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172 Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the light.

The electricity of mortal mind, its gases and forces, are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of Eternal Mind, whose omnipotence is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal identities. Electricity is the essence of mortal mind, the counterfeit of the true essence of Eternal Mind, — the great difference being that one is divine.

The self-destructive forces of mortal thought are expressed in the earthquake, the wind, wave, lightning, fire, the ferocity of beasts. These counterfeit divine justice and are called in the Scriptures “the anger of the Lord.” Really they signify His mercy in justice, the strength and permanency of Truth, whose supremacy is ever asserting itself. Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, and the nothingness of matter.

Human opinions and beliefs, the testimony of material sense, cause the suppositional warfare between Truth and error, between the evidences of the spiritual senses and of the so-called material senses; and this warfare will continue until every question between them is determined by the immutable Principle of right.

There is no material Truth, and what are termed the personal senses can take no cognizance of spiritual Truth. Divine Science, reversing the testimony of the material senses, tears away the foundations of error. Hence the enmity between them, and the impossibility of perfect understanding till error disappears.

Deductions from material hypotheses are not scientific. They differ from actual Science in not being based on