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156 true conception, or understanding, of man, and make ourselves like unto it, than the sculptor can perfect his outlines from an imperfect model, or the painter depict the form and face of Jesus, while holding in thought the character of Judas.

The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal.

Through many generations mortal beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God's creation will be seen as the only conception of Being.

Science reveals the possibility of every good achievement, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness desired, and bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one's wings, and ensures failure at the outset.

Mortals must change their ideals, in order to improve

their models. A sick body is evolved from sick thoughts. Evil, disease, and death proceed from false beliefs. Sensualism evolves bad physical as well as moral conditions.

Selfishness and sensualism are educated in mortal mind by the thoughts ever recurring to one's self, by conversation about the body, and by the expectation of perpetual pleasure or pain therefrom; and this education is at the expense of spiritual growth. If we array thought in mortal vestures, it must lose its immortal radiancy.

If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain. For Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; and for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this