“As many as received him,”—as accept the truth of being,—“to them gave he power to become the sons of God.” The spiritualization of our sense of man opens the gates of paradise that the so-called material senses [20] would close, and reveals man infinitely blessed, upright, pure, and free; having no need of statistics by which to learn his origin and age, or to measure his manhood, or to know how much of a man he ever has been: for, “as many as received him, to them gave he power to become [25] the sons of God.” _And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;_ _the last Adam was made a quickening spirit._—1 COR. xv. 45. When reasoning on this subject of man with the Corin- thian brethren, the apostle first spake from their stand- [30] point of thought; namely, that creation is material: [Page 186.] he was not at this point giving the history of the spiritual [1] man who originates in God, Love, who created man in His own image and likeness. In the creation of Adam from dust,—in which Soul is supposed to enter the embryo-man after his birth,—we see the material self- [5] constituted belief of the Jews as referred to by St. Paul. Their material belief has fallen far below man’s original standard, the spiritual man made in the image and like- ness of God; for this erring belief even separates its conception of man from God, and ultimates in the opposite [10] of _im_mortal man, namely, in a sick and sinning mortal. We learn in the Scriptures, as in divine Science, that God made all; that He is the universal Father and Mother of man; that God is divine Love: therefore divine Love [15] is the divine Principle of the divine idea named man; in other words, the spiritual Principle of spiritual man. Now let us not lose this Science of man, but gain it clearly; then we shall see that man cannot be separated from his perfect Principle, God, inasmuch as an idea cannot [20] be torn apart from its fundamental basis. This scien- tific knowledge affords self-evident proof of immortality; proof, also, that the Principle of man cannot produce a less perfect man than it produced in the beginning. A material sense of existence is not the scientific fact of [25] being; whereas, the spiritual sense of God and His universe is the immortal and true sense of being. As the apostle proceeds in this line of thought, he undoubtedly refers to the last Adam represented by the Messias, whose demonstration of God restored to mortals [30] the lost sense of man’s perfection, even the sense of the real man in God’s likeness, who restored this sense by [Page 187.]