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198 be material instead of immaterial. Immortality is not

bounded by mortality. Infinity is not compassed by finiteness. Principle is not to be found in fragmentary ideas.

Mortal body and material man are delusions which spiritual understanding and Science explain. Yet the

identity of the real man is not lost, but found, through this explanation; for the conscious infinitude of existence is thereby discerned, and remains unchanged. That man should lose aught, when he has all, is impossible. The notion that mind is in matter, and in the pleasures and pains, the sin, sickness, and death of matter, is a mortal belief; and this belief is all that will ever be lost.

Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that the harmonious and immortal man has existed

forever, and is always beyond and above the mortal illusion of any life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter. This statement is based on fact, not fable. The Science of Being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect; because the Soul, or Mind, of man is God, the divine Principle of all being, and the real man is governed by this Soul, instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not of matter.

God is Love. He is therefore divine Principle, and man is God's image and likeness. His true consciousness is therefore in the mental, not the bodily likeness. Indeed, the body presents no proper likeness of divinity, though mortal mind would fain have us so believe.

Even in Christian Science, reproduction, by Spirit's individual ideas, is but the reflection of the creative