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190 of human error, which correspond with it. These senses indicate the common human belief, — namely,

that life, substance, and intelligence are a unison of matter with spirit. This is Pantheism, and carries within itself the seeds of all error.

If man is both mind and matter, the loss of one finger would take away some quality and quantity of the man; for matter and man would be one.

What is wrongly termed mind sees only what it believes, and believes only what it sees, — what the

material senses declare. This mortal belief, mis-named man, says: “Matter has intelligence and sensation. Nerves feel. Brain thinks and sins. The stomach can make a man cross. Injury can cripple and matter kill.” This verdict of the so-called five senses victimizes mortals, taught, as they are by physiology and pathology, to revere those five personal falsities, which are destroyed by Truth, through spiritual sense and understanding.

The lines of demarcation between immortal man, representing Spirit, and mortal man, representing the error

that life and intelligence are in matter, show the pleasures and pains of matter to be myths, and human belief in them to be the father of mythology, wherein matter is represented as divided into intelligent gods. Man's genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is good and true; for man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit. The inebriate believes there is pleasure in intoxication. The thief believes he gains something by stealing, and the hypocrite that he is hiding himself. The