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Rh be substance to us, — the erring, changing, and dying, the mutable and mortal, or the unerring, immutable, and immortal? A New Testament writer plainly describes faith, a quality of mind, as “the substance of things hoped for.”

The doom of matter establishes the conclusion that

matter, slime, or protoplasm never originated in the immortal Mind, and is therefore not eternal. Matter is neither created by Mind nor for the manifestation and support of Mind.

Ideas are tangible and real to immortal consciousness,

and they have the advantage of being eternal. Spirit and matter can neither coexist nor co-operate, and one can no more create the other than Truth can create error, or vice versa.

In proportion as the belief disappears that life and intelligence are in or of matter, the immortal facts of being are seen, and their only idea or intelligence is in God. Spirit is reached only through the understanding and demonstration of eternal Life and Truth and Love.

Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and medicine is more or less infected with the pantheistic

belief that there is mind in matter; but this belief contradicts alike revelation and right reasoning. A logical and scientific conclusion is reached only through the knowledge that there are not two bases of being, matter and mind, but one alone, — Mind.

Pantheism, starting from a material sense of God, so seeks cause in effect, Principle in its idea, and life and intelligence in matter.