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SCIENCE

AND

HEALTH.

BY

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MARY BAKER GLOVER. Ec^ciy,

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1875.

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PREFACE.

Leaning on the sustaining Infinite with loving trust, the trials of to-day are brief, and to-morrow is big with blessings. The wakeful shepherd tending his flocks, beholds from the mountain's top the first faint morning beam ere cometh the risen day. So from Soul's loftier summits shines the pale star to the prophet shep- herd, and it traverses night, over to where the young child lies in cradled obscurity that shall waken a world. Over the night of error dawn the morning beams and guiding star of Truth, and " the wise men are led by it to Science, to that which repeats the eternal harmony reproduced in proof of immortality and God. The timo for thinkers has come; and the time for revolutions, ecclesiastic and social, must come. Truth, independent of doctrines or time-honored systems, stands at the threshold of history. Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut the door on science ; though empires fall, " He whose right it is shall reign." Ignorance of God should no longer be the stepping-stone to faith; imderstandiog Him " whom to know aright is Life " is the only guar- anty of obedience.

Since the hoary centuries but faintly shadow forth the tireless Intelligence at work for man, this volume 3

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may not open at once a new thought, and make it famil- iar ; it has the task of a pioneer to hack away at the tall oak and cut the rough granite, leaving future ages to declare what has been done. We made our first discov- ery that science mentally applied would heal the sick, in 1864, and since then have tested it on ourselves and hundreds of others, and never found it fail to prove the statement herein made of it. The science of man alone can make him harmonious, unfold his utmost possibilities, and establish the perfection of man. To admit God the Principle of aU being, and live in accordance with this Principle, is the Science of Life, but to reproduce the harmony of being, errors of personal sense must be de- stroyed, even as the science of music, must correct tones caught from the ear, to give the sweet concord of sound. There are many theories of physic, and theology ; and many calls in each of their directions for the right way ; but we propose to settle the question of "What is Truth?" on the ground of proof. Let that method of healing the sick and establishing Christianity, be adopted, that is found to give the most health, and make the best Christians, and you will then give science a fair field; in which case we are assured of its tri- umph over all opinions and beliefe. Sickness and sin have ever had their doctors, but the question is, have they become less because of them ? The longevity of our antediluvians would say, no I and the criminal records of to-day utter their voices little in favor of such a conclusion. Not that we would deny to Ccesar the things that are his, but that we {isk for the things that are Truth's, and safely affirm, from the demonstra- tions we have been able to make, that science would

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have eradicated sin, sickness, and death, in a less period than six thousand years. We find great diflBculties in starting this work right : some shockingly false claims are already made to its practice ; mesmerism (its very antipode), is one. Hitherto we have never in a single instance of our discovery or practice found the slightest resemblance between mesmerism and the science of Life. No especial idiosyncrasy is requisite for a learner ; although spiritual sense is more adapted to it than even the intellect ; and those who would learn this science without a high moral standard will fail to understand it until they go up higher. Owing to our explanations constantly vibrating between the same points an irk- some repetition of words must occur ; also, the use of capital letters, genders and technicalities peculiar to the science, variety of language, or beauty of diction, must give place to close analysis, and unembellished thought. " Hoping all things, enduring all things : " to do good to the upright in heart, and to bless them that curse us, and bear to the sorrowing and the sick consolation and healing, we commit these pages to posterity.

MARY BAKER GLOVER.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. Natural Science 9

II. Imposition' and Demonstration 64

III. Spirit and Matter 147

IV. Creation 221

V. Prayer and Atonement 2S3

VI. Marriage 314

VII.

Physioloot 827

VIII. Healing the Sick 368

Science and Health.

CHAPTER I.

NATUBAL SCIENCE.

A few years siuce we clipped the following from the reports on Science :

" At the University at Oxford, a prize of one hundred pounds was offered for the best Essay on Natural Sci- ence, to refute the materialism of the present age, or the tendency to attribute physical effects to physical causes, rather than to a final spiritual cause." This de- mand for metaphysics coming from the very fount of erudition meets the wants of the age, and is the one question towering above all others, insomuch as it re- lates more intimately to the happiness and perfection of man. The control mind holds over matter becomes no longer a question when with mathematical certainty we gain its proof, and can demonstrate the facts assumed. This proof we claim to have gained, and reduced to its statement in science that furnishes a key to the har- mony of man, and reveals what destroys sickness, sin, and death.

Metaphysical science explains cause and effect ; re- moving the veil of mystery and doubt, from Soul and body, and from man and God ; it unwinds the interlaced ambiguities of Spirit and matter, and sets free the im- prisoned Intelligence j explains the phenomenon man, 9

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on the basis of his Principle, and how to gain his harmony in science, which seems to us more import- ant morally and physically thsui the discovery of the powers of steam, the electric telegraph, or any other advanced idea that science has revealed. Views taken on trust cause conflicting opinions and behefs that emit a poisonous atmosphere of mind more destructive to the harmony of body than the miasma of matter. Understanding cools and purifies this atmosphere, and thus invigorates the body ; but before this result is ob- tained, understanding and belief, or Truth and error must meet in a war of ideas, and the thunderbolt of public opinion burst overhead ; but when this outburst of opinion is spent of its fury, like the rain-drops on the earth it will have moistened the parched thought, whereby the rich buds and blossoms that come from the tree of Life may put forth new beauty.

Because Christendom may resist the word science, we shall lose no faith in Christianity, and because we shall apply this word to Truth, Christianity will lose no hold on us. We shall let the Principle of things alone interpret them, and never take an opinion or belief to steady the altar of science. The Principle of the uni- verse and man embraces the understanding, and expla- nation of Soul and body, and is the basis of all science ; but opinions and beliefa regarding (xod and man, or Soul and body, are the foundations of all error. There is no physical science, the Principle of science is God, Intelligence, and not matter ; therefore, science is spir- itual, for God is Spirit and the Principle of the universe and man.

We learn from science mind is universal, the first

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and only caase of all tHat reallj is ; also, tliat tHe real and unreal constitute what is, and what is not ; that the real is Spirit, which is immortality, and the un- real matter, or mortality. The real is Truth, Life, Love and Intelligence, all of which are Spirit, and Spirit is God, and God, Soul, the Principle of the universe and man. Spirit is the only immortal basis. Matter is mortality ; it has no Principle, bjit is change and de- cay, embracing what we term sickness, sin, and death. God is not the author of these, hence Spirit is not the author of matter ; discords are the unreal that make up the opposite to harmony, or the real that emanates Truth and not error. Spirit never requires matter to aid it, or through which to act; no partnership or fellowship exists between them ; matter cannot co-ope- rate with Spirit, the mortal and unreal with the real and eternal, the mutable and imperfect with the immu- table and perfect, the inharmonious and self-destroying with the harmonious and undying. Spirit is Truth, matter its opposite ; viz., error ; and these two forces control man and the universe, and are the tares and wheat that never mingle, but grow side by side until the harvest, until matter is self-destroyed ; for not until then do we learn ourselves Spirit, and yield up the ghost of error, that would make substance. Life and Intelli- gence, matter. God and His idea are all that is real primitively ; all is mind, and mind produces mind only, nature, reason and revelation decide, that like produces like; matter does not produce mind, nor, vice versa. "We name matter, error, it being a false claim to Life and Intelligence, that returns to dust ignored by Spirit, that is supreme over all, and knows nothing of matter.

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Natural history presents the minei^al, vegetable and animal kingdoms preserving their original species in reproduction ; a mineral is not produced by a vege- table, and vice versa ; throughout the entire round of universal nature, this rule relating to genus and species holds good ; this therefore is science. But error claims the very opposite, viz., that Spirit produces matter; making Spirit, or God, the author of evil as well as good, and harmony the author of discord, evil presenting as much of God as good, which contradicts self-evident Truth. In the science of being we learn all discord, such as sickness, sin or death, is distinct from Spirit, and not produced by God ; also, that God is the Soul, or Principle of man, the Truth, unerring and eternal ; again, that matter claiming mind, or making itself the basis of mind, is error, and this error, the so-called in- telligent body named man, with intelligent nerves, brain, stomach, and so forth. The only reality of being is the Truth of it, and that Life and Intelligence are in matter, is not Truth but its opposite, error ; therefore, illusion. Mind and matter are opposites ; that mind is in matter, or that matter is the medium through which mind is made manifest is not more real than that a tree embraces a rock in the heart of it, and is the natural medium through which the rock grows, and is identi- fied. Nature and revelation afford no grounds for the belief that Spirit, God, created, or is in a body of sick- ness, sin, and death, and the only excuse for such a be- lief is, that the falsity of this opinion of Life is not seen until we begin to learn the science of Life, and enter into our God-being, wherein we learn that Spirit and matter no more commingle, than light and darkness,

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than God and His opposite, called devil, which reduced to their statement in science, are Truth and error ; in other words. Spirit and matter, forever distinct, one possessing immortality, the other mortality. Said the Apostle, " The flesh warreth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh.'*

Mind, the basis of all things, cannot cross its species, and produce matter. But in order to classify mind that is real, from belief or the unreal, we name one mind, and the other matter ; but recollect matter is but a be- lief, and mind the only reality. Error can only be de- fined as belief, which is not mind but illusion. The belief, that Life, Substance, and Intelligence are where and what they are- not, is error. Spirit is the under- standing and possession of Truth, Life and Intelligence. Belief and understanding never mingle, more than matter and Spirit ; one is error, the other Truth. All discord is what we term matter, and discord is mortal, nothingness ; harmony is real and immortal, for it be- longs to Spirit, is produced by it and proceeds from it. Immortal mind is Spirit, an utterance of Soul proceed- ing from harmony and immortality. The mind, that we name matter, is the so-called mind of the body, and what is termed sinful and mortal man ; but this man is a myth, neither mind nor matter, but a belief that em- braces all error. God, Truth, never produced error; Soul and Intelligence never originated inharmony ; and at some future data we shall learn all that is mortal or discordant hath no origin, existence or reality, but is the absence of the real ; yea, native nothingness, the chaos and night out of which error would simulate the creations of Truth, from dust instead of Deity. Error

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pre-supposes man both mind and matter, but this is not the science of being, but science disputing personal sense beards so relentlessly our belief, we naturally ask what are we, and what is man ? We are Spirit, Soul, and not body, and all is good that is Spirit ; God and the idea of God are real, and nothing else is real. Har- mony and its results are real, but discord and what comes of it are the unreal. It were well to begin from this hour, as you read these pages, to reckon Life only in what is good and true ; putting aside evil as unreal, not the offspring of God, and unworthy to be named man, him whom Spirit produces "the image and like- ness of God," but whom matter claims to create in sin. Admitting error, produces it ; but who or what is it that admits error ? Not God, Spirit, for error is not the result of Intelligence ; error is a self-admission, and ad- mission of self-hood where man is not, and this is all there is to it ; admitting a temptation is the only danger in it. To believe in the possibility of pleasurable sin, makes all that is sin ; say then to the whole liturgy of intelligent matter, as Jesus said, " You were a liar from the beginning."

Mind is Spirit, outside of matter, and this is the only mind or understanding ; the mind called brains, or mat- ter, is belief only ; hence, the more material man is the Wronger belief, and the weaker manifestation of Soul, or understanding. Belief is what we term personal sense, and personal sense is a belief. That matter is intel- ligent, that nerves feel, brains think, and sin, that a stomach makes man cross, limbs cripple him, and mat- ter kills him, is a belief, and this belief, error, opposed to the Truth of being. Sin, sickness and death proceed

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horn the so-called five personal senses that we are taught to revere and cultivate, but which Truth at length destroys, through age, experience or spiritual growth, and in place of sentient bodies, we find sensa- tionless bodies, and immortal Soul, as the recognition of being harmonious and eternal. The body mortal is not man, for mui is immortal ; but with sensation in the body he is not immortal, and cannot be Spirit, which is Soul.

To admit physical effects is to conclude matter cause and effect, whence it follows there are two causes, viz., mind and matter, else that mind produces matter, or matter produces mind, which contradicts the science of Life in its demonstration, and is like saying dust orig- inated man, and a serpent a dove. Soul is Intelligence, but the so-called mind of body is belief only, the lim- ited and mortal that embraces not the boundless and eternal, for such is Intelligence. Hence we learn that Soul, therefore Spirit, which is God, is not in man, and that man is idea, and Soul the Principle, Life, substance and Intelligence of man.

Having drawn the line between immortal man, or the reality of being, and the unreal or mortal, that is but a personal recognizance of Life, God, which is impossible, we also learn that pain or pleasure in matter is equally impossible. Things, as they appear from the stand-point of personal sense, are diametrically oppo- site to science, or immortal man seen from the stand- point of Soul ; hence the difficulty sensuous man has to understand this science, and his opposition to it, for ** the carnal man is at enmity with God.'* Mortal man and personal sen&e are not mind but belief ; mind is

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"Understanding, belief is ignorance, even the error that Truth consigns to oblivion.

What is deemed Life in vegetable and animal be- comes a self-evident falsehood, when all that is left of it is death. The science of being alone reveals Life or Principle, that reverses every position of personal sense ; showing, also that sickness, sin and death dis- appear with the understanding of being and our real existence, for in this alone are we harmonious, sinless, and eternal.

Will man lose his identity in conscious infinitude of being ? It is impossible that he should lose aught that tends to his completeness, in a state through which he gains all ; matter, embracing sickness, sin and death, is aU that will ever be lost. Life is not structural and organic, for Life is Spirit, Soul, and not sense, and without beginning and without end. Life is Principle, and not person ; joy and not sorrow ; holiness, not sin, and harmony, without a tone of discord. In science we learn there is but one God, also that God is Spirit ; hence there is but one Spirit, for there is not an evil God. To gain the harmony of being, and be perfect even as the Father, God must be iinderstood, which means, the Principle of man must be understood ; be- lieving in God never made a Christian.

The only immortal basis of man is Soul ; hence the importance to plant one's self on the basis of being, and work from this to gain our ultimate harmony. Soul and not sense reveals the glorious possibihties of man, even the circumference of his being unlimited by a be- lief of Life in matter ; getting out of material nutshells we get out of error, whereby we learn the last shall be

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first, and the first last ; that which was first in matter will be last, cHias^ nothing in Spirit. Science puts not new wine into old bottles; we cannot adhere to a belief regarding a subject, and at the same time grasp the Truth of it ; we must yield the old, or the new is BpiUed.

Doctrines and opinions based on a personal God are nothing more or less than beliefs of intelligent matter, that we must yield, or spill the inspiration and wine of Truth that enables man to demonstrate Life higher, and to reach practical Christianity that casts out devils and heals the sick.

We will now consider more minutely the Principle, or Soul of man, named God ; learn what it is, and how man is haimonious and immortal. The Scriptures in- form us, " God is Love," " Truth and Life," and these certainly imply He is Principle, not person. Again, Principle explains person, bat person cannot explain Principle. God interprets man, but man cannot ex- plain God, Spirit explains matter, but matter cannot define Spirit, Soul explains body, but body cannot in- terpret Soul. We must commence with God to explain immortal man, remembering God is Spirit, and Spirit the only substance, because it is Intelligence ; holding the earth in equipoise, marking out the pathway of the stars, forming the minutia of identity, and comprehend- ing the universe and man in the harmony of being. Spirit believes nothing, because it understands all, and is Life, not subject to death because it is exempt from matter.

It is mind alone that embraces sensation, therefore, the senses are Spirit and not matter, and belong to Soul

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instead of body ; they are not personal but Spiritual j Intelligence passes from mind to body, that is, from Principle to its idea, but cannot pass from body to mind, for matter is neither cognizant of evil or good,* of pain er pleasure. Soul is not in body, it is the unlimited In- telligence, impossible to limit, and the immortality that mingles not with mortality ; as light and darkness are opposites, so are Spirit and matter, without the least affinity ; light dwelling in darkness would destroy the darkness ; thus would the sinless and immortal destroy the sinning and mortal ; but darkness extinguishes not light, and matter cannot destroy Spirit, body cannot destroy Soul, but Soul can and does destroy matter. Man is not matter, brains are not Intelligence, they are not the organ of the infinite. Life and Intelligence are not in matter, nor do they act by means of organization; matter is a creation of belief, a chimera of personal sense that reverses science, as we shall hereafter show. Idea is inseparable from its Principle ; man is idea, and Soul the Principle that produces it, therefore man and his maker are inseparable. Opinions and beliefs have no Principle, they are erring and mortal, neither expressing God nor immortal man ; but the o&pring of personal sense, embracing sin, sickness and death, yea, the dream of Life in matter. Materia medica, physi- ology, mesmerism, etc., are opinions and beliefs, predi- cated on intelligent matter, which is error; and the discord and doubt attending them are owing to the false position they occupy. Ideas, like numbers and notes, admit no opinions or beliefe regarding them, when once their Principle is understood ; beliefs are theories that change, and are falsely stated, because they are not un-

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derstood. The identity of every idea is in its Principle where it is learned ; immortal man is harmonious and eternal; matter is the offspring of mortal belief; Soul or understanding, has no part in it.

Philosophy in general, finds cause in effect, Soul in body. Principle in idea, and Life and Intelligence in matter. Materia medica seeking cause in effect, would learn of matter what are the conditions of man, exam- ining the liver, heart, lungs, etc., to ascertain how much harmony they are permitting man ; thus admitting mat- ter instead of mind, causation, and producing Life or death, pain or pleasure, action or stagnation, without the mind's consent ; this would place man and God, or body and Soul, at the disposal and control of matter. Physiology finds mind unequal to matter, cause not master of effect, the so-called laws of nature failing in their fulfillment to give health to man; making the Infinite insufficient to govern the finite. Principle not controlling its idea, and the Intelligence, or Soul of man, unable to govern the body. To prevent disease, or the effects of damp atmospheres, violent exertions, a heavy meal, etc., destroying man ; we say, laws of matter are our only hope, leaving Spirit powerless.

Mesmerism, placing Life and Intelligence in elec- tricity, finds matter superior to God, and the governing Principle of man, an aura of brains, the lack or excess, quality or quantity of which, determines his discord or harmony.

Theology would make the supreme Being a person, in other words, matter embracing Spirit ; God dwelling in man, Life in the things it creates, cause in effect, Soul in body, the infinite and limitless, within limits.

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With this theory, to he omnipresent, God must pass in personal identity over earth ; or possess a body that en- compasseth universal space ; in which case, what would be the personality of God ? Spirit is not matter ; nor is it both within and without matter ; if such were the case, they would be one in substance and Intelligence, else limited to the range of personal sense, or personal sense raised to the capacity of omnipresence, which is again impossible. Our beliefs of a personal Deity place infinite Life and Love within the stature of a man ; make man God, or put God into matter, which is athe- ism. Error is the basis of all belief; we need, instead, the true idea, based on the understanding of God the impersonal Principle, Truth, and Life of man, which is not body, but Soul.

The artist is not in his painting ; the picture is a thought of his, an emanation of Spirit, not matter ; the Creator is not what he creates. The potter is not in the clay, but has power over the clay ; God produces his own personality, and cannot get into it, because it is in Him the circumference and infinite Soul outside of matter and man. The five personal senses are beliefs of Life, substance, and Intelligence in matter, even the fount of error; all discord proceeds from this false source ; in reality, there is no personal sense, for mat- ter is not intelligent. The line of demarkation be- tween the Principle that is Intelligence and Life, and the belief of Life and Intelligence in person, is the boun- dary between belief and science, otherwise, between error and truth. Science contradicts personal sense in every instance, as we shall hereafter show. Under- standing is the only admissible evidence of Truth ; con-

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elusions drawn from personal sense are foundationless ; understanding is a portion of the infinite Principle embracing every idea of Truth. Behef has no Princi- ple; it is a mortal and finite sense of things called knowledge, a lie of limits that would place Soul in body, Life and Intelligence in matter to evolve mat- ter, and call this germination, or nature, seed reproduc- ing itself; not only denying to God the things that are His, but limiting the Infinite, and thinking to fasten Wisdom to discord and decay.

