Part 14 (2/2)

and the unreality of materiality.

Law is never material: it is always mental and moral, and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobey moral law, and are punished. Human wisdom therefore can get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]

need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be- lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence the verdict of experience: We have need of _these_ things; we have need to know that the so-called pleasures and pains of matter-yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]

tion-are _unreal_.

_”__And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,_ _That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when_ _the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,_ _ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the_ [25]

_twelve tribes of Israel.__”_ (Matt. xix. 28.) _What is meant_ _by regeneration?_

It is the appearing of divine law to human under- standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritual sense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]

called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in

[Page 74.]

Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]

noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi- fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the false sense of generation, but the human will, and the un- natural enmity of mortal man toward G.o.d. It quickly [5]

imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being, and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en- throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; and judges, through the stern mandate of Science, all human systems of etiology and teleology. [10]

_If G.o.d does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was_ _”__the way, the truth, and the life,__”__ cognize it?_

Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]

was to translate substance into its original meaning, Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the water into wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raised the dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of his own tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]

quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking the wave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter is substance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup- position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize or express pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]

was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated the lifelessness of matter, and the power and permanence of Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of the world.

If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]

substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that

[Page 75.]

is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]

garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was ”the way;”

since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through a human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possible earthly development. [5]

_Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and that_ _Soul is not in the body?_

_First:_ I urge this fundamental fact and grand verity of Christian Science, because it includes a rule that must be understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]

ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and G.o.d is Spirit.

There is but one G.o.d, and the infinite is not within the finite; hence Soul is one, and is G.o.d; and G.o.d is not in matter or the mortal body.

_Second:_ Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]

term should seldom be employed except where the word _G.o.d_ can be used and make complete sense. The word _Soul_ may sometimes be used metaphorically; but if this term is warped to signify human quality, a subst.i.tution of _sense_ for _soul_ clears the meaning, and a.s.sists one to [20]

understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation, ””My _soul_ doth magnify the Lord,” is rendered in Sci- ence, ”My _spiritual sense_ doth magnify the Lord;”

for the name of Deity used in that place does not bring out the meaning of the pa.s.sage. It was evidently an [25]

illuminated sense through which she discovered the spiritual origin of man. ”The soul that sinneth, it shall die,” means, that mortal man (_alias_ material sense) that sinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view is that _soul_ is deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,-for [30]

Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human

[Page 76.]

<script>