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SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

that would make man mortal, and would make mortal mind a slave to the body, of which man should be the master.


Children. Love's spiritual thoughts and representatives; sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are God's thoughts, not in embryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of life, substance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science of Being.


Children of Israel. The representatives of Soul, not sense; the offspring of Spirit; such as are governed by Divine Science, — having wrestled with sin and sense, and having risen higher in the scale of being through great tribulation; part of the ideas of God, beheld as men casting out error and healing the sick; Christ's children.


Christ. Divine Principle, not person; Soul, outside the body; not the person of the man Jesus, but his eternal Spirit; the divine stepping-stone between God and His human children, who are His spiritual ideas reflected.


Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from Divine Principle.

The Church is that institution which affords proof of its utility, and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs, to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of Divine Science, — casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.