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                                       SOUL 

 1	    We read in the Hebrew Scriptures, "The soul that
  	sinneth, it shall die." 
 3	    What is Soul? Is it a reality within the mortal body? 
  	Who can prove that? Anatomy has not descried nor
  	described Soul. It was never touched by the scalpel nor
 6	cut with the dissecting-knife. The five physical senses do
  	not cognize it. 
  	    Who, then, dares define Soul as something within man? 
 9	As well might you declare some old castle to be peopled
  	with demons or angels, though never a light or form was
  	discerned therein, and not a spectre had ever been seen
12	going in or coming out. 
  	    The common hypotheses about souls are even more
  	vague than ordinary material conjectures, and have less
15	basis; because material theories are built on the evidence
  	of the material senses. 
  	    Soul must be God; since we learn Soul only as we learn
18	God, by spiritualization. As the five senses take no cog-
  	nizance of Soul, so they take no cognizance of God. What-
  	ever cannot be taken in by mortal mind — by human
21	reflection, reason, or belief — must be the unfathomable
  	Mind, which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard." Soul
 
   
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 1	stands in this relation to ev...ery hypothesis as to its human
  	character. 
 3	    If Soul sins, it is a sinner, and Jewish law condemned
  	the sinner to death, — as does all criminal law, to a cer-
  	tain extent. 
 6	    Spirit never sins, because Spirit is God. Hence, as
  	Spirit, Soul is sinless, and is God. Therefore there is,
  	there can be, no spiritual death. 
 9	    Transcending the evidence of the material senses,
  	Science declares God to be the Soul of all being, the only
  	Mind and intelligence in the universe. There is but one
12	God, one Soul, or Mind, and that one is infinite, supplying
  	all that is absolutely immutable and eternal, — Truth,
  	Life, Love. 
15	    Science reveals Soul as that which the senses cannot
  	define from any standpoint of their own. What the physi-
  	cal senses miscall soul, Christian Science defines as mate-
18	rial sense; and herein lies the discrepancy between the
  	true Science of Soul and that material sense of a soul which
  	that very sense declares can never be seen or measured or
21	weighed or touched by physicality. 
  	    Often we can elucidate the deep meaning of the Scrip-
  	tures by reading sense instead of soul, as in the Forty-
24	second Psalm: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul
  	[sense]? . . . Hope thou in God [Soul]:  for I shall yet
  	praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and
27	my God [my Soul, immortality]." 
  	    The Virgin-mother's sense being uplifted to behold
 
   
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 1	Spirit as the sole origin of man, she exclaimed, "My soul
  	[spiritual sense] doth magnify the Lord." 
 3	    Human language constantly uses the word soul for
  	sense. This it does under the delusion that the senses can
  	reverse the spiritual facts of Science, whereas Science re-
 6	verses the testimony of the material senses. 
  	    Soul is Life, and being spiritual Life, never sins. Mate-
  	rial sense is the so-called material life. Hence this lower
 9	sense sins and suffers, according to material belief, till
  	divine understanding takes away this belief and restores
  	Soul, or spiritual Life. "He restoreth my soul," says
12	David. 
  	    In his first epistle to the Corinthians (xv. 45) Paul writes:
  	"The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last
15	Adam was made a quickening spirit." The apostle re-
  	fers to the second Adam as the Messiah, our blessed
  	Master, whose interpretation of God and His creation — 
18	by restoring the spiritual sense of man as immortal instead
  	of mortal — made humanity victorious over death and the
  	grave. 
21	    When I discovered the power of Spirit to break the
  	cords of matter, through a change in the mortal sense of
  	things, then I discerned the last Adam as a quickening
24	Spirit, and understood the meaning of the declaration of
  	Holy Writ, "The first shall be last," — the living Soul
  	shall be found a quickening Spirit; or, rather, shall reflect
    27     the Life of the divine Arbiter.
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