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likeness of God, which the Book of Genesis describes as good and as having dominion over all the earth, is mental or spiritual, and not physical.
 For instance, if God is Love, as St John says, do not you and ex- press the image and likeness of Love in the degree that we think in terms of love, kindness, gentle ness, compassion, forgiveness, ct lcetera? If God is good, as Jesus said, do not you and l express the | image land likeness of good to the extent that we think in terms of goodness, purity, honesty, ct cetera? If God Is Spirit, as Jesus points out, is He not everywhere present and ever available the instant we turn to Him in thought and express Him in our thinking? The Bible also tells us that God Is our Life. If God is Life and if God is Mind, Is 1t not clear that life must De spiritual or mental and not mate rial or physical? When Jesus said, "The flesh profiteth nothing" he also said, Tt is the spirit that quickeneth." That is, 1t Is the un- derstanding of God as Spirit and man as spiritual that brings to us life eternal. For does not Jesus go right on to say, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life"? So, the man of Gods creating, the image and likeness of God, must be the con- scious expression of that Mind which is God, and this conscious | t1I. man of Gods creating can know nothing of matter or the dust man. | The true man must be the con- scious expression of Love and of Life and of Truth, Mind, purity, harmony, abundance, dominion. power, ct cetera. This conscious expression of God, or Mind, Mrs Eddy has called ideas of Mind. be- cause idea is the only medium through which Mind can be ex- pressed. So do you not see that the sons and daughters of God, or Mind, are right ideas and that you and I become children of God only to the extent that we express in our thinking those right or devine | ideas? For does not St Paul say,
 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God"? Explaining that sonship with God has nothing whatever to do with material birth.
 The Material Universe.
 But, someone may question:
 What about this Adam man, this man made from the dust of the ground? Does not the Bible say that the Lord God created man from the dust of the ground? Yes,
 the Bible does say that, but 1t says that after plainly stating that a mist arose which was responsible
 for this concept of creation. This material concept of creation, which
 includes the Adam man, is nothing more nor less a mistaken under standing of creation, an illusion, a dream, which exists in the minds
 of mortals as the result of the
 mist. Then comes the question,
 What is the mist? Let us see. In
 IICorinthians. St Paul has this to
 say: "For the things which are
 seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal"
 Meaning, of course, that the things
 which you and I cognize through
 the material process of seeing, feel
 ing, tasting, smelling, and hearing are not OI GOu anu uCIIC0 ioI tcdi. Now, all that can be cognized
 through the medium of the five physical senses is matter in one form or another. Nothing at all but matter can be seen. felt, tasted,
 smelled, or heard with ths mate- rial senses. Therefore. according to St Pauls statement that the things which are seen are tempor- all" the material universe. which
 can only be cognized through the
 material senses. Is not of God. If not of God, whence comes it. you say. What is it that makes it pos-
 sible for you and me to see. feel. taste. smell, and hear materially? !? When we have determined this we have explained the mist.
 In answering the question as to
 what constitutes the mist. Christian
 Science teaches that the material
 universe, which includes material
 man, is the product or manifesto
 tion of material thinking, or of
 what st Paul has termed the car
 nal mind, and that we see. feel
 taste, smell. and hear materially
 because we think materially. Mat ter and all things cognized through | a