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176 Matter is unknown in the universe of Mind. Symbols and elements of discord and decay are not products of

the perfect and eternal One. From the infinite light and harmony which are the abode of Spirit, only reflections of Good can come. Trees, plants, and flowers are ideas of Mind. Mind multiplies them, and the product can be only mental.

Finite belief can never do justice to Truth in any direction. It limits all things, and would compress Mind, which is infinite, beneath a skull-bone. Such belief can neither apprehend nor worship the Infinite, and seeks to divide the one Spirit into many, to accommodate its finite sense of the divisibility of soul and substance.

Through this error human belief comes to have “lords many and gods many.” Moses declared, as Jehovah's

first command of the Ten: “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me!” but behold the zeal of belief to establish the opposite error, of many deities. The argument of the serpent in the allegory, “I will make you as gods,” urges, through every avenue, the belief that soul is in body, and that God, infinite Life, is in finite forms.

Rightly understood, instead of possessing a sentient material form, man has a sensationless body; and

God, the Soul of man and of existence, is perpetual in His own individuality, harmony, and immortality, thus perpetuating these qualities in man.

The only excuse for entertaining human opinions, and rejecting the Science of Being, is our mortal ignorance of Spirit, — ignorance which yields only to the