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Rh Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A copartnership of Mind with matter would ignore Mind.

This shows that matter did not originate in immortal Spirit, and is not eternal. Therefore it is neither substantial, living, nor intelligent. The starting-point of Science is that God, Spirit, is supreme, and that there is no other might or Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.

To grasp the reality and order of Being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God, Good, as the only

Mind, Life, Substance, and Intelligence. Life, Truth, Love, Good, are not mere attributes of Deity, but the highest terms we can employ to express our thought of God. They admit of no degrees of comparison. Nothing can be wiser than Wisdom or truer than Truth. Life, Love, and Good have no superiors. Goodness is not equal to Good, which is the Principle of goodness. Truth cannot be truer than Truth, nor love higher than Love.

Divine Metaphysics, as revealed to my understanding,

shows me that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — alias all power, all presence, all Science. Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.

All our merely human theories are destitute of Science. The true understanding of God is eternal. It robs the grave of victory. It takes away sin, and the delusion that there are other gods, other powers, such as disease, sin, and death, superior or contrary to the one omnipotent Good.

Truth, spiritually discerned, is Scientifically understood. It casts out error and heals the sick.