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464 The scientific origin of Jesus gave him more than human power to expound the facts of creation, and demonstrate the One Mind which made and governs man and the universe. The Science of Creation, so conspicuous in the birth of Jesus, inspired his wisest and least-understood sayings, and was the basis of his marvelous demonstrations. Jesus was the offspring of Spirit, and his existence shows that Spirit creates neither a wicked nor a mortal man, lapsing into sin, sickness, and death.

Isaiah said, “The Lord makes peace, and creates evil;” but he referred to divine law, as stirring up evil to its utmost, — when bringing it to the surface, and reducing it to nothingness, its only proper state. The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to be purified. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms of evil are aggravated, we may think, in our ignorance, that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God's law only uncovers sin and its effects, that He may annihilate all sense of sin.

Science renders “to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” It says to the human sense of sin, sickness, and death, “God never made you, and you are a false sense that hath no knowledge of Him.” The Hebrew allegory, representing error as assuming a divine character, is to teach mortals never to believe a lie.

Cain is the type of mortal and material man, conceived in sin and “brought forth in iniquity,” not the type of Truth and Love. Material in origin and sense, he brings