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Rh reproduce them in all their perfection; but they cannot be disturbed, since they exist in Soul.

The less Mind there is manifested in matter, the better. When the unthinking lobster loses his claw it grows again. If the Science of Life were understood, it would be found that the senses of Mind are never lost; and that there are, properly speaking, no material senses. Any hypothesis, which supposes Life to be in matter, is an educated belief. In infancy this belief is not equal to guiding the hand to the mouth, and in old age it fades into utter extinction.

Personal sense defrauds, lies, cheats, will break all the commands of the Mosaic Decalogue, to meet its own demands. How then can this sense be the channel of blessings or of understanding to man? How can man, reflecting God, be dependent on such material senses for knowing, hearing, seeing? Who dare say that the senses of man can be at one time the medium for serving sin, and at another for communion with God?

An affirmative reply would contradict the Scripture, for “the same fountain sendeth not forth sweet and bitter waters.”

The so-called senses of matter are the only source of evil or error. Science shows them to be false; since matter has no sensation, and no organic construction can give it hearing and sight, or make it the medium of Mind.

Outside of the material sense of things, all is harmony. A wrong sense — of God, man, and creation — is nonsense, or want of sense. Belief would have the material senses sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Belief is erring. It assures mortals that there is real