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Rh understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this becomes apparent, and the true brotherhood of man will thus be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other Mind but the perfect to guide them, mortals will grow into the Substance of Spirit, and be pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also with Christ Jesus.

Recollect that Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and God as not in man, but as reflected by man. The greater cannot be in the lesser. Such a belief is an error that works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Mind, that Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not confined, either in man or matter. God is not resident in His own idea, even the perfect and immortal man; much less can He be in mortals, constituted materially. We reason imperfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit through matter.

Reasoning from cause to effect, in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea that expresses it, and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we arrive at Truth, or Intelligence, which evolves its own unerring idea, and never can be coordinate with human illusions.

If Soul sinned it would be mortal; for sin is mortality's self, inasmuch as it kills itself. Error must be mortal (being the antipodes of Truth) if Truth is immortal. Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for sin is not the eternal verity of Being.