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246 speculative thought? The admission to one's self that one is Soul instead of body, sets man free to master the infinite idea. This conviction shuts the door on death, and opens it wide towards immortality.

Divest yourself of the thought that there can ever be Substance in matter, and then the movements and transitions, now possible for the mind, will be found to be just as possible for the body. Then being will be recognized as spiritual, and death will be obsolete; though now we insist that death is the necessary prelude of immortality.

The understanding and recognition of Spirit must finally come, and we might as well improve our time in solving the mysteries of being on this Principle. At present we know not fully what we are; but this is certain, that we shall be Love, Life, and Truth, when we understand them.

Do you say the time has not yet come, in which to recognize Soul as substantial, and able to control the body? Remember Jesus, who, over eighteen centuries ago, demonstrated the power of Spirit, and said, “The works that I do, ye shall do;” and who also said, “Behold the hour cometh, and now is, when they who worship the Father shall worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.”

Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of music, and man is not the father of man. If seed could really produce wheat, and wheat could produce flour, or one animal could originate another, how then could we account for the origin of Mind? How were the loaves and fishes multiplied on the shores of Galilee; and that, too, without grain or monad, from which loaf and fish could come?