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| 1 | infinite image or idea emanating from this Mind. If |
| | Mind is within and without all things, then all is Mind; |
| 3 | and this definition is scientific. |
| | If matter, so-called, is substance, then Spirit, matter's |
| | unlikeness, must be shadow; and shadow cannot produce |
| 6 | substance. The theory that Spirit is not the | Matter is not
substance |
| | only substance and creator is pantheistic het- |
| | erodoxy, which ultimates in sickness, sin, and death; it is |
| 9 | the belief in a bodily soul and a material mind, a soul |
| | governed by the body and a mind in matter. This be- |
| | lief is shallow pantheism. |
| 12 | Mind creates His own likeness in ideas, and the sub- |
| | stance of an idea is very far from being the supposed sub- |
| | stance of non-intelligent matter. Hence the Father Mind |
| 15 | is not the father of matter. The material senses and |
| | human conceptions would translate spiritual ideas into |
| | material beliefs, and would say that an anthropomorphic |
| 18 | God, instead of infinite Principle,--in other words, divine |
| | Love,--is the father of the rain, "who hath begotten the |
| | drops of dew," who bringeth "forth Mazzaroth in his sea- |
| 21 | son," and guideth "Arcturus with his sons." |
| | Finite mind manifests all sorts of errors, and thus |
| | proves the material theory of mind in matter to be the |
| 24 | antipode of Mind. Who hath found finite life | Inexhaustible
divine Love |
| | or love sufficient to meet the demands of human |
| | want and woe,--to still the desires, to satisfy the aspira- |
| 27 | tions? Infinite Mind cannot be limited to a finite form, |
| | or Mind would lose its infinite character as inexhaustible |
| | Love, eternal Life, omnipotent Truth. |
| 30 | [[[It would require an infinite form to contain infinite |
| | Mind. Indeed, the phrase infinite form involves a con- |
| | tradiction of terms. Finite man cannot be the image and |
| 1 | likeness of the infinite God. A mortal, corporeal, or |
| | finite conception of God cannot embrace the glories of |
| 3 | limitless, incorporeal Life and Love. Hence | Infinite
physique
impossible |
| | the unsatisfied human craving for something |
| | better, higher, holier, than is afforded by a |
| 6 | material belief in a physical God and man. The insuffi- |
| | ciency of this belief to supply the true idea proves the |
| | falsity of material belief.]]] |
| 9 | Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, |
| | which must escape from its environments in | Infinity's
reflection |
| | order to be immortal. Man reflects infinity, |
| 12 | and this reflection is the true idea of God. |
| | God expresses in man the infinite idea forever develop- |
| | ing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from |
| 15 | a boundless basis. Mind manifests all that exists in |
| | the infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as |
| | the true divine image and likeness, than we know of |
| 18 | God. |
| | The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea |
| | and spiritual individuality, but the material so-called senses |
| 21 | have no cognizance of either Principle or its idea. The |
| | human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor- |
| | tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and |
| 24 | God. |
| | Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual |
| | man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him |
| 27 | belongs eternal Life. Never born and | Individual
permanency |
| | never dying, it were impossible for man, under |
| | the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his |
| 30 | high estate. |
| | Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of |
| | divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the |
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