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Rh serpent, insists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying, “I will make you as gods;” that is, I will make error itself to be as real and eternal as Truth.

Error affirms itself in mind, and declares that there is more than one Mind. Error says: There shall be lords and gods many. I declare that God makes minds and spirits, and makes them both evil and good. Truth shall change sides, and be the opposite of Spirit. I will put spirit into what I call matter, and it shall seem to have life, as much as God, Spirit, who is Life.

This error has led to bad results. Its life is found to be not Life, but only a transient sense of existence,

which ends in death. Error charges its lie to Truth, and says: The Lord knows it. He has made man mortal and material, out of matter instead of Spirit. Thus error partakes of its own evil, and utters its Amen. If we regard mind as both good and evil, every supposed material pain and pleasure seems normal, a portion of God's plan of creation, and weighs against our course Spiritward.

When the divine Mind made man, that Mind gave him dominion over all the earth. He was not created

from a material basis, or bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made. His government is in the higher law of Mind, in spiritual statutes.

Above error's awful din, blackness, and void, the voice of Truth still calls: “Adam, where art thou?

Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwell mg in the belief that Mind is in matter, and that evil is mind? or art thou in the living faith that there can be no other mind but God, and keeping His