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106 The clay cannot reply to the potter. The head, heart, lungs, and limbs do not inform us that they are dizzy, diseased, consumptive, or lame. If this information is given, mortal mind has given it. Neither immortal and unerring Mind, nor so-called matter, — the inanimate substratum of mortal mind, — can carry on such telegraphy; for God is too pure to behold iniquity.

Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hate, and Life no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to aught unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.

Sickness, sin, death, are not the true and good; they are the false and erroneous, that Truth never created. Perfection is not the life of imperfection. Because God is good, and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity. Therefore it was not produced in Truth, but is illusion, the mirage of error. Divine Science reveals this grand fact. On its basis Jesus demonstrated Life, by overcoming sin, sickness, and death, never yielding them obedience.

There is but one primal Cause; therefore there can be no effect from any other cause; and there can be no actual reality in anything which proceeds not from this great and only Cause. Sin, sickness, and death are not the Science of Being. They are the fruits of error, and show the absence of the real.

The scientific fact is the spiritual fact of all things. The spiritual fact, duplicated in the action of man as well as the universe, presents harmony, the ideal of Truth. If scientific fact be inverted, the opposite discord appears, which bears no resemblance to reality.