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once the centre and circumference of being. It is evil
that dies; good dies not.
(Spirit the only intelligence and substance)
All forms of error support the false conclusions that
there is more than one Life; that material history is as
real and living as spiritual history; that mortal
error is as conclusively mental as immortal
Truth; and that there are two separate, antagonistic
entities and beings, two powers, - namely,
Spirit and matter, - resulting in a third person (mortal
man) who carries out the delusions of sin, sickness, and
death.
The first power is admitted to be good, an intelligence or
Mind called God. The so-called second power, evil, is the
unlikeness of good. It cannot therefore be mind, though
so called. The third power, mortal man, is a supposed
mixture of the first and second antagonistic powers, intelligence
and non-intelligence, of Spirit and matter.
(Unscientific theories)
Such theories are evidently erroneous. They can never
stand the test of Science. Judging them by their fruits,
they are corrupt. When will the ages understand
the Ego, and realize only one God, one
Mind or intelligence?
False and self-assertive theories have given sinners the
notion that they can create what God cannot, - namely,
sinful mortals in God's image, thus usurping the name
without the nature of the image or reflection of divine
Mind; but in Science it can never be said that man
has a mind of his own, distinct from God, the all
Mind.
The belief that God lives in matter is pantheistic. The
error, which says that Soul is in body, Mind is in matter,
and good is in evil, must unsay it and cease from such
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