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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    Has man fallen from a state of perfection? 

  	    If God is the Principle of man (and He is), man is the
27	idea of God; and this idea cannot fail to express the ex-
  	act nature of its Principle, — any more than goodness,
  	to present the quality of good. Human hypotheses are
30	always human vagaries, formulated views antagonistic
 
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  1	to the divine order and the nature of Deity. All these
  	mortal beliefs will be purged and dissolved in the cru-
 3	cible of Truth, and the places once knowing them will
  	know them no more forever, having been swept clean
  	by the winds of history. The grand verities of Science
 6	will sift the chaff from the wheat, until it is clear to hu-
  	man comprehension that man was, and is, God's perfect
  	likeness, that reflects all whereby we can know God. In
 9	Him we live, move, and have being. Man's origin and
  	existence being in Him, man is the ultimatum of per-
  	fection, and by no means the medium of imperfection. 
12	Immortal man is the eternal idea of Truth, that cannot
  	lapse into a mortal belief or error concerning himself
  	and his origin:  he cannot get out of the focal distance of
15	infinity. If God is upright and eternal, man as His like-
  	ness is erect in goodness and perpetual in Life, Truth,
  	and Love. If the great cause is perfect, its effect is per-
18	fect also; and cause and effect in Science are immutable
  	a...nd immortal. A mortal who is sinning, sick, and dying,
  	is not immortal man; and never was, and never can be,
21	God's image and likeness, the true ideal of immortal
  	man's divine Principle. The spiritual man is that per-
  	fect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with
24	God. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
  	made alive." 
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