0.0 – Christian Science S&H with Key to the Scriptures – 1910 Edition – Subtitles

	For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept;
  	line upon line, line upon line;
  	here a little, and t...here a little. — Isaiah. 

INTRODUCTION

 1	    This chapter is from the first edition of the author's
  	class-book, copyrighted in 1870. After... much labor
 3	and increased spiritual understanding, she revised that
  	treatise for this volume in 1875. Absolute Christian
  	Science pervades its statements, to elucidate scientific
 6	metaphysics. 

  	Question. — What is God? 
 9	Answer. — God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite
  	Mind, Spirit, Soul, Pri...nciple, Life, Truth, Love. 

        Question. — Are these terms synonymous? 
12	Answer. — They are. They refer to one absolute God. 
  	They a...re also intended to express the nature, essence, and
  	wholeness of Deity. The attributes of God are justice,
15	mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on. 

  	Question. — Is there more than one God or Principle? 
  	Answer. — There is not. Principle and its idea is one,
...
18	and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-
 1	present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe. 
  	Omni is adopted from the Latin adjective signifying all. 
 3	Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science
  	or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifesta-
  	tions of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter,
 6     and have one Principle. 

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Question. — What are spirits and souls? 

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  	Question.... — What are spirits and souls? 
  	Answer. — To human belief, they are personalities
 9	constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and
  	error, good and evil; but these contrasting	                                 Real versus
  	pairs of terms represent contraries, as Chris-	                                 unreal 
12	tian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor
  	assimilate. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth
  	is limitless; error is limited. Truth is intelligent; error
15	is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is
  	unreal. This last statement contains the point you will
  	most reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the
18	most important to understand. 
  	    The term souls or spirits is as improper as the term
  	gods. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. 
21	There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or	                                      Mankind
  	Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be	                              redeemed 
  	rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and Jewish
24	theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence,
  	soul, and life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism
  	are the outcome of all man-made beliefs. The Science
27	of Christianity comes with fan in hand to separate the
  	chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright,
  	and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and
30	its divine Principle, making mankind better physically,
        morally, and spiritually.

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Question. — What are spirits and souls? 

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  	Answer. — To human belief, they are personalities
 9	constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and
  	error, good and evil; but these contrasting	                                 Real versus
  	pairs of terms represent contraries, as Chris-	                                 unreal 
12	tian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor
  	assimilate. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth
  	is limitless; error is limited. Truth is intelligent; error
15	is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is
  	unreal. This last statement contains the point you will
  	most reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the
18	most important to understand. 

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Question. — What are spirits and souls? 

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  	    The term souls or spirits is as improper as the term
  	gods. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. 
21	There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or	                                      Mankind
  	Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be	                              redeemed 
  	rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and Jewish
24	theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence,
  	soul, and life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism
  	are the outcome of all man-made beliefs. The Science
27	of Christianity comes with fan in hand to separate the
  	chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright,
  	and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and
30	its divine Principle, making mankind better physically,
        morally, and spiritually.

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 
 3	Answer. — The first demand of this Science is, "Thou
  	shalt have no other gods before me." This me is Spirit. 
  	Therefore the command means this:  Thou shalt	                                  Two chief
 6	have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no	                                  commands 
  	truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second
  	is like unto it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 
 9	It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one
  	Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. 
  	Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact
12	becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother-
  	hood of man will be established. Having no other gods,
  	turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide
15	him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav-
  	ing that Mind which was also in Christ. 
  	    Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and
18	God as not in man but as reflected by man. The greater
  	cannot be in the lesser. The belief that the	                                             Soul not
  	greater can be in the lesser is an error that	                                             confined in body 
21	works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Soul,
  	that Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not
  	confined in man, and is never in matter. We reason im-
24	perfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that
  	matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning
  	shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives
27	the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind,
  	through matter. Matter neither sees, hears, nor feels. 
  	    Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind,
30	we begin with Mind, which must be under-	                                   Sinlessness of
  	stood through the idea which expresses it and	                           Mind, Soul 
  	cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we
 1	arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own
  	unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human
 3	illusions. If Soul sinned, it would be mortal, for sin is
  	mortality's self, because it kills itself. If Truth is im-
  	mortal, error must be mortal, because error is unlike
 6	Truth. Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for
  	sin is not the eternal verity of being.

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 
 3	Answer. — The first demand of this Science is, "Thou
  	shalt have no other gods before me." This me is Spirit. 
  	Therefore the command means this:  Thou shalt	                                  Two chief
 6	have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no	                                  commands 
  	truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second
  	is like unto it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 
 9	It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one
  	Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. 
  	Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact
12	becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother-
  	hood of man will be established. Having no other gods,
  	turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide
15	him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav-
  	ing that Mind which was also in Christ. 

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 

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  	    Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and
18	God as not in man but as reflected by man. The greater
  	cannot be in the lesser. The belief that the	                                             Soul not
  	greater can be in the lesser is an error that	                                             confined in body 
21	works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Soul,
  	that Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not
  	confined in man, and is never in matter. We reason im-
24	perfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that
  	matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning
  	shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives
27	the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind,
  	through matter. Matter neither sees, hears, nor feels. 

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1	Question. — What are the demands of the Science of
  	Soul? 

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  	    Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind,
30	we begin with Mind, which must be under-	                                   Sinlessness of
  	stood through the idea which expresses it and	                           Mind, Soul 
  	cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we
 1	arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own
  	unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human
 3	illusions. If Soul sinned, it would be mortal, for sin is
  	mortality's self, because it kills itself. If Truth is im-
  	mortal, error must be mortal, because error is unlike
 6	Truth. Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for
  	sin is not the eternal verity of being. 

Question. — What is the scientific statement of being? 

Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor su...bstance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.

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Question. — What is substance? 

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  	Question. — What ...is substance? 
  	Answer. — Substance is that which is eternal and inca-
18	pable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are
  	substance, as the Scriptures use this word in	                                           Spiritual
  	Hebrews: "The substance of things hoped	                                           synonyms 
21	for, the evidence of things not seen." Spirit, the synonym
  	of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. The
  	spiritual universe, including individual man, is a com-
24	pound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit. 

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	Question. — What is Life?

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	Question. — What is Life...? 
  	Answer. — Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit. 
27	Life is without beginning and without end. 	                                   Eternity
  	Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of	                                   of Life 
  	Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in
30	proportion as the other is recognized. Time is finite;
 1	eternity is forever infinite. Life is neither in nor of mat-
  	ter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which
 3	includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Mat-
  	ter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not
  	limited. Death and finiteness are unknown to Life. If
 6	Life ever had a beginning, it would also have an ending. 

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Question. — What is substance? 

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  	Quest...ion. — What is substance? 
  	Answer. — Substance is that which is eternal and inca-
18	pable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are
  	substance, as the Scriptures use this word in	                                           Spiritual
  	Hebrews: "The substance of things hoped	                                           synonyms 
21	for, the evidence of things not seen." Spirit, the synonym
  	of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. The
  	spiritual universe, including individual man, is a com-
24	pound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit. 

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	Question. — What is Life?

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	Question. �...� What is Life? 
  	Answer. — Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit. 
27	Life is without beginning and without end. 	                                   Eternity
  	Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of	                                   of Life 
  	Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in
30	proportion as the other is recognized. Time is finite;
 1	eternity is forever infinite. Life is neither in nor of mat-
  	ter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which
 3	includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Mat-
  	ter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not
  	limited. Death and finiteness are unknown to Life. If
 6	Life ever had a beginning, it would also have an ending. 

  	Question. — What is intelligence? 
  	Answer. — Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence,
 9	and omnipotence. ...It is the primal and eternal quality
  	of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle, — Life, Truth,
  	and Love, — named God. 

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12	Question. — What is Mind? 

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12	Question. — What is... Mind? 
  	Answer. — Mind is God. The exterminator of error
  	is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and
15	that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind	                         True sense of
  	 — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not	                                 infinitude 
  	Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There
18	can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and
  	if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other,
  	sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if
21	that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude,
  	when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a
  	place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all
24	space is filled with God. 
  	    We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when
  	after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and
27	has all-power, we still believe there is another	                              The sole
  	power, named evil. This belief that there	                                      governor 
  	is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology
30	as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With
 1	one Father, even God, the whole family of man would
  	be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
 3	the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
  	and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which
  	constitute divine Science. The supposed existence of
 6	more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This
  	error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the
  	spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an
 9	unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and
  	universal. 
  	    Divine Science explains the abstract statement that
12	there is one Mind by the following self-evident propo-
  	sition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the	                                The divine
  	unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can	                                standard of
15	only seem to be real by giving reality to the	                                perfection 
  	unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How
  	can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man,
18	never sins? The standard of perfection was originally
  	God and man. Has God taken down His own standard,
        and has man fallen? 
21	    God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle
  	of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection,
  	man, remains perfect. Man is the expression 	                         Indestructible
24	of God's being. If there ever was a moment	                                 relationship
  	when man did not express the divine perfec-
  	tion, then there was a moment when man did not express
27	God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex-
  	pressed — that is, without entity. If man has lost per-
  	fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine
30	Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle
  	or Mind, then man's existence was a myth. 
 6	    The unlikeness of Truth, — named error, — the op-
  	posite of Science, and the evidence before the five cor-
  	poreal senses, afford no indication of the grand	                            Celestial
 9	facts of being; even as these so-called senses	                            evidence
  	receive no intimation of the earth's motions or of the
  	science of astronomy, but yield assent to astronomical
12	propositions on the authority of natural science. 
  	    The facts of divine Science should be admitted, — 
  	although the evidence as to these facts is not supported
15	by evil, by matter, or by material sense, — because the
  	evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by
  	spiritual sense. Man is, and forever has been, God's re-
18	flection. God is infinite, therefore ever present, and
  	there is no other power nor presence. Hence the spirit-
  	uality of the universe is the only fact of creation. "Let
21	God be true, but every [material] man a liar." 

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12	Question. — What is Mind? 

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12	Questio...n. — What is Mind? 
  	Answer. — Mind is God. The exterminator of error
  	is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and
15	that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind	                         True sense of
  	 — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not	                                 infinitude 
  	Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There
18	can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and
  	if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other,
  	sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if
21	that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude,
  	when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a
  	place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all
24	space is filled with God. 

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12	Question. — What is Mind? 

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  	    We ...lose the high signification of omnipotence, when
  	after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and
27	has all-power, we still believe there is another	                              The sole
  	power, named evil. This belief that there	                                      governor 
  	is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology
30	as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With
 1	one Father, even God, the whole family of man would
  	be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
 3	the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
  	and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which
  	constitute divine Science. The supposed existence of
 6	more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This
  	error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the
  	spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an
 9	unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and
  	universal. 

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12	Question. — What is Mind? 

