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SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE.
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ous; for both these conditions will be as normal and natural to changed mortal thought, and therefore as harmonious in their physical manifestations, as the prior states which human belief had created and sanctioned.

As human thought changes from one stage to another of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow, and joy, — fear, hope, and faith to understanding, — the visible manifestation of the latter will be man governed by Soul, not sense. Reflecting God's government man is self-governed, and cannot be controlled by other minds when subordinate to the divine Spirit, thus proving our theories about laws of health and hypnotism to be valueless.

The seasons will come and go, with changes of time and tide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. The The time and tide. agriculturist will find these changes cannot affect his crops. “As a vesture shalt Thou change them and they shall be changed.” The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars, he will look out from them upon the universe; and the florist will find his flower, before he beholds its seed.

Thus matter will be finally proven to be nothing but a mortal belief, wholly inadequate to affect man through Final nothingness. its supposed organic action or existence. Error will be no longer useful in proving Truth. The problem of nothingness, or “dust to dust,” will be solved, and mortal mind will be without form and void, for mortality will cease, when man beholds God's reflection, incorporeal individuality, as man seeth his face in a glass.

All Science is divine. Human thought never projected the least portion of true Science. Human belief