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Rh senses of man are ever spiritual, attached to Soul instead of matter, and thought passes from Soul to govern man, but never returns a sensation or report from matter to Soul, for matter is not, and cannot be, cognizant of evil or good.

The Science of Being shows it is impossible for infinite Soul to be in a finite body, and man to be a separate intelligence from his Maker. When this is understood it will unfold the universal brotherhood of man, wherein one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Mind, one Soul. Man and his Maker are correlated in divine Science, and consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God.

Science, reversing the seeming relation of Soul and body, — as astronomy reverses the human perception of the movement of the solar system, — makes body tributary to Mind. Even as it is the earth that is in motion while the sun is at rest, though in viewing the sunrise from Mount Washington one finds it impossible to believe the sun is not really rising, so body is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it seems otherwise to finite sense. But we shall never understand this while we admit that Soul is in body, Mind in matter, and that man is included in non-intelligence. Soul is God who was and ever will be eternal, and man co-exists with and reflects Soul, and is eternal.

Unless the harmony and immortality of man are becoming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea of God; and the body will manifest what governs it, whether it be Truth or error, Understanding or belief, Spirit or matter. Therefore “acquaint thyself now with God, and be at peace.”