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Rh Mind, supreme over all its formations, and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the Life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind. The material and mortal body, or mind, is not the man.

The world would collapse without Mind, without the Intelligence which holds the winds in its grasp. Neither philosophy nor skepticism can hinder the march of the Science which reveals the supremacy of Mind. The imminent sense of Mind-power enhances its glory. Nearness, not distance, lends enchantment to this view.

The compounded minerals or aggregate substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent

masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they must all give place to the spiritual fact, by the translation of man, alias the universe, back to Spirit. In proportion as this is done, will the universe be found harmonious and eternal.

Material substances, astronomical calculations, and all the paraphernalia of speculative theories, based on the hypothesis of life and intelligence resident in matter will ultimately vanish, swallowed up in the infinite calculus of Spirit.

Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God. It shows the superiority of faith by works over faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in “new tongues;” and these are interpreted in the translation of the spiritual original, into the language which human thought can comprehend.