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180 Christian character. Mortals need not fancy that belief in death will awaken them to glorified being.

“As the tree falleth, so shall it lie.” As man falleth asleep, so shall he awaken. As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be after death, until probation affects the needful change. Mind is never dust. No resurrection from the grave awaits Mind, for the grave has no power over it. No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of Wisdom is passed hourly and continually, — the judgment by which mortal man is being divested of all material error; and spiritual error, there is none.

When the last mortal fault is destroyed, then the final trump will sound that ends the battle of Truth with sin and mortality; but of “that day and hour, no man knoweth.” Here prophecy pauses. Science alone can probe the thoughts and depths of being, and point to eternal Life. Universal salvation rests on progression, and is unattainable without it. Heaven is not a locality, but a state, in which Mind and body are harmonious and immortal, because sin is destroyed, and man is found having no righteousness of his own, and no Mind but God.

The mirage — which makes trees and cities seem to be where they are not — illustrates the illusion of that man who is not in the image of God. So far as this statement is understood it will be admitted, and the true reflection of God — the real man, or the new man (as Paul has it) — will appear.

The time has come for this finite notion, of the body as God, to give place to a diviner sense of Mind and its manifestation, in the better understanding that Science