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546 myth, for man is immortal. The false belief that spirit is now submerged in matter, at some future time to be

emancipated from it, — this belief alone is mortal. Spirit, God, never germinates, but is “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.” If Mind, God, creates error, that error must exist in the divine Mind, and this assumption of error would dethrone the perfection of Deity.

Is Christian Science contradictory? Is the divine Principle of creation misstated? Has God no Science to

declare Mind, while matter is governed by unerring intelligence? “There went up a mist from the earth.” This represents error as starting from an idea of good on a material basis. It supposes God and man to be manifested only through the corporeal senses, although the material senses can take no cognizance of Spirit or the spiritual idea.

Genesis and the Apocalypse seem more obscure than other portions of the Scripture, because they cannot possibly be interpreted from a material standpoint. To the author, they are transparent, for they contain the deep divinity of the Bible.

Christian Science is dawning upon a material age. The great spiritual facts of being, like rays of light, shine

in the darkness, though the darkness, comprehending them not, may deny their reality. The proof that the system stated in this book is Christianly scientific resides in the good this system accomplishes, for it cures on a divine demonstrable Principle which all may understand.

If mathematics should present a thousand different examples of one rule, the proving of one example would