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482 have no faith in falsehood when you have learned its true nature.

Suppose one accident happens to the eye, another to the ear, and so on, until every corporeal sense is

quenched. What is man's remedy? To die, that he may retain these senses? Even then he must gain the understanding of spiritual sense, in order to retain immortal consciousness. Earth's preparatory school must he improved to the utmost. Really, man never dies. The belief that he dies will not establish his Scientific harmony. Death is not the result of Truth, but of error, and one error will not correct another.

Jesus proved, by the prints of the nails, that his body was the same immediately after death as before. If

death restores sight, sound, and strength to man, then death is surely a better friend than Life. Alas for the blindness of belief, which makes harmony conditional upon death and matter, yet supposes Mind unable to produce harmony! So long as this error of belief remains, mortals will continue mortal in belief, exposed to the mercy of chance and change.

Sight, hearing, — all the senses of man, — are eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and

immortality are in Spirit and understanding, not in matter. Hence their permanence. If this were not so, man would be speedily annihilated. If five corporeal senses were the medium through which to understand God, then palsy, blindness, and deafness would place man in a terrible situation, where he would be “without hope and without God in the world;” but, as a matter of fact, these calamities often drive mortals to seek a higher sense of happiness and existence.