Life is neither in nor of matter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which involves in itself all Substance, and is Life eternal. Matter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not limited. Death and finiteness are unknown to Life. If Life ever had a beginning, it would also have an ending.
Question. — What is Intelligence?
Answer. — Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the infinite Mind, the triune Principle, — or Life, Truth, and Love, — called God.
Question. — What is Mind?
Answer. — The only exterminators of error are the great truths that Good, or God, is the only Mind; that Infinitude and space. His opposite — called evil and devil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or truth. There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if we claimed no other, and accepted no other, sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit, although God is infinite, that evil has a place in this infinity; for it could have no place — where all space is filled with God — except in Him.
We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when admitting that God, or Good, is omnipresent, and has The sole governor. all-power, yet that there is another power, named evil. This belief, that there is more than one mind, is as pernicious to divine theology as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind, and that God, or Good, the brotherhood
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