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

 9	    Is it correct to say of material objects, that they are noth-
  	ing and exist only in imagination? 

  	    Nothing and something are words which need correct
12	definition. They either mean formations of indefinite
  	and vague human opinions, or scientific classifications
  	of the unreal and the real. My sense of the beauty of
15	the universe is, that beauty typifies holiness, and is some-
  	thing to be desired. Earth is more spiritually beautiful
  	to my gaze now than when it was more earthly to the
18	eyes of Eve. The pleasant sensations of human belief,
  	of form and color, must be spiritualized, until we gain the
  	glorified sense of substance as in the new heaven and
21	earth, the harmony of body and Mind. 
  	    Even the human conception of beauty, grandeur, and
  	utility is something that defies a sneer. It is more than
24	imagination. It is next to divine beauty and the gran-
  	deur of Spirit. It lives with our earth-life, and is
  	the subjective state of high thoughts. The atmos-
27	phere of mortal mind constitutes our mortal envi-
  	ronment. What mortals hear, see, feel, taste, smell,
  	constitutes their present earth and heaven:  but we must
30	grow out of even this pleasing thraldom, and find wings
  	to reach the glory of supersensible Life; then we shall
 
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 1	soar above, as the bird in the clear ether of the blue tem-
  	poral sky. 
 3	    To take all ...earth's beauty into one gulp of vacuity
  	and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature
  	God's creation, which is unjust to human sense and
 6	to the divine realism. In our immature sense of spirit-
  	ual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous
  	universe: "I love your promise; and shall know, some
 9	time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light,
  	and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and
  	knowing this, I shall be satisfied.  Matter is a frail con-
12	ception of mortal mind; and mortal mind is a poorer
  	representative of the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the
  	immortal Mind." 
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