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Rh cannot be in body, or matter. Man is not a material habitation for Spirit; he is spiritual. Soul, being divine, can be reflected in nothing imperfect, or unlike the Infinite Self.

Man is the expression of Spirit. The Indians caught some glimpses of the underlying reality, as when they called a certain beautiful lake the Smile of the Great Spirit. Separated from man, who expresses it, Spirit would be a nonentity. Man, divorced from Spirit, would be equally a nonentity. But there is, there can be, no such division; for man is co-existent with God.

Divine Science shows it to be impossible that a material body, though interwoven with matter's highest stratum, mortal mind, should be man, indestructible and eternal. Were it otherwise man would be annihilated, for Soul would lose itself with the dissolution of body.

What evidence have you of Immortality within mortality? In Science man has never beheld Spirit, or Soul, leaving a body, or entering it. What evidence is there in support of such a theory of indwelling Spirit, except the evidence of belief? What would be thought of the declaration that a house was inhabited, and by a certain kind of folks, when no such people were ever seen to go out or come in, or had even been visible through the windows? Who can see Soul in the body?

Question. — Do not brains think and nerves feel, and is there not Intelligence in matter?

Answer. — No, not if God be true, and mortal man a liar. The assertion is erroneous that there can be pain or pleasure in matter. That body is most harmonious which is least noticeable in the discharge of its functions.