Sensual treasures are laid up "where moth and rust 241:6 doth corrupt." Mortality is their doom. Sin breaks in upon them, and carries off their fleeting joys. The sensualist's affections are as imaginary, 241:9 whimsical, and unreal as his pleasures. Falsehood, envy, hypocrisy, malice, hate, revenge, and so forth, steal away the treasures of Truth. Stripped of its coverings, what 241:12 a mocking spectacle is sin! Spirit transforms The Bible teaches transformation of the body by the renewal of Spirit. Take away the spiritual signification 241:15 of Scripture, and that compilation can do no more for mortals than can moonbeams to melt a river of ice. The error of the ages is preaching without 241:18 practice. The substance of all devotion is the reflection and demonstration of divine Love, healing sickness and 241:21 destroying sin. Our Master said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." One's aim, a point beyond faith, should be to find the 241:24 footsteps of Truth, the way to health and holiness. We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is re- vealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is 241:27 purity. The baptism of Spirit, washing the body of all the impurities of flesh, signifies that the pure in heart see God and are approaching spiritual Life and its 241:30 demonstration. Spiritual baptism It is "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle," than for sinful beliefs to enter the kingdom of 242:1 heaven, eternal harmony. Through repentance, spiritual baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material 242:3 beliefs and false individuality. It is only a question of time when "they shall all know Me [God], from the least of them unto the greatest." 242:6 Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final triumph over the body. The one only way 242:9 There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality - to have no other conscious- 242:12 ness of life - than good, God and His reflec- tion, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses. 242:15 Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In pa- tient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dis- solve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant 242:18 of error, - self-will, self-justification, and self-love, - which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death. Divided vestments