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Rh is as comprehensive and demonstrably correct. I deprecate the dishonesty which prompts any so-called Christian Scientist to withhold my name, while appropriating my language and ideas, and even credit these citations to another author, who has but touched the hem of the garment of Christian Science, and not embraced the living Truth, heart to heart.

These detractors confiscate the ideas of those whose lives they misrepresent; but Life and its ideal are inseparable, and one's thoughts on ethics, or the Science of Christianity, are not, can not be, understood by those who persistently misunderstand or misrepresent the thinker. If one's spiritual ideal is comprehended and loved, the thinker is embraced in the same mental mood. The Science of Mind excludes opposites, and rests on unity. Envy must die of Love, or else lose its meaning, and live to lament it. The mind to which this Science was revealed must have risen to the altitude that let in light, light beyond what others saw, and this growth could never be lost, because it was growth. No mortal could have informed the human mind, of what the mortal and carnal can not discern.

The immortal man being spiritual, individual, and eternal, his mortal opposite must be material, physically personal, and temporal. Physical personality is finite; but God is infinite. He is without materiality, without finiteness of form or Mind.

Limitations are put off in proportion as the fleshly nature disappears, and man reflects Spirit.

When I discovered Divine Science I named it Christian, because it is kind and spiritual. God, I called Immortal Mind. That which sins, suffers, and dies, I named mortal mind. The physical senses, or sensuous nature, I called error and shadow. Soul I denominated Substance, because Soul alone is truly substantial. God