214:9 Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from dust, is an object-lesson for the human mind. The mate- rial senses, like Adam, originate in matter and 214:12 return to dust, - are proved non-intelligent. They go out as they came in, for they are still the error, not the truth of being. When it is learned that the spirit- 214:15 ual sense, and not the material, conveys the impressions of Mind to man, then being will be understood and found to be harmonious. Idolatrous illusions 214:18 We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts of God like the pagan idolater. Mortals are inclined to fear and to obey what they consider a material 214:21 body more than they do a spiritual God. All material knowledge, like the original "tree of knowledge," multiplies their pains, for mortal illusions would rob God, 214:24 slay man, and meanwhile would spread their table with cannibal tidbits and give thanks. The senses of Soul How transient a sense is mortal sight, when a wound on 214:27 the retina may end the power of light and lens! But the real sight or sense is not lost. Neither age nor accident can interfere with the senses of Soul, 214:30 and there are no other real senses. It is evident that the body as matter has no sensation of its own, and there is no oblivion for Soul and its faculties. Spirit's senses are with- 215:1 out pain, and they are forever at peace. Nothing can hide from them the harmony of all things and the might and 215:3 permanence of Truth. Real being never lost If Spirit, Soul, could sin or be lost, then being and im- mortality would be lost, together with all the faculties of 215:6 Mind; but being cannot be lost while God ex- ists. Soul and matter are at variance from the very necessity of their opposite natures. Mortals are 215:9 unacquainted with the reality of existence, because matter and mortality do not reflect the facts of Spirit. Spiritual vision is not subordinate to geometric alti- 215:12 tudes. Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence and Life. Light and darkness 215:15 We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real as light; but Science affirms darkness to be only a mortal sense of the absence of light, at the coming of 215:18 which darkness loses the appearance of reality. So sin and sorrow, disease and death, are the suppositional absence of Life, God, and flee as phantoms of error before 215:21 truth and love.