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Rh "It will teach him the difference between God and man, and between man and nature; and also the difference between the real and the apparent, and that between the apparent or unreal and the non-existent.

"It will teach him the correspondences between the Spirit and matter, and the true reason why we can say that matter has no properties, no sensations, no independent existence."

This is true; but he had just said, "the idealism upon which Christian Science is based can be immensely re-inforced by the spiritual philosophy of Swedenborg," which is not in the least true, as that idealism is represented by the Doctor in his subsequent pages. There is a philosophic idealism deducible from Swedenborg's writings, but there is in it no confusion of the Divine Spirit with the spirit of man, nor any confounding of the degrees of life, nor any denial of the reality of the phenomenal world of the senses, such as obtains throughout these pages, and belongs to the theories of Christian Science in general. And it will be seen that the very absence in Swedenborg of "the idealism upon which Christian Science is based," and the definiteness and reality of his distinctions between the Divine and the human, and between good and evil in the human mind and from the human mind in both worlds, is the only justification of the promise that his