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is unchangeable and man (soul) is very changeable; neither could God be in soul, because God is limitless and man (soul) is limited; but God beholds the soul and sustains it, independent of the matter. Matter is not substance to God, for he sees through the matter, and we cannot hide from the eyes of the Lord. God sees the soul,

and knows whether it be in unison with him or not, although we cannot see God; just as we can see our reflection in a glass, and see whether it move in accordance with us, but it cannot see us. We have a material body, like the soul in outline, which is sustained by the soul, and which is to us substance, but our reflection is to us shadow, exactly the opposite in quality to our body; so soul (man) is the image, in outline, of the Thought of God, and, therefore the likeness or opposite in quality. If our reflection in the mirror should produce to itself a substance body, we could not see that body because there would be no reality

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to it, except to our reflection; so God cannot see that which the reflection of his Thought has produced to itself, and which is a substance and reality only to that reflection or soul.

To God, the matter which seems so real to us, is the absence of his Substance. Nothing that we do is hidden from the Lord, because soul is, in every case, the actor, and God sees the soul. You may say if God does not see matter he does not see everything, but you must remember that matter is only the product of the thought of the soul; it is the coarser fabric of the soul only, and if God should see matter he would see something which he did not make, and he made all that was made; therefore, he would be perceiving the absence of something (nothing), or that which appears only, to have been made. If matter were something, when we die and lay aside this body we should lose something, and consequently be so much less than we were before; but

you say that we are better for laying aside this body; thus, in many things, the ideas accepted by the people, unconsciously to them, contradict one another. Again, if you say this is a book, and I say it is not, my thought or utterance is a lie, or the absence of the truth, and there is nothing to know, or to wish to be known about it; it is simply nothing: so with the material body, it is the product of the thought of the soul, which is called by that soul "substance"; but it is in reality, that is, to God, only the absence of Substance, and there is nothing about it for God to see or know, since it only exists. through the thought of the soul.

Suppose you were dreaming; it is your life or soul that dreams, not the body, and it has a body in the dream, which is the product of the thought of the soul, and as real in the dream to the soul, as the body which it possesses in the waking state; and the soul is entirely unconscious of the material body. But when you wake you find

that your body took no part in the adventures of the dream, but that your soul or life was there alone without your body, and that that which you saw as substance in your dream, was only the product of a thought of the soul, and could not be seen when you awoke, because the thought changed, and, therefore, the product disappeared. After we pass the change called death, we shall find that our soul alone was here, and held a thought of a body, and the product of that thought appeared to us as substance; but we shall have a thought of a body there, and have the body also, according to that thought. St. Paul said, "Every seed its own body." Thus, there are different bodies according to the seed (thoughts) sown by the soul. The purer or more spiritual the thoughts of the soul, the finer or more transparent the product or body will be; and the more impure or material the thoughts of the soul, the grosser or more dense material will the body be, but both

are matter, as stone and glass are both matter, but one is transparent or less gross than the other. When all material thought is destroyed in the soul and the thought is become spiritual, it will have a spiritual body according to that thought, and be with God in eternity. God sees the spiritual body (soul) which inherits eternal life, but does not see matter.

Again, suppose reflections in a glass could, and should imagine that they had bodies that were substance, and one should cut another's throat; we, knowing that reflections are shadows, could not comprehend or enter into their imaginations. They would always remain shadows to us, and whatever change they might pass through as among themselves, they would remain to us as they were cast or as they appeared to our material eye, without change. So God, seeing us as we really are, without recognition of the product of our thoughts and fears, sees no change in us when we are dead; for man

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