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194 was not altogether free from the universal illusion of personal sense. He was the Idea of Principle, it is true, "but born of woman, that is, having in part a personal origin, he blended the idea of Life, that is, God, with the belief of Life in matter, and became the connecting link between science and personal sense; thus to mediate between God and man."

Although Mrs. Glover wrote many a page to prove that Spirit and matter cannot unite and must forever be separate, and was almost violently emphatic in her statement of this principle, she seemed unconscious of the fact that, in making God the spiritual father of Jesus, and Mary His personal mother, and their producing together, the child in whom was "blended" the idea of God with the belief of Life in matter, she was contradicting at all points the very thing she was so laboriously trying to prove. But Mrs. Glover was never afraid of contradicting herself, and her explanation accounted, in some manner, for the origin and nature of Christ, and such as it was, it was made to serve her purpose.

It was, she said, the Son of God, or Christ, who "walked the wave and stilled the tempest," healed the sick, restored the blind, and declared that "I and the Father are one"; and it was Mary's son, or Jesus, who endured temptation, suffered in Gethsemane, and died upon the cross. "Christ, understanding that Soul and body are Intelligence and its Idea, destroyed the belief that matter is something to be feared and that sickness and death are superior to harmony and Life. His kingdom was not of this world, He understood Himself Soul and not body, therefore He triumphed over the flesh, over sin and death. He came to teach and fulfil this Truth, that established