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Rh fundamental errors send falsity into all human conclusions, and accord neither place nor privilege to Deity. Error tills the whole ground in this material theory, which is wholly a false view, destructive to existence and happiness. Outside of Science all is vague and hypothetical, the opposite of Truth; yet this opposite demands a blessing, in its false sense of God and man.

The translators of this record of scientific creation entertained a false sense of being. They believed in the existence of matter, its propagation and power. From that standpoint of error they could not apprehend the nature and operation of Spirit. Hence the seeming contradiction in that Scripture, which is so glorious in its spiritual signification. Truth has but one reply to all error — sin, sickness, and death: “Dust [nothingness] thou art, and unto dust [nothingness] shalt thou return.” “As in Adam [error] all die, even so in Christ [Truth] shall all be made alive.” The mortality of man is a myth, for man is immortal. The false belief that Spirit is now submerged in matter, at some future time to be emancipated from it, — this belief alone is mortal.

Spirit, God, never germinates, but is “the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.” If Spirit, God, creates error, that error must have existed in the Mind of God, and this dethrones the perfection of Deity.

Is Science contradictory? Is the Divine Principle of creation misstated? Has Mind no Science to declare it, while matter is governed by unerring Intelligence? The mist that “went up from the ground” represents error as starting from a material basis. It supposes God and man to be explainable only through the personal senses,