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Rh be unseen, though the belief which reproduces itself is unconscious of its effects, — than they should deny the existence of the sunlight when the orb disappears, or doubt that the sun will reappear.

We call the body material; but it is as truly mortal mind, according to its degree, as the brain which is

supposed to furnish the evolution of all mortal things. Mortal mind, by an inevitable perversion, makes all things start from the lowest instead of the highest mortal thought. The reverse is the case with all the formations of the immortal Divine Mind. They proceed from the Divine Source; and so, in tracing them, we constantly ascend the scale of infinite Being.

From human belief comes the reproduction of the species, — first inanimate, and then animate mind. According to mortal thought, the development of embryotic mind commences in the lower, basal thought of mortals, and goes on in an ascending scale by evolution, keeping always in the direct line of matter.

Next we have the formation of embryotic belief, afterwards so-called mortal man. All this while matter is ignorant of itself, ignorant of what it is supposed to produce. The belief saith, an inanimate unconscious seedling is producing both body and mind; and yet mind is not found in brain or elsewhere in matter.

This embryotic and materialistic belief in turn fills

itself with thoughts of pain and pleasure, of life and death, and arranges itself into five senses, which presently measure belief by the size of a brain, called mind, and the bulk of a body, called matter.

Human birth, growth, maturity, and decay are as the