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Rh course Spiritward. “Adam, where art thou?” is met with the admission, from the head, heart, stomach, blood, nerves: “Lo, here am I, looking for happiness and Life in the body, but finding only an illusion of pleasure, pain, sin, sickness, and death.” Life, Truth, and Love are not attributes of Deity, but the highest terms we can employ to express Him. They admit of no degrees of comparison. Nothing can be wiser than Wisdom, or truer than Truth. Life and Love have no superiors. Goodness is not equal to the Principle of goodness.

The Hebrew Lawgiver, slow of speech, despaired of making the people understand what should be revealed to him. When led by Wisdom to cast down his rod, and he saw it become a serpent, Moses fled before it; but Wisdom bade him come back and handle the serpent, and then his fear departed. In this incident was seen the actuality of Science. Matter was found to be a belief only. The serpent, under Wisdom's bidding, became a symbol of strength, a staff upon which to lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, when he discovered that whatsoever he apparently saw was but a different phase of mortal belief.

It was established as a fact that leprosy was a creation of mortal mind, and not matter, when Moses put his hand into his bosom and drew it forth white as snow, and presently restored it to its natural condition by the same simple process. God had lessened his fear by this proof of Christian Science, and the inward voice became to him the voice of God, which said: “It shall come to pass, if they will not hear thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice