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Rh God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, spiritual. Christian Science attaches no

physical nature and significance to the Supreme Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do this. God's essential language is spoken of, in the last chapter of Mark's Gospel, as the new tongue, the spiritual meaning whereof is attained through “signs following.”

Ear hath not heard, nor hath lip spoken, the pure language of Spirit. Our Master taught spirituality

by similitudes and parables. As a divine student he unfolded God to man, illustrating and demonstrating Life and Truth in himself, and by his power over the sick and sinful. Human theories are inadequate to interpret the Principle underlying the miracles wrought by Jesus, and especially the mighty, crowning, and unparalleled miracle of his triumphant exit from the flesh.

Evidence drawn from the five physical senses relates solely to human reason; and, because of the opacity

of human reason to the true light, Jesus' works and words are dimly reflected and feebly transmitted thereby. Truth is a revelation.

Jesus bade his disciples beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, which he defined as human

doctrines. His parable of the “leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened,” impels the inference that the spiritual leaven signifies the doctrines of Christ, and the spiritual interpretation thereof, — an interpretation far higher than the merely ecclesiastical and formal applications of the illustration.