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Rh for believing his body dead, and learning that his cruel mind is not dead. His thoughts are no purer until he disarms evil with good. His body is as material as his mind, and vice versa.

Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, that drops the mortal for the immortal. Either here or hereafter suffering or Science must purge this false illusion about Life and Intelligence, and cleanse man of sense and self. The old man, with his deeds, must be put off. Nothing sensual or sinful is immortal. The death of sin is all that can awaken man to the Life that is real and eternal.

The so-called pleasures and pains of personal sense perish in the rough anguish; and these must be destroyed before the actuality of being is attained. Mortal belief must lose all satisfaction in sin, in order to part with it.

Whether mortals will learn this here or hereafter, and now long they will suffer the pangs of fiery purification, must depend upon the tenacity of error. Feeling so perpetually the false consciousness that life is bodily, yet remembering that God is really our Life, we may tremble for the days in which we must say “I have no pleasure in them.”

The suppositions that sin is pardoned while unforsaken, that happiness can be universal in the midst of sin, that the so-called death of the body frees from sin, and that God's pardon is not the destruction of sin — these are grave mistakes. We know that all will be changed in the twinkling of an eye “when the last trump shall sound;” but the last call of Wisdom cannot come till mortals have yielded to each lesser call in the growth of