To learn the Truth of things, they must be explained from the basis of Soul, and not sense ; personal sense is knowledge, obtained from opinions and beliefs. When our interpretations proceed from the Principle of things, we have them right ; but if from observation, or the de- ductions of personal sense, they are wrong, and beliefs based on the supposition of Life and Intelligence in matter, that are error.

Impressions supposed to proceed from the hearing of the ear, the observations of the eye, from touch, taste, or smell, are these beliefs, but not the ideas of God. Every idea proceeds from Principle, gained through understanding, whereby we arrive at demonstrable Truth. Belief constitutes mistakes, understanding never errs, hence it is necessary to the harmony of mind and body. Inasmuch as belief starts from person, instead of Principle, it is not the Truth of being, but the error called mortal man.

Knowledge is power, even the force that depends on organizations for strength, it is neither moral suasion, moral might, idea, nor Principle ; but a faith, supposi- tion, or belief. Repulsion, attraction, cohesion^ and

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power supposed to belong to matter, axe constituents of mind ; knowledge gives these properties to matter, but science gives them to Intelligence, the Principle of all ; to find inherent properties in matter that act inde- pendent of mind is impossible. There is no inertia in Intelligence ; but science alone determines whence com- eth action, from its harmonious Principle, i. e., from Soul to body, or from belief prolific of error.

Science reveals all action proceeding from God, the universal cause that produces harmony OAly ; and that discord, sickness, sin, and death, are neither action, nor being, but beliefs, or error. The absence of Truth, we name error, but whence cometh error, from God ? No ; " the same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter water." Error is not an idea, it has neither Principle, nor identity ; it is not definabl as a person, place, or thing ; as an agent, or actor ; and being without sub- stance. Life, or Intelligence, and neither Principle nor identity, we learn it came not I but is illusion. Again, what is belief? Nothing real or true, and to imder- stand this is the only fact concerning it. Sickness, sin, and death, aU that is the opposite and absence of God, is belief and error presupposing good and evil in mat- ter and man. But is the question answered, whence cometh belief ? It has no origin, it is neither Principle nor idea ; but illusion, without any real cause or creation.

We say disease is a reality, and identity, but science finds it a belief only; disappearing with mortality, and cognizant only to personal sense ; not to Soul. "God made all that was made ; " there is but one Principle and its infinite idea ; harmony and immortality that belong to man, are perceived through spiritual sense, but

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not personal. Belief has no Intelligence, having neither Principle nor understanding, therefore it is error, and error is the so-called mind of mortal man I totally de- praved, sinning, suffering, and dying; this is the ab- sence of God. Man has no mind in matter; the belief that he has, is error. There is but one Intelli- gence, even God, the infinite Love, Truth, and Life ; and God is not man. Matter is not intelligent ; brains are not mind ; and man is not Soul, a separate <jrod or Intelligence. Jesus laid much stress on this point : *' Thou shall have no other gods before Me ; " while we daily behold in belief the zeal of error to gain the opposite point, viz. : " I will make ye as gods."

Science informs us iromortal mind is Spirit ; but per- sonal sense would have mind both Spirit and matter ; a moral impossibility. Spirit cannot act through matter, they are diametrically opposed to each other, and never mingle ; personal sense is the only foundation for the theory that Spirit and matter mingle, and time and eternity are wearing away this support. Mind is not confined to organization, nor limited by materiality.

Immortal mind is the atmosphere of Soul pervading all space ; and regarding even " the sparrow's fall ; " no power can compress it within a skull-bone I matter con- fines it not, the strongest barrier opposed to Intelligence is as nothing ; the only clog, or limit given mind, is mor- tal belief, error's synonym; understanding constructs not, and has no cognizance of limits ; it is finite belief that would limit mind ; and there is no finite Intelligence. There is finite error, that pre-supposes mind in matter ; but this is the evil and not the good, the belief and not the reality ; yea, the error, and not the Truth of man.

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Spiritual sense belongs to Soul, and is the only real sense ; it takes no cognizance of substance in matter, of sufPering, sin, or death ; Spiritual sense recognizes all that is Truth, Life, and Love ; hence there is nothing left personal sense to enjoy or suffer. Personal sense is the dream of Life in matter, a supposition only of reality and substance, of Life and Intelligence, of good and evil, that would limit Soul, and doom aU things to decay. Sensation in matter is one of its beliefs, and belief is the opinion, personal, that supports only what is untrue, selfish, or debased ; all these mistakes are but the error we name mortal man. God and man will never be understood, until we listen alone to the senses attached to Principle instead of person, to Soul instead of body.

Personal sense being error, aU evidence obtained therefrom is belief without Principle, or immortal proof. Spiritual, in contradistinction to persoDal sense, reveals man idea ; not substance ; his Life and Intelligence, God, in other words, Soul, and not body ; and thus se- cure from chance and change he is. harmonious and eternal. The demonstration of this statement will de- stroy sickness, sin and death, and because of this, it is important to understand at present as well as hereafter, the great Truth which must displace the opposite error that brought sin and death into the world, shutting out the pure sense of immortality ; and which ought lo be learned to-day.

God is, and was, and ever will be ; and if this Intel- ligence exists, there is also the idea of it, named man, that cannot be separated for a single moment from this, its principle and Soul. We look on a corpse, or the

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body called man, but is it man ? No I Is Soul in it ? certainly not ; has Soul escaped ? No I where was the outside, infinite Spirit, if Spirit was in man ? Can Soul be lost ? impossible, for the immortal is without end ; and Soul is Spirit, and Spirit, God. Is man lost ? not if Soul be left ! for Soul is Principle, and man its idea, and these forever inseparable ; God would be lost, if man was blotted out, for entity signifies the particular nature of being; and God, without the idea, image, and likeness of Himself, would be a nonentity I Man is the complex idea of God, hence, they cannot be sepa- rated.

Contemplating a corpse, we behold the going out of a belief ; we have been accustomed to this belief of mind in matter, but not the Truth of man, whose Soul is God and his body the harmonious idea of Him. The belief of Life in matter is all that dies. The Principle, Soul, and Life of man, is not in the body, and cannot die. When Paul's optical sense yielded to science, the vision of Soul, he realized nothing could separate him from God ; understanding as he did that the real man is never separated from the sweet sense and presence of Life and Love.

A sick man is not a sinner above all others ; and yet he is not the idea of God ; weary of matter that claims BO much suffering, the sick become more spiritually in- clined, inasmuch as the belief of Life in matter begins to give up its ghosts ; all error must jinally yield to the Truth of man.

A wicked man is not an idea of God ; he is nothing more than the belief that hatred, malice, pride, envy, hypocrisy, etc., are coupled with Life, God I but Life, 2

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Love, and Truth, never made a sick man, nor a sinner I the same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter "water. Life and its idea, are neither sick, nor sinning, but eternal and harmonious ; never mingling with mor- tal man. The Scripture saith mortal man " is conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity ; " his origin is error, then, is it not ? and this error the belief that man is an Intelligence, and creator, after " all was made that was made ! " If all that worketh a lie is ultimately destroyed, this man must perish.

The understanding of Truth, and its demonstration^ is eternal Life ; a belief can never attain this. Contra- dicting all accepted theories on this subject, and dia- metrically opposing the evidences of personal sense, sci- ence comes "layirig the axe at the root of the tree," and cutting down all that brings not forth good fruit ; ihence healing the sick, and casting out error. There is no escape from sin, sickness, and death, except on the Principle that God is the only Life and Intelli- gence of man. So long as we admit Life, sensation, and Intelligence in matter, man will be governed by his body, and at the mercy of death, sickness, and sin.

Harmony is not at the mercy of matter ; nor happi- ness at the disposal of sense ; nor Life at the command of death. Do you ask what proof have you there is no sensation in matter, or in other words, no personal sense ? We have tested this statement in healing the sick sufficiently to find its Principle invariable. Our position is taken from proofs obtained through our own demonstration ; and allowing their Principle to point higher, and acknowledging the relationship between the lower and higher demonstrations with the same logic,

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we say, three and three trillions are six trillions ; in that we prove with smaller numbers that three added to three, make six. Because we helieve sensation is nerves, it by no means proves this to be the case ; the inebriate believes he finds pleasure in alcoholic drinks, and the sinner in sin. The thief believes he has made a gain in stealing ; and the hypocrite in hiding himself ; but the science of Life contradicts these false positions, and names them simply belief and error ; thence, infer- ring, belief is error, and to understand God and man would destroy all belief, and give us the understanding of what constitutes being.

That pain and pleasure belong to the body is the error of earth, that never enters heaven where nothing is found that worketh a lie. Soul is the only living consciousness, and Soul neither sins, nor suffers ; it is immortal, and error is mortal; but sin, sorrow, and sickness, are mortal, destroying themselves, because lihey are error. Sickness and death are not the manifes- tations of Soul, Truth, or Life, hence they are not of God, and there is no other causation. The tares and wheat must be separated, the real and unreal blend not ; happiness is real, and Truth is real, but error is unreal ; sin and holiness, sickness and health. Life and death, proceed not from the same source. Life, health, and holiness, together with all harmonies, are Truth ; sin, sickness, and death, are error, the opposite of Truth, harmony and Life, and these opposites never blend.

Electricity is not a vital fluid; but an element of mind, the higher link between the grosser strata of mind, named matter, and the more rarified called mind. The so-called destructive forces of matter, and the fe-

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rocity of man and beast are animal beliefe, that admit evil because they understand not good. All that is good is Soul ; and its opposite is personal sense ; the emanations of Soul are purity, harmony, and immortal- ity ; those of personal sense, impurity, discord, and death. Science brings to light Truth, and its suprema- cy, universal harmony, God's entirety, and matter's nothingness.

Doctrines, theories, and knowledge, are but opinions and beliefs, the impressions and observations of per- sonal sense, based on no Principle or fundamental Truth by which to work out harmony. When we reach immortality, we shall all learn Life is God, that matter is mortal, and that Spirit alone survives the wreck of lime. Personal sense will make war on science, until Truth determines the conquest on the side of immutable ] ight. Science reveals Truth ; whereas, personal sense takes no cognizance of it ; also, it reverses all the posi- tions of sense, and tears away its foundations ; hence, the enmity of mankind towards science, untU it battles its way up by putting beliefs down. Deductions from a matter-basis are necessarily error ; but science taking its positions from Intelligence, reaches man vrith har- mony, and bears the reports only of Truth. These dif- ferent causes are appreciated better when witnessing the effects of both, and taking science to heal the sick in contradistinction to drugs, electricity, etc., we learn the opposite results of Truth and Error. Systems of medicine, like narcotics, leave man worse, for the stupor they induce ; while science demanding demonstration for its proof invites progress, and uses the imderstand- ing like a two-edged sword, to amputate error on all

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sides. After this surgery, mankiiid will find themselves better.

Doctrines, opinions and belief are the " tree of knowledge" against which Wisdom warned man; knowledge is obtained from false premises, from per- sonal sense, that affords only the mortal evidences of man, presupposing Soul's audience-chamber the brain, falsely claiming the prerogatives of Intelligence, God. Reasoning from such stand-points produces all the dis- cords of mind and body, that must eventually go down, obedient to the mandate, "Thou shalt surely die." Re- searches after Truth ought to leave matter for Princi- ple, and bring the contemplation of Life outside of sense, thus gathering us nearer harmony and immortal- ity, and proportionately away from sickness, sin, and death.

Soul is not in the body. The belief that Intelligence is in matter is error in the premises and conclusions of man. Life, Intelligence, or substance, is not in or of matter, neither can they be aught but Soul, and because we shall ultimately prove this science to individual consciousness, we should begin its first lessons to-day. In order to gain the understanding of God and man, Soul and body, harmony and immortality, we must base all our conclusions of man on Principle instead of per- son, on Soul instead of body, or we shall never reach the science of being.

Truth, Life, and Love are God, the Soul of the uni- verse and man, and the only substance and Intelligence : these are not mixed with change, sin, or death, nor with matter, the body mortal ; the erring, changing and dy- ing blend not with that which is the same yesterday.

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to-day, and forever. Life is Intelligence, the Principle that is Soul or Spirit, and there is but one Spirit or Soul of the universe and man. If Life was in man, matter would govern itself, and Spirit would be a por- tion of matter ; therefore, God would be Spirit and mat- ter. No portion of the Infinite can enter the finite ; Life and Intelligence that are infinite are not mortal man. But may there not be a portion of God in man and matter ? This is equally impossible, for the least part of Spirit would destroy matter, for matter is non- Intelligence, not a power matched against Spirit ; it is mortality only^ and the immortal is Spirit.

God is Principle, — the Truth, and Soul of man, and man is " the image and likeness of God." Again, God is substance and Life, hence man is but the image and likeness of these ; man is not Truth, Life, or Love. God is Spirit, and man the image and likeness of Him ; therefore, man is not matter, but idea, and idea no more contains its Principle than figures embrace the rule of mathematics. "We have no resort but to reduce God to a level with man, or look away from man for his Sub- stance, Life, and Intelligence, all of which must be out- side of matter, or at the mercy of sin, sickness, and death. Darkness may hide the sun, but cannot put it out. Sickness, sin, and death are darkness, or moral ignorance that hide Truth, Life, and Love, but cannot extinguish them, or their idea cannot destroy God or man. The stand-point whence to reckon man is not matter, but Spirit. The Soul of man is never lost, in- somuch as it is God, Principle, and man its idea, and both are eternal; hence the immortality of Soul and body. Infinite Soul embraces perfect understanding.

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the light that neither diminishes nor increases, for " no night is there." Day declines, and shadows hide the sun, but darkness flees when the earth has turned on its axis ; because the solar centre is the same. Thus the darkness of belief hides, but cannot put out the light of science.

Soul is self-existent and eternal ; that immortal man is tributary to Soul instead of body, is the science of being, but we shall never understand it, believing Soul is in the body, or that matter embraces Intelligence and Life. If we understood the Truth of being it would prove Principle and its idea, that is. Soul and body im- mortal ; and instead of requiring laws of health that never yet made man immortal, to save Life, we should be a law of Life and Truth to our own bodies, even that higher law of Soul that prevails over sense, and gives harmony and immortality to all it controls. " Man hath sought out many inventions," but none of them can solve a problem without its Principle ; numbers are harmonious only when governed by Intelligence, outside the figures ; but ignorance might deny this fact did not self-evident proof force the conclusion. Un- derstanding the science of Life, we gain unfailing evi- dence of its correctness in healing, etc. Those who obtain even glimpses of it are convinced of its Truth, and those who advance higher are more undoubting than of other proofe.

How can a belief of Life in matter find Life, God ? This is not more possible than "for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." To inquire of our bodies what prospect we have for health or Life, is taking the thing out of the hands of God altogether.

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To suppose we find pleasure or pain, happiness or misery, Life or death in the body, is not finding God our Life, and " a present help in times of trouble ; " also, to admit the same fountain sendeth forth SAveet and bitter water, is contrary to our Master's teachings. Life supposed to originate in soil and seed, in animalty, or the earth, is a belief of Life only, and not the Prin- ciple that is Life, without beginning or end of days. Belief is mortality's self, nothing whatever but illusion ; we have no doubt but belief could make its mortal man an amphibious animal. Phenomena illustrative of our views will appear as the ages waken from the dream of Life in matter : belief can adopt any position, strange and new, but Life will be found less at the mercy of matter, as belief gives up the ghost, and the science of Life is sufficiently understood. to be fairly demonstrated ; then man will be found immortal.

Spirit controls matter ; when this is fairly understood, phenomena at present so unaccountable to a belief holding Soul pent up in body, will be explained, and mystery and miracle fast disappear. A belief of Life in matter leaves man at the mercy of death, for if this belief should change to one of death he is supposed to die, but the fact remains that man is immortal, and if death in matter or the body, be proved false. Life in matter or the body is proved false also.

The true relation of Soul to body is that of God to man ; in other words, of Principle to its idea ; these are forever inseparable ; and when the true idea, which is the immortal body, is perceptible, we shall have become acquainted with its Principle; "therefore, acquaint now thyself with God."

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A sweet combmation of sounds informs man this is not governed by chance ; that harmony is not acci- dent ; we have undeniable proof that the Intelligence producing music, separating light from darkness, etc., guides and controls all. The belief that man is the Intelhgence that governs sound, would destroy harmo- ny ; for music left to personal sense is at the mercy of misapprehension and discord; controlled by belief in- stead of the understanding, it would be lost ; even thus man would be discord and death without a governing Principle, or left to personal sense. God and man are Principle and idea, and God is the Truth, Life and Love controlling this idea. Then what can separate man from harmony and immortality ? St. Paul says : " Neither height nor depth nor any other creature can separate me from the love of God." Love cannot be debarred a manifestation, and is joy and not sorrow, good and not evil, Life and not death ; hence the per- fect idea God gave of Himself in immortal man, the object of divine affections.

Soul and body are Principle and idea, or God and man united indissolubly, but the man of God is the good and perfect idea of Him governed by Soul instead of sense. This idea expresses the sinless and infinite ; not the finite and dying.

Anatomy and theology never defined the man of God ; the first, explains the man of man ; the second, how to make this man a Christian, whose life held in matter is separated from God. These are some of the beliefe that serve as mUe-stones to point out the rough places sci- ence must make smooth. The man of sin, sickness, and death is not "the image and likeness" of Love,

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Truth and Life ; and all the vanity of the Gentiles, and doctrines preached under the sun, can never make that man immortal, or the image of God. Science lays the axe at the root of error and cutting down the behef of Life in matter, of Soul in body, and God in man, exchanges fable for fact, turns thought into new chan- nels away from personality to Principle, through which alone man is able to reach Life.

For Life to be eternal, it must be self-existent, there- fore independent of matter ; even the " I am " that was, and is, and that nothing can efface. Christ said, " I am the resurrection and Life." Man is not saved in mat- ter, but out of it in God. Denying personal sense, having but one God, taking up the cross and following Christ, Truth, is the only Christianity, but doctrines and creeds have little to do with this.

Life, substance, and Intelligence are Soul outside of personal sense ; what appears to be these in man, is simply a belief and dream of Life in matter ; the unreal, that is the opposite of the real. The figurative " Tree of Life " was the Principle of man bringing forth fruits of immortality. Sin, sickness, and death are the fruits of the " tree of knowledge ; " and the Scripture in- structs us to judge of the tree by its fruits.

The resistance to metaphysical science will yield slowly but surely ; we had sanguine hopes of its present prosperity until we learned its vastness, the fixedness of folly, and man's hatred of Truth. Not through the foot- steps of personal sense do we gain "Wisdom ; the infinite is achieved only as we turn from the finite, and from the personal error to the impersonal Truth of being. Until the scientific relationship between God and man

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is perceived, and its radical points admitted, "we can- not reach the demonstration of which it is capable. Exchange our stand-point of Intelligence and Life, from matter to Spirit, and we shall gain the perfect Life ; and the control that Soul holds over body, and receive Christ, Truth, in Principle and not person, and through the understanding and not belief. This is the difficult point, but it must be achieved before man is harmonious and immortal, and to gather our thoughts in this direction to-day is highly important, in view of the vast amount to be accomplished before the final recognition of Life outside of matter. If we make no progress toward the science of Life here, the here- after wiU strip off our rags of error, leaving us naked, imtU we are clothed upon by Truth, the immortality of man.

Not understanding the Principle of being, we shall seek in another world happiness in sense, and then, as now, receive sorrow instead of gladness because of this error ; pain, sickness, sin, and death, will continue so long as the belief remains of Life, happiness, and Intel- ligence in the body. If the change called death dispos- sessed man of the belief of pleasure and pain in the body, universEJ. happiness were secure at the moment of dissolution ; but this is not so : " they that are filthy shall be filthy still " ; every sin and error we possess at the moment of death, remains after it the same as be- fore, and our only redemption is in God, the Principle of man that destroys the belief of intelligent bodies. When we gain the freedom of the Sons of God, we shaU master sense with Soul. As progress compels this ripen- ing process through which man resigns the belief of

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Life and Intelligence in matter, there will be great tribulation such as has not been since the beginning.

