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410 unreal perishes, while all that is real is eternal. The apostle says that the mission of Christ was “to destroy the works of the devil.”

Truth came to destroy error, since light and darkness cannot dwell together. One inevitably extinguishes the other. When one appears, the other disappears. “God is too pure to behold iniquity.” To Truth there is no error; all is Truth. To Spirit there is no matter; all is Principle and idea.

Question. — What is man?

Answer. — Man is not matter, — brains, blood, bones, and the material rest. The Scriptures inform us that man was made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The reflection of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and because of this, he will be so understood in Science. Error, urged to its final limits, will be self-destroyed. It will cease to claim that Soul is in body, that Life and Intelligence are in matter, and that this matter is man. God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal or material. Mortals must disappear for immortals, as babes have disappeared at the age of adults.

All that is material is mortal. To the five personal senses, man appears to be matter and mind; but Science reveals him as the idea of God, and declares the material senses to be mortal and erring illusions.

Question. — What are body and Soul?

Answer. — Body is the reflection of Spirit, in multifarious embodiments of this living Principle. Soul is the Substance, Life, Intelligence of this idea, or reflection. God, or Principle, is not in the reflection. Hence Soul