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438 of Personal Sense. I ask that he be forbidden to enter any more suits against Mortal Man, to be tried at the Court of Material Error. I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit, to restore to Mortal Man the rights whereof be has been deprived.

Here the counsel for the defence closed; and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with benign and imposing presence, comprehending and defining all law and

evidence, explained from his statute-book, the Bible, that any law is null and void if it undertakes to punish aught but sin.

He also decided that the plaintiff, Personal Sense, be not permitted to enter any suits at the bar of Soul, but be enjoined to keep perpetual silence, and, in case of temptation, to give heavy bonds for good behavior.

He concluded his charge thus:—

The plea of Belief we deem unworthy of a hearing. Let what Belief utters, now and forever, fall into oblivion, “unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.” According to our statute, Material Law cannot bear witness against Mortal Man; neither can Fear arrest him, nor Disease cast him into prison. Our law refuses to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him forever to be in the image and likeness of his Maker. Reversing the testimony of Personal Sense, and the decrees of the Court of Error in favor of Matter, Spirit decides in favor of Man, and against Matter. We further recommend that Materia Medica, Physiology, Health-laws, and Hypnotism, whose aliases are Oriental Witchcraft, Esoteric Magic, Mesmerism, be publicly executed at the hands of our sheriff, Progress.

The Supreme Bench decides in favor of Intelligence, that no law outside of divine Mind can punish Mortal Man. Your personal jurors, in the Material Court of Error, are myths.