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1. Question. — What are the demands of the Science of Soul? 
2. Commandments - Two chief commandments
3. Body - Soul not confined in body
4. Sinlessness of Mind, Soul

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 
 3	Answer. — The first demand of this Science is, "Thou
  	shalt have no other gods before me." This me is Spirit. 
  	Therefore the command means this:  Thou shalt	                                  Two chief
 6	have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no	                                  commands 
  	truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second
  	is like unto it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 
 9	It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one
  	Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. 
  	Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact
12	becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother-
  	hood of man will be established. Having no other gods,
  	turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide
15	him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav-
  	ing that Mind which was also in Christ. 
  	    Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and
18	God as not in man but as reflected by man. The greater
  	cannot be in the lesser. The belief that the	                                             Soul not
  	greater can be in the lesser is an error that	                                             confined in body 
21	works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Soul,
  	that... Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not
  	confined in man, and is never in matter. We reason im-
24	perfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that
  	matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning
  	shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives
27	the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind,
  	through matter. Matter neither sees, hears, nor feels. 
  	    Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind,
30	we begin with Mind, which must be under-	                                   Sinlessness of
  	stood through the idea which expresses it and	                           Mind, Soul 
  	cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we
 1	arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own
  	unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human
 3	illusions. If Soul sinned, it would be mortal, for sin is
  	mortality's self, because it kills itself. If Truth is im-
  	mortal, error must be mortal, because error is unlike
 6	Truth. Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for
  	sin is not the eternal verity of being.
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