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478 Human thought has adulterated the meaning of the word soul, through the hypothesis that soul is both an

evil and a good intelligence, resident in matter. The proper use of the word soul can always be gained by substituting the word God, where the deific meaning is required. In other cases, use the word sense, and you have the Scientific signification. As used in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with sense.

Question. — Is it important to understand these explanations, in order to heal the sick?

Answer. — It is, since Christ is the Way and the Truth, casting out all error. Jesus called himself the

Son of Man, but not the Son of Joseph. As woman is but another name for man, he was literally the Son of Man. Jesus was the highest human concept of a perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, — the divine idea of God, outside the flesh. This also enabled him to demonstrate, above all other men, his control over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of old this dual appearing, and they whisper it, through faith, to the hungering heart in every age.

Sickness is part of the error which Truth casts out. Error will not expel error. Christian Science is the law

of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind, or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind is not a healer, but creates the belief in disease.

Here comes in the question, How do drugs, hygiene,