The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19
Virqi) o. Strick1er Lectures Or Christian Scienc

material cannot comprehend nor eognize the things of Spirit.
 IL is these material elements entering into the human mind that cause it to see everything as material and 10 think in terms of matter. By an inevitable re- versal it reduces everything 10 the dead level Of matter in order 10 comprehend it.
 It is due to this materiality that the human mind does not think of God wholly as Spirit. and therefore. in it's material belief. it reverses the nature and character of God and converts Him into a material man. Likewise, because Of this same material element the hu- man mind does not think of the kingdom of God as a spiritual state of conscious. ness, which Jesus declared lis within you,' and transforms it in belief into a material place somewhere in the sky with trappings of material spJendor such as one would expect to find in the pal aces of men,
 Since the human mind is prevented by it's own ateriality from comprehending God as Spirit and the Kingdom of heaven as a spiritual state of consciousness, it is equally prevented from thinking of man as spiritual. By reason of the same inevitable reversal it thinks of man as material, and hence sees him as such THE ADAM-MAN Bu- no matte how sincerely people may believe that God is a magnihed man, IseateJ upon material throne. and having material hatit.ition in q material place called heayen, such belief does not make it true. God is Spirit, and His universe 1 is wholly spiritual. There is not one ma terial element in Him nor in anything | thac He created. He did not create mat , ter in any forn, nor did He create q ma toria man. Gol created everything spirit ually and not materially, and the only 1 kind of man created by Him is he per fect spiritual laan, made in His own image and likeness. precisely as described in the first chapter of Genesis
 1 The Adam-mda is not the image If God an in the secop1 account of the creation | in the second chapter of Genesis it is nowhere stated that the Adam-man was made in Gods image and likeness, CT that he wa; made perfect. Those statements are to be found in the first chapter, and are Used in relation to the real man. But ir spite of this, people have gone | on believing that the Bible taugis that Adan. was maGe in Gods image ! teaching that :no, anything abost that even makes al attempt to explain the l difference between man and the Adam man aud it does explain it and makes the fact perfectly plain, by pointing out, as has already been sad that the Adam-nan | is merely the false material mis-concept of man. It is as though one were to look ! through green eyeglasses. As long as he 1 did so, everything would appear to be green. If he were to try to remove the green from object he could not do so, for the reason that the green was not in the object, though appearing to be :here but was in the lens through which ha looked at it. The only thing necessary for hnn to do in order to translate the entire sreen universe back into its nor
 nal aspect would be merely to take off the green lenses.
 In precisely the same way the material universe and material man are translated
 back iato the spiritual. where in fact they have always been, by merely taking off the material eyeglasses through which
 we have looked at them. If it were con
 cevaple that one could now rid himself of every material element in his mental
 ity, and of every sin and false belief so
 that nothing remained in his conscious
 ness except the spiritualized thought, he
 would not then see his fellow man as ma
 terial, rut would see him for what he
 really is, namely, the perfect spiritual
 child of God.
 From the foregoing consideration of the subject of man, and of the difference De- tween spiritual r,an and the so-called ma
 terial man, it is obvious that there arS
 cereain questions concerning the nature and character of matter that may be ey- amined with much profit.
 MATTER
 2 Since the material man is only th' lows that matter has no entity, anl is ii every case nothing but material though ? objectihed Christian Science shows tha
 there is no life, truth, intelligence, no
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