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| 1 | portion as mortals give up error for Truth and the un- |
| | derstanding of being supersedes mere belief. Until the |
| 3 | author of this book learned the vastness of | The hopeful outlook |
| | Christian Science, the fixedness of mortal illu- |
| | sions, and the human hatred of Truth, she cherished |
| 6 | sanguine hopes that Christian Science would meet with |
| | immediate and universal acceptance. |
| | [[[When the following platform is understood and the |
| 9 | letter and the spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine |
| | metaphysics will be demonstrated.]]] |
| | I. God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or |
| 12 | Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man. |
| | Eye hath neither seen God nor His image and | The deific supremacy |
| | likeness. Neither God nor the perfect man |
| 15 | can be discerned by the material senses. The individ- |
| | uality of Spirit, or the infinite, is unknown, and thus a |
| | knowledge of it is left either to human conjecture or to the |
| 18 | revelation of divine Science. |
| | II. God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be,-- |
| | Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine Principle, and divine |
| 21 | Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and | The deific definitions |
| | Mind is not both good and bad, for God is |
| | Mind; therefore there is in reality one Mind only, be- |
| 24 | cause there is one God. |
| | III. The notion that both evil and good are real is a |
| | delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. |
| 27 | Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power. | Evil obsolete |
| | As manifested by mankind it stands for a lie, |
| | nothing claiming to be something,--for lust, dishonesty, |
| 30 | selfishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery, |
| | murder, dementia, insanity, inanity, devil, hell, with all |
| | the etceteras that word includes. |
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