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110 If Enoch's perception had been confined to the evidence before his material senses, he could never have “walked with God,” or been guided into the demonstration of Life eternal.

Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from dust, is an object-lesson for the human mind. Like

Adam, the material senses return to dust, are proven erroneous. They go out as they came in, for they are still the error, not the Truth of Being. When it is learned that the spiritual sense, and not the material, conveys the impressions of Mind to man, then Being will be understood, and found to be harmonious.

We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts of God, like the pagan idolater. We fear and obey what

we consider a material body, more than we do a spiritual God. Modern knowledge, like the original Tree of Knowledge, multiplies our pains. Our illusions would rob God and slay man; and then would spread their table with cannibal tidbits, giving thanks meanwhile.

How transient a help is mortal sight, when a wound

on the retina may end the power of light and lens! but the sight or sense of what is real can never be lost. Neither age nor accident can interfere with the Soul's senses, and there are no other real senses. It is evident that the body has no sensation of its own, and that there is no oblivion for Soul or its faculties. Spirit's senses are without pain, and they are forever at peace. Nothing can hide from them the harmony of all things, and the might and permanence of Truth.