When pleasures of sense perish, they axe taken away through anguish, even the amputation of right hands, and plucking out of right eyes. Man at ease in error, when stricken suddenly down by death, cannot under- stand Life. Mortal man knows nothing about Life that is learned by relinquishing pleasure and pain of sense ; and how long the pangs necessary for error's amputation continue, depends on the tenacity of the belief of happiness in personal sense. When remem- bering God is our only Life, and contemplating our present adherence to the belief of Life in matter, we may well tremble for the days in which we shall say, " I have no pleasure in them." The false views enter- tained of pardoned sin, or universal and immediate happiness in the midst of sin, or, that we are changed in a moment from sin to holiness, are grave mistakes. To suddenly drop our earthly character, and become partakers of eternal Life, without the pangs of a new birth, is moraUy impossible. We know, " all will be changed in the twinkling of an eye when the last trump shall sound," but the last call of Wisdom is not the first call in the growth of Christian character ; while man is selfish, unjust, hypocritical and sensual, to conclude the last call of Wisdom has been heard that awakens him to glorified being, is preposterous I Science forbids such feats of imagination, and looks us in the face with reason and revelation.

" As the tree falleth, so shall it lie ; " as man goeth to sleep so shall he waken ; when the belief of death closes our eyes on this phase of the dream of Life in

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matter, we shall waken, not to a final judgment or res- urrection, not with a single change in character, but for the same judgment of Wisdom to go on in process of purification as before, until Truth finally destroys error. When the final triumph of Soul over sense is achieved, the last trump has sounded, and not imtil then ; this hour "no man knoweth, not the son but the Father ; " here prophecy stops and proof is wanting ; but science sees beyond the grave the certainty of immortality. The science of Life is the only certainty of existence. Truth is harmony and immortality. Universal salvation holds its grounds on the basis of progression, in which case man cannot commence too soon the severest les- sons of science, whereby to gain happiness and immor- tahty. Heaven is not a local habitation, but the har- mony of mind and body ; and we obtain this not of belief, but understanding, not of sense, but science. From the sudden surprise of finding all that is mortal, unreal, a belief only, without creation or Truth, the question arises, who or what is it that believes. We have before said God is the only Intelligence and can- not believe because He understands. There is neither substance nor Intelligence, in the mountain mirage that seemeth what it is not, and such is mortal man ; nor in a face reflected from the mirror ; but such is not immor- tal man the image of God. Intelligence is Soul and not sense, Spirit and not matter, and God is the only Intel- ligence, and there is but one God, hence there are no believers 1 So far as this statement is understood will it be admitted, and the true idea of God, which is the only real man, will appear to the understanding, and the old belief of Intelligence and Life in matter, named

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by Paul " the old man," will disappear or "be put off," for " dust thou art and unto dust sbalt thou return ; " man never dies, it is only a belief of man.

Apprehending God the only Life and Intelligence of man, is the foundation of harmony, but to gain this un- derstanding of Soul, the Principle that gave man domin- ion over earth, 't is necessary to understand one's-self Spirit, and not matter. Jesus established his demon- stration in healing the sick, etc., on this very basis, thereby holding all being and prerogative Soul, and not personal sense. Reason is right only when starting from cause instead of effect, from Soul instead of sense } conclusions based on the evidences of personal sense are drawn from mortality.

'Ology and 'ism tend to the conviction that God who is imiversal cause, is effect also, insomuch as they all make Intelligence moral and physical, or mind and mat- ter. The time has come to separate the belief of per- sonal sense on the one hand, from science on the other ; hitherto man has called on man to interpret God, and on matter and its supposed laws, to heal the sick ; but as progress compels the change, we shall seek outside of personal sense in the Principle of things, their true interpretation and remedy. To seek Truth through belief is to ask the changing and erring for the immuta- ble and immortal ; or to call belief Truth, is ignorance of God. We learn from the Scripture " God is Love," and this certainly is Principle instead of a person; hence God should be understood and demonstrated: belief can neither explain Principle nor demonstrate God. To understand, instead of believe, what most concerns our happiness, is essential, and to know we are right cannot be construed irreverence to Truth.

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Our Master ventured to say he was " Truth and Life, and no man cometh unto the Father " (the Principle of his being) " except through me," Truth. Principle is the Father of man, and science alone reveals Principle, hence it is the " Comforter" that leads into all Truth. Jesus regarded himself Principle instead of person: hear his words: " I am the way, the Truths and Life^

God is the Soul of man and the only Intelligence, Life or Substance: and man is the reflex shadow of God. Belief is error, and mortal man is a belief: un- derstanding is Intelligence ; belief is personal sense, the so-called mind of matter ; understanding is Soul, which is Spirit, belief is knowledge and that which said " I will make ye as gods," is mortal error, alias mortal man. Wisdom said of knowledge, " In the day thou eat- est thereof thou shalt surely die." Christianity is God understood and demonstrated. There is no death in Truth, and vice versa. Error is mortal ; the very oppo- site of Truth and its idea which is the perfect and im- mortal man and universe. Doctrines and theories plac- ing God in man. Soul in body, are founded on belief, and are the offspring of personal sense. We entertain no belief with regard to what we understand, and can- not demonstrate what is not understood. When Soul is accepted as the only Intelligence, we shall depend on this ever-present Truth to control its own body ; and to understand this Principle of man, is indispensable to his harmony ; to know we are Soul and not body is storting right.

Matter is not substance, if God is substance; for matter and Spirit are not one. Which shall be sub- stance, the erring, mutable and mortal, or the change-

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less, unerring and immortal. Soul is Spirit and Spirit the only substance, insomucli as it is the Principle of man, and the universe. To regard matter a law of itself, or produced by Intelligence is error. Matter is change, decay, and death, and Principle is not in decay, Life is not in death, Soul is not in body. God is not in the things He hath made, and all that he hath made is "good." If Soul was in body. Spirit and matter were one ; but Soul is not personal sense, and vice versa. God is the Principle, or Soul of all that is real, and nothing is real that does not express Him and is con- trolled by Him, and immortal. Soul is lost sight of by personal sense, but cannot be lost in science. There is neither growth, maturity, nor decay to Soul : these are the mutations of sense, the clouds before Soul that we caU substance, but they are only vapor. Metaphysically spealdng, a belief of Life in matter is what might be termed a loss of Soul ; for seeking Life and happiness in error, we lose sight of Truth. The idea of God, is the heaven, earth, and immortal man that is unerring, and eternal, because they are controlled by Principle, that is, by Soul, and not sense, by understanding and not belief. That which is mortal, is a dream of Life, Intelligence and substance in matter ; a, belief that idea creates Principle, and shadow substance I In this error Truth is lost ; in other words, error loses sight of Soul or the Principle of man, and a belief of intelligent mat- ter takes the place of the science of man. Soul is self- existent, the forever " I am," that enters not into sin and mortality. The parent of all discord is this strange hypothesis, that Soul is in body, and Life in matter ; this error spreads its table with sickness, sin and death,

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and partakes of its own bounty. In the resurrection of understanding, Life, Soul, and substance will be recog- nized one and outside of matter, and the Intelligence of all that is immortal. The idea of Life is embraced in Soul and not sense, in the immortal and not the mortal. The most scientific man of whom we have any record, Jesus of Nazareth, called the mortal body that we sup- pose substance, "ghost"; and his body that others called spirit, "flesh and bones"; showing that substance to his understanding was the deathless Principle that em- braces man and is forever inseparable from Soul. But the Jews, strongly material, called the real idea of God, even the body that was not matter, a spirit or ghost ; and the body they laid in a sepulchre, substance. By this error they lost logic and Truth, therefore lost sight of Jesus at the very moment when he presented more than ever the real idea of God, and because of this be- lief, the idea was taken from them. The higher he wrought the problem of being through spiritual science, the more odious he became to the materialistic world that understood him not. Life, Intelligence and sub- stance to them were matter, but to him they were God, the Truth of man ; therefore he reckoned himself not matter but Spirit ; not sense, but Soul. Said he, " Spuit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have," but this he said three days after his burial, before relinquishing the belief of substance-matter ; after that, his disciples even could not see him. Jesus said, " I and the Father are one," and this separated him fiom theology and the Rabbis: understanding himself Soul instead of body, and that Soul was God, brought down upon him the anathemas of a world. This statement of himself un-

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derstood in science, was, that Life, substance, and Intel- ligence, are not man, but God, not body, but Soul ; re- versing this, belief could not see the idea of Truth or harmonious man ; and the sinning, sick and mortal error that crucified Jesus, occupied the place of God's idea. Mortal and sinful man is not the product of God ; sin and death never proceeded from Life, Love and Truth.

]\Iatter being unintelligent, there is no material law governing man and the universe, and Spirit is free by divine right. Soul is the master of man and matter. Truth is not learned through laws of matter ; for there are no such laws : matter is not a law-giver. Wisdom demanded man " to hold dominion over earth," and all things therein, making him obedient only to higher law. The Truth of man saith he is superior to matter ; but the opposite eiTor says,'he is inferior to it. Truth says: " I give you power over all things, that nothing shall by any means harm you ; " " power to handle serpents, to take deadly drugs," etc. But while our missionaries are carrying the Bible to Hindostan, and explaining it according to a belief, hundreds are dying annually of the bite of serpents. Creeds and ritualism never enable us to follow Jesus' example, and give the demonstra- tion he gave of God. Life cannot be separated from its idea ; therefore Soul and body, God and man, are insep- arable. All good proceeds from God in the order and harmony of science ; evil is its opposite, or knowledge, that proceeds from personal sense, and usurps the place of Wisdom.

The thirty thousand different readings given the Old, and the three hundred thousand the New Testament, account for the discrepancies that sometimes appear in

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tne Scriptures. The science of the Bible is manifest from Genesis to Revelations, and the demonstration that Jesus gave, conclusive evidence of its entire Truth. The opposite of sickness, sin, and death, Jesus knew was alone able to destroy them, and bring to light im- mortality. This was the platform on which he labored, and cast out devils, viz. ; destroy the belief of Intelli- gence and Life in matter, and it casts out all error, and heals the sick. This was Truth, and " the stone the builders rejected," while yet it must become the head of the comer, this the rock on which Christ, Truth, built its church, that the gates of hell (the beliefe of man) cannot prevail against.

" The image and likeness of God " was lost sight of through behef, and is regained only through understand- ing. To suppose laws of matter control man, is the error it would be to say that figures govern numbers, when we should find examples wrought on this plan would cause the figures to be erased that the Principle might be allowed to reproduce its own idea. Harmonious man is the immortal idea of God ; but the inharmonious is mortal belief. The voice of Truth, calls: "Man, where art thou?" and who will meet this inquiry to- day, with the answer of science ? Man is safe in Soul, the Principle of being, but out of this he is "a reed shaken with the wind," the ignis fatuus of belief, tossed about with every wind of doctrine ; until the body is sensationless through science, man is not safe ; every feeling there betrays where he holds himself; every pain and pleasure of sense, every hope, ambition, and joy that has its foundation in matter, reckons against the science of our course, and must be destroyed. Man,

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where art thou ? is met with reply from the head, the heart, stomach, blood, nerves, etc. ; " Lo I here thou art;" looking for happiness and Life in matter, but find- ing pain and death.

To conclude Life, Love, and Truth are attributes of a personal Deity, implies there is something in person superior to Principle. But nothing is wiser than Wis- dom, or truer than Truth ; and Life, and Love> have no superlatives, they are primitives and not derivatives. Person is not the Principle of goodness, and the reality, or Spirit, is ours only as we are good. Jesus sought Wisdom of no man, and said : " Call no man Father, for one is your Father, even God," thus regarding man begotten of Soul, and not sense ; and controlling mat- ter and triumphing over disease and death, he brought to light his Principle and the immortality of man.

To test our understanding is to put it in practice ; if we possess Truth, we shall live truly, but personal sense never aids man in this direction, but wars against spir- ituality. 'T is not in all the vanity of the Gentiles to send a dtop of rain, or to make a mortal body the idea of God. The example Jesus presented for us to follow, and the Principle he demonstrated in healing, etc., was beyond question, science ; but the error of past and present ages is our wrong interpretation, of Jesus and Christ, or man and God. Taught by some doctrine, or belief, that Principle is in person, and Soul in body, we have "gods many," and our standard of Truth changes hands. Our Master taught his students the demonstra- tion of Christianity was not alone in the beatitudes of the Mount, but in healing the sick, also.

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despaired of making the people understand what God, through science, said to him, the supreme Soul bade him cast down his rod, and it became a serpent, and he fled at first before the serpent, but afterwards took it up, proving his power over it. And " the hand that was made leprous as snow," he put into his bosom again and plucked it out, and behold it was as his other flesh, and Wisdom said : "It shall come to pass if they will not hear thee, neither harken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter ; " that is, they will listen to its interpretation, when they see its demonstration in healing. Jesus also said in his answer to John's inquiry, " Art thou he that should come ? " " Go and show John again these things ye see and hear ; the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, etc., and blessed is he who shall not be offended in me;" in other words, who shall not deny that this is the demonstration of Truth. Jesus said to his follow- ers : " Go ye into all the world, heal the sick," etc., and this was enjoined not on his disciples alone, but on all Christendom ; wherefore, said he : " Neither pray I for these alone, but for them, who shall understand through the word." " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God," the Principle of aU being ; hence it was not a person, to be understood, or that healed the sick, neither mediumship, mesmerism, nor drugs, but the Principle, that is. Life and Truth.

In the original Scriptures, metaphor abounded, and proper names were significant of spiritual ideas. The authors of Smith's Bible Dictionary say, " The spiritual interpretation of the Scripture must rest upon both the literal and moral." In the original it was written : " Je-

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hoyah said, my spirit shall not forever be humbled in man, seeing that they are, or in error they are but flesh." The science of man was not forever to be cast aside in explaining him, seeing that man in error was mortal. But how are we to escape from flesh, or mor- talit}'-, except through the change called death ? By understanding we never were flesh, that we are Spirit and not matter.

When the belief that we inhabit a body is destroyed, we shall live, but our body will have no sensation. We shall find God in God, that is. Spirit in Spirit, and Intelligence in itself, there will be no loss of sci- ence as in mixing different species ; and not until the belief that Soul is in body, and Intelligence in matter, is destroyed, will man be found immortal. The so-caUed man that is mortal, is a compound error made up of many beliefs, and while the science of being is master- ing one, another presents itself. In these chemical changes we find it not so ea^ to overcome sin as sick- ness, for the dream continues of pleasure in personal sense, when the belief of pain is willingly relinquished, and vice versa. Thus the way is straight and narrow that leads to Life, inasmuch as it is a warfare with the flesh.

The science of the original word not being appre- hended by the age in which the Scriptures were written, was not explained ; a single misplaced preposition would change its scientific meaning from Principle to person ; e. g.^ wisdom the principle of God ; instead of Wisdom, the Principle, God. From the original quotations, it appears the Scriptures were not understood by those who re-read and re-wrote them. The true rendering was their spiritual sense. Before knowledge increased

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some of the Soul-inspired patriarchs gave good proofs of understanding God. Jacob wrestled with a man, that is, strove against the belief of Life and Intelligence in matter, "until day-break;" until the light of sci- ence shone upon his understanding, enabling him to restore the shrank sinew ; this was the spiritual sense ; the literal — the hour of dawn. The shrank sinew he restored, understanding simply that he possessed con- trol over matter, and that man is immortal, the image and likeness of God, that cannot lose one jot of its completeness. When Jacob became the demonstrator, even in a limited capacity of this Truth, he was named Israel, the chosen of Wisdom, and thereafter those building on this foundation, were of the house of Israel.

Why Jesus of Nazareth stood higher in the scale of being, and rose proportionately beyond other men in demonstrating God, we impute to his spiritual origin. He was the offspring of Soul, and not sense ; yea, the Son of God. The science of being was revealed to the virgin mother, who, in part proved the great Truth, that God is the only origin of man. The conception of Jesus illustrated this Truth, and finished the example of creation. Jesus was the idea of this Principle, but bom of woman, that is, having in part a personal origin, he blended the idea of Life, that is God, with the belief of Life in matter, and became the connecting link be- tween science and personal sense ; " and took upon himself flesh," became apparent as the half-way posi- tion of positive science ; thus to mediate between God and man ; in other words, to present the idea of God that revealed Life outside of matter, in contradistino-

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tion to the belief of Life in matter, and demonstrated tlie Truth that man is idea and not substance, that God is all and in all, and the Principle of man that controls matter. Jesus walked the wave, stilled the tempest, and yet, this idea of God was not comprehended by those who deemed God a person, and Life in matter, and man substance and Intelligence.

Paul said : — "And if Christ (Truth) be not risen, then is my preaching vain ; " that is, if it be not under- stood that God is the only Life, then are the explana- tions of Jesus vain. Again, the Scriptures saith, " I am the resurrection and Life, he that believeth in me shall not see death ; " in other words, he that understands Soul is God, the only Life and Intelligence of man, that the body has not a separate being, but hath Life abiding only in Spirit, shall never die. This idea of Truth was literally scourged by the Rabbis, over eigh- teen centuries ago; "despised and rejected of men," while yet it bore their infirmities, healed their sick- nesses, raised the dead, and sat down at the right hand of the Father, was embraced in the Principle of man, that wrought out the harmony of the universe. As of old, the Pharisees thrust this idea from their synagogues, and the learned Jews sought to kill Jesus ; so to-day, church and state unconscious of the re-appearing of this idea of Truth, would silence what cometh, as of old, doing good to its enemies, casting out error, healing the sick and bringing freedom and salvation to man. Prophe- sying its rejection, Christ said, " when I come again, shall I find faith on earth ? "

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sublime bights of our Master, who is begotten of sense, or a servant to it ? The time cometh when the true origin ofman will be regained, being understood. Truth, like the light, shlneth on darkness, that is, first on belief and opinions, and the darkness (or belief) comprehend- eth it not, then on the advanced thought, etc., until it is understood. Truth is ruled out by belief, inasmuch as it rules out a personal God, and Life, and Intelligence in matter, and restores the scientific origin of man, and the only true demonstration of God ; it is ruled out by materia medica, insomuch as it rules out drugs, one of the errors that saith. Intelligence and Life are in matter. The science of man and the universe understood, would divest drugs of all efficacy, control matter, and bear man over the wave despite the fable of solids and fluids ; but alas ! who can test the Principle of this saying to- day ; this Truth is the stranger within our gates that is not remembered, while its elevating proof is ready to show practically its honest merit.

Jesus never spake of disease ae difficult or dangerous, but of having authority over it. He recommended not obedience to the so-called laws of matter, and in his opposite teachings the Scripture saith : — "He uttered things that had been secret from the foundation of the world," unperceived since knowledge had usurped man's government ; hence. Truth cometh to-day bring- ing not peace, but a sword. Our master forbore not to declare the whole Truth ; even the impersonal God, though it severely amputated error, set households at variance, etc. Whosoever, therefore, shall declare what he taught, must accept the hatred of error, and find peace and confidence in the realization that Wisdom is

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acknowledged only by her children. Realizing aU this, the Master said, " If the world hate you, ye may know that it hated me before it hated you." This was the blessed test, benediction and consolation he offered his followers.

Doctrines, opinions and beliefs, the so-called laws of matter, remedies for Soul and body, physiology, the- ology, materia medica, etc. are error, the very opposites of what Jesus taught and demonstrated, regarding Soul and body, or God and man. This may seem severe, but is said with honest convictions of its Truth, with reverence for God and love for man. The door to the sheep-fold through which we gain God shuts them all out. Those who would follow Christ, Truth, heal the sick, etc., through doctrines and beliefs, or matter remedies, are climbing up another way, and uncon- sciously, though it be, robbing God. Life, Love, and Truth, our Father which art in heaven, teaches man health, happiness, and immortality. Our only rightful law-giver is God, fulfilling aU law in righteousness, and visiting not on man the penalty of sin, ez;cept for moral transgression ; but destroying sin, and death, and triumphing over the grave.

