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(Opposing testimony)
The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the
real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord, -
assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and
death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood,
defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false
witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven, - the actual
reign of harmony on earth. The material senses' reversal
of the Science of Soul was practically exposed nineteen
hundred years ago by the demonstrations of Jesus;
yet these so-called senses still make mortal mind tributary
to mortal body, and ordain certain sections of matter, such
as brain and nerves, as the seats of pain and pleasure,
from which matter reports to this so-called mind its status
of happiness or misery.
(Testimony of the senses)
The optical focus is another proof of the illusion of
material sense. On the eye's retina, sky and tree-tops
apparently join hands, clouds and ocean meet
and mingle. The barometer, - that little
prophet of storm and sunshine, denying the testimony of
the senses, - points to fair weather in the midst of murky
clouds and drenching rain. Experience is full of instances
of similar illusions, which every thinker can recall for
himself.
(Spiritual sense of life)
To material sense, the severance of the jugular vein
takes away life; but to spiritual sense and
in Science, Life goes on unchanged and
being is eternal. Temporal life is a false sense of
existence.
(Ptolemaic and psychical error)
Our theories make the same mistake regarding Soul
and body that Ptolemy made regarding the solar system.
They insist that soul is in body and mind therefore tributary
to matter. Astronomical science has destroyed the
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