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good and the fount of all being, He does not produce
moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is
not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error.
Divine Science reveals these grand facts. On
their basis Jesus demonstrated Life, never
fearing nor obeying error in any form.
If we were to derive all our conceptions of man from
what is seen between the cradle and the grave, happiness
and goodness would have no abiding-place in man,
and the worms would rob him of the flesh; but Paul
writes: "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death."
(Man never less than man)
Man undergoing birth, maturity, and decay is like the
beasts and vegetables, - subject to laws of decay. If
man were dust in his earliest stage of existence,
we might admit the hypothesis that he
returns eventually to his primitive condition;
but man was never more nor less than man.
If man flickers out in death or springs from matter into
being, there must be an instant when God is without His
entire manifestation, - when there is no full reflection
of the infinite Mind.
(Man not evolved)
Man in Science is neither young nor old. He has
neither birth nor death. He is not a beast, a vegetable,
nor a migratory mind. He does not pass from
matter to Mind, from the mortal to the immortal,
from evil to good, or from good to evil. Such
admissions cast us headlong into darkness and dogma.
Even Shakespeare's poetry pictures age as infancy, as
helplessness and decadence, instead of assigning to man
the everlasting grandeur and immortality of development,
power, and prestige.
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