Materia medica, anatomy, and phy^iology, together with every belief that spake from " the tree of knowl- edge," would give death and the grave victory over man. But Jesus said to his followers: — " I give you power over all things, that nothing shall by any means harm you ; " the true idea of God took away the sting of death, mastered sickness and sin, and caused the lion to lie down with the lamb, even the beliefs that wonld rob God, to fall at the feet of Love.

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If man tarries in the storm until the body be frozen ; or rushes into the flames and it be devoured ; this is not obedience to the "Wisdom that gave him " dominion over earth ; " unless we understand how to avoid such results, we should keep from their occasion; to do otherwise is the blunder a pupil in addition would make to attempt to solve a problem of Euclid, and because he has not reached this point in mathematics, to fail in his demonstration, and others perceiving this, to deny the Principle of the problem. Jesus taught Truth, and demonstrated it, and the result of this was, it healed the sick, and cast out error.

Christ is God, the Principle and Soul of the man Jesus ; constitutiDg Christ-Jesus, that is, Principle and idea. But the person of our Master was not less tangi- ble or real, because *' his Life was hid with Christ in God," that is, because he held Life, Soul, and not sense ; this put all things under his feet, giving him triumph over matter, and the body, over sin, sickness, and death. Holding himself in science, death was lost to Him in infinite Life, and Jesus the idea of Christ, Truth, was as deathless as this its Principle. This scientific un- derstanding of being gave him control over matter, enabling him to heal the sick and cast out the opposite belief that makes matter, or the body, the master of man ; turned the water into wine ; fed the multitude, etc. ; and finally triumphed over death, and presented to his students the body they thought buried in a sepul- chre ; that body, however, had not risen, which was their dead belief of him. The print of the nails and spear alone convinced Thomas, who would lean on per- sonal sense instead of Soul, for proofs of immortality ;

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bat when partially aroused from the error, or dream of Life in matter, to the scientific understanding of Soul and body, or God and man, exclaimed, in awe, *' My Lord, and my God ! "

Man is the idea of his Principle, and only as the im- age and hkeness of Intelligence and Life, substance and Spirit, is he beyond the reach of death, in the science of being, where nothing can harm or destroy him ; of that which is materialized it can only be said, " dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return."

When the sharp experiences of supposed Life in mat- ter, its disappointments, and ceaseless woes, turn us from it as a tired child to a home in the bosom of Love, then are we fit to understand Life apart from vanity and lies; but without this weaning process, "who by searching can find out God ? " If through the whole- some discipline of chastisement we become His children, understanding in part, righteousness and' purity, we behold the Truth of spiritual science', where enraptured thought walks boundless, and conception unconfined has wings to reach its glory. But to gain Truth and Life, we must not only seek, but " strive to enter in ; " and the strife consists in destroying the error of per- sonal sense ; but here we learn 'tis easier to desire Truth than to get rid of error.

Theories of a personal God, based on the false prem- ises of Life and Intelh'gence in matter, must yield to science ; and the dream of sense, to the Life that is Soul. We must leave the foundations of time-honored systems, to gain Christ, Truth ; come out from the world and be separate, or we have no part and lot in this mat- ter. The so-called laws material, presuppose body and

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Soul one for a period, until separated by a temporary law of divorcement to come together again at some un- certain future, and in a manner wholly unknown ; which is even less logical than annihilation.

To be sure, the Sadducees reasoned falsely on the resurrection, but not more so than the Pharisees! When we admit the immortality of Soul, we have ad- mitted the immortal body, also, for if Soul can be sepa- rated from man, Principle can be severed from its idea, which is fatal to a self-existent Intelligence, and equal to saying there may be a time when God is without a single expression of Himself. We ask instinctively for something beyond the things of personal sense, and whence cometh these unsatisfied cravings for immor- tality?

Pleasures of sense are broken reeds, that pierce us to the heart ; but the joys of Soul are imperishable, and attainable even here, for the hereafter commences here ; to-morraw grows out of to-day. We cannot realize the Truth of being in a moment ; but we can let go some- what the belief that would fasten immortal Soul within a mortal body. The motive to realize Life and happi- ness apart from sense, may be gained to-day, and this point won, we have started right to admit a greater influx of light. The realization of Truth is sometimes sudden and severe, as it came of old to Saul of Tarsus, when personal sense was blind he beheld the vision of Soul, " what eye hath not seen or ear heard."

We will specify three of the footsteps that enter in by the door, or enable us to become receptive of Truth. First. To become as a little child in that we are willing to leave the old for the new, and look beyond land-

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mai'ks, theories, doctrines, and beliefe, pleasures or pains of sense ; but here we must watch that we receive not Truth from person, but Principle ; the test being, that whatever cometh from Truth is demonstrable, and brings forth good fruits ; our lives must testify to this. Secondly. Purity is the foundation of the science of Life ; "None but the pure in heart shall see God." Inspiration is the highest means to convey messages from Principle to idea, i. e., from God to man; but these messages are never borne into matter, therefore to be recipient of Truth, we must begin to recognize our- selves Soul, and not body, and receive and impart the teachings of Spirit. Such messages are angels, but not winged messengers ; they are the aroma of Soul passing to man, the impressions that guide him aright, and are demonstrable when understood, and not understood unless demonstrated. Thirdly. To rightly apprehend and receive more Truth, we must put into practice what we already possess. This higher understanding of the relationship between God and man will not be recognized by the opposite belief of Life and Intelli- gence in matter. And the explanations or the whole- some rebukes of our Father, even Wisdom and Love, wlU often be deemed severity ; but we must avoid the yielding to error demanded by error; remembering Love often moves the sinner to hate, in that it stirs this opposite element before destroying it; and not until the sinner and the sick feel their need of Truth to save them from sickness or sin, will they become receptive of it.

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through Intelligence, because Life is Soul outside of sense. This is the stepping-stone to the understanding of Soul which, to know aright is eternal Life ; man is immortal only as the idea of God, and not as a belief of Life or Soul in the body. Love is God; but error would couple Love and hate together ; vainly think- ing to mingle good and evil. Soul's attraction is Truth ; but the attraction of sense is error. The former ele- vates and immortalizes man, the latter debases and makes mortal. The two cannot blend ; one rules out the other as light shuts out darkness and darkness light. God is not in matter, and there is neither Life, Intelli- gence nor Truth where He is not ; the body we call man is matter. Love is safe in Truth, but not in man, safe in Principle, but not person.

Does Wisdom find pleasure in drunkenness? But personal sense does ! and you cannot make the inebriate we call man averse to foul besottedness until this belief is destroyed ; when he will turn as naturally from his cup, as the dreamer from incubus. Tell a man intoxi- cation will kill him, cause him to believe this, and pos- sibly it will deter him from listening to this he of per- sonal sense, viz., that there is pleasure in intoxication ; but is he reformed? Abstinence, if it cherishes the desire for intemperance, is not reformation; and this so-called man will faU again whenever the fear is re- moved. The fear of punishment in time or eternity never made an honest man ; it is not a scientific posi- tion ; moral courage instead of fear is requisite to over- come sin and sickness. But how reform the sensualist through conscience ? He traflfics little in this commod- ity ; has even less Soul because he has more personal

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sense than some of the lower animals. They could teach him affection ! but convince his reason that is above the brutes, of the nothingness of personal sense, and you have saved him.

Reasoning incorrectly on Soul and body, leads to error of action ; understanding the science of being ex- plains personal sense and also destroys it ; in science you cannot be a hypocrite in secret even; you will become spiritual, find happiness in the moral resources of being and in Love that is Truth ; even as the babe finds peace and nutriment from the mother's bosom. To waken from the dream of personal sense, or pleasure and pain in matter, is the work of time and eternity. The greater your error the harder its struggle will be with Truth when it touches it. The aged are not old when the vail lifts, and sense gives place to Soul. But the hoary error must be met and mastered in time or eternity, and would have been easier controlled in its youth. Man never obtains immortality until the stand- point whence he reckons himself in all the summing up of Life and Intelligence, is Soul and not sense. What a pitiful sight is malice finding pleasure in revenge I 'tis sad to think evil is man's highest belief of good until his grasp on goodness grows stronger. We should nat- urally shrink from madness that rushes forth to clamor with midnight and the tempest. AU error is the image of the beast that must be efiaced by the sweat of agony, before the crown is laid upon the brow.

A picture on the camera, or a face reflected from the mirror is not substance ; then why do we name man substance, and contradict the Scripture that saith man is the image and likeness of God ? We know the face

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and form of a man reflected from tlie mirror is not man, that he is not in the shadow of himself ; hence the error to suppose the Intelligence, substance and Life of man, are man, or in him. Again, who believes that gender belongs to the man in the mirror ? Gender is Principle and not person, and man is shadow and not substance ; why he is mortal to personal sense, is because it sup- poses him substance, Life and Intelligence. Mortal man is but a dream of Intelligence, substance and Life in matter, not the man of God, but the man of man, and shadow of shadows, therefore he reflects no Princi- ple, and is without any real basis. To personal sense science is presumptive logic; nevertheless it reveals Truth : the ultimatum of being corroborates the state- ment that man is shadow and not substance ; we are daily hastening to this proof, and must reach its recog- nition to gain immortality, for the Truth of man alone makes him immortal. The belief, that Soul is in body, turns to matter instead of Spirit for help in times of trouble, and with reluctant consent acknowledges a supreme being.

Theology embraces no creed or faith sufficient to heal the sick, while our master made this the first article of his faith, and proved that faith by works.

It seems ancient Christianity adhered more to Jesus* teachings than modem systems of religion do. Diplo- mas have rendered it fashionable to appeal to drugs be- fore God ; and the result is stereotyped beliefa originat- ing in knowledge, " that forbidden tree," and wanting in the vital point whereby Jesus demonstrated Chris- tianity in the control Soul holds over sense.

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as if something was newly created, and lost, is a dream and illusion I and this definition of him is not more con- tradictory to personal sense than science demands. The Scriptures inform us clearly on this point. John de- clares— "All things were made by God, and without Him there was nothing made that was made." This plainly denies any new existence in the past or present, or any creation except what sprang directly from God, the Intelligence that made man ; hence we have the authority of Scripture for saying, mortal man and woman since appearing are unreal, a belief only, and illusion.

The question is, did John understand the science that was the basis of his statement ? He certainly fore- saw its Principle and partly demonstrated it, thus prov- ing his claim to make that statement. The master in- structs us, our proof of Truth is the fruit it bears ; and the science of being destroying sin, sickness, and death, demonstrates itself Truth.

It is presumptuous to conclude Love, Wisdom and Truth created what is unfit to be eternal. And when did Truth ever destroy its own idea. God cannot des- troy man because he is the reflection of God, therefore Christ, Truth, casting out sin, healing the sick, and destroying death, prove these are not of God. The only certainty of immortality is found in the relationship between Principle and idea, i. e., God and man. Soul and body ; Life, Love and Truth, the triune Principle, created nothing to be blotted out ; because God made man he is immortal. That the sick, sinning, and dying are not "made by Him," we learn of the science of being, and through the demonstrations of Jesus.

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There are but two realities, viz., God, and tlie idea of God ; in other words. Spirit, and what it shadows forth. Theology teaches supreme love to God, and this is a glorious privilege, but we cannot love God supremely and personal sense or matter more. God is Love, and affections are the offspring of Soul. The understanding of Life outside of matter is the basis Df Christianity by which the flesh is denied, the cross taken up, and the guidance of personal sense exchanged for Principle that makes perfect. Doctrines and theories of Life in matter. Soul in body, and God in man, are virtually atheism that must fall to the ground, and those are the days wherein there will be tribulations, such as has not been since the beginning of this belief. Earth will echo back the shock when the cry goes forth, " Why art thou (Truth) come hither to torment me before the time ? " The belief of Life in matter results in the belief of death. Life demonstrates Life, and not death, but Life is God, and none but the pure in heart shall see God. Personal sense affords no evidence, not the smallest idea of Truth, Life or Love. Messages of Soul are man's teachers, and these are inspirations not borne into matter, but the outside Intelligence, where Spirit is, and speaks to man. "We must recognize our- self Soul, and not body, and outside the body, else Soul is deemed subject to matter, mortality, sin, and death. But in order to do this we must grow away from all that is error and become pure in Spirit to receive or impart the lessons of Spirit.

The messages from God to man, in other words, from Principle to idea, are purity, the atmosphere of Soul, not winged messengers, but that whereby we gain the

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idea of spiritual man, in the science of his being ; the inspirations of truth that are demonstrable when un- derstood, and never understood until demonstrated. Truth is practical, not theoretical, and we shall never have more until we practice what we already have. Not until the sick and the sinner feel their need of Truth that saves from sickness, sin and death, will they apprehend it. Understanding the Truth of Man's being is all that can make him harmonious or immortal, and is the stepping-stone to the understanding of God, the giver of every good, "whom to know aright is life eternal." Man is immortal only as the idea of God, the representative of Spirit and not matter, of Soul and not body. As a belief of Soul in body, or Intelligence and Life in matter, he is only mortal. The science of being never mistakes the real for the unreal, or charges Soul with a single belief of personal sense.

Soul. is God, for it is Spirit and Intelligence, and there is but one Spirit or Intelligence. To caU matter substance does not require Intelligence, but a belief, insomuch as Intelligence understands there is no sub- stance or solidity in matter that can rule out mind from piercing it and reducing it to shadow wherein Soul is found its only substance, and that which holds man, idea, that cannot be lost. It does not require Intelli- gence to lie, but demands Soul to utter the Truth of man. Intelligence or soul is never in error. Personal sense is the error that embraces all mistakes, wherein falsehood is considered fact until it be understood other- wise and the belief is destroyed. One of the beliefs of personal sense, named sickness, we destroy mentally with the Truth of being, and the sickness is gone ; this

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we have proved by demonstration in hundreds of cases. Belief makes up the sum total of mortal man, but this statement is confounded by those not understanding science, blending the mortal and immortal, and making man God, Intelligence, instead of its idea. Belief is all there is to mortal man, and if this belief is wretched- ness only, no circumstance can make it happiness, and if happiness, no circumstance can change it, or make it wretchedness, until the belief of the differ- ent conditions are changed ; " for as error thinketh so is it." The science of being is as necessary to those in the belief of health as sickness, for a single change of belief would make the well sick, when, if they under- stood these conditions depended on mind, instead of matter, they might continue to be well by grounding their belief in the case and letting Intelligence be mas- ter of the situation. Ignorance, pride and prejudice close the door on all that contradicts the past or opens it on things not stereotyped. When the science of Life is understood every man will be his own physician, and the doctor's occupation gone, hence materia medica wiU fight it to the end. But why should the new be scorned when the old has proved incapable* of making man healthy or harmonious in mind or body, and the new commences at once to do this ; the command remains, **Be ye perfect even as your Father is perfect," and yet we must be smitten for insisting on this demonstration. The science of being, that alone can stay the progress of disease and sin, and the atheism that unites matter and God, wiU be called, in this century, anti-christian. The belief that man is intelligent matter, subject to birth and death would make Soul mortal, and governed

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by material laws, God in the things He has made, sin, sickness, and death blending with Truth and Life, and the former having the mastery over the latter. There is but one Spirit, even God, therefore no evil can be in Spirit, there being nothing to make evil of. Jesus cast out spirits, that is, beliefs in other Intelligences and healed the sick with the Truth of being, — he admitted no Intelligence in evil, hence his authority over it. If Spirit sins it must die, for all error is mortal ; Spirit is God, and there is but one God ; hence to talk "of spirits is to believe in gods and demons. We reason wrong on all points relating to God and man. Soul and body, when we start from matter to draw conclusions of Spirit ; this renders it impossible for such conclusions to be correct. Our present stand-point is body not Soul, personality instead of Principle, hence our mistaken views and their consequences in sin, sickness and death. We go inta ecstasies over a personal God with scarcely a spark of Love in the heart, when God is Love ; and with scarcely a ray from Truth, when God is Truth ; and without the understanding of Life, when God is Life, and what is the result ? That we have no practical God to heal us ; and get out of sin and death only in belief, while they still cling to mortal man ; this is not science or the Christianity that heals the sick and demonstrates the harmony of Life. Evil and good never constituted man, for man is the image of God, and all there is to him is the good ; evil is not the image and likeness of God, or matter of Spirit; even reason would rescue man from these errors of personal sense were it not silenced by some fatal theory. Action produced by Intelligence manifests harmony only, while action proceeding from

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mortal minds discords until it is finally destroyed. The heavenly bodies cortrolled by the mind of God, Soul, contradict the supposed laws of sense, and are harmoni- ous. The supposition of Life in matter leaves man at the mercy of sin, sickness, and death, and then would resurrect Spirit from dust I Beginning with dust and returning to dust He who formed the universe ! Science undisturbed amid this jargon reveals Soul, the Life, Intelligence and substance that constitutes Spirit, the great forever not in matter nor man. Soul being inside of man would reduce God to man, or make man God ; the belief of Soul in body supposes Spirit helpless, sin- ning, sick and dying. Omnipotence is lost if God is in man, for mortal man is an error through which Truth cannot appear. The mighty arm is crippled when Spirit is made subject to matter. Surely the " tree of knowl- edge " produced a pigmy race of " gods."

CHAPTER II.

IMPOSITION Ain) DEMONSTEATION.

Phenomena not understood belong to the things that are, but which we venture not to explain, not hav- ing gained their origin and specific character from sci- ence. That which is real is not characterized by 'ism or belief ; and the understanding grasping a subject is satisfied to name it only as it names itself. Phenomena based on science produce good results only, and never the opposite ; this rule is invariable, and should meas- ure every calculation. Whatever can work discord, accomplish a sinister purpose, or harm our neighbor, is not.science or the phenomenon of Truth, but the mani- festation of some belief and error. What are termed spiritual manifestations, as progress compels the change, will be found not mediumship, but openly defined, and when confined within the limits of harmony and it be found impossible to do evil by means of them, it will be time to consider them demonstrations of science, but not until then. These manifestations at present are the result of tricks or belief, proceeding from the so-called mind of man, and not the mind of God, from the mind of body and not the mind of Soul, from person and not Principle, from belief and not understanding ; yea, from matter and not Spirit.

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science, and is illusion. What we term the mind of man is belief, forming the visionary basis of matter, therefore matter embraces not the reality of man. Belief is not a manifestation of Intelligence, but of non-intelligence. To distinguish between the mind of Soul and the so- called mind of body, we must remember one is idea, and the other belief, alias the counterfeit and claimant of mind, even as error claims Truth. Mind is immortal, but belief is mortal, it being the so-called mind bi mor- tal body, whereas the mind of immortal Soul is idea, even science revealing Truth. Mediumship overlooks the impossibility for a sensual mind to become Spirit, or to possess a spiritual body after what we term death, while science reveals this more inconsistent than for Btygian darkness to emit a sun-beam. When we are Spirit we shall have gained the high import of this Scripture, " I and the Father are one," and shall find, too, this oneness occasions no loss of identity, but that "I" signifies Spirit and not matter, Principle and not person. Soul and not body, even the Intelligence repre- sented by all ideas, symbolizing harmony from the blade of grass to a star. The question at present is, whether this " I " is Principle or person. Soul or body, yea, God or man ? Principle is Soul, Intelligence, the " I am," but where do we place the " I " ; is it Spirit in matter. Soul in body. Life in the flower, or the outside Intelli- gence and Life, that form these ; is it man or the Soul of man, outside of matter ? The science of being re- veals God not in matter, therefore this " I " not body, nor in body, but Soul outside of matter, the infinite, and not finite, yea. Spirit and not person, and through this reckoning, man gains eternal identity.