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  	    Div...ine Science explains the abstract statement that
12	there is one Mind by the following self-evident propo-
  	sition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the	                                The divine
  	unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can	                                standard of
15	only seem to be real by giving reality to the	                                perfection 
  	unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How
  	can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man,
18	never sins? The standard of perfection was originally
  	God and man. Has God taken down His own standard,
        and has man fallen? 

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12	Question. — What is Mind? 

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21	    God... is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle
  	of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection,
  	man, remains perfect. Man is the expression 	                         Indestructible
24	of God's being. If there ever was a moment	                                 relationship
  	when man did not express the divine perfec-
  	tion, then there was a moment when man did not express
27	God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex-
  	pressed — that is, without entity. If man has lost per-
  	fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine
30	Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle
  	or Mind, then man's existence was a myth. 

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  	Question. — Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? 

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  	Question. — Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? 
  	Answer. — The author subscribed to an orthodox
24	creed in early youth, and tried to adhere to it until she
  	caught the first gleam of that which inter-	                                       The test of
  	prets God as above mortal sense. This	                                               experience 
27	view rebuked human beliefs, and gave the spiritual im-
  	port, expressed through Science, of all that proceeds
  	from the divine Mind. Since then her highest creed has
30	been divine Science, which, reduced to human apprehen-
  	sion, she has named Christian Science. This Science
1	teaches man that God is the only Life, and that this Life
  	is Truth and Love; that God is to be understood, adored,
 3	and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out supposi-
  	tional error and heals the sick. 
  	    The way which leads to Christian Science is straight
 6	and narrow. God has set His signet upon Science, mak-
  	ing it coordinate with all that is real and only	                                         God's law
  	with that which is harmonious and eternal. 	                                         destroys evil 
 9	Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not
  	originate in God nor belong to His government. His
  	law, rightly understood, destroys them. Jesus furnished
12	proofs of these statements. 

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12	Question. — What is Mind? 

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 6	    The... unlikeness of Truth, — named error, — the op-
  	posite of Science, and the evidence before the five cor-
  	poreal senses, afford no indication of the grand	                            Celestial
 9	facts of being; even as these so-called senses	                            evidence
  	receive no intimation of the earth's motions or of the
  	science of astronomy, but yield assent to astronomical
12	propositions on the authority of natural science. 
  	    The facts of divine Science should be admitted, — 
  	although the evidence as to these facts is not supported
15	by evil, by matter, or by material sense, — because the
  	evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by
  	spiritual sense. Man is, and forever has been, God's re-
18	flection. God is infinite, therefore ever present, and
  	there is no other power nor presence. Hence the spirit-
  	uality of the universe is the only fact of creation. "Let
21	God be true, but every [material] man a liar." 

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  	Question. — Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? 

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  	Question. — Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? 
  	Answer. — The author subscribed to an orthodox
24	creed in early youth, and tried to adhere to it until she
  	caught the first gleam of that which inter-	                                       The test of
  	prets God as above mortal sense. This	                                               experience 
27	view rebuked human beliefs, and gave the spiritual im-
  	port, expressed through Science, of all that proceeds
  	from the divine Mind. Since then her highest creed has
30	been divine Science, which, reduced to human apprehen-
  	sion, she has named Christian Science. This Science
1	teaches man that God is the only Life, and that this Life
  	is Truth and Love; that God is to be understood, adored,
 3	and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out supposi-
  	tional error and heals the sick. 

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	Question. — What is error? 

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	Question. — What is er...ror? 
  	Answer. — Error is a supposition that pleasure and
15	pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in mat-
  	ter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's	                                         Evanescent
  	faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. 	                                         materiality 
18	Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal
  	because untrue. It is that which seemeth to be and is not. 
  	If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should
21	have a self-evident absurdity — namely, erroneous truth. 
  	Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth. 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	Question. — Is th...ere no sin? 
24	Answer. — All reality is in God and His creation, har-
  	monious and eternal. That which He creates is good,
  	and He makes all that is made. Therefore	                                        Unrealities
27	the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is	                                        that seem real 
  	the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring
  	belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not
30	true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian
1	Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illu-
  	sion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming
3	to be real and identical. 
  	    The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God,
  	is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are
 6	to be classified as effects of error. Christ	                                      Christ the
  	came to destroy the belief of sin. The God-	                                      ideal Truth 
  	principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every-
 9	where, and nothing apart from Him is present or has
  	power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal
  	sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes
12	all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who,
  	more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true
  	idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroy-
15	ing the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and
  	Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the
  	Christ. 
18	    In an age of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced
  	the teaching and practice of Christianity, affording the
  	proof of Christianity's truth and love; but to	                                        Jesus not
21	reach his example and to test its unerring Sci-	                                God 
  	ence according to his rule, healing sickness, sin, and
  	death, a better understanding of God as divine Prin-
24	ciple, Love, rather than personality or the man Jesus, is
  	required. 
  	    Jesus established what he said by demonstration,
27	thus making his acts of higher importance than his
  	words. He proved what he taught. This	                                              Jesus not
  	is the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved	                                      understood 
30	the Principle, which heals the sick and casts out error,
  	to be divine. Few, however, except his students un-
  	derstood in the least his teachings and their glorious
 1	proofs, — namely, that Life, Truth, and Love (the Prin-
  	ciple of this unacknowledged Science) destroy all error,
 3	evil, disease, and death. 
  	    The reception accorded to Truth in the early Chris-
  	tian era is repeated to-day. Whoever introduces the
 6	Science of Christianity will be scoffed at and	                                 Miracles
  	scourged with worse cords than those which	                                 rejected 
  	cut the flesh. To the ignorant age in which it first
 9	appears, Science seems to be a mistake, — hence the
  	misinterpretation and consequent maltreatment which
  	it receives. Christian marvels (and marvel is the sim-
12	ple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the
  	New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused
  	by many, until the glorious Principle of these marvels is
15	gained. 
  	    If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Life, Truth,
  	and Love, then they must all be from the same source;
18	God must be their author. Now Jesus came	                                       Divine
  	to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet the	                                       fulfilment 
  	Scriptures aver, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." 
21	Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which Jesus
  	lived to destroy are real or the offspring of the divine
  	will? 
24	    Despite the hallowing influence of Truth in the de-
  	struction of error, must error still be immortal? Truth
  	spares all that is true. If evil is real, Truth	                               Truth destroys
27	must make it so; but error, not Truth, is	                                       falsity 
  	the author of the unreal, and the unreal vanishes,
  	while all that is real is eternal. The apostle says that
30	the mission of Christ is to "destroy the works of the
  	devil." Truth destroys falsity and error, for light and
  	darkness cannot dwell together. Light extinguishes the
 1	darkness, and the Scripture declares that there is "no
  	night there." To Truth there is no error, — all is Truth. 
 3	To infinite Spirit there is no matter, — all is Spirit, divine
  	Principle and its idea. 

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  	Question. — Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? 

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  	    The way which leads to Christian Science is straight
 6	and narrow. God has set His signet upon Science, mak-
  	ing it coordinate with all that is real and only	                                         God's law
  	with that which is harmonious and eternal. 	                                         destroys evil 
 9	Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not
  	originate in God nor belong to His government. His
  	law, rightly understood, destroys them. Jesus furnished
12	proofs of these statements. 

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	Question. — What is error? 

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	Question. ...— What is error? 
  	Answer. — Error is a supposition that pleasure and
15	pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in mat-
  	ter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's	                                         Evanescent
  	faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. 	                                         materiality 
18	Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal
  	because untrue. It is that which seemeth to be and is not. 
  	If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should
21	have a self-evident absurdity — namely, erroneous truth. 
  	Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth. 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	Question. �...�� Is there no sin? 
24	Answer. — All reality is in God and His creation, har-
  	monious and eternal. That which He creates is good,
  	and He makes all that is made. Therefore	                                        Unrealities
27	the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is	                                        that seem real 
  	the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring
  	belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not
30	true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian
1	Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illu-
  	sion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming
3	to be real and identical. 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	    T...he Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God,
  	is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are
 6	to be classified as effects of error. Christ	                                      Christ the
  	came to destroy the belief of sin. The God-	                                      ideal Truth 
  	principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every-
 9	where, and nothing apart from Him is present or has
  	power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal
  	sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes
12	all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who,
  	more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true
  	idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroy-
15	ing the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and
  	Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the
  	Christ. 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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18	    In an a...ge of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced
  	the teaching and practice of Christianity, affording the
  	proof of Christianity's truth and love; but to	                                        Jesus not
21	reach his example and to test its unerring Sci-	                                God 
  	ence according to his rule, healing sickness, sin, and
  	death, a better understanding of God as divine Prin-
24	ciple, Love, rather than personality or the man Jesus, is
  	required. 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	    Jesus e...stablished what he said by demonstration,
27	thus making his acts of higher importance than his
  	words. He proved what he taught. This	                                              Jesus not
  	is the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved	                                      understood 
30	the Principle, which heals the sick and casts out error,
  	to be divine. Few, however, except his students un-
  	derstood in the least his teachings and their glorious
 1	proofs, — namely, that Life, Truth, and Love (the Prin-
  	ciple of this unacknowledged Science) destroy all error,
 3	evil, disease, and death. 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	    The rec...eption accorded to Truth in the early Chris-
  	tian era is repeated to-day. Whoever introduces the
 6	Science of Christianity will be scoffed at and	                                 Miracles
  	scourged with worse cords than those which	                                 rejected 
  	cut the flesh. To the ignorant age in which it first
 9	appears, Science seems to be a mistake, — hence the
  	misinterpretation and consequent maltreatment which
  	it receives. Christian marvels (and marvel is the sim-
12	ple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the
  	New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused
  	by many, until the glorious Principle of these marvels is
15	gained. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 7 of 8

  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	    If sin,... sickness, and death are as real as Life, Truth,
  	and Love, then they must all be from the same source;
18	God must be their author. Now Jesus came	                                       Divine
  	to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet the	                                       fulfilment 
  	Scriptures aver, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." 
21	Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which Jesus
  	lived to destroy are real or the offspring of the divine
  	will? 

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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24	    Despite... the hallowing influence of Truth in the de-
  	struction of error, must error still be immortal? Truth
  	spares all that is true. If evil is real, Truth	                               Truth destroys
27	must make it so; but error, not Truth, is	                                       falsity 
  	the author of the unreal, and the unreal vanishes,
  	while all that is real is eternal. The apostle says that
30	the mission of Christ is to "destroy the works of the
  	devil." Truth destroys falsity and error, for light and
  	darkness cannot dwell together. Light extinguishes the
 1	darkness, and the Scripture declares that there is "no
  	night there." To Truth there is no error, — all is Truth. 
 3	To infinite Spirit there is no matter, — all is Spirit, divine
  	Principle and its idea. 

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  	Question. — What is man? 

