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256 found to be equally possible for the body. Then Being will be recognized as spiritual, and death will be obsolete; though now we insist that death is the necessary prelude to immortality.

In dreams we fly to Europe and meet a far-off friend. The looker-on sees the body in bed, but the supposed

inhabitant of that body carries it through the air and over the ocean. This shows the possibilities of thought. Opium and hashish eaters mentally travel far and work wonders; yet their bodies stay in one place. This shows what mortal mentality and knowledge are.

The admission to one's self that man is God's own likeness, sets one free to master the infinite idea. This

conviction shuts the door on death, and opens it wide towards immortality. The understanding and recognition of Spirit must finally come, and we might as well improve our time in solving the mysteries of Being, through an apprehension of Principle. At present we know not fully what man is; but we certainly shall know this when man reflects God.

The Revelator tells us of “a new Heaven and a new earth.” Have you ever pictured this Heaven and earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme Wisdom?

Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated from God, and obey only the divine Principle, Life and Love. Here is the great point of departure for all true spiritual growth.

It is difficult for the sinner to accept Divine Science,

because it exposes his nothingness; but the sooner error is reduced to its native nothingness, the sooner man's great reality will appear, and his