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man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour
saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man
healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom
of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.
Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself
spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect
nor material.
(Material body never God's idea)
Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal
senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but
Christian Science reveals man as the idea of
God, and declares the corporeal senses to be
mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science
shows it to be impossible that a material body, though
interwoven with matter's highest stratum, misnamed
mind, should be man, - the genuine and perfect man,
the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal.
Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated.
(Reflection of Spirit)
Question 15. - What are body and Soul?
( - Adam: A co-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus
making "gods many and lords many" - I Corinthians viii. 5 - )
Answer. - Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection
in multifarious forms of the living Principle,
Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence
of man, which is individualized, but not
in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to
Spirit.
(Man inseperable from Spirit)
Man is the expression of Soul. The Indians caught
some glimpses of the underlying reality, when
they called a certain beautiful lake "the smile
of the Great Spirit." Separated from man,
who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man,
divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is,
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