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Unity of Good.

for the very opposite of this error is the genuine Science of Being.

Man, in Science, is as perfect and immortal now, as when “the Morning Stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy.”

With Christ, Life was not merely a sense of existence, but a sense of might and ability to subdue material conditions. No wonder “people were astonished at his doctrines, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the Scribes.”

As defined by Jesus, Life had no beginning; nor was it the result of organization, or of an infusion of power into matter. To him, Life was Spirit.

Truth, defiant of error or matter, is Science, dispelling a false sense, and leading man into the true sense of selfhood and Godhood; wherein the mortal does not develop the immortal, nor the material the spiritual, but wherein true manhood and womanhood go forth in the radiance of Eternal Being and its perfections, unchanged and unchangeable.

This generation seems too material for any strong demonstration over death, and hence can not bring out the infinite reality of Life, — namely, that there is no death, but only Life. The present mortal