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506 themselves a task impossible for them, that of distinguishing between the false and the true. Objects utterly unlike the original do not reflect that original. Therefore matter, not being the reflection of Spirit, has no real entity. Understanding is a quality of God, a quality which separates Christian Science from supposition and makes Truth final.

Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites understanding to eternal harmony. The calm and exalted

thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace. Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their

proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

Here the human concept and divine idea seem confused by the translator, but they are not so in the

scientifically Christian meaning of the text. Upon Adam devolved the pleasurable task of finding names for all material things, but Adam has not yet