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Rh Erroneous belief reverses every position of understanding and Truth. Hence it declares mind to be in and of

matter, and existence to be infinity entering man's nostrils, so that matter shall become spiritual. Error begins with corporeality as the producer, instead of divine Principle, and explains Deity through mortal and finite metaphors.

“Behold the man is become as one of Us.” This could not be the utterance of Truth or Science; for, according to the record, material man was fast degenerating, and never had been divine.

The condemnation of mortals to till the ground means this, — that they should so improve material belief as to

destroy it, by germs tending spiritually upward. Man, created by God, was given dominion over the whole earth. The notion of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory of man as evolved from Mind. Such fundamental errors send falsity into all human conclusions, and accord neither place nor privilege to Deity. Error tills the whole ground in this material theory, which is wholly a false view, destructive to existence and happiness. Outside of Christian Science all is vague and hypothetical, the opposite of Truth; yet this opposite impudently demands a blessing, in its false view of God and man.

The translators of this record of Scientific creation entertained a false sense of Being. They believed in the

existence of matter, its propagation and power. From that standpoint of error, they could not apprehend the nature and operation of Spirit. Hence the seeming contradiction in that Scripture, which is so glorious in its spiritual signification. Truth has but one