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472 man begins as a material embryo. In Divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable, as Principle and its idea.

Error, urged to its final limits, will be self-destroyed. It will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life and

intelligence are in matter, and that this matter is man. God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal or material. Mortals will disappear, and immortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen children of God. They never had a perfect state of Being, which may subsequently be regained. They were, from the beginning of mortal history, conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity. Mortals are material falsities. In the words of Paul, they are “without hope, and without God in the world.” They are errors, made up of sin, sickness, and death, which must disappear, to give place to the facts which belong to immortal man.

Learn this, oh mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual state of man, which is divine manhood, outside of all

material selfhood. Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal man: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.”

When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is within you;”

that is, Truth and Love reign in man, showing that man is unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld the perfect man, who appeared to him, where sinning mortal man appears to us; in this perfect man the