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462 one Truth, one Love; and this is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Omni is adopted from the Latin adjective, signifying all. Hence God combines all-power, or potency, all-science, or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifestations of Christian Science indicate Mind, not matter, and have but one Principle.

Question. — What are spirits and souls?

Answer. — To human belief, they are personalities of Mind and matter, Life and death, Good and evil, Truth

and error; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent opposites, as Christian Science reveals, — neither dwelling together nor assimilating. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. The one is limitless; the other is limited. One is intelligent; the other is non-intelligent. Moreover, one is real, and the other is unreal. This last statement contains the point you will most reluctantly admit, although it is the most important to understand, first and last.

The term souls, or spirits, is as improper as the term gods. Soul, or Spirit, signifies Deity, and nothing else.

There is no finite soul or spirit. Those terms mean only one existence, and cannot be rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and Jewish theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence, soul, and life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism are the outcome of these man-made beliefs. The Science of Christianity comes with fan in hand, to separate the chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright; and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration, and its divine Principle, making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually.