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160 The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and earth are the fleeting thoughts of the human mind.

They have their day before the permanent facts appear, and their perfection in Spirit. The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, where the mental picture is real and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things. Where shall the gaze rest, but in the unsearchable realm of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our Being.

As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were

invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, and never in or of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, — finding all in Good, and needing no other consciousness. Spirit and its formations are the only realities of Being. Matter disappears under the microscope of

Spirit. Sin is unsustained by Truth, and sickness and death are thus proven to be forms of error. Life and blessedness are the only proofs of existence, whereby you can recognize it, and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.

When we learn our way in Christian Science, as to man's spiritual origin, we shall behold and understand God's creation, — all the glories of earth and Heaven and man.