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  	Question. — What is ...man? 
 6	Answer. — Man is not matter; he is not made up of
  	brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The
  	Scriptures inform us that man is made in	                                     Fleshly
 9	the image and likeness of God. Matter is	                                     factors unreal 
  	not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so
  	unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and be-
12	cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so under-
  	stood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of
  	Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of
15	God, including all right ideas; the generic term for
  	all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious
  	identity of being as found in Science, in which man is
18	the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal;
  	that which has no separate mind from God; that which
  	has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which
21	possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his
  	own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. 
  	    And God said: "Let us make man in our image, after
24	our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish
  	of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
  	and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
27	creepeth upon the earth." 
  	    Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The
  	real man cannot depart from holiness, nor	                                 Man
30	can God, by whom man is evolved, engender	                         unfallen 
  	the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not
1	God's man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. 
  	They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil,
 3	which declares that man begins in dust or as a material
  	embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are
  	inseparable as divine Principle and idea. 
 6	    Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed. 
  	Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life
  	and intelligence are in matter, and that	                                      Mortals are
 9	this matter is man. God is the Principle of	                              not immortals 
  	man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not
  	mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and im-
12	mortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only
  	and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen chil-
  	dren of God. They never had a perfect state of being,
15	which may subsequently be regained. They were, from
  	the beginning of mortal history, "conceived in sin and
  	brought forth in iniquity." Mortality is finally swallowed
18	up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must dis-
  	appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal
  	man. 
21	    Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual
  	status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood. 
  	Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal	                                   Imperishable
24	man: "As for man, his days are as grass: as	                                   identity 
  	a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind
  	passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall
27	know it no more." 
  	    When speaking of God's children, not the children of
  	men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;"
30	that is, Truth and Love reign in the real	                                              The kingdom
  	man, showing that man in God's image is	                                      within 
  	unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per-
 1	fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
  	man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour
 3	saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man
  	healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom
  	of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. 
 6	Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself
  	spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect
  	nor material. 
 9	    Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal
  	senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but
  	Christian Science reveals man as the idea of	                                      Material
12	God, and declares the corporeal senses to be	                              body never
  	mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science	                                      God's idea 
  	shows it to be impossible that a material body, though
15	interwoven with matter's highest stratum, misnamed
  	mind, should be man, — the genuine and perfect man,
  	the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. 
18	Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 7

  	Question. — What is man? 

SUBTITLE 2 of 7 for above Question

  	Question.... — What is man? 
 6	Answer. — Man is not matter; he is not made up of
  	brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The
  	Scriptures inform us that man is made in	                                     Fleshly
 9	the image and likeness of God. Matter is	                                     factors unreal 
  	not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so
  	unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and be-
12	cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so under-
  	stood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of
  	Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of
15	God, including all right ideas; the generic term for
  	all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious
  	identity of being as found in Science, in which man is
18	the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal;
  	that which has no separate mind from God; that which
  	has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which
21	possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his
  	own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. 
  	    And God said: "Let us make man in our image, after
24	our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish
  	of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
  	and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
27	creepeth upon the earth." 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 7

  	Question. — What is man? 

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  	    Man ...is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The
  	real man cannot depart from holiness, nor	                                 Man
30	can God, by whom man is evolved, engender	                         unfallen 
  	the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not
1	God's man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. 
  	They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil,
 3	which declares that man begins in dust or as a material
  	embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are
  	inseparable as divine Principle and idea. 

6	    Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed. 
  	Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that lif...e
  	and intelligence are in matter, and that	                                    Mortals are
 9	this matter is man. God is the Principle of	                            not immortals 
  	man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not
  	mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and im-
12	mortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only
  	and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen chil-
  	dren of God. They never had a perfect state of being,
15	which may subsequently be regained. They were, from
  	the beginning of mortal history, "conceived in sin and
  	brought forth in iniquity." Mortality is finally swallowed
18	up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must dis-
  	appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal
  	man.

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  	Question. — What is man? 

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 6	    Error, urg...ed to its final limits, is self-destroyed. 
  	Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life
  	and intelligence are in matter, and that	                                      Mortals are
 9	this matter is man. God is the Principle of	                              not immortals 
  	man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not
  	mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and im-
12	mortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only
  	and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen chil-
  	dren of God. They never had a perfect state of being,
15	which may subsequently be regained. They were, from
  	the beginning of mortal history, "conceived in sin and
  	brought forth in iniquity." Mortality is finally swallowed
18	up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must dis-
  	appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal
  	man. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 5 of 7

  	Question. — What is man? 

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21	    Lear...n this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual
  	status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood. 
  	Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal	                                   Imperishable
24	man: "As for man, his days are as grass: as	                                   identity 
  	a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind
  	passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall
27	know it no more." 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 6 of 7

  	Question. — What is man? 

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  	    When... speaking of God's children, not the children of
  	men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;"
30	that is, Truth and Love reign in the real	                                              The kingdom
  	man, showing that man in God's image is	                                      within 
  	unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per-
 1	fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
  	man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour
 3	saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man
  	healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom
  	of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. 
 6	Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself
  	spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect
  	nor material. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

  	Question. — What are body and Soul?

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  	Question. �...� What are body and Soul? 
  	Answer. — Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the re-
21	flection in multifarious forms of the living Principle,
  	Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelli-	                                 Reflection
  	gence of man, which is individualized, but not	                         of Spirit 
24	in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to
  	Spirit.  
  	    Man is the expression of Soul. The Indians caught
27	some glimpses of the underlying reality, when	                                    Man
  	they called a certain beautiful lake "the smile	                                            inseparable
  	of the Great Spirit." Separated from man,	                                            from Spirit 
30	who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man,
  	divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is,
 1	there can be, no such division, for man is coexistent with
  	God. 
 3	    What evidence of Soul or of immortality have you
  	within mortality? Even according to the teachings of
  	natural science, man has never beheld Spirit	                                  A vacant
 6	or Soul leaving a body or entering it. What	                                  domicile 
  	basis is there for the theory of indwelling spirit, except
  	the claim of mortal belief? What would be thought of
 9	the declaration that a house was inhabited, and by a cer-
  	tain class of persons, when no such persons were ever seen
  	to go into the house or to come out of it, nor were they
12	even visible through the windows? Who can see a soul
  	in the body? 

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  	Question. — What is man? 

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 9	    What...ever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal
  	senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but
  	Christian Science reveals man as the idea of	                                      Material
12	God, and declares the corporeal senses to be	                              body never
  	mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science	                                      God's idea 
  	shows it to be impossible that a material body, though
15	interwoven with matter's highest stratum, misnamed
  	mind, should be man, — the genuine and perfect man,
  	the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. 
18	Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 4

  	Question. — What are body and Soul?

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  	Ques...tion. — What are body and Soul? 
  	Answer. — Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the re-
21	flection in multifarious forms of the living Principle,
  	Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelli-	                                 Reflection
  	gence of man, which is individualized, but not	                         of Spirit 
24	in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to
  	Spirit.  

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 4

  	Question. — What are body and Soul?

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  	    ...Man is the expression of Soul. The Indians caught
27	some glimpses of the underlying reality, when	                                    Man
  	they called a certain beautiful lake "the smile	                                            inseparable
  	of the Great Spirit." Separated from man,	                                            from Spirit 
30	who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man,
  	divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is,
 1	there can be, no such division, for man is coexistent with
  	God. 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence in ma...tter? 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence in matter? 
  	Answer. — No, not if God is true and mortal man a
  	liar. The assertion that there can be pain or pleasure
18	in matter is erroneous. That body is most	                                 Harmonious
  	harmonious in which the discharge of the nat-	                         functions 
  	ural functions is least noticeable. How can intelligence
21	dwell in matter when matter is non-intelligent and
  	brain-lobes cannot think? Matter cannot perform the
  	functions of Mind. Error says, "I am man;" but this
24	belief is mortal and far from actual. From beginning
  	to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material hu-
  	man beliefs and of nothing else. That only is real which
27	reflects God. St. Paul said, "But when it pleased God,
  	who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me
  	by His grace, . . . I conferred not with flesh and blood." 
30	    Mortal man is really a self-contradictory phrase, for
  	man is not mortal, "neither indeed can be;" man is im-
1	mortal. If a child is the offspring of physical sense and
  	not of Soul, the child must have a material, not a spirit-
 3	ual origin. With what truth, then, could the	                                    Immortal
  	Scriptural rejoicing be uttered by any mother,	                                    birthright 
  	"I have gotten a man from the Lord"? On the con-
 6	trary, if aught comes from God, it cannot be mortal and
  	material; it must be immortal and spiritual. 
  	    Matter is neither self-existent nor a product of Spirit. 
 9	An image of mortal thought, reflected on the retina, is
  	all that the eye beholds. Matter cannot see,	                                   Matter's
  	feel, hear, taste, nor smell. It is not self-	                                           supposed
12	cognizant, — cannot feel itself, see itself, nor	                                   selfhood 
  	understand itself. Take away so-called mortal mind,
  	which constitutes matter's supposed selfhood, and matter
15	can take no cognizance of matter. Does that which we
  	call dead ever see, hear, feel, or use any of the physical
  	senses? 
18	    "In the beginning God created the heaven and the
  	earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and
  	darkness was upon the face of the deep."	                              Chaos and
21	(Genesis i. 1, 2.) In the vast forever, in the	                              darkness 
  	Science and truth of being, the only facts are Spirit
  	and its innumerable creations. Darkness and chaos
24	are the imaginary opposites of light, understanding,
  	and eternal harmony, and they are the elements of
  	nothingness. 
27	    We admit that black is not a color, because it reflects
  	no light. So evil should be denied identity or power,
  	because it has none of the divine hues. Paul	                                     Spiritual
30	says: "For the invisible things of Him, from	                                     reflection 
  	the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being under-
  	stood by the things that are made." (Romans i. 20.) 
 1	When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Sci-
  	ence, the nothingness of matter is recognized. Where
 3	the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is
  	not, evil becomes nothing, — the opposite of the some-
  	thing of Spirit. If there is no spiritual reflection, then
6      there remains only the darkness of vacuity and not a trace
  	of heavenly tints. 
  	    Nerves are an element of the belief that there is sensa-
 9	tion in matter, whereas matter is devoid of sensation. 
  	Consciousness, as well as action, is governed	                                  Harmony
  	by Mind, — is in God, the origin and gov-	                                          from Spirit 
12	ernor of all that Science reveals. Material sense has
  	its realm apart from Science in the unreal. Harmonious
  	action proceeds from Spirit, God. Inharmony has no
15	Principle; its action is erroneous and presupposes man
  	to be in matter. Inharmony would make matter the
  	cause as well as the effect of intelligence, or Soul, thus
18	attempting to separate Mind from God. 
  	    Man is not God, and God is not man. Again, God,
  	or good, never made man capable of sin. It is the oppo-
21	site of good — that is, evil — which seems to	                                 Evil
  	make men capable of wrong-doing. Hence,	                                         non-existent 
  	evil is but an illusion, and it has no real basis. Evil is a
24	false belief. God is not its author. The supposititious
  	parent of evil is a lie. 
  	    The Bible declares: "All things were made by Him
27	[the divine Word]; and without Him was not anything
  	made that was made." This is the eternal	                                       Vapor and
  	verity of divine Science. If sin, sickness, and	                                       nothingness 
30	death were understood as nothingness, they would dis-
  	appear. As vapor melts before the sun, so evil would
  	vanish before the reality of good. One must hide the
 1	other. How important, then, to choose good as the
  	reality! Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing
 3	else. God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and
  	boundless bliss. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
  	there is liberty." Like the archpriests of yore, man is
 6	free "to enter into the holiest," — the realm of God. 
  	    Material sense never helps mortals to understand
  	Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man com-
 9	prehends and loves Deity. The various con-	                                       The fruit
  	tradictions of the Science of Mind by the ma-	                                       forbidden 
  	terial senses do not change the unseen Truth, which re-
12	mains forever intact. The forbidden fruit of knowledge,
  	against which wisdom warns man, is the testimony of
  	error, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death,
15	and good and evil to be capable of commingling. This
  	is the significance of the Scripture concerning this "tree
  	of the knowledge of good and evil," — this growth of
18	material belief, of which it is said: "In the day that thou
  	eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Human hypotheses
  	first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death, and
21	then assume the necessity of these evils because of their
  	admitted actuality. These human verdicts are the pro-
  	curers of all discord. 
24	    If Soul sins, it must be mortal. Sin has the elements
  	of self-destruction. It cannot sustain itself. If sin is
  	supported, God must uphold it, and this is	                                    Sense and
27	impossible, since Truth cannot support error. 	                            pure Soul 
  	Soul is the divine Principle of man and never sins, — 
  	hence the immortality of Soul. In Science we learn that
30	it is material sense, not Soul, which sins; and it will be
  	found that it is the sense of sin which is lost, and not a
  	sinful soul. When reading the Scriptures, the substitu-
 1	tion of the word sense for soul gives the exact meaning in
  	a majority of cases. 
 3	    Human thought has adulterated the meaning of the
  	word soul through the hypothesis that soul is both an evil
  	and a good intelligence, resident in matter. 	                                        Soul
 6	The proper use of the word soul can always	                                        defined 
  	be gained by substituting the word God, where the deific
  	meaning is required. In other cases, use the word sense,
 9	and you will have the scientific signification. As used
  	in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of
  	Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with
12	sense, with material sensation. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 4 of 4

