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| 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- |
| 1 | fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal |
| | man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour |
| 3 | saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man |
| | healed the sick.]]] Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom |
| | of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. |
| 6 | Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself |
| | spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect |
| | nor material. |
| 9 | Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal |
| | senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but |
| | Christian Science reveals man as the idea of | Material
body never
God's idea |
| 12 | God, and declares the corporeal senses to be |
| | mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science |
| | shows it to be impossible that a material body, though |
| 15 | interwoven with matter's highest stratum, misnamed |
| | mind, should be man,--the genuine and perfect man, |
| | the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. |
| 18 | Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated. |
| | Question.--What are body and Soul? |
| | Answer.--Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the re- |
| 21 | flection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, |
| | Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelli- | Reflection
of Spirit |
| | gence of man, which is individualized, but not |
| 24 | in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to |
| | Spirit. |
| | Man is the expression of Soul. The Indians caught |
| 27 | some glimpses of the underlying reality, when | Man
inseparable
from Spirit |
| | they called a certain beautiful lake "the smile |
| | of the Great Spirit." Separated from man, |
| 30 | who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man, |
| | divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is, |
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