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Rh and sin, sickness, and death will diminish, until they finally disappear.

Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have but one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing its own models of excellence.

Let the male and female of God's creating appear. Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us

into newness of Life, and recognizing no mortal or material power as able to destroy, Let us rejoice that we are subject to the Divine “powers that be.” Such is the true Science of Being. Any other theory of Life, or God, is delusive and mythological.

Mind is not the author of matter, and the Creator of ideas is not the creator of illusions. Either there is no omnipotence, or omnipotence is All-in-all. The Infinite never began, and will never end.

Life, like Christ, is “the same yesterday and to-day and forever.” Organization and time have nothing to

do with Life. You say, “I dreamed last night.” What a mistake is that! The I is Spirit, which never slumbered or wandered into delusion. The mortal mind is the dreamer.

Sleep is a phase of the dream that life, substance, and intelligence are material. The mortal night-dream is sometimes nearer the fact of Being than are mortal thoughts when awake. The dream has less matter as its accompaniment. It throws off some material fetters. It falls short of the skies, but makes its mundane flights quite ethereal.