the

heart

when god is love

and with scarcely away from truth

when god is truth

and without the understanding of life

when god is life

and what is the result

that we have no practical god to heal us

and get out of sin and death only in

belief

while they still cling to mortal man

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this is not science or the christianity

that heals the sick

and demonstrates the harmony of life

evil and good never constituted man

for man is the image of god

and all there is to him

is the good

evil is not the image and likeness of

god

or matter of spirit

even reason would rescue man from these

errors of personal sense

were it not silenced by some fatal

theory

action produced by intelligence

manifests harmony only

while action proceeding from mortals

minds

discords until it is finally destroyed

the heavenly bodies controlled by the

mind of god

soul

contradict the supposed laws of sense

and are harmonious

the supposition of life in matter

leaves man at the mercy of sin

sickness

and death

and then would resurrect spirit from

dust

beginning with dust and returning to

dust

he who formed the universe

science undisturbed amid this jargon

reveals soul

the life intelligence and substance

that constitutes spirit

the great forever

not in matter

nor man

so

being inside of man

would reduce god to man

or make man god

the belief of soul in body supposes

spirit helpless

sinning

sick

and dying

omnipotence is lost if god is in man

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for mortal man is an error

through which truth cannot appear

the mighty arm is crippled when spirit

is made subject to matter

surely

the tree of knowledge produced a pygmy

race of gods

you