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Rh gives of the Supreme Being, or Divine Principle, named, in the Scriptures, Life, Truth, Love. Interpreting God as a personal Saviour, instead of the saving Principle, we shall continue to seek salvation through pardon and not through reform, and resort to matter instead of Spirit to heal the sick.

As Divine Science compels this advancement, mortals will seek to learn, not from a person, but from the Divine Principle, how to understand and demonstrate Christ as healing and saving. To seek Truth through belief, is seeking the immutable and immortal through the mutable and mortal; and to depend upon belief instead of demonstration is fatal to Science.

It is essential to understand, instead of believe, what relates most to the happiness of being. The comprehension of Truth gives the proper faith in it, and is better than all burnt-offerings. The Master said, “No man cometh unto the Father [the Principle of Being] but by me.” Christ, the Truth and Life of man, must be Principle, not person, for Christ saith, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

The only real substance and intelligence are Life, Truth, Love. One in essence, in office infinite, they are the three in one which constitute all. Personal causation, or effect, was put aside from first to last in the life of this original man, Jesus. Divine Principle must create and govern all that is real.

Jesus was the son of a virgin. The term Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and proper translation of the Greek), may be rendered “Jesus the anointed,” — Jesus the Messiah, the crowned, or the royal man; as it is said of him in the first chapter of Hebrews: —