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myth, for man is immortal. The false belief that spirit is
now submerged in matter, at some future time to be emancipated
from it, - this belief alone is mortal.
Spirit, God, never germinates, but is "the same
yesterday, and to-day, and forever." If Mind, God, creates
error, that error must exist in the divine Mind, and
this assumption of error would dethrone the perfection
of Deity.
(No truth from a material basis)
Is Christian Science contradictory? Is the divine
Principle of creation misstated? Has God no Science to
declare Mind, while matter is governed by unerring
intelligence? "There went up a mist
from the earth." This represents error as
starting from an idea of good on a material basis. It
supposes God and man to be manifested only through
the corporeal senses, although the material senses can
take no cognizance of Spirit or the spiritual idea.
Genesis and the Apocalypse seem more obscure than
other portions of the Scripture, because they cannot
possibly be interpreted from a material standpoint. To
the author, they are transparent, for they contain the deep
divinity of the Bible.
(Dawning of spiritual facts)
Christian Science is dawning upon a material age.
The great spiritual facts of being, like rays of light, shine
in the darkness, though the darkness, comprehending
them not, may deny their reality.
The proof that the system stated in this book is Christianly
scientific resides in the good this system accomplishes,
for it cures on a divine demonstrable Principle
which all may understand.
(Proof given in healing)
If mathematics should present a thousand different
examples of one rule, the proving of one example would
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