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Rh it calls spirit; when the fact remains that neither the one nor the other corporeality is spiritual, for Spirit is one, and is God.

The belief that one man, as spirit, can control another man, as matter, upsets both the individuality and

Science of man. God controls all, as manifesting Mind, not matter. He is the only Spirit. Any other control or attraction of so-called spirit is a mortal belief, an error which ought to be known by its fruits, the perpetuity of evil.

If Spirit, or God, communed with or controlled mortals through electricity, or any other form of matter, this would destroy the divine order and the Science of omnipotent Mind.

The belief that material bodies return to dust, hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies, with material

sensations and desires, is incorrect. Equally incorrect is the belief that spirit is confined here in a finite, material body, from which it is freed by death, and that, when it is freed, the spirit retains the sensations belonging to the body.

It is a grave mistake to suppose that matter is any part of the reality of existence, or that Spirit and matter,

Intelligence and non-intelligence, can ever commune together. This error, progress in Science will destroy. The sensual cannot be made the mouthpiece of the spiritual, nor the finite become the channel of the Infinite. The gulf is impassable which separates so-called material existence from spiritual Life, which is not subject to death.

To be on communicable terms with Spirit, persons must be free from organic bodies; and their return to