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482 of the word sense for soul gives the exact meaning in a majority of cases.

Human thought has adulterated the meaning of the word soul through the hypothesis that soul is both an evil

and a good intelligence, resident in matter. The proper use of the word soul can always be gained by substituting the word God, where the deific meaning is required. In other cases, use the word sense, and you will have the scientific signification. As used in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with sense, with material sensation.

Question. — Is it important to understand these explanations in order to heal the sick?

Answer. — It is, since Christ is “the way” and the truth casting out all error. Jesus called himself “the

Son of man,” but not the son of Joseph. As woman is but a species of the genera, he was literally the Son of Man. Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, — the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his control over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through faith, to the hungering heart in every age.

Sickness is part of the error which Truth casts out. Error will not expel error. Christian Science is the law

of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease.