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Rh The liberation of the powers of mortal mind through Science, whereby man is to escape from mortality into immortality, blesses the whole human family. As in the beginning, however, this liberation shows itself in a knowledge of good and evil. This is unavoidable. The knowledge must come, but it must be rightly directed. Conflict there will be; but the wrong mentality must be met and mastered, and will then disappear forever.

On the other hand, Mind Science is wholly separate from this half-way knowledge. It is of God, and gives a spiritual understanding that works out the purposes of good only. The maximum of good is to-day met by the maximum of suppositional evil. To admit the verity of a false belief, or to flee before it, will involve you in hopeless error. There is but one way to handle sin, and that is to encounter it boldly. Expose it first, and you will be able to annihilate it afterwards.

Realizing my solemn responsibility to expose the methods of error, — in order to establish the method of Truth, or Christian healing, and show the power of good over evil, — I have persevered and accomplished my task.

I try to leave on every student's mind the impress of Divine Science, — a high sense of the moral and spiritual qualifications requisite for healing, well knowing it to be impossible for error and hate to accomplish the grand results of Truth and Love. The pursuit of instructions opposite to mine must always prevent scientific demonstration.

The truths of Immortal Mind annihilate the fables of mortal mind, whose flimsy and gaudy pretensions, like silly moths, singe their own wings and fall in dust.