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176 depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.” This is Divine Science: that Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow; that good can never produce evil, nor Life result in death. Hence the perfect man, governed by the perfect Principle we name God, has immortality, sinlessness, and everlasting existence.

Anatomy has never defined man as created by Spirit, — as God's man. It explains the man of men, created materially instead of spiritually, and as emerging from the lowest instead of from the highest conception of being. Anatomy defines man as matter and mind, and Mind as being at the mercy of matter for every function, formation, and manifestation. It takes man up at all points materially. It loses Spirit, drops the true tone and accepts the discord. It lays aside the Principle that produced harmonious man, and deals only with matter, calling that man which is not the counterpart, but the counterfeit, of God's man.

Can we gather peaches from a hedge, or deduce from discord the concord of being? Yet such are some of the leading illusions that serve as milestones to point out the path which Science must tread in its mission among mortals.

It is self-evident error — the belief that pain and pleasure, life and death, holiness and unholiness, mingle in man; yet that man is at the same time in the likeness of Life, Truth, and Love, is spiritually conceived and created. All the vanity of the ages can never make that contradiction true. Science lays the axe at the root of the illusion that Life, or Mind, is in the material body,