  	Question. — What are body and Soul?

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 ...3	    What evidence of Soul or of immortality have you
  	within mortality? Even according to the teachings of
  	natural science, man has never beheld Spirit	                                  A vacant
 6	or Soul leaving a body or entering it. What	                                  domicile 
  	basis is there for the theory of indwelling spirit, except
  	the claim of mortal belief? What would be thought of
 9	the declaration that a house was inhabited, and by a cer-
  	tain class of persons, when no such persons were ever seen
  	to go into the house or to come out of it, nor were they
12	even visible through the windows? Who can see a soul
  	in the body? 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligen...ce in matter? 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence in matter? 
  	Answer. — No, not if God is true and mortal man a
  	liar. The assertion that there can be pain or pleasure
18	in matter is erroneous. That body is most	                                 Harmonious
  	harmonious in which the discharge of the nat-	                         functions 
  	ural functions is least noticeable. How can intelligence
21	dwell in matter when matter is non-intelligent and
  	brain-lobes cannot think? Matter cannot perform the
  	functions of Mind. Error says, "I am man;" but this
24	belief is mortal and far from actual. From beginning
  	to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material hu-
  	man beliefs and of nothing else. That only is real which
27	reflects God. St. Paul said, "But when it pleased God,
  	who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me
  	by His grace, . . . I conferred not with flesh and blood." 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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30	    Mortal man is really a self-contradictory phrase, for
  	man is not mortal, "neither indeed can be;" man is im-
1	mortal. If a child is the offspring of physical sense and
  	not of Soul, the child must have a material, not a spirit-
 3	ual origin. With what truth, then, could the	                                    Immortal
  	Scriptural rejoicing be uttered by any mother,	                                    birthright 
  	"I have gotten a man from the Lord"? On the con-
 6	trary, if aught comes from God, it cannot be mortal and
  	material; it must be immortal and spiritual. 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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  	    Matter is neither self-existent nor a product of Spirit. 
 9	An image of mortal thought, reflected on the retina, is
  	all that the eye beholds. Matter cannot see,	                                   Matter's
  	feel, hear, taste, nor smell. It is not self-	                                           supposed
12	cognizant, — cannot feel itself, see itself, nor	                                   selfhood 
  	understand itself. Take away so-called mortal mind,
  	which constitutes matter's supposed selfhood, and matter
15	can take no cognizance of matter. Does that which we
  	call dead ever see, hear, feel, or use any of the physical
  	senses? 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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18	    "In the beginning God created the heaven and the
  	earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and
  	darkness was upon the face of the deep."	                              Chaos and
21	(Genesis i. 1, 2.) In the vast forever, in the	                              darkness 
  	Science and truth of being, the only facts are Spirit
  	and its innumerable creations. Darkness and chaos
24	are the imaginary opposites of light, understanding,
  	and eternal harmony, and they are the elements of
  	nothingness. 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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27	    We admit that black is not a color, because it reflects
  	no light. So evil should be denied identity or power,
  	because it has none of the divine hues. Paul	                                     Spiritual
30	says: "For the invisible things of Him, from	                                     reflection 
  	the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being under-
  	stood by the things that are made." (Romans i. 20.) 
 1	When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Sci-
  	ence, the nothingness of matter is recognized. Where
 3	the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is
  	not, evil becomes nothing, — the opposite of the some-
  	thing of Spirit. If there is no spiritual reflection, then
6      there remains only the darkness of vacuity and not a trace
  	of heavenly tints. 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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  	    Nerves are an element of the belief that there is sensa-
 9	tion in matter, whereas matter is devoid of sensation. 
  	Consciousness, as well as action, is governed	                                  Harmony
  	by Mind, — is in God, the origin and gov-	                                          from Spirit 
12	ernor of all that Science reveals. Material sense has
  	its realm apart from Science in the unreal. Harmonious
  	action proceeds from Spirit, God. Inharmony has no
15	Principle; its action is erroneous and presupposes man
  	to be in matter. Inharmony would make matter the
  	cause as well as the effect of intelligence, or Soul, thus
18	attempting to separate Mind from God. 

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15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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  	    Man is not God, and God is not man. Again, God,
  	or good, never made man capable of sin. It is the oppo-
21	site of good — that is, evil — which seems to	                                 Evil
  	make men capable of wrong-doing. Hence,	                                         non-existent 
  	evil is but an illusion, and it has no real basis. Evil is a
24	false belief. God is not its author. The supposititious
  	parent of evil is a lie. 

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15	is there intelligence ...in matter? 

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  	    The Bible declares: "All things were made by Him
27	[the divine Word]; and without Him was not anything
  	made that was made." This is the eternal	                                       Vapor and
  	verity of divine Science. If sin, sickness, and	                                       nothingness 
30	death were understood as nothingness, they would dis-
  	appear. As vapor melts before the sun, so evil would
  	vanish before the reality of good. One must hide the
 1	other. How important, then, to choose good as the
  	reality! Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing
 3	else. God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and
  	boundless bliss. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
  	there is liberty." Like the archpriests of yore, man is
 6	free "to enter into the holiest," — the realm of God. 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence... in matter? 

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  	    Material sense never helps mortals to understand
  	Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man com-
 9	prehends and loves Deity. The various con-	                                       The fruit
  	tradictions of the Science of Mind by the ma-	                                       forbidden 
  	terial senses do not change the unseen Truth, which re-
12	mains forever intact. The forbidden fruit of knowledge,
  	against which wisdom warns man, is the testimony of
  	error, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death,
15	and good and evil to be capable of commingling. This
  	is the significance of the Scripture concerning this "tree
  	of the knowledge of good and evil," — this growth of
18	material belief, of which it is said: "In the day that thou
  	eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Human hypotheses
  	first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death, and
21	then assume the necessity of these evils because of their
  	admitted actuality. These human verdicts are the pro-
  	curers of all discord. 

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15	is there intelligence... in matter? 

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24	    If Soul sins, it must be mortal. Sin has the elements
  	of self-destruction. It cannot sustain itself. If sin is
  	supported, God must uphold it, and this is	                                    Sense and
27	impossible, since Truth cannot support error. 	                            pure Soul 
  	Soul is the divine Principle of man and never sins, — 
  	hence the immortality of Soul. In Science we learn that
30	it is material sense, not Soul, which sins; and it will be
  	found that it is the sense of sin which is lost, and not a
  	sinful soul. When reading the Scriptures, the substitu-
 1	tion of the word sense for soul gives the exact meaning in
  	a majority of cases. 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to heal t...he sick? 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to heal the sick? 
15	Answer. — It is, since Christ is "the way" and the
  	truth casting out all error. Jesus called himself "the
  	Son of man," but not the son of Joseph. As	                                  Sonship
18	woman is but a species of the genera, he was	                          of Jesus 
  	literally the Son of Man. Jesus was the highest human
  	concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from
21	Christ, the Messiah, — the divine idea of God outside
  	the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his con-
  	trol over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of
24	old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through
  	faith, to the hungering heart in every age. 
  	    Sickness is part of the error which Truth casts out. 
27	Error will not expel error. Christian Science is the law
  	of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis	                                     Sickness
  	of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no	                                     erroneous 
30	other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not
        a healer, but causes the belief in disease.  
1	    Then comes the question, how do drugs, hygiene, and
  	animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed that they
 3	do not heal, but only relieve suffering tempo-	                                     True healing
  	rarily, exchanging one disease for another. 	                                     transcendent 
  	We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or
 6	Mind can heal, and this Mind must be divine, not human. 
  	Mind transcends all other power, and will ultimately su-
  	persede all other means in healing. In order to heal by
 9	Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spir-
  	itual demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral igno-
  	rance or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its
12	approach to the standard in Christian Science. 
  	    After the author's sacred discovery, she affixed the
  	name "Science" to Christianity, the name "error" to
15	corporeal sense, and the name "substance" to	                               Terms
  	Mind. Science has called the world to battle	                                       adopted by
  	over this issue and its demonstration, which	                                       the author 
18	heals the sick, destroys error, and reveals the universal
  	harmony. To those natural Christian Scientists, the an-
  	cient worthies, and to Christ Jesus, God certainly revealed
21	the spirit of Christian Science, if not the absolute letter. 
  	    Because the Science of Mind seems to bring into dis-
  	honor the ordinary scientific schools, which wrestle with
24	material observations alone, this Science has	                               Science
  	met with opposition; but if any system honors	                               the way 
  	God, it ought to receive aid, not opposition, from all think-
27	ing persons. And Christian Science does honor God as
  	no other theory honors Him, and it does this in the way
  	of His appointing, by doing many wonderful works
30	through the divine name and nature. One must fulfil
  	one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be
  	well done, the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity
 1	will never be based on a divine Principle and so found to
  	be unerring, until its absolute Science is reached. When
 3	this is accomplished, neither pride, prejudice, bigotry,
  	nor envy can wash away its foundation, for it is built upon
  	the rock, Christ. 

