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10 In this third degree mortal mind disappears. Science so reverses the evidence before the corporeal human

senses as to make this Scriptural testimony true in our hearts, “the last shall be first, and the first shall be last,” that God and His idea may be to us — what divinity really is, and must of necessity be — all-inclusive.

A correct view of Christian Science, and its adaptation to healing, includes vastly more than is at first

seen. Works on Metaphysics leave the grand point untouched. They never crown the mental power as the Messiah; nor do they carry the day against physical enemies, — even to the extinction of all belief in matter, evil, disease, and death, — and insistence upon the fact that God is all, therefore matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind.

Christian Science strongly designates the thought

that God is not corporeal, but incorporeal, — that is, bodiless. Mortals are corporeal, but God is incorporeal.

As the words person and personal are commonly and ignorantly employed, they often lead, when applied to Deity, to confused and erroneous conceptions of divinity, and its distinction from humanity. If the term personality, as applied to God, means infinite personality, then God is personal Being, — in this sense, but not in the lower sense. An infinite Mind and a finite form do not, cannot, coalesce.

The term individuality is also open to objections, because an individual may be one of a series, one of many, as an individual man, individual horse; whereas God is one, — not one of a series, but one alone and without an equal.