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Rh man. Gender is a form, a quality, a characteristic of Mind, not of matter.

Man is not a creator, though he reflects Mind's creations, which constitute the underlying reality of Science. The inverted method, the deflections of matter, as opposed to the Science of spiritual reflection, are all unlike Spirit. With the illusion of error, of life that is here to-day and gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not for the Truth, the Divine Principle, gained through the Science taught and demonstrated by Jesus, destroying all error and bringing immortality to light. Because man is the reflection of his Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These illusions are of human origin, not divine.

If man were solely a creature of the senses, the Principle which he reflects would also be merely mutable and mortal. Human logic is awry when it attempts to draw spiritual conclusions from matter. Finite sense has no correct appreciation of the Infinite Principle, God, or of the infinite idea or reflection, man.

People go into ecstasies over the idea of a personal Jehovah, though without a spark of love in their hearts; when in fact God is Love, and without this trait mortality cannot lay hold of Immortality. Men believe without understanding Truth, when God is Truth. He is Divine Principle, and cannot be demonstrated without understanding.

Mortals suppose they live without being good, when goodness, or God, is the only real Life. What is the result? Understanding little about the Divine Principle that saves and heals, mortals get rid of sin, sickness, and death only in seeming. These errors are not thus