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Rh Saviour saw God's own image and likeness, and this healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is universal, and man unfallen, pure, and holy. Man is not a material habitation for spirit; he is himself spiritual. Soul, being divine, is reflected in nothing imperfect, or unlike the infinite Soul.

Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but

Christian Science reveals him as the idea of God, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science shows it to be impossible that a material body, though interwoven with matter's highest stratum, mortal mind, should be man, the genuine and perfect man, — the immortal idea of Being, indestructible and eternal. Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated.

Question. — What are body and Soul?

Answer. — Identity is the reflection of Spirit, in multifarious forms of this living Principle. A material body

is a mortal belief, “dust to dust.” Soul is the Substance, Life, and intelligence of man. Soul is embodied, but not in matter, and can never be reflected in anything inferior to itself.

Man is the expression of God, Soul. The Indians caught some glimpses of the underlying reality, as when

they called a certain beautiful lake the Smile of the Great Spirit. Separated from man, who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity. Man, divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity; but there is, there can be, no such division, for man is co-existent with God, and God is Spirit.