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Rh ye cat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

This myth represents error as always asserting its superiority over Truth, giving the lie to Divine Science,

and saving, through the material senses: “I can open your eyes. I can do what God has not done for you. Bow down to me, and have another god. Only admit I am real, that sin and sense are more pleasant to the eyes than spiritual Life, more to be desired than Truth, and I shall know you, and you will be mine.”

The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the

dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true or real. First, this narrative supposes that something springs from nothing, that matter precedes mind. Second, it supposes that mind enters matter, and so matter becomes living, substantial, and intelligent. The order of this allegory — the belief that everything springs from dust, instead of from Deity — has been maintained in all the subsequent forms of error. This is the error, — that mortal man starts from dust, that non-intelligence becomes intelligence, that mind and soul are both right and wrong.

It is well that the upper portions of the brain represent the higher moral sentiments, as if Hope were ever

prophesying thus: Mind will sometime rise above all material and physical sense, exchanging it for spiritual perception, and exchanging human concepts for the divine consciousness. Then man will recognize his God-given dominion and Being.

If, in the beginning, man's body originated in