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188 When the last mortal fault is destroyed, then the final trump will sound which ends the battle of Truth

with error and mortality; but of “that day and hour, no man knoweth.” Here prophecy pauses. Divine Science alone can compass the heights and depths of Being, and reveal God.

Truth will be to us “the resurrection and the Life” only when it destroys all error, and the belief that Mind,

the only immortality of man, can be fettered by the body, and Life be controlled by death. Erring, sinful, sick, and dying men are not the likenesses of perfect and eternal Mind.

Matter is the primitive belief of mortal mind, because this so-called mind has no cognizance of Spirit. To mortal mind, matter is substantial, and evil is good. The senses of mortal mind are material, and its consciousness is dependent on material sense.

Jesus, explaining the origin of material man and mortal mind, said: “Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the Devil [evil], and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

This depraved mortality, misnamed mind, must become extinct, and so man would be annihilated, were it

not for the spiritual man's indissoluble connection with God, which Jesus brought to light. In his resurrection and ascension he showed that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood;