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456 matter, and matter becomes Life, Substance, and Intelligence.

The order of this allegory — the notion that everything springs from dust, instead of from Deity — has been maintained in all the subsequent forms of error: that mortal man starts from dust, that non-intelligence becomes Intelligence, that Intelligence is both good and evil.

It is well that the upper portions of the brain represent the higher moral sentiments, as if Hope was ever prophesying thus: “Mind will sometime rise above all material and physical sense, exchanging it for spiritual perception, and man will then recognize his God-given dominion.”

If in the beginning man's body originated in non-intelligent dust, and Mind was afterwards put into it by the Creator, why is not this divine order still maintained by Him in perpetuating the species? Who will say that minerals, vegetables, and animals have a propagating principle of their own? Who dare say, either that God is in matter, or that matter exists without God? Has man sought out other creative inventions, and so changed the method of his Maker?

Which institutes Life — matter or Mind? Does Life begin with Mind or with matter? Is Life sustained by matter or by Spirit? Certainly not by both, since flesh wars against Spirit, and the material senses can take no cognizance of Spirit. The mythologic theory of material life at no point resembles the scientific record of man as created by Mind, in the image and likeness of God, and having dominion over all the earth. Did God at first create one man unaided, — that is, Adam, — but