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192 theorizes that spirit is born of matter and returns to matter, and has a resurrection from dust; whereas Science unfolds the eternal verity, — that man and angels are spiritual reflections of God.

Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for

the immortal. Either here or hereafter, suffering or Science must destroy all illusions about life and mind, and annihilate material sense and self. The old man, with his deeds, must be put off. Nothing sensual or sinful is immortal. The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man, and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal.

The so-called pleasures and pains of material sense perish; and they must go out under the blaze of Truth,

spiritual sense, and the actuality of Being. Mortal belief must, through Science or suffering, lose all satisfaction in error and sin, in order to part with them.

Whether mortals will learn this here or hereafter, and how long they will suffer the pangs of fiery destruction, depends upon the tenacity of error.

The knowledge obtained only from the corporeal senses leads to sin and death. When the testimony of Spirit

and matter. Truth and error, seem to commingle, they rest upon foundations which time is wearing away. Mortal mind judges by the evidence from the material senses, until Science obliterates this false testimony. An improved belief is one step out of error, and aids in understanding the situation in Christian Science.