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Rh sense, but not in any anthropomorphic sense. Therefore man, reflecting God, cannot lose his individuality; but as

material sensation, or a soul in the body, blind mortals do lose sight of spiritual individuality. Material personality is not realism; it is not the reflection or likeness of Spirit, the perfect God. Sensualism is not bliss, but bondage. For true happiness, man must harmonize with his Principle, divine Love; the Son must be in accord with the Father, in conformity with Christ. According to divine Science, man is in a degree as perfect as the Mind that forms him. The truth of being makes man harmonious and immortal, while error is mortal and discordant.

XXVI. Christian Science demonstrates that none but the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel

teaches. In proportion to his purity is man perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life's spiritual ideal.

XXVII. The true idea of man, as the reflection of the invisible God, is as incomprehensible to the limited senses

as is man's infinite Principle. The visible universe and material man are the poor counterfeits of the invisible universe and spiritual man. Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the spiritual and eternal.

XXVIII. Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule

of health and holiness in Christian Science, and you ascertain that this Science is demonstrably true, for it heals the sick and sinning as no