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Rh and this unreal mortality disappears in presence of the reality.

Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness, — the material

mindlessness, which forms no link between matter and Mind, and destroys itself. Matter and mortal mind are different strata of human belief. The grosser substratum is named matter. The more ethereal is called human, or mortal mind, and is the illusion that is called mind in matter. Hence it has neither intelligence nor power. Both strata are false presentations of man.

This human mind has neither gases nor forces, whereby to counterfeit the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts. Electricity is some of the nonsense of error, which ever counterfeits the true essence of eternal Truth, — the great difference being that the former is unreal and the latter is real.

The vapid fury of mortal mind, expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity, shows

this so-called mind to be self-destructive. They counterfeit divine justice, and are called, in the Scriptures, “the anger of the Lord.” Really they signify His justice, in the self-destruction of error, and point to its opposite, the strength and permanency of Truth, whose supremacy is ever asserting itself. Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, Good, and the nothingness of evil.

The five physical senses are the avenues and