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Rh If Soul could sin, or be lost, then Being and Immortality would be lost, with all the faculties of Mind; but

Being cannot be lost while God exists. Soul and matter are at variance, from the very necessity of their oppositeness. Mortals are unacquainted with the reality of existence, because matter and mortality do not reflect the facts of Spirit.

Spiritual vision is not subordinate to geometric altitudes. Whatever is governed by God is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of Intelligence and Life.

We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real as light; but natural science affirms darkness to be

only a mortal sense of the absence of light, at whose coming darkness loses the appearance of reality. So sin and sorrow, disease and death, are the suppositional absence of Life, God, and they flee as phantoms of error before Truth and Love.

With its divine proof. Science reverses the evidence of the senses at every point. Every quality and condition of mortality is lost, swallowed up in immortality. Immortal man is the antipodes of mortal man, in origin, in existence, and in his relation to God.

Socrates, because he understood the superiority and immortality of Good, feared not the hemlock poison.

Even the faith of his philosophy spurned physical timidity. Having sought his spiritual estate, he recognized the immortality of man. The ignorance and malice of the age would have killed the venerable philosopher, for his faith in Soul and his indifference to the body.