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6	    Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and that
  	Soul is not in the body? 

  	    First:  I urge this fundamental fact and grand verity
 9	of Christian Science, because it includes a rule that must
  	be understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci-
  	ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit. 
12	There is but one God, and the infinite is not within the
  	finite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not in
  	matter or the mortal body. 
15	    Second:  Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this
  	term should seldom be employed except where the word
  	God can be used and make complete sense. The word
18	Soul may sometimes be used metaphorically; but if this
  	term is warped to signify human quality, a substitution
  	of sense for soul clears the meaning, and assists one to
21	understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,
  	"My soul doth magnify the Lord," is rendered in Sci-
  	ence, "My spiritual sense doth magnify the Lord;"
24	for the name of Deity used in that place does not bring
  	out the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an
  	illuminated sense through which she discovered the
27	spiritual origin of man. "The soul that sinneth, it shall
  	die," means, that mortal man (alias material sense) that
  	sinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view is
30	that soul is deathless. Soul is the divine Mind, — for
  	Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human
  
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 1	thought, — and must proceed from God; hence it must
  	be sinless, and destitute of self-created or derived capacity
 3	to sin. 
  	    Third:  Jesus said, "If a man keep my saying, he
  	shall never see death." This statement of our Master
 6	is true, and remains to be demonstrated; for it is the
  	ultimatum of Christian Science; but this immortal saying
  	can never be tested or proven true upon a false premise,
 9	such as the mortal belief that soul is in body, and life
  	and intelligence are in matter. That doctrine is not
  	theism, but pantheism. According to human belief the
12	bodies of mortals are mortal, but they contain immortal
  	souls! hence these bodies must die for these souls to
  	escape and be immortal. The theory that death must
15	occur, to set a human soul free from its environments,
  	is rendered void by Jesus' divine declaration, who spake
  	as never man spake, — and no man can rationally reject
18	his authority on this subject and accept it on other topics
  	less important. 
  	    Now, exchange the term soul for sense whenever this
21	word means the so-called soul in the body, and you will
  	find the right meaning indicated. The misnamed human
  	soul is material sense, which sinneth and shall die; for
24	it is an error or false sense of mentality in matter, and
  	matter has no sense. You will admit that Soul is the
  	Life of man. Now if Soul sinned, it would die; for "the
27	wages of sin is death." The Scripture saith, "When
  	Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
  	appear with him in glory." The Science of Soul, Spirit,
30	involves this appearing, and is essential to the fulfilment
  	of this glorious prophecy of the master Metaphysician,
  	who overcame the last enemy, death. 
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