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Rh Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, with no element of self-destruction. Is man lost spiritually? No, he

can only be lost materially. All sin is of the flesh. It cannot be spiritual. Sin exists only so long as the material illusion remains. It is the sense of sin, and not the sinful soul, which must be lost.

Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense, and mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a

sense of temporary loss or absence of soul. This state of error is the mortal dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is directly opposite to the immortal reality of Being. So long as we believe that soul can sin, or that immortal Soul is in mortal body, we can never understand the Science of Being. When humanity does understand this Science, it will become the law of Life to man, — even the higher law of Soul, which prevails over material sense, through harmony and immortality.

The objects cognized by the physical senses have not the reality of Substance. They are only what mortal belief calls them. As mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelligence, — matter, sin, and mortality lose all supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence. But the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by these phases of mortality.

How true it is that whatever is learned through material sense must be lost because it is reversed by the

facts of Science. That which material sense deems shadow is found to be Substance. What it deems substantial becomes nothingness, when the sense-dreams vanish, and reality appears.