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Rh The invisible Principle of the universe must interpret it. God is the Principle of all that represents Him, and of all that really exists. Divine Science, as demonstrated by Jesus, alone reveals a natural and divine Principle in Science.

Matter, and its claims to sin, sickness, and death, are contrary to God, and cannot emanate from God. There is no material Truth. The physical senses can take no cognizance of God and spiritual Truth. Human belief has sought out many inventions, but not one of them can solve the problem of Being, without the Principle of Divine Science. Deductions from material hypotheses are not Scientific. They differ from real Science in not being based on Mind.

Divine Science reverses the testimony of the material senses, and thus tears away the foundations of error.

Hence the enmity between Science and the senses, and the impossibility of attaining perfect understanding, till the errors of sense are eliminated.

The so-called laws of matter and medical science have never made mortals whole, harmonious, and immortal. Man cannot be harmonious, if not governed by Soul. Hence the importance of understanding the Science of Being, which reveals the laws of spiritual existence.

God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual law. If there were such a law, it would annul the

supremacy of Mind and wisdom of the Creator, Jesus walked on the waves, fed the hungry, healed the sick, and raised the dead, in direct contradiction to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, as against the false claims of material law.

Science shows that material views, conflicting mortal