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490 is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian Science dispute this error.

Will-power is but a product of belief, and this belief commits depredations on harmony. Human will is an

animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul. Hence it cannot govern man aright. Christian Science reveals Truth and Love as the motive-powers of man. Will — blind, stubborn, and headlong — cooperates with appetite and passion. From this cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its powerlessness, since all power belongs to God, good.

The Science of Mind needs to be understood. Until it is understood, mortals are more or less deprived of

Truth. Human theories are helpless to make man harmonious or immortal, since he is so already, according to Christian Science. Our only need is to know this and reduce to practice the real man's divine Principle, Love.

“Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings.” Human belief — or knowledge gained from the so-called

material senses — would, by fair logic, annihilate man along with the dissolving elements of clay. The scientifically Christian explanations of the nature and origin of man destroy all material sense with immortal testimony. This immortal testimony ushers in the spiritual sense of being, which can be obtained in no other way.

Sleep and mesmerism explain the mythical nature of material sense. Sleep shows material sense as either

oblivion, nothingness, or an illusion or dream. Under the mesmeric illusion of belief, a man will think that he is freezing when he is warm, and that he