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Rh instead of from Principle, and from the mortal instead of the immortal.

Spirit never believes in God. It is God. Human power is a material belief, a blind force, the offspring of will and not of Wisdom, of the mortal mind and not of the Immortal. It is the headlong cataract, the devouring flame, the tempest's breath. It is lightning and storm, together with all that is selfish, dishonest, and impure. Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the “winds in His fist,” in accord with Science and harmony. Will-power is not Science. It belongs to the senses, and is objectionable. Willing the sick to recover is not metaphysics, but sheer animal magnetism. Will may infringe upon the rights of man. It produces evil continually, and is far from the Science of Being. Truth, and not Will, is the healer, that says to disease, “Peace, be still.”

The personal senses may cherish affinities with their opposites. In Christian Science Truth never mingles with error. Mind has no affinity for matter; therefore Truth is able to cast out the ills of the flesh. Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of Intelligence. The belief that a pulpy substance, under the skull, is Mind, is a mockery of Intelligence, the mimicry of Mind.

The theory that Spirit is distinct from matter, but must pass through it, or into it, to be individualized, would reduce Truth to the dependency of error, and require Something to be made manifest through Nothing. Better the suffering that awakens mortal mind from its dream, than the false pleasures that tend to perpetuate it.