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208 The senses look on a corpse, not as man, but simply as matter. Men say, “The body is dead;” but this death is the departure of a mortal mind, and not of matter. The matter is there still. The consent of that mortal mind to depart occasions its departure; yet you say that matter has died.

People go into ecstasies over the idea of a corporeal Jehovah, though with scarcely a spark of love in their

hearts; yet God is Love, and without God, immortality cannot appear. Mortals try to believe without understanding Truth, yet God is Truth. Mortals claim that man must die, when his divine Principle is ever-present Life. Mortals believe in a finitely human God; when God is Love, that must be demonstrated.

Our theories are based on finite premises, which cannot penetrate beyond matter. A limited sense of God

and of man's capabilities necessarily limits faith and hinders understanding. It divides faith and understanding between matter and Spirit, the finite and the Infinite, and so turns away from the Infinite and healing Principle to the inanimate drug.

Jesus' spiritual origin, and his demonstration of divine Principle, richly endowed him, and entitled him to

sonship in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and proper translation of the Greek), may be rendered “Jesus the anointed,” — Jesus the God-crowned, or the divinely royal man; as it is said of him in the first chapter of Hebrews: