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Rh the Kingdom of Heaven, or reign of harmony on earth." But the man Jesus was not unconscious of "matter conditions." Although, Mrs. Glover thought, He " experienced few of the so-called pleasures of personal sense; perhaps He knew its pains." This illustrated, also, that "Truth, in contact with error, produced chemicalisation." Chemicalisation, in Mrs. Glover's vocabulary, meant that when Truth and error, which cannot mingle, first come together, the contact of these two opposing forces, like the two parts of a Seidlitz powder, sets up a violent agitation and eruption. This is chemicalisation, and during its process Truth may sometimes seem to be affected by error, but when it subsides it is found that error is vanquished, and Truth has prevailed. "Hence," said Mrs. Glover, "our Master's sufferings came through contact with sinners; but Christ, the Soul of man, never suffered." She taught that "Had the Master utterly conquered the belief of Life in matter, He would not have felt their infirmities, but," she continued, "He had not yet risen to this His final demonstration."

The death on the cross is interpreted as a "demonstration" of "science." "He permitted them the opportunity to destroy His body mortal, that He might furnish the proof of His immortal body in corroboration of what He taught, that the Life of man was God, and that body and Soul are inseparable. . . . Neither spear nor cross could harm Him; let them think to kill the body, and, after this, He would convince those He had taught this science, He was not dead, and possessed the same body as before. Why His disciples saw Him after the burial, when others saw Him not, was because they better understood His explanations of the phenomenon." Christ had