I am glad to witness for it. From early life I have been subject to severe attacks of illness, — much of the time an invalid. I have been treated by many physicians without benefit. More than a year since, I was healed by your treatment. I am perfectly well.

M. F. WALLING,

98 TROWBRIDGE ST., CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

CHAPTER V.

THE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.

GOD is not the love, truth nor life that man realizes in himself or another; neither is God any portion of the things that are in part, or imperfect, that are seen, felt and tasted through our material senses. God is no part of the personal senses nor are they any part of him; because God is limitless and immortal, while man is limited and mortal. There is quite a difference between mortality and immortality: one is the opposite, in quality, of the other. The quality of the mortal, changeable love, truth and life, which we possess and realize in ourselves, is no portion of the quality of immortal Love, Truth and Life; it is the absence of it, because it is produced by the soul,

which is the opposite quality of God. All doctrines, beliefs and opinions have made a mistake in holding the changeable mortal love, truth and life to be immortal, in other words, to be the God or a part of him; while they are mortal or changeable. The doctrines, beliefs and opinions start from a changeable, mortal standpoint, and through reasoning in this channel they cannot reach an unchangeable understanding of Truth,

God. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

We will first show the different attributes of, or the difference in quality between the changeable and the Unchangeable, so that we may fully realize, and become familiar with the quality of Unchangeability. Man (changeable soul) says he has love, truth and life. The scriptures do not say that God

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has, but that God is Love, Truth and Life, therefore, unless man has God in him (and that we know is impossible) he does not possess the Love, Truth and Life of which the scriptures speak. It is necessary to explain what may appear to the reader to be very unimportant points, in order to show where the false reasoning began, for unless we see or realize the mistake, we shall never be able to correct it. The life that man possesses is changeable in quality; to-day it is not, to-morrow it is born, or cometh into the world ignorant of all materiality. It is then instructed in the material understanding, or understanding of man, and consequently away from Spirit and spiritual things. Hence the sayings of Jesus, "Verily I say unto you, except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." The life (soul) that we educate in the mate

rial understanding or knowledge, considers that it has wisdom, or that it knows something; but often, in extreme old age, this knowledge disappears, and at last man dies, and death overcomes life. Life that is God is unchangeable in quality; it is the same yesterday, to-day and forever; it always was, and always will be. Death is the absence of that Life, therefore, not produced by it. Death has no existence to God, and is only the absence of something. Life does not recognize its absence death as anything, any more than light produces or recognizes darkness; and as darkness is destroyed when it comes in contact with light, so death is destroyed when it comes in contact with a soul governed by the Understanding of unchangeable Life. The scriptures say, " Death is of the devil" (evil), "not of God" (Good). Jesus came to fulfil the Father's will, - destroy the works of the devil, and bring the understanding of eternal Life into the world.

The qualities or attributes of the so-called.