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Rh serpent, under Wisdom's bidding, became a symbol of strength, a staff upon which to lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, when he discovered that what he apparently saw was really but a different phase of mortal belief.

It was Scientifically established that leprosy was a creation of mortal mind, and not matter, when Moses

first put his hand into his bosom, and drew it forth white as snow with the dread disease, and presently restored his hand to its natural condition, by the same simple process. God had lessened his fear by this proof in Christian Science, and the inward voice became to him the voice of God, which said: “It shall come to pass, if they will not hear thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter.” And so it was in the coming centuries, when the Science of Being was demonstrated by Jesus, who showed his students the power of Mind, by changing water into wine, and taught them how to handle serpents unharmed, to heal the sick, and cast out error. Then they understood the supremacy of Spirit.

When we change the standpoints of life and intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall gain

the perfect Life, or control of Soul over sense, and receive Christianity, or Truth, in its divine Principle. This must be the climax, before harmonious and immortal man is fully understood, and his capabilities shown. It is highly important — in view of the immense work to be accomplished before this recognition of Divine Science can come — to turn our thoughts in this direction, that finite belief may be prepared to relinquish its error.