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Rh Animal magnetism thus uncovers material sense, and shows it to be a belief without actual foundation. Change the belief, and the sensation changes. Destroy a belief, and the sensation disappears.

Material man is made up of involuntary and voluntary error, of a negative right and a positive wrong, — the latter calling itself right. Spiritual man is never wrong. He is the likeness of his Maker. Matter cannot connect mortals with the true origin and facts of Being, in which all must end. It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality, and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his Creator.

The belief that matter and mind are one, that matter is awake at one time and asleep at another, sometimes

presenting no appearance of mind, this belief culminates in another belief, — namely, that man dies. Science reveals material man as a dream at all times, and as never the real Being. The dream or belief goes on, while our eyes are closed or open. In sleep, memory and consciousness are lost from the body, whence they wander whither they will, with their own apparently separate embodiment.

Awake, we dream of the pains and pleasures of matter. Who will say, even though not understanding Christian

Science, that this dream — rather than the dreamer — may not be mortal man? Who can rationally say otherwise, when the dream leaves mortal man intact in body and thought, but the so-called dreamer is unconscious? For right reasoning