Who has ever learned of the schools that there is but [5] one Mind, and that this is God, who healeth all our sick- ness and sins?
Who has ever learned from the schools, pagan phi- losophy, or scholastic theology, that Science is the law of Mind and not of matter, and that this law has no relation [10] to, or recognition of, matter?
Mind is its own great cause and effect. Mind is God, omnipotent and omnipresent. What, then, of an oppo- site so-called science, which says that man is both matter and mind, that Mind is in matter? Can the infinite [15] be within the finite? And must not man have preexisted in the All and Only? Does an evil mind exist without space to occupy, power to act, or vanity to pretend that it is man?
If God is Mind and fills all space, is everywhere, matter [20] is nowhere and sin is obsolete. If Mind, God, is all-power and all-presence, man is not met by another power and presence, that--obstructing his intelligence-- pains, fetters, and befools him. The perfection of man is intact; whence, then, is something besides Him that [25] is not the counterpart but the counterfeit of man's creator? Surely not from God, for He made man in His own likeness. Whence, then, is the atom or molecule called matter? Have attraction and cohesion formed it? But are these forces laws of matter, or laws of [30] Mind?
For matter to be matter, it must have been self-created.
Mind has no more power to evolve or to create matter [1] than has good to produce evil. Matter is a misstatement of Mind; it is a lie, claiming to talk and disclaim against Truth; idolatry, having other gods; evil, having presence and power over omnipotence! [5]
Let us have a clearing up of abstractions. Let us come into the presence of Him who removeth all iniqui- ties, and healeth all our diseases. Let us attach our sense of Science to what touches the religious sentiment within man. Let us open our affections to the Principle that [10] moves all in harmony,--from the falling of a sparrow to the rolling of a world. Above Arcturus and his sons, broader than the solar system and higher than the at- mosphere of our planet, is the Science of mental healing. [15]
What is the kingdom of heaven? The abode of Spirit, the realm of the real. No matter is there, no night is there--nothing that maketh or worketh a lie. Is this kingdom afar off? No: it is ever-present here. The first to declare against this kingdom is matter. Shall [20] that be called heresy which pleads for Spirit--the All of God, and His omnipresence?