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and being unable to raise it, broke a pane of glass, and retired, feeling refreshed and cooled by the breeze which he supposed came in through the broken window. Our sense of smell serves us no better; we often think we smell something burning when such is not the case, and when we do smell something, we often cannot tell what it is, although it may be a familiar odor. Thus you see, these senses are all deceitful, and their evidence unreliable, and are, therefore, not to be depended on as a basis for a science or demonstrable truth. The senses are the life of man, and the life of man is the senses; for when the sense of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling are gone from a body, there is no life in it, and we call the body, not a man, but a corpse.

Now this life is what says that man is matter, yet also says, that a man weighing two hundred and fifty pounds is no more of a man than one weighing one hundred and fifty, contradicting itself without being aware

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of it; so this life goes on, giving one opinion and then contradicting that opinion with the next one, seeking out many inventions and never coming to the truth. This is the life that man says is Spirit (God) or a part of him, but can man be right in that opinion? God is unchangeable, knows all things and is never mistaken, and the life or soul of man is changeable. God is limitless, and man is limited; therefore, how could God be in man or a person?

Again some say that man is a thought of God; but how could that be? God is unchangeable and his thoughts must be unchangeable also, and man is very changeable. If the universe is a thought of God, and he is unchangeable, that must also be unchangeable, and we see it change. man is a thought of God, God adds all the time to his thoughts and these thoughts differ from one another, and never all agree; then, according to that, God is divided. against himself and is changeable, for his

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thought changes. "A kingdom divided. against itself cannot stand.” This could not be the God whom the scriptures declare to be unchangeable and perfect.

God is perfect, and his Thought must be perfect and could not be separated from him, neither could it become changeable; this is impossible, and if we should admit a portion of God in man, that portion, no matter how small, would be just as good as God or the whole. And if man had a portion of God in him (God being all-powerful) he could not become a drunkard, a liar and a thief. To say that God or any portion of him is in man, and every man a sinner, is robbing God of power over evil, and making him a name only. In quality, man's life or soul is exactly the opposite of the Life that is God, because the life of man can die, while the Life that is God can never die. The scriptures say that the soul that sinneth shall die, and bids us fear not him who can kill the body, but rather him who can kill both soul

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and body. If God can kill soul, and that is a portion of himself, he kills, therefore, himself. Soul, the life which God made, must be the opposite of himself in quality, just as a picture which you may paint, would be the opposite of your soul in equality; your soul lives and the picture is dead, and if the picture is destroyed, your soul is still there; thus if body, soul, and all material things are destroyed, the Life that is God, is there untouched and unharmed.

If you make a table, that table will not be you, neither will there be any portion of you nor of your thought in the table; if your thought were in the table, it would be separated from you, and if the table were destroyed, your thought would also be destroyed; but you know that if the table be destroyed you can make another, therefore you would still have the thought, and no part of it could have been in the table.

You have a thought and you make something in gross matter like unto that thought,

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or according to it in outline; the thought was the real article and cannot be destroyed; but that which you made was, although a reflection or or image and likeness of the thought, gross matter without life or power of action. It was only your handiwork; so God made man, soul or life, opposite in quality to himself and his Thought, but according to, or in the image of that thought, in outline; it was his handiwork, and he has all power over his works. As a father and his thoughts are not in his child, neither is God and his thoughts in the man (soul or life) that he made. A father instructs his son and the son perceives his father's knowledge or understanding, but, at the same time, neither his father, nor his father's understanding is in him; so God teaches his children through his Understanding, but he is not in them; and his children, through his teaching, can perceive his Understanding without taking anything from him, or having any of his Understanding in them.