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 rely solely on the force of human psychic power, subjectively exerted and untranslated into bodily or mechanical action.

The following quotations, selected from many of a like character, will illustrate the above statement:

I. "Matter and its claims to sin, sickness, and death, are contrary to God, and cannot emanate from God." "There is no material Truth." "Spirit—the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God—is substance; that is, the only real substance." "Knowledge gained from matter, and through the material senses, is only an illusion of mortal mind . . . and symbolizes all that is evil and perishable." "Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is true, except that matter is unreal, . . ." "All that we term sin, sickness, and death is comprised in a belief in matter." "Error alone presupposes man to be both mind and matter." "The five physical senses are the avenues and instruments of human error, which correspond with it."

II. "The Science of Being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect . . ." "A decided error is the belief that pain and pleasure, life and death, holiness and unholiness, min-