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116 in itself many other circles which are sons and daughters of God; and in these circles are again other smaller circles which are the ideas of men and women. These taken together constitute creation, it seems. God's ideas, which are men and women and their ideas which also are reflections of God, or God's children and grand-children, make up the created universe. There probably are no great-grand-children.

Mrs. Eddy says: It is a false conclusion to suppose “that there are two separate, antagonistic entities and beings, two powers, namely. Spirit and matter, — resulting in a third person (mortal man) who carries out the delusion of sin, sickness, and death;” “That which sins, suffers and dies, I named mortal mind;” “There is, strictly speaking, no mortal mind;” “Immortal man was and is God's image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immortal man is co-existent and co-eternal with that Mind. He has been forever in the eternal Mind, God;” “Harmonious and immortal man has existed forever, and is always beyond and above the mortal illusion of any life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter;” An “erroneous postulate is, that man is both mental and material;” “Man is the idea of God,