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| 1 | eternity is forever infinite. Life is neither in nor of mat- |
| | ter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which |
| 3 | includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Mat- |
| | ter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not |
| | limited. Death and finiteness are unknown to Life. If |
| 6 | Life ever had a beginning, it would also have an ending. |
| | Question.--What is intelligence? |
| | Answer.--Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, |
| 9 | and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality |
| | of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle,--Life, Truth, |
| | and Love,--named God. |
| 12 | Question.--What is Mind? |
| | Answer.--Mind is God. The exterminator of error |
| | is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and |
| 15 | that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind | True sense of
infinitude |
| | --called devil or evil--is not Mind, is not |
| | Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There |
| 18 | can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and |
| | if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, |
| | sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if |
| 21 | that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, |
| | when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a |
| | place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all |
| 24 | space is filled with God. |
| | We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when |
| | after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and |
| 27 | has all-power, we still believe there is another | The sole
governor |
| | power, named evil. This belief that there |
| | is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology |
| 30 | as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. [[[With |
| 1 | one Father, even God, the whole family of man would |
| | be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, |
| 3 | the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, |
| | and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which |
| | constitute divine Science.]]] The supposed existence of |
| 6 | more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This |
| | error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the |
| | spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an |
| 9 | unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and |
| | universal. |
| | Divine Science explains the abstract statement that |
| 12 | there is one Mind by the following self-evident propo- |
| | sition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the | The divine
standard of
perfection |
| | unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can |
| 15 | only seem to be real by giving reality to the |
| | unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How |
| | can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, |
| 18 | never sins? The standard of perfection was originally |
| | God and man. Has God taken down His own standard, |
| | and has man fallen? |
| 21 | God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle |
| | of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, |
| | man, remains perfect. Man is the expression | Indestructible
relationship |
| 24 | of God's being. If there ever was a moment |
| | when man did not express the divine perfec- |
| | tion, then there was a moment when man did not express |
| 27 | God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex- |
| | pressed--that is, without entity. If man has lost per- |
| | fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine |
| 30 | Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle |
| | or Mind, then man's existence was a myth. |
| | The relations of God and man, divine Principle and |
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