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Rh To enmity's own hell of hatred, justice consigns the lie which would kill others, in order to satisfy itself.

The sinful misconception of Life, as something less than God, falls back upon itself, having no Truth to

support it. This error, after reaching the climax of suffering, yields to Truth and returns to dust; but it is only mortal man, not the real man, who is lost. The image of Spirit cannot be effaced, since it is the ideal of Truth, and changes not, but becomes more beautifully apparent at error's demise.

The material man is shut out by Divine Science from the presence of God, for the five corporeal senses cannot

take cognizance of Spirit. They cannot come into His presence, and must dwell in dreamland, until mortals arrive at the understanding that material life, with all its sin, sickness, and death, is an illusion, against which Science is engaged in a warfare of extermination. The great verities of existence are shut out by this falsity.

All error grows out of the evidence before the material senses. If man is material, and originates in an

egg, who shall say that he is not primarily dust? May not Darwin be right in thinking that apehood preceded mortal manhood? Minerals and vegetables are found, according to Divine Science, to be God's ideas, — creations of thought, not of matter. Did man, whom God created with a word, originate in an egg? When Spirit made all, did it leave aught for