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184 early translators and copyists. "From the original quotations," wrote Mrs. Glover, "it appears the Scriptures were not understood by those who re-read and re-wrote them. The true rendering was their spiritual sense." And again: "The thirty thousand different readings given the Old, and the three thousand the New Testament, account for the discrepancies that sometimes appear in the Scriptures."

In the chapter called "Creation," Mrs. Glover stated that the Trinity as commonly accepted is an error. "There is but one God. . . . That three persons are united in one body suggests a heathen deity more than Jehovah. . . . Life, Truth, and Love are the triune Principle of man and the universe; they are the great Jehovah, and these three are one, and our Father which art in heaven." In later editions Christian Science is said to be the Holy Comforter.

The creation of the universe and man had its origin in this triune Principle. The creation was the Idea of Principle; and man and the universe began to exist, not at the moment they received visible form, but before that at the very moment, in fact, that the Idea of them occurred to Principle. "Intelligence" [that is, Principle], said Mrs. Glover, "made all that was made, and every plant before it was in the ground; every mineral, vegetable, and animal were ideas of the eternal thought." Their form was only a "shadowing forth" of what Principle or Intelligence had already mentally created; for all that was made and all that grew was not developed by natural law, but was literally ordered into being by the First Principle or Creative Wisdom: "The seed yields not an herb because of a propagating principle in itself; for there is none, inasmuch