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216 philosopher because of his faith in Soul and his indifference to the body.

Who shall say that man is alive to-day, but may be dead to-morrow? What has touched Life, God, to such

strange issues? Here theories cease, and Science unveils the mystery and solves the problem of man. Error bites the heel of truth, but cannot kill truth. Truth bruises the head of error — destroys error. Spirituality lays open siege to materialism. On which side are we fighting?

The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to

destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense. This understanding makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters. If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in submission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. The great mistake of mortals is to suppose that man, God's image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both good and evil.

If the decision were left to the corporeal senses, evil would appear to be the master of good, and sickness to be the rule of existence, while health would seem the exception, death the inevitable, and life a paradox. Paul asked: “What concord hath Christ with Belial?” (2 Corinthians vi. 15.)

When you say, “Man's body is material,” I say with Paul: Be “willing rather to be absent from the body,

and to be present with the Lord.” Give up your material belief of mind in matter, and have but one Mind, even God; for this Mind forms its