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Rh God is “all in all.” Hence nothing can be real that is unlike Him. Error in human premises leads to error in conclusions. That Spirit created matter is an erroneous premise. The mortality of matter confirms the conclusion that it never originated in the immortal; and is therefore not eternal Substance, Life, or Intelligence. Matter was therefore not created by Mind, or for Mind.

To all that is unlike Himself, the unerring and eternal Mind saith, “Thou shalt die.” Any copartnership of Mind with matter would annihilate Mind. Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and medicine is more or less infested with the pantheistic notion of Mind in matter; but this pantheism contradicts alike revelation and right reason. The self-styled copartnership of Mind with matter is formed only to be eventually dissolved, in a manner and at a period unknown.

Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit. A logical and scientific conclusion is reached only through the knowledge that there are not two bases of life, — matter and Mind, — but one, namely, Mind. Science never recognizes grapes as gathered from thorns or figs from thistles. Intelligence never produces non-intelligence, and matter is non-intelligent. The Immortal never produced the mortal, and good cannot result in evil. God is good and He is Spirit, and goodness and Spirit are immortal. Their opposites, evil and matter, must be therefore mortal, and are not the outcome of God.

The Science of Mind shows conclusively how it is that matter seemeth to be, but is not. Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense