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200 Understanding this, Paul said: “Neither life nor death, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor

depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.” This is the doctrine of Divine Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that Good can never produce evil, nor Life result in death. The perfect man — governed by God, his perfect Principle — has immortality, sinlessness, and everlasting bliss.

Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled by it, and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life of

man. His happiness is not, therefore, at the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful as in music, and discord is unnatural and repellent.

The principle of music governs tones. If mortals caught harmony through the ear — a material sense — they would lose it again, if time or accident robbed them of hearing. To be master of chords and discords, musical science must be understood. Left to the decisions of material sense, music is liable to be misapprehended, and run into confusion. Controlled by belief, instead of understanding, it is, must be, imperfectly expressed. So man, not understanding Science, — thrusting aside his divine Principle as incomprehensible, — is abandoned to conjectures, left in the hands of ignorance, placed at the disposal of illusions, subjected to the same material sense which creates discord. A discontented, discordant mortal is no more a man than discord is music.