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Rh Mortal mind conceives of something as either liquid or solid, and then classifies it materially. Immortal and

spiritual facts exist above and beyond this mortal and material belief. Good is self-existent and self-expressed, though indefinable as a whole. Every step towards goodness is a departure from materiality, and is a tendency towards Spirit. Material theories partially paralyze this attraction towards infinite, harmonious, and eternal Spirit, by an opposite attraction towards the finite, temporary, and discordant.

Sound is a mental impression, made on human belief.

The ear really hears not. In Divine Science sound is communicated through the senses of Soul, in the spiritual understanding.

Mozart experienced more than he expressed. The rapture of his grandest symphonies was never heard.

He was a musician beyond what the world knew. This is even more strikingly true of Beethoven, who was so long hopelessly deaf. Mental melodies and strains of sweetest music supersede conscious sound. Music is the rhythm of head and heart. Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either harmony or discord, as the hand which sweeps over it is human or divine.

Before human knowledge dipped to its depths into a false sense of things, — into belief in material origins which discards the one Mind and true source of Being, — it is possible that the impressions of Truth were as distinct as sound, and that they came thus to the primitive prophets. If the medium of hearing is wholly spiritual, it is normal and indestructible.