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A suffering, sinning, and djdng condition such as must ever remain while the belief of Soul in body and Intelligence in man or matter remains, cannot be pref- erable to the sinless joy and perfect harmony that a recognition of Life, as Spirit, possessing all beauty and good, without a single demand pleasure, or pain of body confers ; why so many called " spiritualists " are very gross materialists is because they make personahty Spirit and the only conscious existence, and rejecting a per- sonal God, make a God of persons, which is equally fatal to the science of being ; persons called " spirits," instead of Principle that is Spirit and Truth, are their trust, while a belief in "spirits" belongs to the darker ages, and is demonology. There is but one Spirit, viz., God, Truth ; in other words. Wisdom, Life, and Love , and nothing is real but what is good or the idea of goodness ; evil has neither identity nor individuality, having no Principle.

Charles Sumner was a great man, because of his un- swerving adherence to right ; he had, more than others, the true idea, and less than others, the beliefs of man. His professions were few, his acts colossal, his might was mind ; not person but Principle, not man but God.

Science never caused a retrograde step in being, or a return to positions outgrown, or that Truth has de- stroyed. To admit the so-called dead and living com- mune together, is to decide the unfitness of both for their separate positions, and that a mistake occurs when a man dies to sense or lives to Soul. Any supposed midway between Life outside of matter, or in it, is a myth. We should either see the so-called dead, mate- rially, or they should be advanced beyond our sight.

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Conservatism never was right, absolute Truth is all that is right, and absolute error is easier made right than a half-way position. Mediumship assigns to their dead a condition worse than blighted buds or mortal mildew, even a poor purgatory where one's chances for some- thing narrow into nothing, or they must return to the old stand-points of matter.

" He is not dead but sleepeth." Jesus knew Lazarus was in the dream of a midway condition when Truth wakened him ; if we could do this, we might claim his spirituality. Until the imaginary connection between the so-called dead, named " spirits," and those supposed to be living in matter is destroyed, mortal man is not dead, only changed, for the immortal is not gained, and belief can gather itself on the wrong side of the ques- tion, and continue the old conclusion of Life in matter ; this, however, is far from the science of being. When Life is really gained outside of matter, it is understood, in which case the belief that Life was ever in the body is gone and cannot be resurrected; our friends thus advanced are Spirit, that never rose from dust and can no more return to, or commune with matter than a blossom can return to its bud.

The period required for the dream of Life in matter embracing pleasures and pains of personal sense to van- ish, " no man knoweth, not the son but the Father." It will be of longer or shorter duration according to the period of error, before the reality of being is understood and eternal Life won. What advantage then would it be to us, or the departed, to prolong this state, by prolonging the belief of Life in matter.

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between the so-called dead and living, as the sick have of their positions relative to disease, which science decides an error, for it denies all identity or reality to discord. The entire phenomena of mediumship are deceptions or delusions ; what is capable of error is not science, but destitute of Principle. When the so-called medium understands even in part the science of being, his belief of mediumship is gone, and the result is, he no longer produces the manifestations said to originate with departed "spirits," but which are really contingent on the beliefs of the living, instead of the dead.

The phenomena of science based on a demonstrable Principle, are explainable, but personal interpreters may create an 'ism in which phenomena are not under- stood, and subject to gross misjudgings. Thus error is engrafted into their net-work, and error is not linked to Truth, hence the gulf impassable that separates the so- called Life in matter, from Life not subject to death, and the mischance and mischief that characterize the so-called spirit-returns ; the natural result of the attempt to unite such opposites as Spirit and matter is discord ; as soon might fire and frost mingle, for in either case one would destroy the other. That matter communes with Spirit, or that Spirit communes by means of electricity or personality with Spirit or mat- ter, is impossible, and would destroy the order and haj- mony of progress. If communion is possible between the so-called dead and living, the departed go back- ward in the scale of being, even as the oak holding on to its primitive acorn, or the so-called medium advances to Life independent of matter, like an acorn, becom- ing instantaneously an oak. Again, if the medium is

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on comnmnicable terms mtli Life, Spirit, independent of matter, there can be no appearance of Life in the body, no action, animal or organic, and to restore this former condition of BO-called Life, would be as impossi- ble as to restore an acorn absorbed into a germ risen above soil, and seed. The seed that has propagated is gone, a new germination having taken place, and until the belief of Life in matter is destroyed, the real Life that is Spirit, is not won; no correspondence or com- munion exists between these two opposites.

There is but one possible moment when the so-called dead and living commune; the moment caUed death when the link between them is clasped. Li this vesti- bule more awake to the welcome of those gone before, than to present pains of personal sense ; the departing sometimes breathe aloud their vision, naming the face that smiles upon them, and the hand beckoning them ; even as a man standing at the falls of Niagara with eyes only for that wonder, whispers aloud his rapture, forget- ful of other scenes. The recognition of spiritual Life — and all Life is Spirit — comes not at once ; even be- yond the grave existence is but a belief of personal sense until the science of being is reached, for error brings its own outer darkness and self-destruction, both now and then.

There is but one spiritual communication, and this proceeds from Soul ; personal sense takes no cognizance of it ; what are termed " spirits," aro mere personali- ties. A shock would not be felt, or sensation held for a moment in the body, if in reality we communed with Intelligence, Spirit, outside of matter. The only living Principle of man speaks through immortal sense, and if

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mortal sense was touched by this Principle, it would present no appearance of Life, possess no sensation, and the immortal would appear in its stead, and the spirit- ual take the place of the material ; even as light de- stroys darkness and in its place aU is light. Soul is the only truthful communicator with man. Mortal belief and immortal Truth, like tares and wheat, grow side by side until the harvest, but to divide instead of unite these, is the design of Wisdom that separates the wheat, and gathers it away from the tares.

That all things are possible to Truth, is a scientific position ; and that all error is possible to belief, is equally apparent. Secretiveness, jugglery, credulity, superstition and belief, are the foundations of what is termed mediumship. But the so-called mediums have a strong hold on the sympathies of those who mourn the loss of friends; in the sorrows of bereavement, when thought like a fermenting fluid is ready for a chemical change, they turn the gushing emotions into the behef they are not separated, and this consolation comes to the mourner like heaven's benediction, gaining a strong foothold in the minds of millions. Hence the hold mediumship has on community, a belief coming at the hour of individual acceptance, clad with the drap- ery of heaven, a mystery and marvel, its phenomena not understood, what needeth it more, as the foundation of a new 'ism ? Perfection is not expressed through im- perfection, therefore Spirit cannot pass through matter ; there are no temporary sieves, even, that strain Truth through error.

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belief controls another — and this is mediumship — every possible imitation of the real is made by the unreal. The possible to Soul is the impossible to body, so also the impossible to science is the possible to belief. The ideas of God never amalgamate, but retain their distinct identities and are controlled only by the Principle that evoked them. The mineral, vegetable and animal king- doms have their distinct identities, wherein one creates not or controls the other, all are created and controlled by God. Admitting Life and intelligence in matter, admits mediumship, making man create and control man; beast, bird, and plant create and control each other. But this reverses the order of creation, intro- ducing confusion and discord.

Darkness and light, infancy and manhood, sickness, health, etc., are distinct beliefs that cannot blend. To suppose infancy is uttering the idea of manhood, or thinking its thoughts, would be rejected by reason and revelation ; and vice versa^ that darkness represents light, and sickness health, or that we are residing in Europe when we are on the opposite hemisphere, is simply absurd I Logic would not attempt to bridge over these distinct conditions, and they are not more mark- edly distinct than the so-called dead and living, that you think to unite again on planes so different ! the one called substance, and the other shadow, matter and Spirit communing together ; one would inevitably blot out the other. That Spirit and matter amalgamate is the error progress and science will destroy.

Mediumship pre-supposes one man is Spirit, and con- trols another man that is matter, while both remain the same opposites ; that bodies which return to dust or new

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bodies called " spirits " are experiencing the old sensa- tions, and desires material, and mesmerizing earthly mortals ; that shadow is tangible to touch, and imparts electricity, etc. Every one of these conclusions are ridiculous ; God is not named in them all, and for the best of reasons, viz,, that matter is supposed to take care of itself, and mesmerism, and person take the place of idea and Principle, or man and God. Who that has witnessed mesmerism would say it was science, the Truth of being, or that this was electricity ? God con- trols man, and is the only Intelligence, attraction, or Spirit. Any other control, attraction or Spirit supposed to be exercised over man is a belief and error that ought to be known by its fruits. The caterpillar, trans- formed into an insect of beauty, is no longer a worm ; and to push the conclusion that a butterfly returns again to affinitize with, or to control the worm, is to take mes- merism to befool reason ! Change controlled by Princi- ple is science, but some behef may hide its science ; pro- gress is the evermore of Wisdom, but nothing save science reveals progress.

Whatsoever utters falsehood is error, therefore, the im- possibility for mediumship to be science, and governed by Truth. Our only resignation to a new 'ism or some new disease, is the hope that another stir made in the waters of belief will help to show their muddy foundation.

The electric telegraph is a symbol of mind speaking to mind, that in progress of time will not require wires, for Spirit destroys matter, electricity, etc. ; but spiritual- ism Avould preserve these to destroy harmony. Truth pervades all space, needing no material method of trans- mitting its messages j we only know it blesses man, but

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" cannot tell whence it cometh " ; the pick are healed by it, the sorrowing comforted, and the sinner re- formed; these are the manifestations of Soul, not sense, of science, and not mesmerism. Soul sends no des- patches on matter; but to-day the electric wire car- ries to Europe a submarine whisper foreshadowing the science that is to come ; little by little the action of thought is losing its matter element, becoming spirit- ualized, expanding outside of fetters, and science is pushing onward the centuries. The operations of In- telligence teach us God made man upright, but beHef has sought out many inventions; Life, Truth, and Love act through no erring medium.

Immortal man communes not with the mortal, and cannot be made manifest through matter ; these are dis- tinct and oj^osite conditions ; one is the idea of God, of Spirit outside of matter, and the other a belief of " spirits " and substance in matter ; before we commune with Spirit that is immortal, the belief of death must be destroyed. What would be said of an English scholar unacquainted with the classics, before he had entered this department of learning, to claim he understood Greek? You would say he was either an imposter or laboring under some hallucination. What then of believing we are wearing out Life and hastening towards death, com- muning with immortality I If indeed this communica- tion was possible between the mortal and immortal, the media would never die, or pass the change called death. And if the departed communicate still with mortality, then are they sioning, suffering, and dying still, in which case, wherefore look to them for proofs of immortality and accept them as oracles ? Commu-

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nications gathered from ignorance are pernicious in their tendencies ; mediums describe disease, its symp- toms, locality, fatality, etc., who know nothing about it, warn people of death, and frighten them into it I This obnoxious practice makes sickness. The case has been proved that a man died from the belief he was being bled to death, showing the cause of his death purely mental ; hence the danger of ignorant charlatans deal- ing with disease. What science finds requisite to de- stroy in order to heal the sick, mediumship strengthens and perpetuates.

Jesus cast out " spirits," error did his work, confessed the oneness of God, Spirit, and never described disease, but healed it. If the sick are made more comfortable through some error of process they are ten-fold more the victims of disease in the end. The mysticism of mediumship gives force to its words of doom, enabling it to do more harm than drugs, for the sick are more frightened by what a medium pronounces fatal, than when an M. D. so decides ; and this fear is the mental condition that develops disease. Science would have to go over the whole ground and uproot every seed of their sowing to destroy disease. The evidence of belief is all the medium has to rely on, while science repudiates belief with the evidence of understanding, and demands the Principle of being to bring out the harmony of Life.

At one time a medium informed us we were ill, said our brain was overtasked, and we must have rest. To this we filed a vigorous objection, contending for the rights of Intelligence, that mind controlled body and brain, and the views she insisted on were the ones to be rid of, in order to be well. Whereupon she stopped

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the conversation, exclaiming, *' Dr. Rush is present, and says you must use yalganism ; '* (meaning undoubtedly galvanism,) "and rest or be sick.** But even this pre- tended oracular warning failed to convince us, and the consequence was we went on in a good state of health ; having strong doubts that fifty years of post-mortem experience had so demoralized the orthography of that learned man, or perpetuated his old beliefs of matter. Thousands of our church members who are rational on other topics, are sustaining and believing just this mum- mery, while yet they send forth the cry against science as dangerous to Christianity.

In the summer of 1869, it was stated in the Banner of Light, published in Boston, that the late Theodore Parker said, through a medium, " there never was and there never would be, an immortal spirit " I At the same time this paper was repeating weekly that spirit communications were our only proofs of immortality I While we entertain no doubt of the humanitarianism of many spiritualists, we have strong proofs of the incor- rect views of spiritualism. A man's assertion that he is immortal, is no more proof of this than we would gain of an opposite condition, were he to say, " I am mor- tal '* ; Theodore Parker was beyond such vague hypoth- esis. Life, Love, and Truth are immortal, and only when these are realized will Life be understood. Truth is eternal Life, and science the only medium of Truth, or Life, hence the saying of Christ, " I am the Way, the Truth, and Life, and no man cometh unto the Father " (the Principle of being) "but through Me."

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bers ; shut out the tones of music ; give to the worm the body called man, the Principle of these survives despite the so-called laws of matter, and holds its ideas immortal. If the inharmony of belief hides the har- mony of Truth, it cannot destroy this Principle, for it is God, supreme over all ; " who doeth according to His own will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabi- tants of the earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto Him, what doest thou.'*

Matter cannot reply to Spirit, but have you ever ru- minated on this heaven and earth expressly declared to be inhabited by man, controlled alone by supreme "Wis- dom? Did you understand there is no other world, you would be reaching sooner that which is real of Life, where substance is Soul and not matter, and realizing it thus all would be harmonious and eternal. It should never be said, nothing but God; for all that is real comes with God, the substance. Life, and Intelligence of all. Principle and its idea are God and man, co-ex- istent and eternal ; there is no substance-matter. The imaginary line called the equator, is not substance, the earth's action and position are sustained alone by Intel- ligence, that launched the earth into orbit and said to the proud wave, " here shalt thou be staid," that holds the "winds in its fist," "numbers the hairs of the head," and furnishes sublime proof of the control Spirit holds over matter. Even the simple planchette is made to testify to mind's power over matter, and no longer a mystery and marvel.

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body, sets us free to master the infinite idea ; it iliuts the door on death, and opens it wide on immortality. The belief that God has a separate being leads to mul- titudinous errors, in which phenomena are ascribed to supernatural and personal causes. Man is the phenom- enon of Soul, of Intelligence and not matter, and created by God and not man.

Divest belief of substance in matter, and the move- ments and transitions possible to mind would be found just as possible to the body; and then would Spirit identify being without the loss of body, that we suppose must occur before this science of being is acknowledged. The final understanding that we are Spirit must come, and we might as well improve our time in sohdng the so-called mysteries of to-day on this Principle. At present we know not what we are, but hereafter we shall be found Love, Life, and Truth, because we un- derstand them. Do you say the time has not yet come, in which to recognize Soul the only substance, and gain our entire control over the universe and man ? Then we refer you to Jesus, who demonstrated this over eighteen centuries ago, and said, " The works I do, ye shall do," and " Behold the time cometh and now ts, when they who worship the Father shall worship Him in Spirit and in Truth " ; but this method of understand- ing God and doing good was not electricity, materia medica, mesmerism, or mediumship.

Matter is neither Intelligence, nor a creator ; the tree is not the author of itself; sound is not the originator of music, or man the father of man. If seed produces wheat, the latter flour, and one animal another animal, etc., who made Intelligence, and how were the loaves

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and fishes multiplied without meal or monad ? Miracles are impossible ; they are phenomena not understood, but which their Principle explains, and we should reach this explanation and understand it as did our Master, who demonstrated it controlling man and matter. The decaying flower, withering grass, blighted bud, gnarled oak, or ferocious beast, together with all discords in- cluding sick, sinning and mortal man, were not created by supreme Wisdom ; these are the falsities of matter, things of sense instead of Soul, the changing images of mortal mind, not in reality substance, or Life, but only a belief of these. The mind of Soul embraces immortal ideas only, but the so-called mind of body illusion, and not the Truth of being. Personal sense declares matter substance, but what is this sense but a belief of Life and Intelligence in matter.

Eloquence is inspiration, not contingent on erudition, but A scientific phenomenon, showing that all things are possible to Intelligence ; sometimes it is supposed to arise from knowledge obtained from books, and again from mediumship. When eloquence proceeds from the belief a departed "spirit" is speaking, and can say what the so-called medium is incapable of uttering, or even knowing alone, the fetters of mind are unclasped, and forgetting her ignorance, by believing others are speak- ing for her, she becomes eloquent beyond her usual self, and because she thinks some individual, and not the one Spirit, is helping her. Now destroy this belief of aid, and the eloquence disappears, and the old limits personal sense assigns are resumed, and she says I am incapable of " words that glow," being uneducated, proving the fact, " as a man thinketh, so is he." Be-

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lieving she cannot be eloquent without book-learning, her body responds to this thought, and the tongue grows mute that before was eloquent, loosened on the scientific basis that mind is not confined to the devel- opment of educational processes, but possesses primarily all beauty and poetry, together with the power to ex- press them ; harmony is caught and not understood by the medium ; caught through a belief, and dependent on it ; but Soul gives utterance to itself when sense is silent, hence the improvement ; she was always capable of this, and a '• spirit," or person, had nothing to do with it.

The beliefs of personal sense, of Soul in body, etc., limit mind ; Soul sets man free, which explains the phe- nomena of impromptu poets and uneducated orators; witnessing this in moments falsely called mediumship, 't is construed supernaturaUy, which circumscribes the phenomenon by an 'ism. Matter is moved because of mind, through the volition of belief, or the understand- ing; all harmonious phenomena are produced by the latter, and the inharmonious by the former. Science removes phenomena from mysticism into the hands of interpretation ; in which it is no greater mystery that mind moves a table without a hand than that it prima- rily moves the hand, and secondarily the table, in obe- dience to the belief that the only method of doing this is by seizing hold of it with the hand. Mind causes all action in the case, through a belief that " spirits " did it, or that electricity caused it, or the more common belief of voluntary muscular power; in other words, matter moving matter. Likenesses of individuals, land- scape views, fac-similes of penmanship, certain forms of

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expression that belonged to the departed, and even sentences of their saying, may be taken as directly from minds as from objects cognizant to personal sense ; mind sees what mind embraces, the same as personal sense feels what personal sense touches. Nor is it necessary that the mind embracing the picture, or par- agraph, be individually present with the clairvoyant. Any mental link touching mind, though bodies are leagues apart, is sufficient to reproduce these to the clairvoyant ; if the individuals have passed away, their aroma of thought is left, which is mentally scented and described. Mind has senses sharper than the body; this we know from experience, yet we never believed ourself a medium, and always openly avowed this.

Matter is moved solely by mind in accordance with science or belief. But mediumship removes phenom- ena from rationahsm into mysticism, and gives Intelli- gence to matter, instead of mind. Pictures are formed mentally before the artist gives them to canvas ; thus clairvoyants perceiving pictures of thought can copy or reproduce them, even though lost to the recognition of the mind whence they are taken. The strong impres- sions friendship, or any intense feeling leaves on mind is ineffacable, except to personal sense, hence another mind can perceive and reproduce the emotion. Clair- voyance is mind-reading alone, whereas science in con- tradistinction to clairvoyance reveals Truth through the understanding, by which we gain the Principle and explanation of phenomena ; these are distinctly oppo- site stand-points whence to obtain information; and the right interpretation of cause and effect, belongs alone to science. Clairvoyance reaches only the fancied

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realities of mortal mind, whereas science admits none of these things, but reveals Truth, outside of mortality and error. We can do good to our neighbor through the science of being, but through it we cannot do evil also. Clairvoyance can do evil, accuse wrongfully, and ex- plain unscientifically. If we act from the stand-point of spiritual sense we are right, but if from personal sense, we do evil continually. The sensuous may be clairvoyant, but cannot be scientific, and the iscientific cannot be sensual. Foretelling events is to discern them spiritually outside of personal sense, which is prophecy, and accords with the ancient worthies; or through a belief which is clairvoyance, or mind-reading. If advanced in the science of being suiB&ciently to blend with the Truth of being, we are seers and proph- ets involuntarily, not because we are controlled by "spirits," persons, but by Spirit, which is purity, right- eousness, and omnipotence. To know the past, present and future, is the office of Intelligence, yea, it is ever- present Truth ; and to understand we are not pent up within the boundaries of personal sense, confined to the ear, and eye, for sound and sight, or to muscles, bones, etc., for locomotion, is science, whereby we discern somewhat of being that is real. " Though we take the wings of morning and flee to the uttermost parts of th earth, behold Thou art there." Soul is ever present, embracing its likeness, man, and supporting the idea of Truth to carry out proofs of omnipotence. The science of being enables us to read mind, foretell events that concern the universal good, to trace records of Soul, and receive inspirations from God ; but not from idle curiosity, or to work evil, or dip into the experiences

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of the dead, or connect erring and mortal belief with Principle and its phenomena.

