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184 The suppositional warfare between Truth and error is only the mental conflict between the testimony of the

spiritual senses and the evidence of the material senses, and this warfare will continue till every question between them shall be settled through faith and the understanding of Love.

Superstition and understanding can never combine. The latter destroys the former. Before the physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between Truth and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the Prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, must be carried on to its end. The lightnings and thunderbolts of error must continue to burst and flash; but as the tumult dies away in the distance, the raindrops of divinity will refresh the earth.

The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life

is God, Good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless not to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, material; that Life is not subject to death; that the real man has no consciousness of material life or death.

Science reveals the glorious possibilities of man,

unlimited by the mortal senses. The Christ-element in the Messiah made him the Way, Truth, and Life.

In eternal Truth mortals lose what they have learned from error, and man's true existence as a child of God comes to light. Truth, demonstrated, is eternal Life. Mortal man can never rise from the temporal débris of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns