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

18	    If this life is a dream not dispelled, but only changed,
  	by death, — if one gets tired of it, why not commit
  	suicide? 

21	    Man's existence is a problem to be wrought in divine
  	Science. What progress would a student of science
  	make, if, when tired of mathematics or failing to dem-
24	onstrate one rule readily, he should attempt to work
  	out a rule farther on and more difficult — and this,
  	because the first rule was not easily demonstrated? In
27	that case he would be obliged to turn back and work
  	out the previous example, before solving the advanced
  	problem. Mortals have the sum of being to work out,
30	and up, to its spiritual standpoint. They must work
 
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1	out of this dream or false claim of sensation and life
  	in matter, and up to the spiritual realities of existence,
 3	before this false claim can be wholly dispelled. Com-
  	mitting suicide to dodge the question is not working
  	it out. The error of supposed life and intelligence in
 6	matter, is dissolved only as we master error with Truth. 
  	Not through sin or suicide, but by overcoming tempta-
  	tion and sin, shall we escape the weariness and wicked-
 9	ness of mortal existence, and gain heaven, the harmony
  	of being.