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542 Divine Science, God and man are inseparable, as Principle and its idea.

The highest form of man is woman.

Mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; a material belief, viz. that Intelligence, Substance, and Life belong to non-intelligence and mortality, — that Life results in death, and death in Life, — that sensation is in the sensationless, and that Mind originates in matter; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of Intelligence; the opposite of God; that of which Immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belief.

Matter is neither self-existent, nor a product of Spirit. An image of thought, reflected on the retina, is all the eye beholds. Matter, as defined by the schools, cannot, of itself, see, feel, hear, taste, or smell. It is not self-cognizant, — cannot feel itself, see itself, or understand itself. Take away mortal mind, and matter is without its supposed selfhood. It can take no cognizance of Spirit, or God.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” (Gen. i. 1, 2.) In the vast forever, — in the Science and Truth of Being, — the only facts are Spirit and its innumerable creations. Darkness and chaos are the imaginary opposites of light, understanding, and eternal harmony, and are the elements of nothingness, called matter.

We admit that black is not a color, because it reflects no light. So evil should be denied identity or power, because it has none of the original hues of God.