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Rh finite form. The limited never for a moment contains the unlimited and immortal.

The lines of demarcation between immortal man, representing Spirit, and mortal man, representing the error that Life and Intelligence are in matter, show the pleasures and pains of matter to be myths, and human belief to be the father of mythology, wherein matter is deemed the intelligent god of error.

Reversed by Divine Science, the evidence before the personal senses disappears. Hence the opposition of sensuous man to the Science of Soul, and the significance of the Scripture, “The carnal mind is at enmity with God.”

Mortal body and material man are delusions that spiritual understanding destroys; but the real man loses not his identity because of this destruction, for he has the conscious infinitude of being. That man should lose aught, when he has all, is impossible. The notion that Mind is in matter, and in the so-called pleasures and pains, the sin, sickness, and death of matter, — this notion is all that will ever be lost.

It is a self-evident error that there can be such a reality as animal or vegetable life, when all that remains of it is death; because Life is never for a moment extinct, is never structural or organic, and never is absorbed or limited by its own formations. Life is the Creator reflected in His creations. If He dwelt within what He creates, God would not be reflected but absorbed, and the Science of Being would be forever lost, — through a mortal idea of life that has beginning and end, instead of that immortality which is “without beginning of years or end of days.”