In science, we read mind from the stand-point of Soul, and with all the accuracy of the astronomer calcu- lating the path of the planets. This mind-reading is distinguishable from clairvoyance, in that it is the understanding of being back of personal sense, and possessed by individuals highly spiritual. Its intuitions are from Soul, revealing what disturbs the harmony of man, and what promotes it, and enabling us to heal the sick. We can never learn Christ, as the Principle of healing, except we are able to read mind after this manner, and discern the error we would destroy. The Samaritan woman said, " He told me all things that ever I did, is not this the Christ?" Again, as he jour- neyed with his students, understanding their thoughts, he rebuked them, etc.

Through this spiritual sense Jesus healed the sick ; and events of great moment concerning the Christian era and the history of the world were foretold by the glorious old prophets, through spiritual vision. Our Master referred to a lack of spiritual discernment in this direction, when he said, " Ye hypocrites that can discern the face of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of these times " ; in other words, whose personal sense was acute, but whose spiritual sense was wanting ; he knew it was a wicked and adulterous generation, who seeking material signs, lost the prerogatives of Soul ; his cut at the materialism of the age was pungent, but requisite, and he never spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. Again, he said to this class of believers, ♦* Ye do the things ye ought not to do, and leave undone

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those ye should have done." The great Teacher of Christian science knew a good tree sendeth not forth evil fruit ; that Soul emits only unerring Truth, while that which proceedeth from personal sense is error; also, that Truth and error cannot mingle ; they are the tares and wheat side by side that never blend, but await the harvest, when belief shall yield to understanding, and error be self-destroyed.

At present Truth is trampled upon, while error holds the reins, with virtue at a discount! "Well done, good and faithful villain," is the merit mark for to-day, and youth seems eager for the prize. Such surprising aristocracy of evil is owing to the gilded falsehood of individual character, those whited sepulchres that hold the dead carcasses of conscience ; students of the Sci- ence of Life are responsible above all others if false to the teachings of conscience and reason. Said the wicked king, " I hate him because he prophesieth evil continually of me." Reformists are mostly traduced by the class that feel them most : let the good tell the Truth and live it, and the evil publish a lie and live it, and the former will be doubted and the latter believed, until the world advances nearer to what is Truth, when their relative positions will be seen and appreciated.

Those who understand the science of being, bear tes- timony to Truth, insomuch as they must understand what is indispensable to gain it. Never refute calumny except for Truth's sake ; leaving the future years to ex- pose the slanderer and liar, and reward those who wait on God; fear not the individual falsehood, and pro- mulgate Truth sufficiently to gain some balance for the world. Earth holds not a majority of righteous men,

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and in proportion as we rise in the scale of being, do we learn this, but because evil boasts of greater num- bers, this hath no advantage for the sinner. To-day sin offers a premium ; let down the bars of morality, and you are society's favorite ; put them up higher than society can leap, and you bring opprobrium on the bar- tender.

Woman especially should hold the standard that re- bukes vice, and saith virtue, join us, and though we battle beneath stripes, we will fall in our armor, or lay it down on the field of victory. To ask in prosperity, *'am I right?" is wiser ihan to ask this in adversity. One in a million does this, but can we lessen the num- ber against that one ?

Right advances slowly and with bleeding footsteps, but Truth can afford to wait, for " the eternal years of God are hers."

We have investigated the phenomenon called medium- ship both to convince ourself of its nature and cause, and to be able to explain it ; and have succeeded in the first instance, but may have failed in the second. It is more frequently in company with those who believe in mediumship that mediums narrate something of the de- parted, describe them personally, etc., showing it to be the effect of mind on this plane acting on theirs. Again, all the information imparted comes from the minds of the living instead of the dead. That some one knew the individual deceased is evident, and it is not more difficult to read mind far away than near. We think of an absent individual as e?sily as one present ; hence the equal ease to discern the absent mind that we visit mentally. The demand to talk of the dead proceeds

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from the mind of the living, who, believing in this pro- cess or yearning for this communion mentally call for it, and this reaches the mind touched to response, and brings on the mood called mediumship. All theories and manifestations growing out of belief are error : and the important era for this age is the awakening or res- urrection of understanding through which the unreal yields to the real, and 'isms are given up ; the corrupti- ble yields to the incorruptible, and the belief of Life in matter or Soul in sense gives place to the understanding of Life, that Wisdom, Love, and Truth, in which there is no conscious matter.

It follows not that in sleep we communicate with the dreamer at our side, because of his proximity, or that we both are dreamers wandering through the mazes of thought. If Life has become real to the departed, they cannot return to the unreal ; or if they are at our side, and Life goes on to them the same as before, we are not in their conscious existence, nor they in ours, hence, we are debarred intercommunion; our dreams being dis- tinct they cannot blend, though we are side by side. If those we call departed have gained a better understand- ing of Life than ours, they have advanced beyond us ; in which case, we would not if we could draw them back to our ignorance in order to meet us, and we could not if we would ; neither can we advance to their plane of understanding except through their footsteps, and these have not yet been taken. If one man dreams he is crossing the Atlantic, and another the Andes, they are not in communion, though they are side by side, and dreamers both. This therefore represents the so- called dead and living who are on earthly planes of

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error, and have not become Spirit, but cannot communi- cate, because their beliefs of death have separated them. Again, supposing one man is dreaming and another awake, conscious of his friend's illusion, they certainly do not meet mentally and mingle ; even thus the dead and living are parted, either through a belief that they died, or the understanding of Life outside of matter. Memory may repeat the alphabet, and mind here hold the liistory of the dead, but if we can read, we never in reality go back to the alphabet, or find pleasure in it ; thus the advanced mind cannot return to matter.

Soul's vision is independent of optics ; but the belief that sight depends on the eye, and thought must have sound to reach our apprehension, shuts out the under- standing of mind, and reverses the order of science. Destroy the belief that we owe to organization, our hearing, seeing, feeling, etc., and we hear without an auditory nerve or typanum, and see without optics. We shall all ere long prove this, and that spiritual senses are true, and the personal, false. An organ is but the symbol of sight, hearing, etc., the expression only of these ; and to hold it thus, would be to retain our faculties by right of Soul's ownership and gov- ernment ; and to hear, see, etc., with mind instead of matter ; which is the only scientific statement of sense and the Principle of immortal man. The real re- lation between Soul and body reveals the latter without sensation or Intelligence, and the idea of Soul ; to un- derstand this opens to view the capabilities of being, untrammeled by personal sense, explains the so-called miracles, and brings out the infinite possibilities of Soul, controlling matter, discerning mind, and restoring man's

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inalienable birth-right of dominion. Silence the belief we are in the body, and we discern the past and future as readily as the events of to-day ; but this is the science of Life, and not mediumship. The order and natural- ness of phenomena that we deem a mystery and marvel, are perceived when we remember mind controls mind, and that matter is only another name for mind ; a table or piano is moved by mind instead of muscle, and we should prove our power in this and other directions if we admitted it, but not admitting it, we "^drtuaUy have it not, like the horse feebly submitting to the rein, unconscious of his power; phenomena that proceed from belief lose their power when we lose the belief that occasioned them ; matter is manifest mind.

Misinterpretation hinders the harmony of phenome- non, and leaves it to ignorance and abuse. Clairvoy- ance foresees the future and repeats the past that is daguerreotypcd on mortal mind only, and based on no Principle or Truth ; it is mortal opinions unworthy obtaining. A past event is memory, a faculty of mind, and a future one is perception, another mental faculty ; all events are mind before matter. Mediumship is a belief of individualized "spirits," also that they do much for you, the result of which is you are capable of doing less for yourself. Why some event, conversation, or even simple circumstance is more readily traced by the clairvoyant than others, is owing to the fact the men- tal emotions they produced were more vivid, therefore they are more distinctly defined in mind. When told by a clairvoyant something you have long since forgotten, 'tis useless to say they never read it in my mind because I recollected it not. It is by no means necessary the

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memory of those present retains what the clairvoyant sees. Beliefs, and images of thought are not limited to space or personal sense, that grosser strata of mortal mind. The clairvoyant sees not by means of solar rays, or an object striking the retina ; and our proof that mortal mind is the element of all sublunary things is, that they exist to this mind the same as to personal sense. The reader must make due distinction between raediumship and the individual ; there are undoubtedly noble purposes in the hearts of noble women and men who believe themselves mediums.

The science of Life, gained by slow and solemn foot-steps, at the expense of all 'isms and 'ologies, will unite being into one silken chord of good-will to man ; and there is but one right way under the sun, even the pathway of holiness. We should not hang on the skirts of others, but in our own identity possess some merit of our own not borrowed from others ; and is there any so blind as not to admit individual faults? But medi- umship well-nigh disavows all individual responsibility, and literally lays the charge of all good or evil on the shoulders of the dead. While we cherish all charity for our fellow-beings, we have none for a belief that inevitably shuts the door on reason and revelation, and robes the mind in darkness akin to barbarism. But for the misinterpretation of mental phenomena, through a belief of mediumship, the signs of science would have been discerned ere this, in the phenomena of to-day, and what is ascribed to personal agencies, have rested on the basis of Principle. Phenomena not understood had better be let alone, until the explanation is given that deprives humbug and avarice of advantage, and

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contributes to the general welfare. Principle demands to be understood ; but phenomena not based on Prin- ciple, you can explain falsely, insomuch as they are creations of sense instead of Soul.

When sensation proceeds from Soul instead of body, the impressions are lucid and pure, and the intuitions correct and harmonious. But when mortal mind, or belief produces them, discord, disease, sin and death are the result. Mesmerism is error that leave* man at the mercy of matter, will, caprice, and mortal mind ; God, Spirit, never mesmerized man or matter. The simplest object in the hand of a mesmerized subject may shock him with a belief of danger ; a napkin be- comes to him a serpent that stings him ; and this is the sensation that is belief. Place in his hand a cold apple ; create the belief it is hot, and it produces at once the sensation of pain, the same as fire ; destroy this belief of a burn, and the pain disappears. Is not this proof that pain is a belief? Again, whatever object the mes- merizer presents mentally to his subject, he sees ; do not these facts prove the so-caUed senses of the body, mind, instead of organs and nerves ? But mesmerism should be put under bonds not to do evil ; at any. esti- mate it is a shameful waste of reason and honesty. That pain and pleasure are produced by belief, in the absence of all conditions to occasion them, is another proof that sensation is mind and not matter. To admit mind sees, hears, feels, etc., without the agency of mat- ter, is a step toward science.

In genuine clairvoyance there is no sensation in the body during its continuance. But to see in belief is not to see in reality j the basis of th« science of being

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repudiates mesmerism, producing precisely opposite re- sults ; it destroys belief, and insists on understanding. Personal opinions or belief cannot be dismissed too soon. To admit that error requires a certain period in which to prepare us for the higher school of immortal- ity, is a grave mistake ; there is no necessity " to do evil that good might come"; science begins right, in order to end right, and it cannot begin right too soon. Reasoning from false premises never presented correct conclusions. God never made evil ; error produces error, and behef disappears when Truth is understood, even as a cloud passes from before the sun. Science contradicts mortal sense, and reveals in its stead the immortal understanding th^t gives harmony to man. Wisdom is not gained. of knowledge that brought sin and death into the world ; neither is it found in pulp, or the brains of man ; this so-called mind is but a belief that matter embraces mind.

Magnetism is without a scientific basis ; it is one belief or error controlling another one. That Spirit mesmer- izes, or vitalizes matter, giving it Life and Intelligence, is the fundamental error of mortal man. Spirit cannot impart Intelligence to non-inteUigence, it has no elec- tricity, etc ; emanations of materiality are electricity, and mesmerism is an unmitigated humbug. The im- mortal basis of man is not matter, electricity, brains, bones, etc., but Spirit that hath understanding; not sense but Soul ; and phenomena that proceed from tliis fundamental Principle of being, are real and harmonious. A desire to do right may mistake the method of doing it, for belief is changing and unreal ; intention may be right, but if the Principle of phenomena is misconstrued

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and assigned to a person, electricity, etc., its foundation is a belief only, in which case science is not discerned, and phenomena left to misinterpretation and discord. It is not very uncommon to find one's self mistaken in belief. The miser thinks himself rich, but the fact remains he is poor ; one individual thinks money makes a man, another, that man is more than money ; stiU another beheves man controls man in partnership with God, but these are grave errors ; the M. D. thinks his method right, being learned in the school of Hippo- crates ; but Truth reveals knowledge the cause, instead of the cure of disease, and that there is but one physi- cian that destroys sickness, and never loses a case if the patient observes directions, and yet this doctor is un- popular at present. Would you learn His name ? it is the Science of being.

Our false reasoning does all the harm that can be done ; it admits power in matter, and divides Wisdom between matter and God, giving them both separate Intelligence and distinct action and power, when there is in reality but one mind, there being but one God ; man is not a separate Wisdom or Intelligence. God embraces all Intelligence, and enters not into partner- ship with man or matter, for this would involve the whole firm in disgrace, and imply at times that Truth is beaten by error. The reign of man is not the king- dom of heaven, or reign of harmony ; for the government of God requires loyalty to Soul, and not sense ; but man- made views endorse loyalty to sense, and a traitor to Soul ; in fine, they have " other gods before Me."

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matter controls mortal man ; all inharmonies come from tills source. Nerves, brain, lungs, heart, liver, etc., master man; tea, coffee, tobacco, liquor, etc., are idols to which he bows down. There is no other volition, action, or government, but God, and yet the dream of Life in matter denies this, and gives all to personal sense, which would make evil stronger than good. The belief that matter is a power holding the reins of government over man, predominates, and the result is, broken bones, paralyzed Hmbs, softened brains, disease and death. The Master healed the sick on the opposite basis of man, and controlled matter to issues worthy Intelligence ; primitive Christianity heard the utterances of Wisdom, and cast out " spirits."

The Rochester rappings inaugurated a mockery des- tructive to order and good morals. Physical signs that manifest the infinite Wisdom contradict not Truth ; manifestations of personal sense in time or eternity are the results of error. Healing the sick is not the entire demonstration of the science of being, but it embraces a better understanding of God, of Soul governing sense than materia medica, or mesmerism. Healing the sick in science, is Truth casting out error ; yea, it is taking God the Principle of man to govern the body ; but healing the sick with mediumship, mesmerism, drugs, etc., is the greater error overcoming the lesser, and holding forbidden ground stronger because of this. Is it well to expect from drugs a blessing that Wisdom has not? is not God sufficient for the wants of man?

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sion ; frankly naming our master whetJier it be God or matter. No sequel is left to disease destroyed by Truth, never a consumption in consequence of measles ; for this would take the demonstration out of the hands of Wisdom and give the balance of power to disease. I am, is the Intelligence that touches the chords of man to every harmonious issue, but the dream that Life and Intelligence are in matter would make this " I " both matter, and Spirit ; a thing impossible.

Healing the sick through Intelligence, is science in obedience to Wisdom, that gave man dominion over serpents, deadly drugs, etc., and is the natural and nor- mal control that Soul holds over sense. One of the greatest absurdities of human reasoning, is to admit person, or matter, better doctors than the Principle of man and the universe, learned of science. Would we not blush to say, man is a better musician than the Prin- ciple of music ? Physiology, hygiene, or materia medica has no claims in common with Intelligence, the Princi- ple of being ; and mediumship, galvanism, mesmerism, etc., are the right hands of humbug. The remark was once made in our hearing, "My guardian spirit is nearer to me than God." This was undoubtedly true, understanding literally nothing of the science of being, personality was more to him than Principle ; and any change of belief would erect a new standard of con- science.

The theory called spiritualism objects to a personal God, but no 'ism so directly depends on personality. The individual exceptions to this error will reach a higher standard, sooner or later/ and leave their material basis, such as electricity, matter conditions, medium-

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Bhip, dark seances, etc., for the science of Life. The word spiritualism, is comically misapplied when made to designate a sect supposed to hold commerce with *' spirits," not Spirit, but personality, in some instances, " sensual and devilish." ThQ true significance of spir- itualism, is a reign of Spirit over matter, of Principle over person, in which Soul, instead of sense governs man. Any error is a belief of matter, and cannot pro- ceed from Spirit, God ; when the departed become Spirit, those of earth who believe in substance-matter can no more communicate with them than darkness can enter light, that would destroy it. When you reach communion with Spirit, you wiU gain the utterances of Truth only.

"What is called mediumship tends to destroy all reli- ance on understanding and science. Admitting inter- communion between evil, here and there, both in time and eternity, we are afloat on the breakers of error, where nothing can stop its flood-tides breaking perpetually on the shores of time.

We learn Truth from divine revelation and our own demonstration ; what we cannot understand and de- monstrate with scientific certainty and harmony we had better let alone, for it leaves us at the mercy of a belief. The illustration of mediumship is a circle inside of which waits a material body to be mesmerized by a spiritual one, under the table, or perhaps in it, who informs you he rotates eternally back to things of time, and this is progress, through which he becomes Spirit, God (?) while in glorious rapport with matter, sensual- ity and sin 1

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be remembered other doctrines name the name of God with reverence ; hold the Bible the book of books ; teach our infant lips the Lord's prayer ; and bid man obey the ten commandments, that are perfect in Wis- dom. Its military drills on Sabbath, the aboriginal ver- nacular of its oracles, its rites and ceremonies that choose darkness rather than light, and above aU its loose morals, do not entitle spiritualism to the standing it has gained in society ; hence aside from these its worst features, it has a humanitarianism and liberality that should redeem it from under the infatuation of medium- ship. Spirit has neither Life, nor Intelligence in mat- ter; and if our departed friends are Spirit, and we believe ourselves in matter, we cannot commune to- gether; or if they are yet in matter-beliefs, we have shut them out of our consciousness by a belief of the change death has wrought, making them no longer tan- gible to personal sense.

Again, if we would commune through the affections, we must be on the same plane of belief, or understanding with them, to make this possible ; and if their body is changed to us (as is manifest by its burial), so are their affections changed ; and we cannot commune on former terms of personal sense and sympathy. We are separated mentally according to our own views, and on our own grounds, as effectually as distance here separates our bodies. Mediumship is mind-reading on this plane, and nothing more. Some one here knows all the mediums tell ; the imagery with which they clothe expression is but futile conjecture and imagination, else thoughts let loose from the limits of personal sense, and the regret is that in this step they should not understand it.

