False and self-assertive theories have given sinners the 204:24 notion that they can create what God cannot, - namely, sinful mortals in God's image, thus usurping the name without the nature of the image or reflection of divine 204:27 Mind; but in Science it can never be said that man has a mind of his own, distinct from God, the /all/ Mind. 204:30 The belief that God lives in matter is pantheistic. The error, which says that Soul is in body, Mind is in matter, and good is in evil, must unsay it and cease from such 205:1 utterances; else God will continue to be hidden from hu- manity, and mortals will sin without knowing that they 205:3 are sinning, will lean on matter instead of Spirit, stumble with lameness, drop with drunkenness, consume with dis- case, - all because of their blindness, their false sense 205:6 concerning God and man. Creation perfect When will the error of believing that there is life in matter, and that sin, sickness, and death are creations of 205:9 God, be unmasked? When will it be under- stood that matter has neither intelligence, life, nor sensation, and that the opposite belief is the prolific 205:12 source of all suffering? God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal. Where then is the necessity for recreation or procreation? Perceiving the divine image 205:15 Befogged in error (the error of believing that matter can be intelligent for good or evil), we can catch clear glimpses of God only as the mists disperse, 205:18 or as they melt into such thinness that we per- ceive the divine image in some word or deed which indicates the true idea, - the supremacy and real- 205:21 ity of good, the nothingness and unreality of evil. Redemption from selfishness When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; 205:24 whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders man's normal drift towards the one Mind, one God, and leads human thought into opposite channels 205:27 where selfishness reigns. Selfishness tips the beam of human existence towards the side of error, not towards Truth. Denial of the one- 205:30 ness of Mind throws our weight into the scale, not of Spirit, God, good, but of matter. When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, 206:1 we can have no other Mind but His, - no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no con- 206:3 sciousness of the existence of matter or error. Will-power unrighteous