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  	Question. — Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and
15	is there intelligence... in matter? 

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 3	    Human thought has adulterated the meaning of the
  	word soul through the hypothesis that soul is both an evil
  	and a good intelligence, resident in matter. 	                                        Soul
 6	The proper use of the word soul can always	                                        defined 
  	be gained by substituting the word God, where the deific
  	meaning is required. In other cases, use the word sense,
 9	and you will have the scientific signification. As used
  	in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of
  	Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with
12	sense, with material sensation. 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to... heal the sick? 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to he...al the sick? 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to heal the sick? 
15	Answer. — It is, since Christ is "the way" and the
  	truth casting out all error. Jesus called himself "the
  	Son of man," but not the son of Joseph. As	                                  Sonship
18	woman is but a species of the genera, he was	                          of Jesus 
  	literally the Son of Man. Jesus was the highest human
  	concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from
21	Christ, the Messiah, — the divine idea of God outside
  	the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his con-
  	trol over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of
24	old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through
  	faith, to the hungering heart in every age. 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to... heal the sick? 

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  	    Sickness is part of the error which Truth casts out. 
27	Error will not expel error. Christian Science is the law
  	of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis	                                     Sickness
  	of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no	                                     erroneous 
30	other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not
        a healer, but causes the belief in disease.  

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to he...al the sick? 

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1	    Then comes the question, how do drugs, hygiene, and
  	animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed that they
 3	do not heal, but only relieve suffering tempo-	                                     True healing
  	rarily, exchanging one disease for another. 	                                     transcendent 
  	We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or
 6	Mind can heal, and this Mind must be divine, not human. 
  	Mind transcends all other power, and will ultimately su-
  	persede all other means in healing. In order to heal by
 9	Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spir-
  	itual demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral igno-
  	rance or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its
12	approach to the standard in Christian Science. 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to he...al the sick? 

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  	    After the author's sacred discovery, she affixed the
  	name "Science" to Christianity, the name "error" to
15	corporeal sense, and the name "substance" to	                               Terms
  	Mind. Science has called the world to battle	                                       adopted by
  	over this issue and its demonstration, which	                                       the author 
18	heals the sick, destroys error, and reveals the universal
  	harmony. To those natural Christian Scientists, the an-
  	cient worthies, and to Christ Jesus, God certainly revealed
21	the spirit of Christian Science, if not the absolute letter. 

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  	Question. — Is it important to understand these ex-
  	planations in order to he...al the sick? 

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  	    Because the Science of Mind seems to bring into dis-
  	honor the ordinary scientific schools, which wrestle with
24	material observations alone, this Science has	                               Science
  	met with opposition; but if any system honors	                               the way 
  	God, it ought to receive aid, not opposition, from all think-
27	ing persons. And Christian Science does honor God as
  	no other theory honors Him, and it does this in the way
  	of His appointing, by doing many wonderful works
30	through the divine name and nature. One must fulfil
  	one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be
  	well done, the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity
 1	will never be based on a divine Principle and so found to
  	be unerring, until its absolute Science is reached. When
 3	this is accomplished, neither pride, prejudice, bigotry,
  	nor envy can wash away its foundation, for it is built upon
  	the rock, Christ. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

 6	Question. — Does Christian Science, or metaphysical
  	healing, include medication, ...material hygiene, mesmer-
  	ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism?

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 6	Question. — Does Christian Science, or metaphysical
  	healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmer-
  	ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? 
 9	Answer. — Not one of them is included in it. In di-
  	vine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the
  	law of Mind. What are termed natural	                                               Mindless
12	science and material laws are the objective	                                       methods 
  	states of mortal mind. The physical universe expresses
  	the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. 
15	Physical force and mortal mind are one. Drugs and
  	hygiene oppose the supremacy of the divine Mind. 
  	Drugs and inert matter are unconscious, mindless. Cer-
18	tain results, supposed to proceed from drugs, are really
  	caused by the faith in them which the false human con-
  	sciousness is educated to feel.  
 21	    Mesmerism is mortal, material illusion. Animal mag-
  	netism is the voluntary or involuntary action of error
  	in all its forms; it is the human antipode	                                          Animal
24	of divine Science. Science must triumph	                                  magnetism error 
  	over material sense, and Truth over error, thus putting
  	an end to the hypotheses involved in all false theories
27	and practices. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material sen...se a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

1	Answer. — If error is necessary to define or to reveal
  	Truth, the answer is yes; but not otherwise. Material
 3	sense is an absurd phrase, for matter has no	                                         Error only
  	sensation. Science declares that Mind, not	                                         ephemeral 
  	matter, sees, hears, feels, speaks. Whatever contradicts
 6	this statement is the false sense, which ever betrays
  	mortals into sickness, sin, and death. If the unimpor-
  	tant and evil appear, only soon to disappear because
 9	of their uselessness or their iniquity, then these ephem-
  	eral views of error ought to be obliterated by Truth. 
  	Why malign Christian Science for instructing mortals how
12	to make sin, disease, and death appear more and more
  	unreal? 
  	    Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not
15	to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come
  	naturally into Spirit through better health and	                                        Scientific
  	morals and as the result of spiritual growth. 	                                        translations 
18	Not death, but the understanding of Life, makes man im-
  	mortal. The belief that life can be in matter or soul in
  	body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg,
21	is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth,
  	destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which
  	man is perfect, even as the "Father which is in heaven
24	is perfect." If thought yields its dominion to other
  	powers, it cannot outline on the body its own beautiful
  	images, but it effaces them and delineates foreign agents,
27	called disease and sin. 
	    The heathen gods of mythology controlled war and
  	agriculture as much as nerves control sensation or
30	muscles measure strength. To say that	                                             Material
  	strength is in matter, is like saying that the	                                     beliefs 
  	power is in the lever. The notion of any life or intelli-
1	gence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you
  	can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned
 3	falsehood's true nature. 
  	    Suppose one accident happens to the eye, another to
  	the ear, and so on, until every corporeal sense is quenched. 
 6	What is man's remedy? To die, that he may	                                             Sense versus
  	regain these senses? Even then he must gain	                                     Soul 
  	spiritual understanding and spiritual sense in order to
 9	possess immortal consciousness. Earth's preparatory
  	school must be improved to the utmost. In reality man
  	never dies. The belief that he dies will not establish his
12	scientific harmony. Death is not the result of Truth but
  	of error, and one error will not correct another. 
  	    Jesus proved by the prints of the nails, that his body
15	was the same immediately after death as before. If death
  	restores sight, sound, and strength to man,	                                     Death
  	then death is not an enemy but a better friend	                             an error 
18	than Life. Alas for the blindness of belief, which makes
  	harmony conditional upon death and matter, and yet
  	supposes Mind unable to produce harmony! So long
21	as this error of belief remains, mortals will continue mor-
  	tal in belief and subject to chance and change. 
  	    Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are
24	eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immor-
  	tality are in Spirit and understanding, not in	                                       Permanent
  	matter, — hence their permanence. If this	                                       sensibility 
27	were not so, man would be speedily annihilated. If the
  	five corporeal senses were the medium through which
  	to understand God, then palsy, blindness, and deafness
30	would place man in a terrible situation, where he would
  	be like those "having no hope, and without God in the
  	world;" but as a matter of fact, these calamities often
 1	drive mortals to seek and to find a higher sense of happi-
  	ness and existence.  
 3	    Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of
  	man, never attainable through death, but gained by walk-
  	ing in the pathway of Truth both before and	                                      Exercise of
 6	after that which is called death. There is more	                              Mind-faculties 
  	Christianity in seeing and hearing spiritually
  	than materially. There is more Science in the perpetual
 9	exercise of the Mind-faculties than in their loss. Lost
  	they cannot be, while Mind remains. The apprehension
  	of this gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf cen-
12	turies ago, and it will repeat the wonder. 

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 6	Question. — Does Christian Science, or metaphysical
  	healing, include medic...ation, material hygiene, mesmer-
  	ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? 

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 6	Question. — Does Christian Science, or metaphysical
  	healing, include medicati...on, material hygiene, mesmer-
  	ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism?

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 6	Question. — Does Christian Science, or metaphysical
  	healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmer-
  	ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? 
 9	Answer. — Not one of them is included in it. In di-
  	vine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the
  	law of Mind. What are termed natural	                                               Mindless
12	science and material laws are the objective	                                       methods 
  	states of mortal mind. The physical universe expresses
  	the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. 
15	Physical force and mortal mind are one. Drugs and
  	hygiene oppose the supremacy of the divine Mind. 
  	Drugs and inert matter are unconscious, mindless. Cer-
18	tain results, supposed to proceed from drugs, are really
  	caused by the faith in them which the false human con-
  	sciousness is educated to feel.  

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 6	Question. — Does Christian Science, or metaphysical
  	healing, include medicati...on, material hygiene, mesmer-
  	ism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism?

