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

  	    If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was
12	"the way, the truth, and the life," cognize it? 

  	    Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that
  	which mortals entertain:  his nativity was a spiritual and
15	immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission
  	was to translate substance into its original meaning,
  	Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the water
18	into wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raised
  	the dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of his
  	own tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van-
21	quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking the
  	wave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter is
  	substance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-
24	position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize or
  	express pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave
  	was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated the
27	lifelessness of matter, and the power and permanence
  	of Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of the
  	world. 
30	    If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither
  	substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that
 
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  1	is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the
  	garment of Jesus' idea of matter. Christ was "the way;"
 3	since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through
  	a human person, a spiri...tual revelation of man's possible
  	earthly development. 
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