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112 Who shall say that man is alive to-day, but may be dead to-morrow? What has touched Life, God, to such

strange issues? Here theories cease, and Science unveils the mystery and solves the problem of man. Error bites the heel of Truth, but cannot kill it. Truth bruises the head of error, and crushes it. Spirituality lays open siege to materialism. On which side are we fighting?

The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that there is but one Mind or Intelligence, begins at once to

destroy the errors of mortal sense, and to supply the Truth of immortal sense. It makes the body harmonious. It makes the nerves, the bones, and the brain servants, instead of masters. If the body is governed by the higher law of Mind, its members are in submission to Life and Truth. The great mistake of mortals is to suppose that man is both matter and Spirit, both good and evil.

If the decision were left to the corporeal senses, evil would appear to be the master of Good, and sickness to be the rule of existence; while health would seem the exception, death the inevitable, and Life a paradox. Paul asked (2 Corinthians vi. 15): “What concord hath Christ with Belial?”

When you say, “Man's body is material,” I say with Paul: Be “willing rather to be absent from the body, and

to be present with the Lord.” Give up your belief of mind in matter, and have but one Mind, even God, and let this Mind form its own likeness. The loss of man's identity, through the understanding which Science confers is impossible; and the notion of