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332 One whom I rescued from seeming spiritual oblivion, in which the senses had engulfed him, said to me: —

Admitting the common hypothesis, that food is requisite to sustain human life, there follows the necessity for another admission, in the opposite direction, — namely, that food has power to destroy life, through its deficiency or excess, in quality or quantity. This is a specimen of the ambiguous character of all material health-theories. They are self-contradictory and self-destructive, — “a kingdom divided against itself, that is brought to desolation.” If food preserves life, it cannot destroy it.

The truth is, food does not affect the life of man; and this becomes self-evident, when we learn that God is our only Life. Because sin and sickness are not qualities of Soul, or Life, we have hope in immortality; but it would be foolish to venture beyond our present understanding, foolish to stop eating, until we gain more goodness, and a clearer comprehension of the living God. In that perfect day of understanding, we shall neither eat to live, nor live to eat.

We cannot deny that Life is self-sustained; and we should never deny the everlasting harmony of Soul, simply because, to the senses, there is seeming discord.