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Rh the word of the Psalmist, restored his Soul, — gave him the true sense of Being, and rebuked his material sense.

The result of his struggle thus appeared. He had conquered material error with the understanding of

Spirit and spiritual power. This changed the man. He was no longer called Jacob, but Israel, — a Prince of God, or a Soldier of God, who had fought a good light. He was to become the father of those who followed his demonstration of the power of Spirit over the material senses, through earnest striving; and the children of earth who followed his example were to be called the Children of Israel, until the Messiah should rename them. If these children should go astray, and forget that Life is God, Good, and Good is not in elements which are the opposite of Spirit, and thus lose the divine power which heals the sick and sinful, they were to be brought back through great tribulation, and led to deny material sense, even as the Gospel teaches.

The Science of Being shows it to be impossible for infinite Soul to be in a finite body, and man to be a

separate intelligence from his Maker. It is a self-evident error that there can be such a reality as organic animal or vegetable life, when it always ends in death; for Life is never for a moment extinct, is never structural or organic, and is never absorbed or limited by its own formations.

The artist is not in his painting. The picture is his thought evolved. The human belief fancies that it

delineates thought on matter; but what is matter? Did it exist prior to thought? Matter is made up of supposititious mortal mind-force, but