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Rh and death; and who shall say whether Truth or error is the greater?

The sensations of the body must either be the sensations of mortal mind or of matter. Which are they?

Is it not provable that matter has no sensation? Is it not equally capable of proof that matter exists in human belief only, and not in the spiritual understanding of Being?

The sensation of sickness and sin exists only in belief. When a tear starts, does not mortal mind produce the effect seen in the lachrymal gland? Without this so-called mind, the tear could not appear. This action of the mind shows the nature of mortal cause and effect.

It should no longer be said in Israel that “the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set

on edge.” Sympathy with error should disappear. The transfer of the thoughts of one erring mind to another would only serve to prolong discord and illusion.

If it be true that nerves have sensation, that matter has intelligence, that its organization causes the eyes to

see and the ears to hear, then, when the body is dematerialized, those faculties must be lost, for they are not immortal as Mind; whereas the fact is that only through dematerialization can these faculties be conceived of as immortal.

Nerves are not the source of pain or pleasure. We suffer or enjoy in our dreams, but this pain or pleasure is not communicated through a nerve. A tooth extracted sometimes aches again in belief, and the pain seems to be in its old place. A limb amputated has