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Rh Question. — What is the Science of Soul?

Answer. — The first demand of this Science is, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” This Me is

Spirit. Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” It should be well understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this becomes apparent, and the true brotherhood of man will thus be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other mind but the one perfect intelligence to guide him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also in Christ.

Recollect that Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and God as not in man, but as reflected by

man. The greater cannot be in the lesser. Such a belief is an error that works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Mind, that Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not confined in man, and is never in matter. We reason imperfectly, from effect to cause, when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit through matter.

Reasoning from cause to effect, in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood

through the idea which expresses it, and can not be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we arrive at Truth, or Intelligence, which evolves its own unerring idea, and never can be co-ordinate with