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544 whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind, and that God, or Good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power, which is Divine Science.

The existence of more than one Mind was the basic error of idolatry, which supposed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the spiritual presence of Life as eternal Truth, without an opposite error, and the loss of Love as ever-present and universal.

Divine Science explains the abstract statement that there is one Mind only, by the following self-evident proposition. If Good, or God, is real, — evil, the opposite of God, is unreal. Then evil can only obtain the floor by our admitting its reality. The children of God have but one Mind. How can Good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins. The standard of perfection was originally God and man; and has this standard changed?

God is the Principle of man; and the Principle of man remaining perfect, its idea, or reflection, — man, — remains perfect. Man is the expression of God's being. If ever there was a moment when man expressed not this perfection, he could not have expressed the being of God; and there would have been a time when Deity was without entity, without a defined state of being. If man has lost perfection, he has lost his Principle, has lost Mind. If man ever existed without a Principle, or Mind, then being was a myth.

The relations of God and man, Divine Principle and its idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from or return to harmony, but holds the divine order, or spiritual law, to have ever been