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Mediums describe sickness, sin, and death ; and this description is supposed to come from Spirit that is wholly unconscious of matter or error, thus perpetuat- ing the error that needs to be dissected and destroyed. Mediums have a certain circumference, and never go outside of these limits ; at the same time protesting mediumship is progress that takes hold of immortality. But the majority of what is termed mediimiship, is sim- ply imposition, not even clairvoyance, or mind-reading, but a catch-penny fraud. Until the so-called communi- cations between the dead and living are stopped, sick- ness, sin, and death will continue ; talking error and believing it, make all the reality there is to it. What is termed mediumship rises no higher than personal opin- ions and mortal views. A ball propelled upward or onward and subject to gravitation, will never pierce immensity. The gravitation earthward must be with- drawn, or the ball stops. So with mind that would leave matter ; and would you fetter the unbound with ties of earth to matter conditions ? But you cannot if you would ; we commune together only as Spirit with Spirit, the immortal with the undying; or matter with matter, the mortal with mortality; and do you hold yourself free from mortal fetters, or your dear departed bound with you ? The dream of Life and Intelligence in matter is destroyed when heaven, man's harmony, is reached. The dead to personal sense are alive to Soul, and preserve all the prerogatives of being, but because personal sense buries their bodies it loses sight of tjiia fact, showing virtually we are separated, and they no longer in sympathy with us, for there is no conscious change to themselves ; hence we lose sight of each

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other. We are holding a belief of them as dead, in one sense, and pursuing it, and they the opposite, under- standing, and pursuing that, therefore our directions commence from that hour apart, if they commence in science, for ours is error, else we would not bury the body, and the old and familiar faces would not disap- pear ; a new field of action should be taken by the so- called dead, and the old left to us. Any departure from this natural result in progress is but a belief and error.

Some mind here retains the image of the departed, or they have left this image in the atmosphere of mind in general ; the words and acts of great men other minds may repeat, at least in part. Belief says the de- parted produce the phenomenon of Spirit communing with matter, but all there is to mediumship, is belief To say the dead assert the reality of sickness and death after the falsity of these are proved by those who have learned disease did not kill them, while we say it did, is a very erroneous effort through post-mortem evidence to confirm an error of personal sense, that ought to be fading away to the departed and to us. The science of Soul destroys the dream of Life in matter, consequently of sickness, sin, and death, saying, " let the dead buiy their dead," that is, let the error of personal sense be destroyed and not resurrected through mediumship, and " follow thou Truth," the Life of man.

Intercommunion between the so-called dead and liv- ing is a belief only and not a reality ; it is another 'ism that makes war on science and opens wide a Pandora box on mankind. Just as the age is getting ready to emerge from dogmatical error, to have the fountains 6

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of thought poisoned and dammed up with such mystery and madness is a miserable catch-penny plot, or an igno- rance worthy the dark ages. As mind throws off its cruder beliefs of matter and becomes more spiritualized, phenomena resulting therefrom will become more won- derful, and should be understood on the basis of Soul, throwing off its own idea of Intelligence and Life, and opinions of mountebank and charlatan, that perpetuate sickness and sin, discord and mortality, be held back. But here the advanced thinker must wait before some 'ism, and the vain pause before caste, so the vultures that prey on the hour have it much in their own hands. Supineness and hypocrisy on the one hand and persecu- tion on the other, are porters at the door of error to shut out glimpses of Truth. Although the science of being is greatly in advance of to-day as our iniquities declare, it is demanded even more for this, and he that layeth not down all for Truth, is not worthy of it. Every step of Bpirituality is linked to Wisdom, but it carries us thither through much tribulation ; greater violence will be done Truth as the capacities of mind develop, until mind is better understood, and can be met and restrained with science.

Penal law may restrain the manifestations of error, and punish them, but cannot reach the subtle thought before it is manifested; but the higher law of science destroys the mental error before it results in deeds ; thus avoiding the penalty, and affording a remedy for dismay and wickedness between the periods of materi- ality and spirituality. The contest between error and Truth whereby all 'isms will finally disappear, and the age pass into science, has been going on with pen and

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tongue for centuries, and yet, sin, sickness and death abound, because science that called the battle has been suffocated with opinions and theories. We boast of material law, but find it fails to save from sickness, sin and death ; what we need is spiiitual law, the Soul's jurisdiction over sense, more potent than man to work out salvation in obedience to the command, "Work out your own salvation," for God worketh with you. Man- kind have wrought centuries on material platforms , now let us labor on a spiritual one for succeeding generations, and the body will become harmonious and immortal.

Any mode of treating the sick through manipulation, will-power, or mesmerism is a very poor substitute for science ; in the first place it is morally wrong, because it does wrong by inoculating error, and it is better to take the inanimate poison, than the evil of some people's nature. The less hmited the power of an evil mind, the more sin it commits ; it is the escaped felon that ventures on more daring crimes according to opportu- nity. Unless the moral growth equals the knowledge ypu obtain of the powers of mind, to meet and restrain them, confining them to doing good only, this developed power is to be dreaded. Stealing is not woise physi- cally than metaphysically, and you have no more business to control your neighbor's mind except to do him good, than to control his body, or his household ; any attempts to do this should be exposed and punished ; mind sliould be protected as well as body, and any interference there- with outside the moral law of science, is a flagrant wrong. The higher law of justice forbids this evil action, and in spiritual science your quickened sense of

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right makes it impossible. We may know how a felon steals on the sleeper, and for his purse plunges a dagger in his breast, but a common moralist even could not do this. To bring the Truth of being to the consciousness and understanding of the sick, is the science that heals them, and lifts its possessor above such a crime ; but to control minds for purposes of avarice or revenge, sinks a practice to the committal of any error. The law of Truth written on the Soul is the governing motive in science, and he who pours into the minds of patients falsehoods for his own sinister purposes, has made a fatal mistake that will be seen in his patients ; it will not only hinder their recovery, but render the practi- tioner unfit to name the name of Christ, and thus make Truth powerless in his hands ; aU he accomplishes after this, is through mesmerism. Any interference in prac- tice with the mind s free and unbiased action, farther than what relates to disease, and bearing one another's burdens, '-and so fulfilling the law of Christ," is averse to science, and leaves the wrong-doer only the altern- ative of talking science and practicing mesmerism ; if sentence against an evil work be not executed speedily, this sin is not without a witness. The mischievous link between mind and matter, called planchette, uttering its many falsehoods, is a prototype of the poor work some people make of the passage from their old natures up to a better man.

We are accustomed to. think seeing without optic is second sight, but this is first sight ; even our normal condition of being. He that formed the eye, did He not see ? hath not Spirit every faculty of Intelligence ? That sight is not in the eye is apparent when the mes-

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merized subject sees through different portions of the head, leaving this optional with belief. The question is at issue with mankind, whether we begin to demon- strate being in science, or leave it longer in the hands of belief, and at the mercy of theories, — to heal the sick with Intelligence, or hold on to lifeless drugs to do the work of Wisdom, and call on departed personalities to direct our lives. What we need is understanding the Spirit that is Truth, and not " spirits," for there is but one Spirit, even universal Soul, that knoweth all things. Moving matter, mentally seeing, feeling, etc., has its scientific explanation thus ; but phenomena not understood are at the mercy of belief, and their true interpretation will not be gained until the belief be destroyed. Again, the understanding of Truth is not gained by what we see, hear, or feel, for a personal sense of things depends on belief alone ; therefore the start- ing-point for the evidence of mediumship is unscientific. If the belief was as positive that we converse with the dead, see, hear, and feel them, as our belief of Life in matter is, they would be as apparent to us, and yet this would not present the Truth of being, a body without sensation. Soul and its manifestations are all that is real ; whatsoever can make discord, or utter a lie is proved without Principle, and not the idea of Truth ; when the science of our being is gained, tricksters will lose their occupation. In the onward march of Truth, error will bury its dead and never resurrect error ; but before this hour, it may take to itself seven beliefs more erroneous than at first, and launch deeper into the dark. This Babel has already begun ; mediumship helps be- cloud the way of Truth; greater discord is inaugurated

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because of it; a link formed between the erroi of another plane of existence and this, would be another error for Truth finally to destroy.

We say of matter, it is opaque or luminous, but this should be said of mind that is transparent, its images readily perceived, or that absorbs, and reflects but little. A mind transparent, reflects the thoughts of other minds, and reproduces them, and this is supposed to be the work of the departed. Legerdemain, or slight of hand, has produced more remarkable manifestations than mediumship, and what is done understandingly is better than mysteriously ; skill is more rational at this age than superstition. Matter is moved, history re- peated, and pictures drawn by mind on this plane ; and that which we understand not, we know nothing of; we say matter moves matter here, but that Spirit moves it there ; let us have the interpretations of science on these points, and link not error to error throughout time and eternity. Lacking the basis of science, we say, Intelligence is in matter, that mind alone cannot pro- duce phenomena ; also, that body is diseased indepen- dent of mind ; that matter is self-acting, etc.

A circumstance was related to us by an old gentle- man, a distinguished mesmerist. He said to a mesmer- ized subject under control of his will, "You have a bum on your hand," and he immediately appeared to suffer; the flesh rose up in a blister that was opened and dis- charged a watery fluid- Then, continued the narrator, T destroyed the belief that he was burned, and the cu- ticle became smooth and natural as before. We did not witness this test of belief, but having seen the mesmer- izer's performances on other occasions, and knowing

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the man's veracity, and the power of belief, we could not doubt it.

The evidence of one of the personal senses is not more improbable than that of another ; mentally to see another's mind is not more impossible than to feel it ; then wherefore doubt that we see what mind contains, as well as feel it ? We can feel the pain of the sick, and the sorrow that is not ours causes us to weep ; the fact is we both see and feel, hear, taste and smell, be- cause of mind and not matter, and from sympathy with mind ; all is mind, and matter one of its beliefs. But for the interpretations of ignorance, the basis of aU physical manifestations would have been discovered long ago, and given a scientific explanation ; thought awake to this subject would have discerned the signs of science in phenomenon, had not a belief, as usual, mis- interpreted it.

An absence of eloquence is caused by the belief that schools and colleges possess alone the key to it, or that some especial endowment is wanting ; destroy this be- lief, and you break the shackles of mind that imprison its faculties, and set the captive free to utter the beau- ties of being. Flowers, birds, waves, mountains and storms are eloquent, and so is man ; even the sons of the forest are sometimes orators beyond their learned neighbors, for the reason the nearer we approach our native being, the more we give utterance to Soul ; and it is this universal Intelligence outside of language, that supplies aU that is sublime, or beautiful in words. It was inquired concerning Jesus, "how this man knew letters, having never learned ? " Eloquence is the voice of Soul, the God-\itterance untrammelled by

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books, conventionality, or the fear of man; even the self-accusing reminder he is unlearned, cannot disturb the inspired man. I have seen learned men at the mercy of books, and the unlearned eloquent beyond them ; the so-caUed mediums let go their beliefs by supposing somebody else is talking for them, and thus speak beyond the admitted limits of their own capac- ities. Soul is infinite in eloquence, as in all else, but sense is finite in this as in all else ; the Soul-inspired are not comprehended by the man of sense, and the sense-inspired are mediums deceived in the origin of what they say. The victim of delirium sees objects through the shadowy evidence of delusion, and so does the sleeper, the medium, or clairvoyant, and mortal man. Where neither certainty of phenomena nor evi- dence of Principle exists there is no real foundation. All theories founded on the belief that Soul is in body, God in man, and Intelligence in matter, therefore, that we must develop from within outwardly, are false, and fatal to science. Wisdom is from without, development is to learn this, to leave the belief of Wisdom within a skull-bone, and take hold of our God-being outside of matter. There is no "inner life;" for Life is God, and God never migrated from man I cause was never in its effect. In com"mon practice we make no attempt to put the greater into the less ; and if Soul is superior to body, it is outside of it ; and if God is superior to man, he is not in man ; and furthermore, man must get out of six feet of Intelligence before he is immortal in Soul. Wisdom cometh from without ; Principle is cir- cumference, and idea centre ; Soul is Principle, and man the central idea of Soul.

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Science reverses the conclusions of personal sense in every instance, and abides by a given statement of man to bring out the harmony and immortality, that theories have failed to do. No condition of matter can change the fact in numbers that four times three is twelve ; science should govern thought, and nothing can mar or destroy man controlled by science. Mediumship is without a scientific statement or proof, and claims to gather Wisdom from " spirits," personalities, outside of matter, while the basis of its evidence is admitted to be matter conditions. The theory called spiritualism admits that God is Principle, but leaves this admission without practical proof. If God is Principle, science alone reveals God ; then wherefore ask personalities of another plane to explain Life, Truth and Love ? why not strive to reach these beatitudes through science, and hold them your own instead of another's to bestow on you. Person cannot interpret Love, for Love alone explains itself; science reveals and explains Principle, but man cannot explain God ; six feet, nor the stature of ancient giants can represent "the fullness of the stature of man in Christ," in other words, the idea of Truth- Measurement may represent the man of per- sonal sense, but this is not the man of Soul.

Mediumship communes with person instead of Prin- ciple, the only Intelligence, Life and Love ; and accepts a personal version of Principle, praying God to be God, as if Love was idle, and omnipotence uninformed. To call on light for light, is absurd. " Let there be light," is the will of "Wisdom ; and this fidl effulgence has no- thing to do with mortal stint, but shines for all. Uni- versal Love bestows all good without respect to per- 6*

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sons ; and man receives, or rejects it ; but a prayer or tear changes not divine economy, or eternal order. Sin shuts out light and blessings, and is the author of all tears and prayers. Wisdom helps those only who help themselves, and cannot bless evil ; it destroys sin only as man gives up sin, acting in this direction only as we act. We have seen patients who could not be healed through science, until they gave up the belief of medi- umship, and controlled their own bodies ; for man is not governed in science except by his own Spirit.

Harmonious man is governed by the Principle of be- ing ; the inharmonious by a belief of personality ; there- fore, the folly to desire personal control that leads into all error ; there is no Truth except Principle, the one God, and thou shouldst " have no other."

We learn in science that God and His idea are all that is Immortal; but mediumship would establish the immortality of error. Science reveals progression only, but mediumship retrogression. Should a pupil continue in the primary school, when fitted for a higher school ? If the departed are unfit for the advanced understand- ing of Life through which they take a spiritual place in the scale of being beyond us, why impose their igno- rance on us as oracular ; and think mediumship privi- leged to be a strainer for error. That the so-called dead return to torment us, or to comfort us, or to seek aid from us, is but a belief and error. When wandering in Australia, are you seeking comfort, of giving support to another, dwelling in the snow-caverns of the Esqui- maux ? Two different dreams, or different awakenings, separate consciousness. What is named mediumship is a phenomenon of belief, without reaUty, or science j and

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we ought to know the consequences of launching into new and stronger fellowship with error, when we are already in it up to our necks.

In an age of sin and sensuality hastening to greater development of power, 'tis fearful to consider the influ- ence of belief without more honesty and understanding to steer clear of the fearful shoals on this dangerous and unexplored coast. The peril of Salem witchcraft even is not past, until that error be met by the understanding and destroyed; not the gallows, but explanation, de- stroys error. Science must be* allowed to explain this phenomenon of belief, in contradistinction to that of Truth and Intelligence controlling man. An evil and artful mind is all the satan there is ; and this is the fal- len angel, or abused capacity ; such a mind learning its control over other minds, wiU take the reins into its teeth, and Truth alone must take them out and guide it J as of old this mind works its spell in some manner on all it would harm, because the barriers against evil influences from such a source are not understood by the world in general, and the door is not readily closed against them. To this end metaphysics are important ; study mind more and matter less, for we must find ref- uge in Soul, to escape the error of the latter days ; and mediumship and mesmerism more than all else contri- bute to a terrible future development of discord. We should strongly insist on the majesty of Truth, and its control over error ; and begin to-day denying right or reality to aught but God, and the true idea; saying, " depart from me all ye that work iniquity ; " and thus break up the reign of error, and let the world of har- mony and Truth re-appear. If spirit-returns were pos-

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sible, they ■would grow beautifully less at every ad- vanced stage of existence ; for the departed would pass away from our ignorance, and we away from the belief of mediumship, until the beliefs of matter were gone, and we united through science ; and the will of God *' done on earth as it is done in heaven."

The mind of Soul has no fellowship, or communion, with the so-called mind of the body ; the changing, sin- ful and erring thought is not immortal Spirit ; matter and brains are not mind, notwithstanding opinions and beliefs to the contrary I But we welcome the increase of knowledge even though it never has borne the fruits of harmony and immortality, and never will approach the demonstration that Jesus gave, because knowledge must have its day, and we want that day over. The so-called mind of body, is belief and error, but the mind of Soul is understanding, even the science of being. Paul learned that to be present with Truth, we must be absent to the body ; but Cain concluded very naturally if man gave life he had the right to take it away, and attempted to kill his brother, showing this belief of Life in matter, or man, was error from the beginning. We name a mistaken thought, mind, while it is error only, without intelligence, but imitating it ; without Princi- ple, but claiming to be Truth. Mistakes are impossible to understanding, and understanding is all the mind there is ; ignorance and evil, are not Intelligence. Soul is the only Intelligence, and a creator not at the mercy of its creation ; we see, hear, feel, etc., not because of eyes or ears, these faculties are symbols or expressions of understanding, which is the mind of Soul; the mind of body loses them if an orgau be destroyed ; but

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they cannot perish, or be marred in Spirit. The senses of Soul are not matter, but Spirit, that apprehend and reflect Intelligence, and Life ; hence, their immortality. Inspiration is the utterance of Soul, giving forth its own idea, or spiritual sense. It is safe to trust this commu- nication ; but it would no longer be so if matter, or per- sonal sense interpreted it. The garment in which be- lief, error, hides itself is, that Soul is in matter, holiness in unholiness, and literally God in man.

Midnight foretells the dawn ; and beholding a solitary star the wise men of old were led by spiritual vision to foretell the hour of Truth. But what shepherd-sage to- day, seeing the light is allowed to explain the darkness. The world is asleep I lulled by stupefying beliefs; in the cradle of infancy dreaming away the hours under its spell. Entering upon an unknown eternity, personal sense will be found as an outlaw escaping to a foreign land, where he is doomed to an unlooked-for death. The footsteps of belief have not advanced man a single league toward immortality; and the unwillingness to learn man and God of science, holds Christendom in chains. So much hypocrisy swells the catalogue of society, the honesty that demands demonstration is not desired, and incurs the enmity of mankind. Science never plays the hypocrite. To claim you understand a problem of Eu- clid, and fail to demonstrate it, would exhibit folly or dishonesty ; but to solve the simple problem according to its ride proves you perceive the Principle. Science is the rule of harmonious and immortal man ; Jesus the example, and Christ the Principle. This rule of man is embraced in Life, Love and Truth; and the spiritual sense of the Scripture reveals the science of being.

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The prophets did anciently what the worshippers of Baal failed to do, yet in some instances, artifice and the faith of belief feigned the work of Wisdom. Necro- mancy and legerdemain are the inventions of man that originate in brains, or the so-called mind of matter, while science is the mind of God ; one proceeds from Soul and the other from sense. The beliefs of man manifest error only ; but this is sometimes called a phe- nomenon of Truth, that proceeds from " spirits " ; the phenomena of Principle are outside of matter, and not in the least dependent on person. Mesmerism knd me- diumship are dependent whoUy on belief or the so-caUed person of man. Mind evolves images of thought, and these are the apparitions seen by the so-called medium ; it is not more mysterious, only because it is less com- mon, for us to see, than to feel a thought. To feel the grief of another's mind is not unusual, but we think, to see the mind's images of departed friends, is to see them in reality ; here are two equal senses, seeing and feeling, that we separate in power. There are those that feel another's pain as quickly as their own ; the sick may not have touched them, or spoken on the subject, and yet they feel their pains and can tell their locality, and this because of sympathy the same as yawning is pro- duced. Seeing belongs no less to personal sense, or belief, than feeling : then why more difficult to see a thought than to feel it ? Education alone determines the difference, and in reality it is not more marvellous. Haunted houses, unusual noises, voices, apparitions, dark-seances, etc., are tricks produced by tricksters ; else they are images and sounds evolved by mind on this plane. The mind of Soul embraces all that is real and

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immortal, and the so-called mind of body which we name the mind of man, embraces all that is unreal and mortal.

