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Rh Spirit and matter. In either case, one does not support the other.

Spiritualism calls one person, living in this world, material, but another, who has died to-day a sinner and supposedly will return to earth to-morrow, it terms a spirit. The fact is that neither the one nor the other is infinite Spirit, for Spirit is God, and man is His likeness.

The belief that one man, as spirit, can control another man, as matter, upsets both the individuality and

the Science of man, for man is image. God controls man, and God is the only Spirit. Any other control or attraction of so-called spirit is a mortal belief, which ought to be known by its fruit, — the repetition of evil.

If Spirit, or God, communed with mortals or controlled them through electricity or any other form of matter, the divine order and the Science of omnipotent, omnipresent Spirit would be destroyed.

The belief that material bodies return to dust, hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies with material sensations and

desires, is incorrect. Equally incorrect is the belief that spirit is confined in a finite, material body, from which it is freed by death, and that, when it is freed from the material body, spirit retains the sensations belonging to that body.

It is a grave mistake to suppose that matter is any part of the reality of intelligent existence, or that Spirit and

matter, intelligence and non-intelligence, can commune together. This error Science will destroy. The sensual cannot be made the mouthpiece of so the spiritual, nor can the finite become the channel of the infinite. There is no communication between