For a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things he possessethLuke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Life is the alpha and omega of mortal inquiry the endless theme of the immortal. Ancient and modern sacred and profane history have recorded their theories of Life.
Both these histories have been made to say that Life is dual it hath a twofold nature, that Life is a composite which is the opposite of itself, and possesses twoAs Written:tw conditions which are the opposites of each other. We will briefly consider these two opposite statements of Life and the science of one of them for being opposites, both conditions of Life, namely the spiritual and the material cannot be science. This is a self evident proposition that if two statements are the opposites of each other and one of them is Truth the other one must be error We accept gratefully the scripture'sAs Written:scriptures definition of Deity, namely, that God is Life and Truth and we learn therefrom that Life is Spirit for God is Spirit. Then it follows that matter being the opposite of God or Spirit of Life and Truth matter must be error and mortality and according to our theories matter and mortality contain those opposites of God named sin sickness and death. Again, Spirit being intelligence it follows that matter is non-intelligenceAs Written:nonintelligence. Spirituality and materiality being opposites they cannot dwell together or harmonize and if Life is Spiritual, it cannot be material. We also learn from Science reason and revelation that light hath no fellowship with darkness nor Life, God with Belial, therefore opposites such as Truth and error never blend that Spirit can neither pass into matter nor come out from matter; even as light neither passes into darkness nor comes out of darkness; darkness may hide the light but it cannot receive light and remain darkness. No more can matter become the receptacle of Life, Spirit, and remain matter. Life, God, cannot pass into mortal man, the infinite cannot enter the finite. Life cannot pass into death and then come out Life. Truth cannot enter error, and error remain, and Truth come out Truth; yea, Spirit cannot pass into matter and come out Spirit.
[*]Editorial Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.Over 18 centuries ago Jesus sought to establish the understanding of the kingdom of heaven on the basis of Life immortal, even the reign of harmony, that hath ever existed between God and man. The kingdom of heaven is the supremacy of Life, Spirit, as revealed by metaphysical science. Life, God, is the Principle of this harmony and righteousness, and His government is spiritual, expressed through the science of being, uttered in the ten commandments, the beatitudes or sermon on the Mount. and Jesus' method of healing the sick. It is a government of Soul instead of sense, and this government annuls the law of sense material with the higher law Spiritual. It is the government of the unerring intelligence, the immortal Mind, the Life Love and Truth that shall establish the reign of harmony or kingdom of heaven on earth through the supremacy of Mind, Truth and Life over matter, by which sin sickness and death are destroyed, The science of Life, is began below.
Jesus came fulfilling the will of the Father, carrying out God'sAs Written:Gods' government; and we learn that this government cast out error, healed the sick, restored to Life. This kingdom of heaven was science in accord with the Principle of all science and this Principle was Life, Truth and Love, the kingdom which cannot be overthrown, for it is founded on the basis of Spirit. Life and its pursuitAs Written:persiut. Jesus likened to a rock against which the waves the science of Life affords. The wisdom of Jesus' ignorance of material theorems and infinite understanding of the spiritual enabled him to demonstrate the science of Life as no others did. The arrogant Rabbis and devoted stoics with their different religions and philosophies failed to demonstrate the Truth that cast out error and healed the sick. Uneducated Jesus introduced to a very material age the science of Life, Spirit, that harmonized God and man, united Principle and idea and revealed the government of Soul. He put to silence by his demonstration wroughtAs Written:wraught on this statement the proudest systems of ancient and modern ethics. Does the calculation of the eclipses compare with the science that destroys sickness sin and death? Does the material code compare with the spiritual proof of Truth with science that reveals spiritual law holding ascendency over the material, that saith to matter thou art dust, nothingness and to spirit thou art substance Life and intelligence that saith to the senses thou art mistaken for God and His idea are all that are real or eternal;
The science of Life reveals this great fact, and reveals the infinite Principle and the infinite idea harmonizing and filling immensity; therefore there is no. space for materiality, as the scripture declares, God is all and in all and because God is all and in all and is Spirit, there is no matter. Life Spirit is unlimited and can be in nothing but itself, it cannot enter matter that is limited to give it sensation, life or intelligence, sense is contradicted by the science of Life, Soul. Life or Spirits' phenomena are not understood they certainly are not materiality.