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204 error, but never pardons it. If men understood their real divine source to be all blessedness, they would have immediate recourse to the divine and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mortal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to Truth.

What a pitiful sight is malice finding pleasure in revenge! Evil is sometimes a man's highest conception of good, until his grasp on goodness grows stronger. Then he loses pleasure in wickedness, and it becomes his torment. The way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way. Sin is the image of the beast, to be effaced by the sweat of agony. It is a moral madness, that rushes forth to clamor with midnight and the tempest. To physical sense the strict demands of Moral Science seem peremptory; but mortals are hastening to learn that Life is God, or good, and that evil has rightly neither place nor power in human economy.

The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrection; but not blindly as the Pharisees, who received error as if it were immortal as Truth. For the Pharisees would resurrect the spiritual from the material. They would first make Life result in death, and then have a material death reproduce spiritual Life. Jesus taught them how death was to be overcome by spiritual Life, and demonstrated this beyond cavil. The immortality of Soul makes man immortal. If Soul were parted for a moment from its reflection, man, during that moment there would be no self-existent Principle. The Ego would be unexpressed, and God and man would be without identity.

If Soul and its representative, man, unite only for a period, to be then separated as by a law of divorce, and brought together again at some uncertain time and in