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312 How true it is that whatever is learned through material sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is

reversed by the spiritual facts of being in Science. That which material sense calls intangible, is found to be substance. What to material sense seems substance, becomes nothingness, as the sense-dream vanishes and reality appears.

The senses regard a corpse, not as man, but simply as matter. People say, “Man is dead;” but this death is the departure of a mortal's mind, not of matter. The matter is still there. The belief of that mortal that he must die occasioned his departure; yet you say that matter has caused his death.

People go into ecstasies over the sense of a corporeal Jehovah, though with scarcely a spark of love in their

hearts; yet God is Love, and without Love, immortality cannot appear. Mortals try to believe without understanding Truth; yet God is Truth. Mortals claim that death is inevitable; but man's eternal Principle is ever-present Life. Mortals believe in a finite personal God; while God is infinite Love, which must be unlimited.

Our theories are based on finite premises, which cannot penetrate beyond matter. A personal sense of God

and of man's capabilities necessarily limits faith and hinders spiritual understanding. It divides faith and understanding between matter and Spirit, the finite and the infinite, and so turns away from the intelligent and divine healing Principle to the inanimate drug.

Jesus' spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship