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Rh are eternal; but creations of dust must return to dust. Error supposes man to be both mental and material. Divine Science contradicts this postulate, and rebukes material sense.

We call the absence of Truth, error. Truth and error, to human apprehension, are opposites. In Science,

Truth is God, and God has no opposite. He is all; therefore error is unreal. Did God create error? No! “Doth a fountain send forth, at the same place, sweet waters and bitter?” God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent, or suggest the absence of omnipotence? How can there be more than all?

Neither understanding nor Truth accompanies error; nor is error the offshoot of Mind. Evil calls itself

something, when it is nothing. It saith, “I am man, but I am not the image and likeness of God;” whereas the Scriptures declare that man was made in God's likeness.

Error is mortal belief, is illusion, without spiritual identity or principle, and has no real existence. The

supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter, or of it, is an error. Matter is neither a thing nor a person, but merely the objective representation of Spirit's opposite. The five material senses testify to truth and error as united in a mind both good and evil. Their false evidence must yield to Truth only, — to the recognition only of Spirit, and of a spiritual creation.

Truth cannot be contaminated by error. The statement that Truth is real, necessarily includes the correlated statement, that error is unreal.