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186 than we can teach and illustrate geometry by calling a curve a straight line, or a straight line a sphere.

What is termed Matter cannot be substance, if Spirit is substance. A New Testament writer plainly describes a quality of Mind, faith, as “the substance of things hoped for.” Which ought to be substance — the erring, changing, and dying, the mutable and mortal, or the unerring, immutable, and immortal? Naming matter, or what is so called, a lawgiver, simply indicates a delusion that material law exists. This is a self-evident mistake. God never made a law material to annul the law spiritual; and if there were such a law, it would prevent the supremacy of Mind. Jesus trod the waves and healed the sick, in direct contradiction of what are termed material laws.

We are commonly taught that Soul sins, and is lost spiritually. Then the annihilation of Soul is inevitable; for its only Life is Spirit, and if it loses this Life it hath no other, and is annihilated. If Soul sinned it would die. Sin has the elements of self-destruction, and the Scripture saith, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

What is termed personal mind, or spirit, — erring, sinning, and dependent on matter for manifestation and life, — is not Mind. God is not in the things He hath made. All that He hath made is good; hence there is no evil therein.

Soul, or Mind, is not seen by a personal sense, because it is Spirit, which personal sight cannot discern. If Soul: could sin it would be material instead of spiritual. It is the thought and motive of material sense that sin. There is neither growth, maturity, nor decay in Soul.