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Matter is not sentient and cannot be cognizant of good
or of evil, of pleasure or of pain. Man's individuality
is not material. This Science of being obtains not
alone hereafter in what men call Paradise, but here
and now; it is the great fact of being for time and
eternity.
(The human counterfeit)
What, then, is the material personality which suffers,
sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness
of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted
likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness,
and death. The unreality of the claim that a mortal is
the true image of God is illustrated by the opposite natures
of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is
intelligence while the other is non-intelligence.
(Material misconceptions)
Is God a physical personality? Spirit is not physical.
The belief that a material body is man is a false conception
of man. The time has come for a
finite conception of the infinite and of a material
body as the seat of Mind to give place
to a diviner sense of intelligence and its manifestations, -
to the better understanding that Science gives of the
Supreme Being, or divine Principle, and idea.
(Salvation is through reform)
By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour but not as
the saving Principle, or divine Love, we shall continue
to seek salvation through pardon and not
through reform, and resort to matter instead
of Spirit for the cure of the sick. As mortals
reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher
sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from
the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ,
Truth, as the healing and saving power.
It is essential to understand, instead of believe, what
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