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202 life. Jesus taught them how death was to be overcome by spiritual Life, and demonstrated this beyond cavil.

Life demonstrates Life. The immortality of Soul makes man immortal. If God, who is the Soul of man,

were parted for a moment from His reflection, man, during that moment there would be no divinity reflected. The Ego would be unexpressed, and the Father would be childless, — no Father.

If Soul and its representative, man, unite only for a period, to be then separated, as by a law of divorce, to be brought together again at some uncertain future time, and in a manner unknown, — and this is the general religious opinion of mankind, — we are left without a rational proof of immortality. But man cannot be separated for an instant from God, whom he reflects. Science proves man's existence to be intact.

The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest as matter, are not more distinct or real to the material

senses than are the Soul-created forms to spiritual sense, wherein Life is permanent. Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, Life and its idea, — the universe, present and eternal.

Is God's man, spiritually created, material and mortal? Did he originate in nothingness and dust, and spring

from matter instead of Spirit? The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, the deep sleep, oblivion, and illusion, portrayed in the illusion that life and intelligence originate from and pass into matter. This pantheistic error, first called the