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464 human illusions. If Soul sinned, it would be mortal; for sin is mortality's self, inasmuch as it kills itself. Error must be mortal, being the antipodes of Truth, if Truth is immortal. Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for sin is not the eternal verity of Being.

Question. — What is the Scientific statement of Being?

Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, or substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness: hence, man is spiritual and not material.

Question. — What is Substance?

Answer. — That only which is eternal, and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are

Substance, as the Scriptures use this word in such a text as this, from Hebrews: “The Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Spirit — the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God — is Substance; that is, the only real Substance. The spiritual universe, including man, is a compound, yet individual, idea, reflecting the divine Substance of Spirit.

Question. — What is Life?

Answer. — Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, without beginning and without end. Eternity, not time,

expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases when the other is recognized. One is finite; the other is forever infinite.