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Chapter 10 CREATION

Word Count: 3551    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

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into order and

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undation for accurat

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de a covenant wit

ty with human con

ense, mortals t

t God is corporeal

should

or physical fini

any true idea of t

seen Spirit, nor hat

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ht rises from the

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from the mortal t

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divine Principle,

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an the one eve

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limits of physical

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an stay His hand,

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physical combinatio

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and narrowness; it

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tles

cannot proceed fr

cannot present the

nfinity. A mind

ial source must

nd is the creator,

e or idea emanating

without all thing

s definition

is not

d, is substance, th

be shadow; and sh

The theory that

and creator is

mates in sickness,

a bodily soul and a

ody and a mind in

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lligent matter. He

ather of matter. Th

would translate sp

and would say that

infinite Principle, -

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bringeth "forth M

guideth "Arctur

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f Mind. Who hath

ent to meet the

till the desires, to

e Mind cannot be limi

its infinite charac

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physique

ire an infinite form

phrase /infinite f

s. Finite man cann

he infinite God. A

of God cannot embr

incorporeal Lif

d human cravin

holier, than i

f in a physical God

ief to supply the

f materia

y's ref

han a material form

ape from its e

mortal. Man re

eflection is the

an the infinite id

ning and rising hi

basis. Mind manifes

f Truth. We know

mage and likeness

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iple is reflected

duality, but the mat

zance of either Prin

re enlarged and pe

gains the true co

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ual per

ry imperfect sens

finite range of h

eternal Life.

were impossibl

od in eternal Scien

high

man di

sense you can di

s begin to compre

/man. /Man is not a

his individual

al Life; nor is he

epresents infinite

sta

ence, man is the tr

best expressed i

the truer reflectio

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which presented ma

g. The Christlike

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perfect God and pe

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ne image

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never beheld in ma

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s cannot be lost in

his, Jesus said

as your Father wh

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tal m

ransmits its own

r human illusions.

y, not materially

human concept

hence it is not

perfect, and endurin

rough divine Scien

nd demands spiritu

the end that they ma

su

nclusions as to m

perfection, one can

understanding of

an the sculptor can pe

, or the painter c

while holding in th

of J

ual di

f mortal, erring

all that is perfect

tions human belie

ceptions, and t

od's creation will

ly true conce

e possibility of a

work to discover w

rust of one's ability

g out better and hi

f one's wings and e

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change of

ge their ideals i

A sick body

ghts. Sickness,

fear. Sensual

nd moral c

and sensualism ar

hts ever recurrin

the body, and by

asure or pain from i

e of spiritual g

vestures, it mus

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ts are

body for pleasure,

; for Truth, we fin

posite, matter. Now

the body into

ple of all happi

thought steadfas

d the true, and y

rience proportionabl

ur th

lity

tal mind on healt

If one turns away fr

est as to forg

o pain. Under

ire to perform his pa

after night to go

nted task, walkin

est member of the c

hobbled every day

hair till his cue w

m as oblivious of ph

roform, though he w

his so-ca

e identi

from the body, or

elief, and you ma

d, and the nat

immortal. Break

me and sense, y

cts and ends of lif

our gaze on the reali

l consciousness of b

om the egg and pre

skyward

ulness

our bodies in rem

Good demands of

out the problem of

lessen man's depe

it. Neither does

bligations to

cessity of meeti

naught from the perf

entire glory. By p

ds," mortals "pu

thom the nature an

into the shallows o

eble flutterings -

h in matter - and ri

nses, above the mo

clearer, higher vie

each the absolute ce

is b

true

heard of Thee by

mine eye seeth The

, when the su

ter cease to pr

the false estimate of

attain the bliss o

and conquering all

a higher standpoint

t emits light witho

, there will you

nly th

on of mortal discor

egin rightly is to

seems to begin

sely. Divine Mind

stence. Cause does

nd, or in ph

n eg

gotists. They belie

s, personal author

inators of somet

ould not creat

e material. Immor

resents the tru

an a mis

blends his thoug

ual and works o

longer grope in t

se he has not

fraud us. They ma

e, - producing evil

ormity when he wo

ring those whom

neral mis-creator,

uch turns hope to

e might say in Bi

ould, I do not: but

that I

w cre

one creator, wh

to be a new creation

t idea of Trut

tion or self-d

as when some finite

zement and attemp

ini

ation of a human and

not creation. A s

hrown into the fa

se blindness instead o

sness of

true

of matter, the mo

re the fleeting conce

y before the perma

in Spirit appea

thought must f

rms which we somet

ne Mind, when the me

. Mortals must lo

ey would gain the t

e gaze rest but in t

look where we w

ssing all power f

have ou

compl

more correct vie

ects of creation,

e, will become

ife is Spirit,

rstanding will ex

ding all in God, good

ciou

proofs o

ations are the only

ears under the micro

d by Truth, a

ercome by Jes

e forms of error

e the only evidenc

stence and feel th

from an all-absor

way in Christian

tual being, we sha

ation, - all the glori

d

d grav

irit is peopled wi

nment is divine Sci

lowest, but of the

understands sp

as his treasur

d. Mortals must

s and aims grow spiri

etations of being,

ite, - in order th

ay be p

ense of being, fo

s suggests man's a

of his identity, but

y, a wider sphere o

love, a higher

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birth a

ent birth as unti

f man were a weed

ithered by the

s; but this is

man in God's imag

is perennial, and th

ole

ngs fr

the loss of human

es for spiritual joy?

comes even bef

to wisdom and

pes and pleasures br

rt. The pains of s

es of sense are mor

0 spi

ation o

e are salutary, i

beliefs and transp

Soul, where the crea

heart." Such

ith which Truth

place to man's high

st

of ad

nce without person

e time will come

t without sym

cuum is already

hour of developm

e of personal joys,

accept what best p

y and enemies will

nt to exalt you; f

rtunity." The author

y and its blessin

their fleshliness an

through self-abneg

way in Chris

his own hell by d

heaven by doing rig

al sense, aiding ev

the ve

fic p

follow Jesus' saying

nate the flesh. P

is heaven. Th

nate in mortals ar

reflects the beatif

light. Man is deat

or frailty. He does

st forever of Life,

the un

initude

n material thought w

whose substance is

ing of God start

st. They are in

so forever contin

ty is His oneness. G

cally man m

ceded that God is F

te. If this is so, th

prior to Adam. T

e." Hence man and

se coexist

sts understand th

he same authority

r that of brother an

all do the will o

same is my broth

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to eter

the light of divi

is detected upon

houghts and erron

ts of Truth.

igher source t

errors serve as waym

r disappears in c

"white and glisterin

en in this world, th

hite." "Blessed i

h] temptation: fo

ful], he shall recei

th promised to th

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