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Rh hereafter, in what men call Paradise, but here and now; for it is the great fact of Being, for time and eternity.

What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness

of Truth, but man's counterfeit, the likeness of error, sin, sickness, and death. The unreal claim of mortal mind to be the true image of man's Maker is illustrated by the optical line of incidence, which takes always the opposite direction from the line of reflection.

Is God a physical personality? Spirit is not physical, the idea that mind is within the cranium is a false

conception of intelligence. The time has come for this finite conception of the Infinite, and a material body, as the seat of mind, to give place to a diviner sense of Mind and its manifestations, — to the better understanding that Science gives of the Supreme Being, or divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love.

By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour, but not as the saving Principle, we shall continue to seek salvation

through pardon, and not through reform, and resort to matter, instead of Spirit, for the cure of the sick. As mortals reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher platform, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from divine Principle, how to demonstrate the Christ as the healing and saving power.

It is essential to understand, instead of believe, what relates most nearly to the happiness of Being. To seek Truth through belief in a human doctrine is not to understand the Infinite. We must not seek the immutable