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Rh power are without excuse. Sin, sickness, death, — whatever indicates the opposite of God, or His absence, — is a belief only, and this belief is neither the mind nor body of man, for it is not begotten of the Father. That sin is unsustained by Truth, and brought sickness and death in its train, is proof that these are all forms of error.

The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still overcomes death, proves the King of Terrors to be but a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this shows that what appears to the senses as death, is but a mortal illusion, instead of man or the universe in the death-process.

Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. The belief disappears, that Life and Intelligence are in or of matter, as the immortal facts of being are seen, whose only Life, or Intelligence, is God, or good. Spirit is reached only through the understanding and demonstration of Life, Truth, and Love.

Neither understanding nor Truth accompanies error, nor is error the offshoot of Intelligence. Evil calls itself something when it is nothing. It saith, “I am man, but I am not the image and likeness of God.”

Jesus, explaining the origin of material and mortal manhood, said: “Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil [error], and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

The more material a belief, the more tenacious its error; the stronger the manifestations of material sense,