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64 will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free, not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities of Life, or to study brainology in order to learn how much of a man he is.

Mind's control over the universe, including man, is no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science;

Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and practice of immortal Mind, by healing sickness and sin, and destroying the foundations of death.

Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to be combined matter and Spirit, — that Spirit is sifted

through matter, carried on a nerve, exposed to ejection by the operation of matter. Think of it! The intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, — yea, Mind, — subjected to non-intelligence!

No more sympathy exists between the flesh and Spirit than between Christ and Belial.

The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false beliefs in the presence of Intelligence and Life where Mind is not. This is the procuring cause of all disease. The opposite Truth — that Intelligence and Life are spiritual, never material — cures all disease.

The fundamental error lies in the supposition that man is a material outgrowth, and that the cognizance of good or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, constitutes his happiness or misery.

Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms to monkeys, and from monkeys into men.

amounts to nothing in the right direction, and very much in the wrong.

Materialism grades the human species as rising from the dust upward; but how is the material species