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 21	    Mesmerism is mortal, material illusion. Animal mag-
  	netism is the voluntary or involuntary action of error
  	in all its forms; it is the human antipode	                                          Animal
24	of divine Science. Science must triumph	                                  magnetism error 
  	over material sense, and Truth over error, thus putting
  	an end to the hypotheses involved in all false theories
27	and practices. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 1 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is mater...ial sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is mater...ial sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

SUBTITLE 2 of 8 for above Question

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

1	Answer. — If error is necessary to define or to reveal
  	Truth, the answer is yes; but not otherwise. Material
 3	sense is an absurd phrase, for matter has no	                                         Error only
  	sensation. Science declares that Mind, not	                                         ephemeral 
  	matter, sees, hears, feels, speaks. Whatever contradicts
 6	this statement is the false sense, which ever betrays
  	mortals into sickness, sin, and death. If the unimpor-
  	tant and evil appear, only soon to disappear because
 9	of their uselessness or their iniquity, then these ephem-
  	eral views of error ought to be obliterated by Truth. 
  	Why malign Christian Science for instructing mortals how
12	to make sin, disease, and death appear more and more
  	unreal? 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is mater...ial sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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  	    Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not
15	to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come
  	naturally into Spirit through better health and	                                        Scientific
  	morals and as the result of spiritual growth. 	                                        translations 
18	Not death, but the understanding of Life, makes man im-
  	mortal. The belief that life can be in matter or soul in
  	body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg,
21	is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth,
  	destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which
  	man is perfect, even as the "Father which is in heaven
24	is perfect." If thought yields its dominion to other
  	powers, it cannot outline on the body its own beautiful
  	images, but it effaces them and delineates foreign agents,
27	called disease and sin. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 4 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is mater...ial sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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	    The heathen gods of mythology controlled war and
  	agriculture as much as nerves control sensation or
30	muscles measure strength. To say that	                                             Material
  	strength is in matter, is like saying that the	                                     beliefs 
  	power is in the lever. The notion of any life or intelli-
1	gence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you
  	can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned
 3	falsehood's true nature. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 5 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is mater...ial sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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  	    Suppose one accident happens to the eye, another to
  	the ear, and so on, until every corporeal sense is quenched. 
 6	What is man's remedy? To die, that he may	                                             Sense versus
  	regain these senses? Even then he must gain	                                     Soul 
  	spiritual understanding and spiritual sense in order to
 9	possess immortal consciousness. Earth's preparatory
  	school must be improved to the utmost. In reality man
  	never dies. The belief that he dies will not establish his
12	scientific harmony. Death is not the result of Truth but
  	of error, and one error will not correct another. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 6 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material... sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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  	    Jesus proved by the prints of the nails, that his body
15	was the same immediately after death as before. If death
  	restores sight, sound, and strength to man,	                                     Death
  	then death is not an enemy but a better friend	                             an error 
18	than Life. Alas for the blindness of belief, which makes
  	harmony conditional upon death and matter, and yet
  	supposes Mind unable to produce harmony! So long
21	as this error of belief remains, mortals will continue mor-
  	tal in belief and subject to chance and change. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 7 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material... sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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  	    Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are
24	eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immor-
  	tality are in Spirit and understanding, not in	                                       Permanent
  	matter, — hence their permanence. If this	                                       sensibility 
27	were not so, man would be speedily annihilated. If the
  	five corporeal senses were the medium through which
  	to understand God, then palsy, blindness, and deafness
30	would place man in a terrible situation, where he would
  	be like those "having no hope, and without God in the
  	world;" but as a matter of fact, these calamities often
 1	drive mortals to seek and to find a higher sense of happi-
  	ness and existence.  

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

  	Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it
  	that believes? 

SUBTITLE fo...r above Question

  	Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it
  	that believes? 
15	Answer. — Spirit is all-knowing; this precludes the
  	need of believing. Matter cannot believe, and Mind
  	understands. The body cannot believe. The	                                    Understanding
18	believer and belief are one and are mortal. 	                                    versus belief 
  	Christian evidence is founded on Science or
  	demonstrable Truth, flowing from immortal Mind, and
21	there is in reality no such thing as mortal mind. Mere
  	belief is blindness without Principle from which to ex-
  	plain the reason of its hope. The belief that life is sen-
24	tient and intelligent matter is erroneous. 
  	    The Apostle James said, "Show me thy faith without
  	thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works." 
27	The understanding that Life is God, Spirit, lengthens
  	our days by strengthening our trust in the deathless
  	reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality. 
30	    This faith relies upon an understood Principle. This
  	Principle makes whole the diseased, and brings out the
 1	enduring and harmonious phases of things. The result
  	of our teachings is their sufficient confirmation. When,
 3	on the strength of these instructions, you are	                                          Confirmation
  	able to banish a severe malady, the cure shows	                                  by healing 
  	that you understand this teaching, and therefore you re-
 6	ceive the blessing of Truth. 
  	    The Hebrew and Greek words often translated belief
  	differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the
 9	English verb believe; they have more the sig-	                                Belief and
  	nificance of faith, understanding, trust, con-	                                        firm trust 
  	stancy, firmness. Hence the Scriptures often appear in
12	our common version to approve and endorse belief, when
  	they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 8 of 8

  	Question. — Is materiality the concomitant of spirit-
  	uality, and is material... sense a necessary preliminary to
30	the understanding and expression of Spirit?  

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 3	    Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of
  	man, never attainable through death, but gained by walk-
  	ing in the pathway of Truth both before and	                                      Exercise of
 6	after that which is called death. There is more	                              Mind-faculties 
  	Christianity in seeing and hearing spiritually
  	than materially. There is more Science in the perpetual
 9	exercise of the Mind-faculties than in their loss. Lost
  	they cannot be, while Mind remains. The apprehension
  	of this gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf cen-
12	turies ago, and it will repeat the wonder. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 4

  	Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it
  	that believes? 

SUBTITLE ...2 of 4 for above Question

  	Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it
  	that believes? 
15	Answer. — Spirit is all-knowing; this precludes the
  	need of believing. Matter cannot believe, and Mind
  	understands. The body cannot believe. The	                                    Understanding
18	believer and belief are one and are mortal. 	                                    versus belief 
  	Christian evidence is founded on Science or
  	demonstrable Truth, flowing from immortal Mind, and
21	there is in reality no such thing as mortal mind. Mere
  	belief is blindness without Principle from which to ex-
  	plain the reason of its hope. The belief that life is sen-
24	tient and intelligent matter is erroneous. 
  	    The Apostle James said, "Show me thy faith without
  	thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works." 
27	The understanding that Life is God, Spirit, lengthens
  	our days by strengthening our trust in the deathless
  	reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 4

  	Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it
  	that believes? 

SUBTITLE ...3 of 4 for above Question

30	    This faith relies upon an understood Principle. This
  	Principle makes whole the diseased, and brings out the
 1	enduring and harmonious phases of things. The result
  	of our teachings is their sufficient confirmation. When,
 3	on the strength of these instructions, you are	                                          Confirmation
  	able to banish a severe malady, the cure shows	                                  by healing 
  	that you understand this teaching, and therefore you re-
 6	ceive the blessing of Truth. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE for above Q...uestion

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 
  	Answer. — Christian Science sustains with immortal
  	proof the impossibility of any material sense, and defines
18	these so-called senses as mortal beliefs, the	                                             All faculties
  	testimony of which cannot be true either of	                                             from Mind 
  	man or of his Maker. The corporeal senses can take no
21	cognizance of spiritual reality and immortality. Nerves
  	have no more sensation, apart from what belief be-
  	stows upon them, than the fibres of a plant. Mind alone
24	possesses all faculties, perception, and comprehension. 
  	Therefore mental endowments are not at the mercy of
  	organization and decomposition, — otherwise the very
27	worms could unfashion man. If it were possible for the
  	real senses of man to be injured, Soul could reproduce
  	them in all their perfection; but they cannot be dis-
30	turbed nor destroyed, since they exist in immortal Mind,
  	not in matter. 
 1	    The less mind there is manifested in matter the better. 
  	When the unthinking lobster loses its claw, the claw grows
 3	again. If the Science of Life were understood,	                                     Possibilities
  	it would be found that the senses of Mind are	                                     of Life 
  	never lost and that matter has no sensation. Then the
 6	human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster's
  	claw, — not with an artificial limb, but with the genuine
  	one. Any hypothesis which supposes life to be in matter
 9	is an educated belief. In infancy this belief is not equal
  	to guiding the hand to the mouth; and as consciousness
  	develops, this belief goes out, — yields to the reality of
12	everlasting Life. 
  	    Corporeal sense defrauds and lies; it breaks all the
  	commands of the Mosaic Decalogue to meet its own de-
15	mands. How then can this sense be the God-	                                 Decalogue
  	given channel to man of divine blessings or	                                         disregarded 
  	understanding? How can man, reflecting God, be de-
18	pendent on material means for knowing, hearing, seeing? 
  	Who dares to say that the senses of man can be at one time
  	the medium for sinning against God, at another the me-
21	dium for obeying God? An affirmative reply would con-
  	tradict the Scripture, for the same fountain sendeth not
  	forth sweet waters and bitter. 
24	    The corporeal senses are the only source of evil or
  	error. Christian Science shows them to be false, be-
  	cause matter has no sensation, and no organic	                                      Organic
27	construction can give it hearing and sight nor	                                              construction
  	make it the medium of Mind. Outside the	                                              valueless 
  	material sense of things, all is harmony. A wrong sense
30	of God, man, and creation is non-sense, want of sense. 
  	Mortal belief would have the material senses sometimes
  	good and sometimes bad. It assures mortals that there
 1	is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian
  	Science dispute this error. 
 3	    Will-power is but a product of belief, and this belief
  	commits depredations on harmony. Human will is an
  	animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul. 	                                          Will-power
 6	Hence it cannot govern man aright. Chris-	                                          an animal
  	tian Science reveals Truth and Love as the	                                          propensity 
  	motive-powers of man. Will — blind, stubborn, and head-
 9	long — cooperates with appetite and passion. From this
  	cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its pow-
  	erlessness, since all power belongs to God, good. 
12	    The Science of Mind needs to be understood. Until
  	it is understood, mortals are more or less deprived of
  	Truth. Human theories are helpless to make	                                    Theories
15	man harmonious or immortal, since he is so	                                    helpless 
  	already, according to Christian Science. Our only need
  	is to know this and reduce to practice the real man's di-
18	vine Principle, Love. 
  	    "Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings." 
  	Human belief — or knowledge gained from the so-called
21	material senses — would, by fair logic, anni-	                                        True nature
  	hilate man along with the dissolving elements	                                and origin 
  	of clay. The scientifically Christian explanations of the
24	nature and origin of man destroy all material sense with
  	immortal testimony. This immortal testimony ushers
  	in the spiritual sense of being, which can be obtained
27	in no other way. 
  	    Sleep and mesmerism explain the mythical nature of
  	material sense. Sleep shows material sense as either
30	oblivion, nothingness, or an illusion or dream. 	                                 Sleep an
  	Under the mesmeric illusion of belief, a man	                                         illusion 
  	will think that he is freezing when he is warm, and that he
 1	is swimming when he is on dry land. Needle-thrusts will
  	not hurt him. A delicious perfume will seem intolerable. 
 3	Animal magnetism thus uncovers material sense, and
  	shows it to be a belief without actual foundation or va-
  	lidity. Change the belief, and the sensation changes. 
 6	Destroy the belief, and the sensation disappears. 
	    Material man is made up of involuntary and voluntary
  	error, of a negative right and a positive wrong, the latter
 9	calling itself right. Man's spiritual individual-	                                           Man linked
  	ity is never wrong. It is the likeness of man's	                                           with Spirit 
  	Maker. Matter cannot connect mortals with the true
12	origin and facts of being, in which all must end. It is only
  	by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls
  	the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and
15	find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man
  	forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator. 
  	    The belief that matter and mind are one, — that mat-
18	ter is awake at one time and asleep at another, some-
  	times presenting no appearance of mind, — 	                                           Material man
  	this belief culminates in another belief, that	                                           as a dream 
21	man dies. Science reveals material man as never the real
  	being. The dream or belief goes on, whether our eyes are
  	closed or open. In sleep, memory and consciousness are
24	lost from the body, and they wander whither they will
  	apparently with their own separate embodiment. Per-
  	sonality is not the individuality of man. A wicked man
27	may have an attractive personality. 
  	    When we are awake, we dream of the pains and pleas-
  	ures of matter. Who will say, even though he	                                                Spiritual
30	does not understand Christian Science, that	                                                existence the
  	this dream — rather than the dreamer — may	                                        one fact 
  	not be mortal man? Who can rationally say otherwise,
1	when the dream leaves mortal man intact in body and
  	thought, although the so-called dreamer is unconscious? 
 3	For right reasoning there should be but one fact before
  	the thought, namely, spiritual existence. In reality there
  	is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its
 6	unlikeness, mortality. 
  	    Being is holiness, harmony, immortality. It is already
  	proved that a knowledge of this, even in small degree,
 9	will uplift the physical and moral standard	                                       Mind one
  	of mortals, will increase longevity, will purify	                                       and all 
  	and elevate character. Thus progress will finally destroy
12	all error, and bring immortality to light. We know that
  	a statement proved to be good must be correct. New
  	thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two
15	contradictory theories — that matter is something, or
  	that all is Mind — will dispute the ground, until one is
  	acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his cam-
18	paign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on
  	this line, if it takes all summer." Science says:  All is
  	Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this
21	line. Matter can afford you no aid. 
  	    The notion that mind and matter commingle in the
  	human illusion as to sin, sickness, and death must even-
24	tually submit to the Science of Mind, which	                                      Scientific
  	denies this notion. God is Mind, and God is	                                      ultimatum 
  	infinite; hence all is Mind. On this statement rests the
27	Science of being, and the Principle of this Science is di-
  	vine, demonstrating harmony and immortality. 
  	    The conservative theory, long believed, is that there
30	are two factors, matter and mind, uniting on some im-
  	possible basis. This theory would keep truth and error
  	always at war. Victory would perch on neither banner. 
 1	On the other hand, Christian Science speedily shows
  	Truth to be triumphant. To corporeal sense, the sun
 3	appears to rise and set, and the earth to stand	                                   Victory
  	still; but astronomical science contradicts this,	                                   for Truth 
  	and explains the solar system as working on a differ-
 6	ent plan. All the evidence of physical sense and all the
  	knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to
  	Science, to the immortal truth of all things. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 4 of 4

