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   1  is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian
     Science dispute this error.
   3      [[[Will-power is but a product of belief, and this belief
     commits depredations on harmony. Human will is an
     animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul.

    Will-power
    an animal
    propensity

   6  Hence it cannot govern man aright. Chris-
     tian Science reveals Truth and Love as the
     motive-powers of man. Will--blind, stubborn, and head-
   9  long--cooperates with appetite and passion. From this
     cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its pow-
     erlessness, since all power belongs to God, good.]]]
  12      The Science of Mind needs to be understood. Until
     it is understood, mortals are more or less deprived of
     Truth. Human theories are helpless to make

    Theories
    helpless

  15  man harmonious or immortal, since he is so
     already, according to Christian Science. Our only need
     is to know this and reduce to practice the real man's di-
  18  vine Principle, Love.
         "Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings."
     Human belief--or knowledge gained from the so-called
  21  material senses--would, by fair logic, anni-

    True nature
    and origin

     hilate man along with the dissolving elements
     of clay. The scientifically Christian explanations of the
  24  nature and origin of man destroy all material sense with
     immortal testimony. This immortal testimony ushers
     in the spiritual sense of being, which can be obtained
  27  in no other way.
         Sleep and mesmerism explain the mythical nature of
     material sense. Sleep shows material sense as either
  30  oblivion, nothingness, or an illusion or dream.

    Sleep an
    illusion

     Under the mesmeric illusion of belief, a man
     will think that he is freezing when he is warm, and that he

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