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| 1 | darkness, and the Scripture declares that there is "no |
| | night there." To Truth there is no error,--all is Truth. |
| 3 | To infinite Spirit there is no matter,--all is Spirit, divine |
| | Principle and its idea. |
| 6 | Answer.--Man is not matter; he is not made up of |
| | brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The |
| | Scriptures inform us that man is made in | Fleshly
factors unreal |
| 9 | the image and likeness of God. Matter is |
| | not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so |
| | unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and be- |
| 12 | cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so under- |
| | stood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of |
| | Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of |
| 15 | God, including all right ideas; the generic term for |
| | all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious |
| | identity of being as found in Science, in which man is |
| 18 | the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; |
| | that which has no separate mind from God; that which |
| | has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which |
| 21 | possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his |
| | own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. |
| | And God said: "Let us make man in our image, after |
| 24 | our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish |
| | of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, |
| | and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that |
| 27 | creepeth upon the earth." |
| | [[[Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The |
| | real man cannot depart from holiness, nor | Man
unfallen |
| 30 | can God, by whom man is evolved, engender |
| | the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not |
| 1 | God's man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals.]]] |
| | They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil, |
| 3 | which declares that man begins in dust or as a material |
| | embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are |
| | inseparable as divine Principle and idea. |
| 6 | Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed. |
| | Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life |
| | and intelligence are in matter, and that | Mortals are
not immortals |
| 9 | this matter is man. God is the Principle of |
| | man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not |
| | mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and im- |
| 12 | mortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only |
| | and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen chil- |
| | dren of God. They never had a perfect state of being, |
| 15 | which may subsequently be regained. They were, from |
| | the beginning of mortal history, "conceived in sin and |
| | brought forth in iniquity." Mortality is finally swallowed |
| 18 | up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must dis- |
| | appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal |
| | man. |
| 21 | Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual |
| | status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood. |
| | Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal | Imperishable
identity |
| 24 | man: "As for man, his days are as grass: as |
| | a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind |
| | passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall |
| 27 | know it no more." |
| | When speaking of God's children, not the children of |
| | men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;" |
| 30 | that is, Truth and Love reign in the real | The kingdom
within |
| | man, showing that man in God's image is |
| | unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per- |
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