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194 Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of Spirit, which dawn in faith, and glow full-orbed in the understanding.

As a cloud hides the sun it cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the voice of immutable harmony; but it cannot destroy Science armed with faith, hope, and understanding.

What is termed material sense can only report lies about Being, whereas spiritual sense can only bear

witness to the Truth. To material sense the falsehood is the fact, until this sense is corrected by Christian Science.

Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality. Material sense involves the belief that mind is in matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense of pleasure and pain, between hope and fear, between life and death, never reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal, or the unreal. When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat. Spiritual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle, and admit no materialistic beliefs concerning them. Spiritual ideas lead up to their divine origin, God, and the spiritual senses.

Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial

visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, pinions. They are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be. Human conjecture confers upon them its own forms of thought, marked with superstitious outlines, making them human creatures with