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170 opinions and beliefs, at all times emit the odor of error; but this atmosphere cannot be destructive to morals and

health when opposed promptly and persistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain existence. Knowledge gained from matter, and through the material senses, is only an illusion of mortal mind, — the offspring of bodily sense, not of Soul, Spirit, — and symbolizes all that is evil and perishable. Natural science, as it is commonly called, is not really natural or Scientific, because it is deduced from the evidence of the physical senses. Ideas, on the contrary, are born of Spirit, and are not mere inferences drawn from material premises.

The senses of Spirit abide in understanding, and they demonstrate Truth and Love. Hence Christianity, and

the Science which expounds it, are based on spiritual understanding, and treat as nothing all the products of material sense. What we term the five physical senses are simply beliefs of mortal mind, which affirm that life, substance, and intelligence are material, instead of spiritual. These beliefs, and their products, constitute error, and this error opposes the Truth of Being.

Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way positions in learning a Principle, and establishing its

rule by demonstration. The conventional firm, called matter and mind, God never formed. Unerring and eternal Mind destroys this imaginary copartnership, formed only to be destroyed, in a manner and at a period as yet unknown. This suppositional partnership is already obsolete; for matter, examined in the light of Christian Science, disappears.