to assert what we have not proved. Even such folly and presumption are among the environments of material sense which must perish, in order to prove man deathless.
As Truth supersedes error, and bears the fruits of Love, this understanding of Truth subordinates the belief in death, and demonstrates Life as imperative in the divine order of Being.
Jesus declares that they who believe his sayings will never die; therefore mortals can no more receive everlasting Life by believing in death, than they can become perfect by believing in imperfection, and living imperfectly.
Life is God, and God is Good. Hence Life abides in man; and man abides in Life, if he lives in God, who holds Life by a spiritual, and not by a material sense of Being.
A sense of death is not requisite to a proper or true sense of Life, but beclouds it. Death can never alarm or even appear to him who fully understands Life. The death-penalty comes through our ignorance of Life, — of that which is without beginning and without end, — and is the punishment of this ignorance.
