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Rh it becomes fairly understood that Spirit controls the body, and that man should have no other mind but God.

The belief that Life is in matter may be changed, by the universal law of mortal mind, to a belief in death. Then mortal man, like the tree or flower, is supposed to die; but the fact remains that man and the universe are immortal and spiritual.

The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are opposites, but the spiritual is true; and therefore the material, which is its opposite, must be untrue. Life is not in matter, so that it cannot be said to pass out of it. Hence there is no death, for Spirit and all things spiritual are eternal.

The principle of music governs tones; but if mortals caught harmony through the ear, — a material sense, — they would lose it again if time or accident robbed them of hearing. To be master of chords and discords, musical science must be understood. Left to the decisions of material sense, music is liable to be misapprehended and run into discord. Controlled by a belief, instead of by the understanding, it must be imperfectly expressed. Even thus man, not understanding Science, — his Divine Principle, or Soul, thrust aside as incomprehensible, — is abandoned to conjectures, left in the hands of ignorance, placed at the disposal of illusions, subjected to the same material sense which creates the discord. A discontented, discordant mortal is no more a man than discord is music.

It is ignorance and belief alone, based on a material sense of things, that hide spiritual beauty and good. Understanding this, Paul said, “Neither height nor