Does it limit the power of Mind to say that addition [15] is not subtraction in mathematics? The Science of Mind reveals the impossibility of two individual sleepers, in different phases of thought, communicating, even if touch- ing each other corporeally; or for one who sleeps to communicate with another who is awake. Mind’s possi- [20] bilities are not lessened by being confined and conformed to the Science of being. _If mortal mind and body are myths, what is the con-_ _nection between them and real identity, and why are there_ _as many identities as mortal bodies?_ [25] Evil in the beginning claimed the power, wisdom, and utility of good; and every creation or idea of Spirit has its counterfeit in some matter belief. Every material be- lief hints the existence of spiritual reality; and if mortals are instructed in spiritual things, it will be seen that ma- [30] [Page 61.] terial belief, in all its manifestations, reversed, will be [1] found the type and representative of verities priceless, eternal, and just at hand. The education of the future will be instruction, in spir- itual Science, against the material symbolic counterfeit [5] sciences. All the knowledge and vain strivings of mortal mind, that lead to death,—even when aping the wisdom and magnitude of immortal Mind,—will be swallowed up by the reality and omnipotence of Truth over error, and of Life over death. [10] “_Dear Mrs. Eddy_:—In the October _Journal_ I read the following: “But the real man, who was created in the image of God, does not commit sin.” _What then does sin?_ _What commits theft? Or who does murder?_ For instance, the man is held responsible for the crime; for I went once [15] to a place where a man was said to be “hanged for mur- der”—and certainly I saw him, or his effigy, dangling at the end of a rope. This “man” was held responsible for the ‘sin.’ ” _What sins?_ [20] According to the Word, man is the image and likeness of God. Does God’s essential likeness sin, or dangle at the end of a rope? If not, what does? A culprit, a sinner, —anything but a man! Then, what is a sinner? A mortal; but man is _immortal_. [25] Again: mortals are the embodiments (or bodies, if you please) of error, not of Truth; of sickness, sin, and death. Naming these His embodiment, can neither make them so nor overthrow the logic that man is God’s like- ness. Mortals seem very material; man in the likeness [30] [Page 62.] of Spirit is spiritual. Holding the _right_ idea of man in my [1] mind, I can improve my own, and other people’s individ- uality, health, and morals; whereas, the opposite image of man, a sinner, kept constantly in mind, can no more improve health or morals, than holding in thought the [5] form of a boa-constrictor can aid an artist in painting a landscape.