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100 All forms of error support the false conclusions that there is more than one Intelligence; that material history is as real and important as spiritual history; that mortal belief is as conclusively mental as immortal Truth; and that there are two separate, antagonistic entities and beings, two powers, — namely. Spirit and matter, — resulting in a third person (mortal man) who carries out the delusions of sin, sickness, and death.

The first power is admitted to be Good, an intelligence called God. The second power, evil, is the opposite of Good. It cannot therefore be intelligent, though so called. The third power, man, is a supposed mixture of the first and second powers, of Intelligence and non-intelligence, of Spirit and matter.

Such theories are evidently erroneous. They can never stand the test of Science. Judging them by their fruits,

they are corrupt. When will the ages understand the Ego, and see only one God, one Mind, or Intelligence?

False and self-assertive theories have given sinners the notion that they can create what God cannot, — namely, sinful mortality, usurping the name without the nature of Mind; but in Science it can never be said of a mortal, that he has a mind of his own, distinct from God.

The belief that God lives in matter is pantheistic. The error which saith Soul is in body. Mind is in matter, and Good is in evil, must unsay it, and cease from such utterances; else God will continue to be hidden from humanity, and mortals will sin without knowing that they are sinning, will lean on matter instead of Spirit,