  	Question. — You speak of belief. Who or what is it
  	that believes? 

SUBTITLE ...4 of 4 for above Question

  	    The Hebrew and Greek words often translated belief
  	differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the
 9	English verb believe; they have more the sig-	                                Belief and
  	nificance of faith, understanding, trust, con-	                                        firm trust 
  	stancy, firmness. Hence the Scriptures often appear in
12	our common version to approve and endorse belief, when
  	they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 2 of 15 ...for above Question

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 
  	Answer. — Christian Science sustains with immortal
  	proof the impossibility of any material sense, and defines
18	these so-called senses as mortal beliefs, the	                                             All faculties
  	testimony of which cannot be true either of	                                             from Mind 
  	man or of his Maker. The corporeal senses can take no
21	cognizance of spiritual reality and immortality. Nerves
  	have no more sensation, apart from what belief be-
  	stows upon them, than the fibres of a plant. Mind alone
24	possesses all faculties, perception, and comprehension. 
  	Therefore mental endowments are not at the mercy of
  	organization and decomposition, — otherwise the very
27	worms could unfashion man. If it were possible for the
  	real senses of man to be injured, Soul could reproduce
  	them in all their perfection; but they cannot be dis-
30	turbed nor destroyed, since they exist in immortal Mind,
  	not in matter. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 3 of 15 ...for above Question

 1	    The less mind there is manifested in matter the better. 
  	When the unthinking lobster loses its claw, the claw grows
 3	again. If the Science of Life were understood,	                                     Possibilities
  	it would be found that the senses of Mind are	                                     of Life 
  	never lost and that matter has no sensation. Then the
 6	human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster's
  	claw, — not with an artificial limb, but with the genuine
  	one. Any hypothesis which supposes life to be in matter
 9	is an educated belief. In infancy this belief is not equal
  	to guiding the hand to the mouth; and as consciousness
  	develops, this belief goes out, — yields to the reality of
12	everlasting Life. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 4 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 4 of 15 ...for above Question

  	    Corporeal sense defrauds and lies; it breaks all the
  	commands of the Mosaic Decalogue to meet its own de-
15	mands. How then can this sense be the God-	                                 Decalogue
  	given channel to man of divine blessings or	                                         disregarded 
  	understanding? How can man, reflecting God, be de-
18	pendent on material means for knowing, hearing, seeing? 
  	Who dares to say that the senses of man can be at one time
  	the medium for sinning against God, at another the me-
21	dium for obeying God? An affirmative reply would con-
  	tradict the Scripture, for the same fountain sendeth not
  	forth sweet waters and bitter. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 5 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 5 of 15 ...for above Question

24	    The corporeal senses are the only source of evil or
  	error. Christian Science shows them to be false, be-
  	cause matter has no sensation, and no organic	                                      Organic
27	construction can give it hearing and sight nor	                                              construction
  	make it the medium of Mind. Outside the	                                              valueless 
  	material sense of things, all is harmony. A wrong sense
30	of God, man, and creation is non-sense, want of sense. 
  	Mortal belief would have the material senses sometimes
  	good and sometimes bad. It assures mortals that there
 1	is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian
  	Science dispute this error. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 6 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 6 of 15 ...for above Question

 3	    Will-power is but a product of belief, and this belief
  	commits depredations on harmony. Human will is an
  	animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul. 	                                          Will-power
 6	Hence it cannot govern man aright. Chris-	                                          an animal
  	tian Science reveals Truth and Love as the	                                          propensity 
  	motive-powers of man. Will — blind, stubborn, and head-
 9	long — cooperates with appetite and passion. From this
  	cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its pow-
  	erlessness, since all power belongs to God, good. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 7 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 7 of 15 ...for above Question

12	    The Science of Mind needs to be understood. Until
  	it is understood, mortals are more or less deprived of
  	Truth. Human theories are helpless to make	                                    Theories
15	man harmonious or immortal, since he is so	                                    helpless 
  	already, according to Christian Science. Our only need
  	is to know this and reduce to practice the real man's di-
18	vine Principle, Love. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 8 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 8 of 15 ...for above Question

  	    "Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings." 
  	Human belief — or knowledge gained from the so-called
21	material senses — would, by fair logic, anni-	                                        True nature
  	hilate man along with the dissolving elements	                                and origin 
  	of clay. The scientifically Christian explanations of the
24	nature and origin of man destroy all material sense with
  	immortal testimony. This immortal testimony ushers
  	in the spiritual sense of being, which can be obtained
27	in no other way. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 9 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 9 of 15 ...for above Question

  	    Sleep and mesmerism explain the mythical nature of
  	material sense. Sleep shows material sense as either
30	oblivion, nothingness, or an illusion or dream. 	                                 Sleep an
  	Under the mesmeric illusion of belief, a man	                                         illusion 
  	will think that he is freezing when he is warm, and that he
 1	is swimming when he is on dry land. Needle-thrusts will
  	not hurt him. A delicious perfume will seem intolerable. 
 3	Animal magnetism thus uncovers material sense, and
  	shows it to be a belief without actual foundation or va-
  	lidity. Change the belief, and the sensation changes. 
 6	Destroy the belief, and the sensation disappears. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 10 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 10 of 1...5 for above Question

	    Material man is made up of involuntary and voluntary
  	error, of a negative right and a positive wrong, the latter
 9	calling itself right. Man's spiritual individual-	                                           Man linked
  	ity is never wrong. It is the likeness of man's	                                           with Spirit 
  	Maker. Matter cannot connect mortals with the true
12	origin and facts of being, in which all must end. It is only
  	by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls
  	the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and
15	find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man
  	forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 11 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 11 of 1...5 for above Question

  	    The belief that matter and mind are one, — that mat-
18	ter is awake at one time and asleep at another, some-
  	times presenting no appearance of mind, — 	                                           Material man
  	this belief culminates in another belief, that	                                           as a dream 
21	man dies. Science reveals material man as never the real
  	being. The dream or belief goes on, whether our eyes are
  	closed or open. In sleep, memory and consciousness are
24	lost from the body, and they wander whither they will
  	apparently with their own separate embodiment. Per-
  	sonality is not the individuality of man. A wicked man
27	may have an attractive personality. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 12 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 12 of 1...5 for above Question

  	    When we are awake, we dream of the pains and pleas-
  	ures of matter. Who will say, even though he	                                                Spiritual
30	does not understand Christian Science, that	                                                existence the
  	this dream — rather than the dreamer — may	                                        one fact 
  	not be mortal man? Who can rationally say otherwise,
1	when the dream leaves mortal man intact in body and
  	thought, although the so-called dreamer is unconscious? 
 3	For right reasoning there should be but one fact before
  	the thought, namely, spiritual existence. In reality there
  	is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its
 6	unlikeness, mortality. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 13 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 13 of 1...5 for above Question

  	    Being is holiness, harmony, immortality. It is already
  	proved that a knowledge of this, even in small degree,
 9	will uplift the physical and moral standard	                                       Mind one
  	of mortals, will increase longevity, will purify	                                       and all 
  	and elevate character. Thus progress will finally destroy
12	all error, and bring immortality to light. We know that
  	a statement proved to be good must be correct. New
  	thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two
15	contradictory theories — that matter is something, or
  	that all is Mind — will dispute the ground, until one is
  	acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his cam-
18	paign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on
  	this line, if it takes all summer." Science says:  All is
  	Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this
21	line. Matter can afford you no aid. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 14 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 14 of 1...5 for above Question

  	    The notion that mind and matter commingle in the
  	human illusion as to sin, sickness, and death must even-
24	tually submit to the Science of Mind, which	                                      Scientific
  	denies this notion. God is Mind, and God is	                                      ultimatum 
  	infinite; hence all is Mind. On this statement rests the
27	Science of being, and the Principle of this Science is di-
  	vine, demonstrating harmony and immortality. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 15 of 15

  	Question. — Do the five corporeal senses constitute
15	man? 

