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pain, and they are forever at peace. Nothing can hide
from them the harmony of all things and the might and
permanence of Truth.
(Real being never lost)
If Spirit, Soul, could sin or be lost, then being and immortality
would be lost, together with all the faculties of
Mind; but being cannot be lost while God
exists. Soul and matter are at variance from the
very necessity of their opposite natures. Mortals are
unacquainted with the reality of existence, because matter
and mortality do not reflect the facts of Spirit.
Spiritual vision is not subordinate to geometric
altitudes. Whatever is governed by God, is never for an
instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence
and Life.
(Light and darkness)
We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real
as light; but Science affirms darkness to be only a mortal
sense of the absence of light, at the coming of
which darkness loses the appearance of reality.
So sin and sorrow, disease and death, are the suppositional
absence of Life, God, and flee as phantoms of error before
truth and love.
With its divine proof, Science reverses the evidence of
material sense. Every quality and condition of mortality
is lost, swallowed up in immortality. Mortal man is the
antipode of immortal man in origin, in existence, and in his
relation to God.
(Faith of Socrates)
Because he understood the superiority and immortality
of good, Socrates feared not the hemlock poison.
Even the faith of his philosophy spurned physical
timidity. Having sought man's spiritual
state, he recognized the immortality of man. The ignorance
and malice of the age would have killed the venerable
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