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like his creator If God is Spirit, man,
In His likeness, must be spiritual II
God is Truth, man, as the image Of
God, must be truthful, honest, sincere.
If God is Love, man. in his true ma.
ture, must be loving. gentle, kind,
compassionate. II God is Life, man
must be and is the living image Of
life. This man, the true man, the only
real man, Is not subject to chance
nor change. lie Is as changeless as
his eternal Pr 'nciple. lie is not the
victim of lack nor of limitation. He
reflects the infinite abundance of
Spirit or God. He is not doomed to
decrepitude and dissolution. He exists
forever at the eternal noontide Of Be-
ing. He Is always at the standpoint
of limitless opportunity. activity, and
supply
In the second chapter Of Genesis
there is, however, an account of ere.
alton which presents a very different
picture OF man. 1t says. the Lord God
formed man of the dust of the ground
and breathed into his nostrils the
breath OF life" Later 1t states that
the Lord made woman out of RI
which he had taken from the side of
man, and this, in spite of the fact
that in the first chapter 1t says. God
created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male
and female created he them" Both oi
these accounts Of creation could not
Of course, be correct, for they are con
Trajectory. Viewed from the stand
point of spiritual creation as it Is re
corded in the first chapter of Genes's
the story beginning in the second chap
ter is seen TO be entirely inconsistent
and illogical. Christian Science show
sis second account TO be an allegory
written for the purpose OF describing
a false, materialistic sense of the rea
spiritual creation. This, however, !:
the account about which we hear mos
frequently, even from theologians
probably because it seems to coincide
with our everyday experience; that Il
il we view existence from the stand
I point OF material sense.
From the material point of view
man seems to be nothing but an or
ganism, with mind inside of 1t,
mere machine controlled by sup
posed intelligence, which is invisible
and which has never been satisfac
torily explained by human philosophy
Someone may be thinking, why, th'
explanation Is very simple. The brail
is the seat of mans intelligence, ant
| II, through the nervous system, con
trolls and regulates the functions AM
| faculties, the movements and action
Of the human body But what mad
the brain intelligent? What gave
the power to think and to direc
telligence that is supposed to be Il
the brain. and how do we know tina
1t is there? Many people in the Orien
believe the seat of intelligence to b
In the stomach and it might just a
well be there as in the brain, for ther
is no essential difference between tn
kind Of stuff that constitutes the ston
ach and that which constitutes tn
brain. Under chemical analysis the
would both yield exactly the sam
product. The difference, then Is on
Of belief only. and the fact is ths
neither the bra II nor the stomach ca
originate the least bit of real INTEL
ge"ce.
On page 46S Of Science and Healt
, Mrs. Eddy says. there is no lif
truth. intelligence, nor substance
matter. All is infinite Mind and Il
. infinite manif cstation, for God is A
mall" This statement may see
startling to some of you, but 1t is I
: more startling nor radical than Il
5 declaration of Jesus, ut Is the Spr
Q that quickeneth, the flesh prolific
: nothing To the physical senses ms
: ter seems real and substantial, b
/ these senses cannot testify truly, ev,
$ of things In their own realm. Pa
: evidently knew this for he said, "Tl
r things which are seen are not MAJ
:, of things which do appear" and
S modern college professor has said
d material objects that all we knC
g about them Is that they are not VIII
e they seem to be. Mrs. Eddy agre
8 that matter is not what it seems to
n but she does not leave the subje
u there and say that is all we can knt
IS about 1t. She explains what matter
y that II exists only as false, fleeti
81 concept of the human mind, as a 81
O. ject.ve state of mortal thought, or
e. lief But Christian Science does +
It take matter away from us and lea
H. nothing in its place. for on page z
e