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Rh else. God's Being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Like the archpriests of yore, man is free “to enter into the holiest,” — the realm of God.

Material sense never helps mortals to understand Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man comprehends

and loves Deity. The various contradictions of the Science of Mind, by the material senses, do not change the unseen Truth, which remains forever intact. The forbidden fruit of knowledge, against which Wisdom warned man, is the testimony of matter, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death, and good and evil to be capable of commingling. This is the significance of the Scripture concerning this Tree of Knowledge, — this growth of material belief, whereof it was said: “In the day when thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” Human hypotheses first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death; and then assume the necessity of these evils, because of their admitted actuality. These human verdicts are the procurers of all discord.

If Soul sins, it must be mortal. Sin has the elements of self-destruction. It cannot sustain itself. If sin is

supported, God must uphold it; and this is impossible, since Truth cannot support error. Soul is the divine Principle of man, and never sins. Hence the immortality of Soul. In Science we learn it is material sense, not Soul, which sins; and it will be found that it is the sense of sin which is lost, and not a sinful soul. When reading the Scriptures, the substitution of the word sense for soul, gives the exact meaning in a majority of cases.