Truth proceeds from Spirit ; error from the material body. The mind of Soul, Spirit, is science giving only the idea of Truth ; but the so-called mind of body, or man, is belief giving false appearances. Because there is no mind of man, that is, no material mind, thoughts said to emanate from body or brain are delusions. How may we determine the ideas of Truth from belief ? By learning their origin ; thoughts from the Soul are ideas, and from the brain beliefs; the former proceed from spiritual sense, are not substance, and are harmonious ; the latter are the product of personal sense, and are supposed substance at one time, and spirit at another, and are inharmonious ; the former are understanding, the latter, beliefs begotten of error. To love our neighbor as ourself is an idea from Soul, yea, from Wisdom, Love and Truth; and this idea personal sense cannot see, feel, or understand, but the spiritual sense can ;• " the carnal mind cannot discern spiritual things.'*

Matter is but a grosser strata of mortal mind, wherein one belief introduces and destroys another in Darwinian process. As before stated, Spirit is Intelligence, whereas the basis of matter is belief ; the former is science, the latter mesmerism. The body that is mortal is an indi- vidualized belief that germinates, grows and decays, "dust unto dust," and mortal man is just this belief; even a phenomenon of mesmerism, an error construing man matter. Excite the organ of veneration or the leHgious tone of this belief, and it manifests the most profound adoration ; but change the action to an oppo-

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site development, and it blasphemes. Mesmerism is a belief, constituting mortal mind, error is all there is to it, which is the very antipode of science, the immortal mind. The former is hallucination, the latter reality ; one a wholesale mistake, the other the Truth of being. Mesmerism assures the sick they are recovering, when there is no evidence or basis for this conclusion, turns behef whithersoever it wills, and is the blind leading the blind. Nothing can be more antagonistic to 'Sci- ence; it hides the Truth that man is the image and likeness of God, and as such cannot be sick, sinning, or dying, and claims that mortal mind and substance-mat- ter constitute man, thus admitting through personal sense what Soul denies in science. Mesmerism is a direct appeal to personal sense, proceeds from it, and derives its only prestige from belief ; it is predicated on the supposition that Life is in matter, and a nervo- vital fluid at that ; whereas science reveals man's Life, God, and therefore dwelling not in matter. Mesmer- ism is error and belief in conflict ; but science masters error and belief with the understanding of Truth, and reveals man immortal, sinless and undying. Mesmerism is one error at war with another, " a kingdom divided against itself that cannot stand;" but science is harmo- nious and eternal. Mesmerism is personal sense giving the lie to its own statements, denying the pains but admitting the pleasures of sense ; whereas science denies all sensation to matter, and holds the reins in the hands of Spirit. The gulf fixed between science and mesmer- ism is impassible. Vitalized matter is a grave mistake. Electricity is the last boundary between personal sense and Soul, and although it stands at the threshold of

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Spirit it cannot enter into it, but the nearer matter approaches mind the more potent it becomes, to pro- duce supposed good or evil ; the lightning is fierce, and the electric telegram swift. The more ethereal matter becomes according to accepted theories, the more pow- erful it is J e. g.-t the homoeopathic drugs, steam, and electricity, until possessing less and less materiality, it passes into essence, and is admitted mortal mind ; not Intelligence, but belief, not Truth, but error. But the nearer belief approaches Truth without passing the boundary, where it is no longer belief, but understand- ing, the more plausible and dangerous is the error. Mesmerism attracts man to matter, science attracts to Principle, therefore to Spirit, or God. The more mate- rial man is, the more mesmerism he possesses ; but the more spiritual, the less mesmerism and the more science, and the higher his demonstration of Truth. In reality brains and matter are one ; but we caU them mind and matter ; but if the brain be the organ of mind, and to destroy this organ, destroys mortal mind, how can you distinguish between them? "What we call mind and matter-man is mind only, but tliis mortal mind grows finer towards the core, and we name its exterior matter, and the interior mind, in contradistinction to the Truth of being that reveals all Intelligence outside of matter.

The generic name of matter is mind; its different species are the beliefs that say Intelligence, Life, sensa- tion, Substance, good and evil are matter, and the body called man ; also, that Spirit and matter commingle, and form mortal man, on the foundation of sickness, sin, and death j this theory is not the Truth of being,

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but its opposite, viz., error. Life is not organization, and Intelligence takes no cognizance of matter, these are God, Spirit, and to Spirit there is only Principle and idea. The so-called man of matter together with every material belief of a material worid, must pass away before sorrow, sickness, sin, and death can disap- pear. The millennial glory cometh only as science reveals Intelligence and Life outside of matter. Alas ! that man should take a material Sword to slay error when the two-edged sword of Truth destroys it so much more effectually.

The history of the Chinese Empire derives its an- tiquity and renown from the truer idea the Buddhist entertains of God, contrasted with the tyranny, intole- rance and bloodshed based on the belief that Truth, Life, and Love are in matter, and the great Jehovah formed after error's pattern of mortal man, or intelli- gent matter. To suppose matter and Spirit mingle, is the error that hides science on which to base our con- clusions of God and man, of Soul and body, and our proof of immortality. At one time, we define law, Intelligence, and again, matter, over which Intelligence holds no control, as in sickness, sin, and death. The law of Spirit is the only law, and this is Truth, destroy- ing the so-called laws of nature, and its idea is walking the wave, destroying error, healing the sick, and rais- ing the dead. This is Soul triumphing over personal sense, putting to flight belief, walking over sin and matter conditions.

Jesus taught and proved this Truth the preroga- tive of Spirit, and left his example for us, saying, " The works that I do ye shall do." Paul was not one of his

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disciples, or cotemporaries, and yet he tested these teachings, and demonstrated their Principle. To con- clude man and the universe are governed in general by material law, but occasionally that Spirit walks over this law, and holds the control in its own hands, is to divide the capacity of Omnipotence and Wisdom with matter, and to give the latter the more general claim. These are the false conclusions of belief ; understanding rebels at such folly, mortal belief produces and governs all that sins, suffers and dies. There is but one law and but one law-giver, the former is science, the latter God, Soul, the only Life, substance, and Intelligence of man and the universe ; and not in the least dependent on mat- ter conditions, or acting by reason of them, but destroy- ing them all. This Truth knocks at the door of history ; it is for us to say whether we will open and receive it.

Materia medica, hygiene, physiology, creeds and ritu- alism will lose their power for good or evil, when man loses his belief in them, and makes Life its own proof of harmony and God. That which is right is immortal, and the opposite of right is mortal. When Truth lays its hand on error to wipe it out, all will be growing immortal ; but before the final doom of error there will be interruptions in what we call the order of nature, and earth will become dreary and desolate. Not that summer and winter, seed-time and harvest shall utterly cease, before the final spiritualization of all things, but that their order will be interrupted, owing to the change in belief.

The next step in progress is to learn how mind con- trols matter, and how to destroy error. The science of being emancipates man from belief, giving him under-

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standing, through which his harmony and immortality are obtained. There is neither mortal mind, nor sub- stance-matter ; mind is the emanation and atmosphere of Principle, and not person; it proceeds from God, and not man, from Spirit, and not matter, from Soul, and not sense ; therefore mind is not in mortality, and man has not a separate mind from Deity, for that would make other Intelligences, and there would be more than one God. When Truth is admitted, and thinking brains and intelligent bodies are found a myth, then will the harmony and immortality of man and the uni- verse appear. When we learn matter has neither Intelligence, substance, nor Life ; and neither suffers nor enjoys ; disease will be found a belief only, and healed by destroying this belief, and giving man the understanding of himself. Personal sense contradicts the science of being, and so do dreams contradict the daily experiences of sense ; personal sense and science are opposites, that dispute each other. In dreams you fly, or meet a far-off friend, and hold your body with your mind, carrying it through the air, or over the ocean, and this dream of sleep is nearer man's being in science, than the waking dream of Life in matter; because personal sense governs it less.

The era of science comes in on this statement and its proof; viz., that all is mind, and there is no matter. Sickness, sin, and death are creations of mortal mind, that Life, and Truth destroy. Order and beauty ema- nate from the mind of Soul, that is immortal ; and the scientific statement that all is mind, will gain its first proofs in healing the sick on this Principle. A single demonstration of this is important evidence.

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A lady having an internal tumor, and greatly fearing a surgical operation, called on us. We conducted her case according to the science here stated, never touched her person, or used a drug, or an instrument; and the tumor was wholly removed within one or two days. We refer to this case to prove the Principle. We have stated all is mind, but the distinction between what we call substance and essence, is made by naming one mat- ter, and the other mind.

Christ understanding that Soul and body are Intelli- gence and its idea, destroyed the belief that matter is something to be feared, and that sickness and death are superior to harmony and Life. His kingdom was not of this world, he understood himself, Soul, and not body, therefore he triumphed over the flesh, over sin and death. He came to teach and fulfill this Truth, that estabhshed the kingdom of heaven, or reign of har- mony on earth. The demonstration he made of this Principle and Truth of being, is the strongest proof that God is the only Intelligence that produces a perfect man, and is the Life that is without death, and holiness without sin. Only the science of being reveals the possibility of meeting the command, " Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven," (the Principle of man) " is perfect." Let us then yield the belief that man is a separate Intelligence from God, and reach his uner- ring Principle of being, and be governed by Life and Love, outside of matter.

As music is harmonious controlled by its Principle, so man governed by his Principle of being, by Soul and not sense, is harmonious, sinless and immortal. The error of belief regarding Soul and body, and God and

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man, introduces discord into the demonstration of man, even the sickness, sin and death of which we complain. The idea of Life is obtained only from its perfect Prin- ciple, and gained through science in which man is sin- less and immortal.

Sickness, sin and death belong not more naturally to immortal man than to God, to body than to Soul, for it is morally impossible that these should adhere to either, and what gave Jesus authority over sickness, sin and death was the understanding of his scientific being. He stood boldly up in the face of all accredited evi- dences of personal sense, Pharisaical creeds, etc., and refuted them all with his healing. We never read of his saying a creed or a prayer makes a Christian, or searching into disease, to learn of discord, if it was acute or chronic, recommending laws of health, giving drugs, etc., or even asking the will of God regarding man's Life, for this he already understood. He reck- oned sickness, sin and death, "liars from the begin- ning," and destroyed them with the truth of being that was self-evident to him and his only physician. He kept the commandment, " Thou shalt have no other gods before Me," and we must do likewise and adopt this Truth of being before we obtain its harmony or immortality.

While Jesus rendered to Caesar the things that were Caesar's, he also rendered to God the things that were His, viz.. Truth, Life and Love, and we, too, should acknowledge these God, and sufficient to destroy every discord of man. Jesus paid no homage to diplomas, to forms of church worship, or the theories of man, but acted and spake as he was moved by Spirit, the Princi-

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pie of being. To the believing Rabbi and Pharisee he said, '^' Even the publicans and harlots go into the king- dom of heaven before you," not that he scoffed at Christianity, but he knew there is neither Spirit, Life, nor Truth in mere forms of religion, and that a man can be baptized, partake of the sacrament, support the clergy, observe the Sabbath day, and make long prayers while yet a sensuahst and h3rpocrite. Forms of personal worship may not be voluntarily wrong, but involuntarily so, inasmuch as they hinder the Spirit. To be a hypo- crite in the science of Christianity is morally impossible, for here Christianity is based on demonstration, or proof, and yet many will come falsely in its name as predicted. "When God is understood, man will need nothing besides God to make him healthy and harmo- nious. Jesus established his church on this very un- derstanding, and taught his followers it cast out error and healed the sick. Instead of believing Christ a per- son, he said, Christ is " Truth and Life," and '* I and the Father are one," thus claiming no separate Intelli- gence, action or Life from God, and despite the perse- cution and cross this earned from a Pharisee, he wrought out on its Principle harmonious being.

The question was then as now, at issue with mankind, how did Jesus, through Christ, his God-being, heal the sick ? Jesus answered this question in the explanation that the world rejects, when he appealed to his students, thinking they would better understand him ; and asked " whom do men say that I am ? " referring to the " I," that healed and cast out error, and they replied, " Some say Elias, others Jeremias," etc. ; but these men were dead, therefore, their answer implied that some thought

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Jesus a medium controlled by the so-called " spirits " of the departed. We cannot doubt the belief of medium- ship prevailed to some extent at that time, for Herod had before given the same definitions of Christ's heal- ing ; saying, " John the Baptist has come back, and therefore mighty works show forth themselves in him." That this wicked king and debauched husband shoidd gain no higher interpretation of the science of being and the great work our Master did, was not surprising ; a sinner could not be supposed to comprehend this sci- ence if the disciples understood it not fully. They comprehended his spiritual explanations better than did others, but the connection they had with man's physi- cal harmony or their application to heal the sick, they did not yet fuUy understand, so their Master patiently persisted in teaching and demonstrating to them that the Truth of being healed the sick, cast out error, and raised the dead. This science of Life was not compre- hended by his students, until his final demonstration, when their great teacher stood before them the victor, not only over sickness and sin, but over death.

In secret yearnings to be better understood, the Mas- ter turned in confidence to Peter, saying, " But whom say ye that I am ? " This inquiry meant simply, who or what is it that casts out error and heals the sick ? And because he turned from the other disciples' answer and put anew the question to Peter, it plainly indicated he disapproved the belief he was a medium as he had before signified, saying, " I and the Father are one." Peter's reply so unlike the others admitting He was "Christ," Truth, that healed the sick and cast out error, called forth the answer, " Our Father in heaven,"

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that is, the Principle of man " hath shown thee this»" in the science of being, and also that Jesus is the ^* Son of God," the ofGspring of Soul and not sense. On this Principle and with this Truth he wrought all his so- called miracles. It was not man, or medicine that healed the sick, but God ; not matter that controlled man, but Spirit that controlled matter. This, his inter- pretation of God and man was the rock or foundation on which Jesus built his church, that is, established his demonstration of Truth, God, against which the gates of error could not prevail, but there was neither a creed nor rite named in it, and mediumship plainly denied.

To be Christ-like is to triumph over sickness, sin and death, to open the prison doors tc the captive ; that is, CO break the fetters of personal sense, and give to being full scope and recompense. This is the ultimate of the command to love our neighbor as ourself, and an idea from Soul, yea, from Wisdom, Love and Truth; but this idea personal sense cannot see, feel, or understand, whereas spiritual sense can ; " the carnal mind cannot discern spiritual things." This idea is vague to per- sonal sense, but to spiritual sense it is harmony. To favor his faults, conciliates the man of error ; but it prolongs discord ; belief produces all the errors of per- sonal sense, and Soul condemns them. Those hated by personal sense are loved of Soul, and for the very things sense hates them.

The foundation error that makes a mortal man is, that personal sense is Truth ; the next that it is pleas- ure ; the third that it is pain ; but from this poiat dates its destruction; hence the so-called pain of personal 6

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sense is comparatively encouraging, it being productive of less sin than its pleasure ; but personal sense suffers only from imaginary self-hood ; its pleasures and pains are all unreal. The belief that matter has Life and sub- stance is the error that produces all suffering, sin and death ; the chemical action of Truth on this error will destroy it. Truth gives the idea of Spirit-substance, and destroys all supposed matter-substance, while error gives the belief of matter-substance, and hides the idea of Spirit-substance.

Immortal man is an idea of Spirit-substance, Life and Intelligence ; but the mortal is a belief that Intelligence, Life and substance are in matter. The idea of substance guided by understanding, becomes the infinite idea, even as the Soul of immortal man is the infinite Prin- ciple. Mortal man is a belief of Intelligence, substance and Life in the body, therefore of a limited Infinite I

To let oneself out of this nutshell, we must under- stand the scientific relationship between God and man, or Principle and its idea ; but before this is really un- derstood, the interval will be filled with approaches to it through belief ; and this will be attended with doubt, discord and sin.

The material world, at a future date, will become a spectacle of disorder and dismay on one hand, and of science on the other. There will be convulsions of mind and consequently of matter, spasms of error, earthquakes, famine and pestilence. Sickness will be- come more acute, and death more sudden : but to those who understand this hour, as explained in the science of being, length of days will increase, and harmony and immortality be near, even at the door. Knowledge

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will then diminish and lose estimate in the sight of man ; and Spirit instead of matter be made the basis of gen- eration. At this period phenomena will be spiritually discerned, but there will be strong conflicting opinions and results. Those understanding Life scientifically will hold in check those, letting go of old opinions, who would hang an M. D., a mesmerist, or a medium, — thus curbing the violence of old beliefe exercising retribu- tive vengeance. The truly scientific will be a law to themselves of Love, Wisdom and Truth, and " do vio- lence to no man, neither accuse any falsely." Sin will make deadly thrusts at the science of Life, as penal code goes out to give place to. higher law. But those con- trolled by Soul will spare the rod contrary to the relig- ious persecutions of past history, and save the erring from the gallows and gibbet. The martyrs will be the adherents to science, in the coming centuries, and to-day their fate is foreshadowed. In coming years the person or mind that hates his neighbor, will have no need to traverse his fields, to destroy his flocks and herds, and spoil his vines ; or to enter his House to demoralize his household ; for the evil mind will do this through mes- merism ; and not in propria p^rsonce be seen commit- ting the deed. Unless this terrible hour be met and restrained by Science^ mesmerism, that scourge of man, will leave nothing sacred when mind begins to act un- der direction of conscious power. Sensuous man makes war to the death on his enemies ; but the spiritual pours blessings on them unseen and unacknowledged ; like the chamomile, that crushed, yields the sweetest odor, spirit- ual minds emit an atmosphere of Truth that blesses their enemies and destroys error while it is persecuting

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them ; but stir the evil sensual mind, and worse than the deadly Upas are the plagues it emits. Those who gain the essential points of the science of Life will suf- fer from the sensual world more than even the primitive prophets and disciples did; but the science of being supports its followers amid shoals and quicksands.

Spirituality is the only Christianity ; and its basis is, "to be absent from the body and present with the Lord ; " sensuality is personality ever present with the body. We have already sufficient professions of good- ness without the Spirit: too many religions and not enough Christianity is the genius of the age.. Man knows already too well how " to make long prayers, to be heard for his much speaking," and to enlarge the Pharisaical borders, to steal in private and give in pub- lic, but this is political, not Christian economy. What ■we want is, " Christ and Him crucified," in other words, Truth and the cross-bearing that attends it, to make mankind better.

Because a man has uttered the law and ten command- ments to fashionable audiences some quarter of a cen- tury, it does not follow that he can demonstrate the Christianity of the prophets, and of Jesus who cast out error and healed the sick. Sometimes people resort to a cup of tea or coffee to help them preach, as if matter ■was superior to Truth in this direction. Is the Truth ■we utter matter, or God? and if the latter, "gi-ving does not impoverish nor withholding enrich; " have we less of the Spirit that is God for having given utterance to it, and is matter or Spirit our strength ? Because a man has obtained a high social and public position, are we to conclude he must be a good man ? The soft palm

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upturned to a lordly salary, and architectural power — making dome and spire tremulous with beauty, that turns the poor and stranger from the gate, shuts the door on Christianity. It is a skeleton of religion that requires a doctor of physic to save the body and a doc- tor of divinity to save what? immortal Soul that is already saved. This is not having " Christ in you the hope of glory," nor does it cast out devils and heal the sick ; the manger and cross tell in vain their story to pride and prejudice. Taking wealth, popularity and sensuality by the right hand, takes God by the left, and palsies that hand, making moral lepers instead of Christians. Hear our Master's words on this subject, " Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Ministers should make the pulpit the rostrum of Truth, whipping creeds and pride out of their synagogues to let in humility and the science of God, using those strong arguments, cords, that Jesus twisted together to scourge out of synagogues the money changers and make them temples of Truth. The prophet of to-day beholds in the spiritual horizon the bow of promise ; the demonstration of Christianity that our Master gave, is again required, and no other "sign shall be given you." Christianity brings with it a phenomenon that will be misinterpreted by the mate- rial age in which it appears, because it is the phenom- enon of Soul, and not matter, that personal sense can- not comprehend, but when spiritually discerned will be found to destroy sickness, sin and death. Creeds, doctrines and beliefs do not express it, much less can they demonstrate it ; we must understand God to de- monstrate Truth. Jesus of Nazareth, the fittest teacher ol mankind, possessed this understanding; but the

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scorning Rabbi, the rival Pharisee, Gethsemane and the cross were ready to devour him.

Over eighteen centuries ago the mere religionist was