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Rh that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensation are in the body should be overcome by the understanding of what constitutes man, then the body will be immortal; and spirit will have overcome the flesh.

A wicked man is not the idea of God. He is little else than a creation of error. To suppose that hatred,

envy, pride, malice, hypocrisy, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick or sinful.

The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still overcomes death, proves the King of Terrors to be but

a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a mortal illusion; for to man, and the spiritual universe, there is no death-process.

The belief that matter has life results, by the universal law of mortal mind, in a belief in death. So man, tree, and flower are supposed to die; but the fact remains, that the entire universe is spiritual and immortal.

The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are opposites; but the spiritual is true, and therefore

the material must be untrue. Life is not in matter, so that it cannot be said to pass out of it. Matter and death are but mortal illusions. Spirit, and all things spiritual, are the real and eternal.

Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, — of Life, not of death. Because Life is God, it must be eternal, self-existent, — the everlasting, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase.