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Rh The human mind must free itself from its self-imposed

bondage. It should no longer ask of the head, heart, or lungs: What is man's prospect for life? Mind is not helpless. Intelligence is not mute before non-intelligence.

By its own volition, not a blade of grass springs up, not a spray buddeth within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its fair outlines, not a flower starts from its cloistered cell.

The science of Being reveals man and immortality as based on Spirit. Physical sense defines mortal man as based on matter, and thence infers the mortality of the body.

The physical senses may cherish affinities with their opposites; but in Christian Science, Truth never mingles

with error. Mind has no affinity with matter, and 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.

We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon material things, and grasp the spiritual. We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ. Mortal beliefs are not spiritual. They come from the hearing of the ear, from corporeality instead cf Principle, and from the mortal instead of the Immortal.

Spirit cannot believe in God. Spirit 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