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466 of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power, which constitute Divine Science. The existence of more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry, which assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the spiritual presence of Life as eternal Truth, without an opposite error, and the loss of Love as ever present and universal.

Divine Science explains the abstract statement that there is one Mind only, by the following self-evident

proposition. If Good, or God, is real, then evil, the opposite of God, is unreal. Then evil can only seem real, by giving reality to the unreal. The children of God have out one Mind. How can Good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins? The standard of perfection was originally God and man. Has God taken down His own standard, and has man fallen?

God is the Principle of Man; and the Principle of man remaining perfect, its idea, or reflection, — man, —

remains perfect. Man is the expression of God's Being. If ever there was a moment when man expressed not this perfection, he could not have expressed God; and there would have been a time when Deity was without entity, Being. If man has lost perfection, he has lost his Principle, or Mind. If man ever existed without a Principle, or Mind, then his existence was a myth.

The relations of God and man, divine Principle and its idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no

lapse from or return to harmony, but holds the divine order, or spiritual law, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history, wherein God, and all which He creates, are perfect and eternal.