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200 then push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory.

The true idea of God gives the true Love and Life, robs the grave of victory, takes away all sin, and the delusion that there are other gods, and leads mortals to the feet of Love.

The individuality of our Master was no less tangible because it was spiritual, and because his Life was not at the mercy of matter. This understanding made him more real, more formidable in Truth; and enabled him to triumph over death, and present himself to his disciples, after his resurrection from the grave, the self-same Jesus whom they had loved before the tragedy of Calvary.

To the materialistic Thomas, looking for the ideal Saviour in matter instead of in Spirit, and to the evidence of the senses and the body, more than to Soul, for an earnest of immortality, — to him Jesus furnished the proof that he was unchanged by the crucifixion. To this stupid, doubting disciple Jesus therefore remained a fleshly reality, so long as he remained an inhabitant of the earth. Nothing but a belief in matter could make existence apparent to Thomas. For him to believe in matter was no task; but for him to conceive of the Substance of Spirit, — to know that nothing can rule out Mind and immortality, wherein Spirit is found, — was more difficult.

What is termed material sense mistakes the motive and manifestation of being; whereas spiritual sense cannot make this mistake. To material sense the falsehood is the fact, until sense is rectified by Science.