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cannot kill the soul, and God sees not the body, which is the product of our thought and is substance only to our soul, but to God we live the same as before.

That man (soul) is the thought of God, is not true, neither is it true that God is in man (soul), nor could man be a portion of God; because a part would be as good as the whole, and man is not as good as God. But that man (soul) is the reflection (opposite or unlike in quality) of the Thought of God, is a truth, because, when understood, it cannot be contradicted. God and his Thought are unchangeable and cannot be separated, because they are co-existent and co-eternal. Soul (man) and its thought are changeable and can be separated, therefore, soul is the reflection of, or opposite in quality to the Thought of God; yet if soul recognizes God its Substance, and holds to God or is governed by the immortal Understanding, it will hold its existence forever with God.

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God's thought of the universe is an immortal, unchangeable Thought; it being the expression of Spirit, Perfection; and the spiritual universe (the life of the material universe and the soul of man) is the reflection of that Thought. God is limitless Light, and the Thought of God is the expression of that Light, inseparable from the Light. The Light casts through the expression a reflection or shadow which, while it has the appearance of light, is the opposite of it in quality. Thus God, Spirit, is immortal and unchangeable, and man (soul) the reflection, is the opposite in quality, mortal and changeable. The material universe (all matter and the body of man) is the visible appearance or coarser fabric of this reflection.

Immortal Thought is Spirit Thought or the unchangeable Thought of God, and soul or man can perceive the Thought of God. This conscious perception of God and his Thought, which the soul is capable of pos

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sessing, we call spiritual thoughts of the soul, because they are like unto spirit Thought, although the opposite in quality to spirit Thought. They cannot be contradicted because they are of unchangeable Truth; they are the soul's true and unchangeable apprehension of Spirit, its Thought, and spiritual things, and they are obtained by reasoning from an unchangeable basis which cannot be broken by any argument.

Twelve, as the product of three multiplied by four, is an unchangeable apprehension of truth, and therefore cannot be contradicted. That the earth revolves around the sun is an unchangeable, therefore a spiritual thought, for wherever we are, in whatever condition or state of mind we may be, that fact remains the same. That God is outside of soul or man is also a spiritual thought, for it is true and can never be changed; if we think or dream differently from that, we shall find that we were wrong, and that God apart from man is the true,

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therefore the spiritual, thought. That soul is the reflection of the highest Idea of God is a spiritual thought, because God is perfect, his Idea perfect, and the reflection of hist Idea, being the opposite in quality, can be imperfect; therefore, man (soul) is changeable, God (Spirit) is unchangeable. Thus all thoughts from demonstrable truth which cannot be changed, are spiritual and are known to God.

Next we have thoughts which are mortal or changeable, and most of these are familiar to you. All mortal or changeable thoughts are imaginations, beliefs and opinions founded on the evidence, or coming through the medium of matter or the personal senses (the absence of spirit Senses). As for instance the thought that the sun moves around the earth; this is a mortal or changeable thought because it is not true, not known to God, and has been and will be destroyed. So, also, the thought that man is the Idea of God is mortal or changeable, and is not known

to God and not true, because God is unchangeable and his Idea must be unchangeable also; while man, the reflection of that Idea, is very changeable. Sin, sickness and death are changeable thoughts not known to God, and will be destroyed because in heaven (harmony) there is no discord, sin, sickness nor death.

Jesus said death was the last

enemy to be destroyed.

The thought that the material body is substance, is a mortal thought not known to God, because the body is changeable and decays. The scriptures say, "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither can corruption inherit incorruption." That matter is the cause of anything, is a mortal thought not known to God, and must be destroyed, because matter cannot act of itself. Life is the cause of all things because life is the only actor and is known to God. The scriptures teach us that all material things are the lust of the eye and the pride of this life, which are not of the

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