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QA 19 of 24. The subtitles for this question are listed below. 

1. Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirituality, and is material sense a 
        necessary preliminary to the understanding and expression of Spirit?  
2. Error only ephemeral
3. Translation - Scientific translations
4. Beliefs - Material beliefs
5. Sense versus Soul
6. Death an error
7. Sensibility - Permanent sensibility
8. Mind-faculties - Exercise of Mind-faculties

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  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

SUBTITLE for above Question

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

1	Answer. — If error is necessary to define or to reveal
  	Truth, the answer is yes; but not otherwise. Material
 3	sense is an absurd phrase, for matter has no	                                         Error only
  	sensation. Science declares that Mind, not	                                         ephemeral 
  	matter, sees, hears, feels, speaks. Whatever contradicts
 6	this statement is the false sense, which ever betrays
  	mortals into sickness, sin, and death. If the unimpor-
  	tant and evil appear, only soon to disappear because
 9	of their uselessness or their iniquity, then these ephem-
  	eral views of error ought to be obliterated by Truth. 
  	Why malign Christian Science for instructing mortals how
12	to make sin, disease, and death appear more and more
  	unreal? 
  	    Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not
15	to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come
  	naturally into Spirit through better health and	                                        Scientific
  	morals and as the result of spiritual growth. 	                 ...                       translations 
18	Not death, but the understanding of Life, makes man im-
  	mortal. The belief that life can be in matter or soul in
  	body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg,
21	is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth,
  	destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which
  	man is perfect, even as the "Father which is in heaven
24	is perfect." If thought yields its dominion to other
  	powers, it cannot outline on the body its own beautiful
  	images, but it effaces them and delineates foreign agents,
27	called disease and sin. 
	    The heathen gods of mythology controlled war and
  	agriculture as much as nerves control sensation or
30	muscles measure strength. To say that	                                             Material
  	strength is in matter, is like saying that the	                                     beliefs 
  	power is in the lever. The notion of any life or intelli-
1	gence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you
  	can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned
 3	falsehood's true nature. 
  	    Suppose one accident happens to the eye, another to
  	the ear, and so on, until every corporeal sense is quenched. 
 6	What is man's remedy? To die, that he may	                                             Sense versus
  	regain these senses? Even then he must gain	                                     Soul 
  	spiritual understanding and spiritual sense in order to
 9	possess immortal consciousness. Earth's preparatory
  	school must be improved to the utmost. In reality man
  	never dies. The belief that he dies will not establish his
12	scientific harmony. Death is not the result of Truth but
  	of error, and one error will not correct another. 
  	    Jesus proved by the prints of the nails, that his body
15	was the same immediately after death as before. If death
  	restores sight, sound, and strength to man,	                                     Death
  	then death is not an enemy but a better friend	                             an error 
18	than Life. Alas for the blindness of belief, which makes
  	harmony conditional upon death and matter, and yet
  	supposes Mind unable to produce harmony! So long
21	as this error of belief remains, mortals will continue mor-
  	tal in belief and subject to chance and change. 
  	    Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are
24	eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immor-
  	tality are in Spirit and understanding, not in	                                       Permanent
  	matter, — hence their permanence. If this	                                       sensibility 
27	were not so, man would be speedily annihilated. If the
  	five corporeal senses were the medium through which
  	to understand God, then palsy, blindness, and deafness
30	would place man in a terrible situation, where he would
  	be like those "having no hope, and without God in the
  	world;" but as a matter of fact, these calamities often
 1	drive mortals to seek and to find a higher sense of happi-
  	ness and existence.  
 3	    Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of
  	man, never attainable through death, but gained by walk-
  	ing in the pathway of Truth both before and	                                      Exercise of
 6	after that which is called death. There is more	                              Mind-faculties 
  	Christianity in seeing and hearing spiritually
  	than materially. There is more Science in the perpetual
 9	exercise of the Mind-faculties than in their loss. Lost
  	they cannot be, while Mind remains. The apprehension
  	of this gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf cen-
12	turies ago, and it will repeat the wonder. 
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