If man were solely a creature of the material senses, he would have no eternal Principle, and would be New man. mutable and mortal. Human logic is awry when it attempts to draw correct spiritual conclusions of life from matter. Finite sense has no true appreciation of infinite Principle, — God, — or of His infinite idea, or reflection, — man. The mirage, which makes trees and cities seem to be where they are not, illustrates the illusion of material man, who is not found in the image of God.
So far as the Scientific statement of Being is understood, it can be proven; and the true reflection of God — the real man, or the new man (as Paul has it) — will be brought to light.
The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the The tares and wheat. immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existing. These opposites are the tares and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest. In the harvest, Science separates the wheat from the tares, through the realization of God as ever present, and of man as reflecting the divine likeness.
Spirit is God, or Soul. Soul, or Spirit, is not within a cranium or in matter. If it were so, God would have The divine reflection. but one representative, that is, man, and man would be identical with God. The theory that soul, or spirit, dwells in matter is taught by theologians and physicians. This theory is pantheistic. Man reflects and expresses the divine Substance, or Mind; but God is not in His reflection, any more than
