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Rh wrong thought should be arrested before it can be made manifest.

The varied doctrines and theories which presuppose life and intelligence to exist in matter are so many

ancient and modern mythologies. Mystery, miracle, and error will disappear when it becomes fairly understood that Spirit controls the body, and that man should have no other mind but God.

The Divine Science taught in the original language of the Bible came through inspiration, and needs inspiration to be understood. Hence the misapprehension of its spiritual meaning, and the misinterpretation of the Word, in some instances, by uninspired writers, who were only writing down what an inspired teacher had said. A misplaced word changes the sense and misstates the Science of the Scriptures; as, for instance, to name Love as merely an attribute of God; but we can, by special and proper capitalization, speak of the love of Love, meaning thereby what the Beloved Disciple meant in one of his epistles, when he said, “God is Love.” Likewise we can speak of the truth of Truth, and the life of Life; for Christ plainly declared, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

Metaphors abound in the Bible, and names are often expressive of spiritual ideas. The most distinguished

theologians in Europe and America agree that the Scriptures have both a spiritual and literal meaning. In Smith's Bible Dictionary it is said: “The spiritual interpretation of Scripture must rest upon both the literal and moral;” and in the learned article on Noah, in the same work, the familiar text, Genesis vi. 3, “And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not