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feathers; but this is only fancy. It has behind it no more
reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves
his "Statue of Liberty," which embodies his conception
of an unseen quality or condition, but which has
no physical antecedent reality save in the artist's own observation
and "chambers of imagery."
(Our angelic messengers)
My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door
of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried
its fondest earthly hopes. With white fingers
they point upward to a new and glorified
trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels
are God's representatives. These upward-soaring beings
never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to
the divine Principle of all good, whither every real individuality,
image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving
earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us,
and we entertain "angels unawares."
(Knowledge and Truth)
Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively
represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of
sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then
to judge the knowledge thus obtained to be
untrue and dangerous, since "the tree is known by his
fruit"?
Truth never destroys God's idea. Truth is spiritual,
eternal substance, which cannot destroy the right
reflection. Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth,
health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the
sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth,
will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial
peaks.
(Old and new man)
If man were solely a creature of the material senses,
he would have no eternal Principle and would be mutable
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