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552 the egg or the bird? Is answered, if the egg produces the parent. But we cannot stop here. Another question

follows: Who or what produces the parent of the egg? That the earth was hatched from the “egg of night” was once an accepted theory. Heathen philosophy, modern geology, and all other material hypotheses deal with causation as contingent on matter and as necessarily apparent to the corporeal senses, even where the proof requisite to sustain this assumption is undiscovered. Mortal theories make friends of sin, sickness, and death; whereas the spiritual scientific facts of existence include no member of this dolorous and fatal triad.

Human experience in mortal life, which starts from an egg, corresponds with that of Job, when he says, “Man

that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.” Mortals must emerge from this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward and upward. But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild with freedom and so be self-contradictory.

From a material source flows no remedy for sorrow, sin, and death, for the redeeming power, from the ills

they occasion, is not in egg nor in dust. The blending tints of leaf and flower show the order of matter to be the order of mortal mind. The intermixture of different species, urged to its utmost limits, results in a return to the original species. Thus it is learned that matter is a manifestation of mortal so mind, and that matter always surrenders its claims when the perfect and eternal Mind is understood.

Naturalists describe the origin of mortal and material