SUBTITLE 15 of 1...5 for above Question

  	    The conservative theory, long believed, is that there
30	are two factors, matter and mind, uniting on some im-
  	possible basis. This theory would keep truth and error
  	always at war. Victory would perch on neither banner. 
 1	On the other hand, Christian Science speedily shows
  	Truth to be triumphant. To corporeal sense, the sun
 3	appears to rise and set, and the earth to stand	                                   Victory
  	still; but astronomical science contradicts this,	                                   for Truth 
  	and explains the solar system as working on a differ-
 6	ent plan. All the evidence of physical sense and all the
  	knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to
  	Science, to the immortal truth of all things. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBTIT...LE for above Question

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 
  	Answer. — The method of Christian Science Mind-heal-
12	ing is touched upon in a previous chapter entitled Christian
  	Science Practice. A full answer to the above	                                              Mental
  	question involves teaching, which enables the	                                      preparation 
15	healer to demonstrate and prove for himself the Principle
  	and rule of Christian Science or metaphysical healing. 
  	    Mind must be found superior to all the beliefs of the
18	five corporeal senses, and able to destroy all ills. Sick-
  	ness is a belief, which must be annihilated by	                                 Mind destroys
  	the divine Mind. Disease is an experience of	                                         all ills 
21	so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the
  	body. Christian Science takes away this physical sense
  	of discord, just as it removes any other sense of moral or
24	mental inharmony. That man is material, and that mat-
  	ter suffers, — these propositions can only seem real and
  	natural in illusion. Any sense of soul in matter is not the
27	reality of being. 
  	    If Jesus awakened Lazarus from the dream, illusion, of
  	death, this proved that the Christ could improve on a false
30	sense. Who dares to doubt this consummate test of the
  	power and willingness of divine Mind to hold man forever
 1	intact in his perfect state, and to govern man's entire
  	action? Jesus said: "Destroy this temple [body], and
 3	in three days I [Mind] will raise it up;" and he did this
  	for tired humanity's reassurance. 
  	    Is it not a species of infidelity to believe that so great
 6	a work as the Messiah's was done for himself or for God,
  	who needed no help from Jesus' example to	                                      Inexhaustible
  	preserve the eternal harmony? But mortals	                                      divine Love 
 9	did need this help, and Jesus pointed the way for them. 
  	Divine Love always has met and always will meet every
  	human need. It is not well to imagine that Jesus demon-
12	strated the divine power to heal only for a select number
  	or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and
  	in every hour, divine Love supplies all good. 
15	    The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love. Jesus
  	demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the
  	infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring	                                       Reason
18	human sense to flee from its own convictions	                               and Science 
  	and seek safety in divine Science. Reason, rightly di-
  	rected, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but
21	sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the ex-
  	periences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Sci-
  	ence of man's eternal harmony breaks their illusion with
24	the unbroken reality of scientific being. 
  	    Which of these two theories concerning man are you
  	ready to accept? One is the mortal testimony, changing,
27	dying, unreal. The other is the eternal and real evidence,
  	bearing Truth's signet, its lap piled high with immortal
  	fruits. 
30	    Our Master cast out devils (evils) and healed the sick. 
  	It should be said of his followers also, that they cast fear
  	and all evil out of themselves and others and heal the sick. 
 1	God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is
  	governed by God. Truth casts out error now	                                             Followers
 3	as surely as it did nineteen centuries ago. All	                                             of Jesus 
  	of Truth is not understood; hence its healing power is not
  	fully demonstrated.
 6	    If sickness is true or the idea of Truth, you cannot
  	destroy sickness, and it would be absurd to try. Then
  	classify sickness and error as our Master did,	                                   Destruction
 9	when he spoke of the sick, "whom Satan hath	                                   of all evil 
  	bound," and find a sovereign antidote for error in the life-
  	giving power of Truth acting on human belief, a power
12	which opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and
  	sets the captive free physically and morally. 
   	    When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling
15	steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His
  	likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither	                                      Steadfast and
  	fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and	                              calm trust 
18	calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as
  	Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or
  	belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science,
21	instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of
  	being, and this understanding will supplant error with
  	Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis-
24	cord with harmony. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 2 of 8 for above Question

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 
  	Answer. — The method of Christian Science Mind-heal-
12	ing is touched upon in a previous chapter entitled Christian
  	Science Practice. A full answer to the above	                                              Mental
  	question involves teaching, which enables the	                                      preparation 
15	healer to demonstrate and prove for himself the Principle
  	and rule of Christian Science or metaphysical healing. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 3 of 8 for above Question

  	    Mind must be found superior to all the beliefs of the
18	five corporeal senses, and able to destroy all ills. Sick-
  	ness is a belief, which must be annihilated by	                                 Mind destroys
  	the divine Mind. Disease is an experience of	                                         all ills 
21	so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the
  	body. Christian Science takes away this physical sense
  	of discord, just as it removes any other sense of moral or
24	mental inharmony. That man is material, and that mat-
  	ter suffers, — these propositions can only seem real and
  	natural in illusion. Any sense of soul in matter is not the
27	reality of being. 
  	    If Jesus awakened Lazarus from the dream, illusion, of
  	death, this proved that the Christ could improve on a false
30	sense. Who dares to doubt this consummate test of the
  	power and willingness of divine Mind to hold man forever
 1	intact in his perfect state, and to govern man's entire
  	action? Jesus said: "Destroy this temple [body], and
 3	in three days I [Mind] will raise it up;" and he did this
  	for tired humanity's reassurance. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 4 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 4 of 8 for above Question

  	    Is it not a species of infidelity to believe that so great
 6	a work as the Messiah's was done for himself or for God,
  	who needed no help from Jesus' example to	                                      Inexhaustible
  	preserve the eternal harmony? But mortals	                                      divine Love 
 9	did need this help, and Jesus pointed the way for them. 
  	Divine Love always has met and always will meet every
  	human need. It is not well to imagine that Jesus demon-
12	strated the divine power to heal only for a select number
  	or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and
  	in every hour, divine Love supplies all good. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 5 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 5 of 8 for above Question

15	    The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love. Jesus
  	demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the
  	infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring	                                       Reason
18	human sense to flee from its own convictions	                               and Science 
  	and seek safety in divine Science. Reason, rightly di-
  	rected, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but
21	sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the ex-
  	periences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Sci-
  	ence of man's eternal harmony breaks their illusion with
24	the unbroken reality of scientific being. 
  	    Which of these two theories concerning man are you
  	ready to accept? One is the mortal testimony, changing,
27	dying, unreal. The other is the eternal and real evidence,
  	bearing Truth's signet, its lap piled high with immortal
  	fruits. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 6 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 6 of 8 for above Question

30	    Our Master cast out devils (evils) and healed the sick. 
  	It should be said of his followers also, that they cast fear
  	and all evil out of themselves and others and heal the sick. 
 1	God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is
  	governed by God. Truth casts out error now	                                             Followers
 3	as surely as it did nineteen centuries ago. All	                                             of Jesus 
  	of Truth is not understood; hence its healing power is not
  	fully demonstrated.

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE

   	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Christian Sc...ience? 

SUBTITLE for above Question

  	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Christian Science? 
27	Answer. — Study thoroughly the letter and imbibe
  	the spirit. Adhere to the divine Principle of Chris-
  	tian Science and follow the behests of God,	                                  Rudiments
30	abiding steadfastly in wisdom, Truth, and	                                  and growth 
  	Love. In the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain
 1	that error cannot destroy error. You will also learn
  	that in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions
 3	from one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind,
  	and this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by
  	man and governs the entire universe. You will learn
 6	that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey
  	God, to have one Mind, and to love another as
  	yourself. 
 9	    We all must learn that Life is God. Ask yourself:
  	Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good? 
  	Am I demonstrating the healing power of	                                    Condition
12	Truth and Love? If so, then the way will	                                            of progress 
  	grow brighter "unto the perfect day." Your fruits
  	will prove what the understanding of God brings to man. 
15	Hold perpetually this thought, — that it is the spiritual
  	idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to
  	demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing,
18	based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, over-
  	lying, and encompassing all true being. 
  	    "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is
21	the law," — the law of mortal belief, at war with the
  	facts of immortal Life, even with the spiritual	                              Triumph
  	law which says to the grave, "Where is thy	                              over death 
24	victory?" But "when this corruptible shall have put
  	on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on im-
  	mortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that
27	is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 7 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 7 of 8 for above Question

 6	    If sickness is true or the idea of Truth, you cannot
  	destroy sickness, and it would be absurd to try. Then
  	classify sickness and error as our Master did,	                                   Destruction
 9	when he spoke of the sick, "whom Satan hath	                                   of all evil 
  	bound," and find a sovereign antidote for error in the life-
  	giving power of Truth acting on human belief, a power
12	which opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and
  	sets the captive free physically and morally. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 8 of 8

 9	Question. — Will you explain sickness and show how it
  	is to be healed? 

SUBT...ITLE 8 of 8 for above Question

   	    When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling
15	steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His
  	likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither	                                      Steadfast and
  	fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and	                              calm trust 
18	calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as
  	Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or
  	belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science,
21	instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of
  	being, and this understanding will supplant error with
  	Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis-
24	cord with harmony. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 1 of 4

   	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Chris...tian Science? 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 2 of 4

   	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Christia...n Science? 

SUBTITLE 2 of 4 for above Question

  	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Christian Science? 
27	Answer. — Study thoroughly the letter and imbibe
  	the spirit. Adhere to the divine Principle of Chris-
  	tian Science and follow the behests of God,	                                  Rudiments
30	abiding steadfastly in wisdom, Truth, and	                                  and growth 
  	Love. In the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain
 1	that error cannot destroy error. You will also learn
  	that in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions
 3	from one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind,
  	and this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by
  	man and governs the entire universe. You will learn
 6	that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey
  	God, to have one Mind, and to love another as
  	yourself. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 3 of 4

   	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Christia...n Science? 

SUBTITLE 3 of 4 for above Question

 9	    We all must learn that Life is God. Ask yourself:
  	Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good? 
  	Am I demonstrating the healing power of	                                    Condition
12	Truth and Love? If so, then the way will	                                            of progress 
  	grow brighter "unto the perfect day." Your fruits
  	will prove what the understanding of God brings to man. 
15	Hold perpetually this thought, — that it is the spiritual
  	idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to
  	demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing,
18	based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, over-
  	lying, and encompassing all true being. 

QUESTION for this SUBTITLE 4 of 4

   	Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the
  	understanding of Christia...n Science? 

SUBTITLE 4 of 4 for above Question

  	    "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is
21	the law," — the law of mortal belief, at war with the
  	facts of immortal Life, even with the spiritual	                              Triumph
  	law which says to the grave, "Where is thy	                              over death 
24	victory?" But "when this corruptible shall have put
  	on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on im-
  	mortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that
27	is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 

  	Question. — Have Christian Scientists any religious
  	creed? 
30	Answer. — They have not, if by that term is m...eant
  	doctrinal beliefs. The following is a brief exposition of
 1	the important points, or religious tenets, of Christian
  	Science: —  
 3	    1.  As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word
  	of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life. 
  	    2.  We acknowledge and adore one supreme and in-
 6	finite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the
  	Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's
  	image and likeness. 
 9	    3.  We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the
  	destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that
  	casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is pun-
12	ished so long as the belief lasts. 
  	    4.  We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evi-
  	dence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity
15	with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and
  	we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ,
  	through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the
18	Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming
  	sin and death. 
  	    5.  We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and
21	his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eter-
  	nal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the noth-
  	ingness of matter. 
24	    6.  And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for
  	that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to
  	do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and
27    to be merciful, just, and pure.