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Rh Infinity. A mind originating from a finite or material

source must be limited and finite. Infinite Mind is the Creator, and creation is the infinite idea emanating from this Mind. If Mind is within and without all things, then all is Mind; and this definition is Scientific.

If matter, so-called, is substance, then Spirit, matter's

opposite, must be shadow; and shadow cannot produce substance. The theory that Spirit is not the only substance and creator is pantheistic heterodoxy, which ultimates in sickness, sin, and death. It is the belief in a bodily soul and a material mind, a soul governed by the body, and mind ruled by matter. This belief is pantheistic.

Mind creates its own likeness in ideas, and the Substance of an idea is very far from being the supposed substance of non-intelligent matter. Hence the Father Mind is not the Father of matter. The material senses and human conceptions would translate spiritual ideas into material beliefs, and say that an anthropomorphic god, instead of infinite Principle, is the Father of the rain, “who hath begotten the drops of dew,” bringeth “forth Mazzaroth in his season,” and guideth “Arcturus, with his sons.”

Finite mind manifests all sorts of errors, and thus proves the material theory of mind in matter to be the

antipode of Mind. Who hath found finite life or love sufficient to meet the demands of human want and woe, — to still the desires, to satisfy the aspirations? Infinite Mind cannot be limited to a finite form, or it would lose its infinite character as inexhaustible Love, eternal Life, omnipotent Truth.