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Rh Euclid, and denies the principle of the problem, because he fails in his first effort.

There is no hypocrisy in Science. Principle is imperative. You cannot mock it by human will. Science

is a divine demand, not a human. Always right, its Principle never repents, never dishonors the claim of Truth by forgiveness. Through understanding it destroys error, but never pardons it. If men understood their real divine source to be all blessedness, they would struggle for recourse to the divine, and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mortal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to Truth.

Human resistance to Divine Science weakens in proportion as mortals give up error for Truth, and

the understanding of Being supersedes mere belief. Until the author of this book learned the vastness of Christian Science, the fixedness of mortal illusions, and human hatred of Truth, she cherished sanguine hopes that Christian Science would meet with immediate and universal acceptance.

When the following platform is understood, and the letter and the Spirit bear witness, the infallibility of Divine Science will be demonstrated.

I. God is supreme Being, the only Life, Substance, and Soul, the only Intelligence of the universe, including

man. Eye hath neither seen God, nor His likeness. Neither God nor the perfect man can be discerned by the human senses. The individuality of Spirit is unknown, and thus a knowledge of it is left either to human conjecture or the revelation of Divine Science.