Evil counterfeits good: it says, “I am Truth,” though [20] it is a lie; it says, “I am Love,”—but Love is spirit- ual, and sensuous love is material, wherefore it is hate instead of Love; for the five senses give to mortals pain, sickness, sin, and death,—pleasure that is false, life that leads unto death, joy that becomes sorrow. Love that is [25] not the procurator of happiness, declares itself the anti- pode of Love; and Love divine punishes the joys of this false sense of love, chastens its affection, purifies it, and turns it into the opposite channels. Material life is the antipode of spiritual life; it mocks [30] [Page 352.] the bliss of spiritual being; it is bereft of permanence and [1] peace. When human sense is quickened to behold aright the error,—the error of regarding Life, Truth, Love as material and not spiritual, or as both material and spirit- [5] ual,—it is able for the first time to discern the Science of good. But it must first see the error of its present erroneous course, to be able to behold the facts of Truth outside of the error; and, _vice versa_, when it discovers the truth, this uncovers the error and quickens the true [10] consciousness of God, good. May the human shadows of thought lengthen as they approach the light, until they are lost in light and no night is there! In Science, sickness is healed upon the same Principle and by the same rule that sin is healed. To know the [15] supposed bodily belief of the patient and what has claimed to produce it, enables the practitioner to act more under- standingly in destroying this belief. Thus it is in heal- ing the moral sickness; the malicious mental operation must be understood in order to enable one to destroy [20] it and its effects. There is not sufficient spiritual power in the human thought to heal the sick or the sinful. Through the divine energies alone one must either get out of himself and into God so far that his consciousness is the reflection of the divine, or he must, through argu- [25] ment and the human consciousness of both evil and good, overcome evil. The only difference between the healing of sin and the healing of sickness is, that sin must be _un_covered before it can be destroyed, and the moral sense be aroused to [30] reject the sense of error; while sickness must be cov- ered with the veil of harmony, and the consciousness be [Page 353.] allowed to rejoice in the sense that it has nothing to mourn [1] over, but something to forget. Human concepts run in extremes; they are like the action of sickness, which is either an excess of action or not action enough; they are fallible; they are neither [5] standards nor models.