Our physical insensibility to Spirit 284:21 The physical senses can obtain no proof of God. They can neither see Spirit through the eye nor hear it through the ear, nor can they feel, taste, or smell Spirit. 284:24 Even the more subtile and misnamed ma- terial elements are beyond the cognizance of these senses, and are known only by the effects com- 284:27 monly attributed to them. According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind. 284:30 Thought passes from God to man, but neither sensation nor report goes from material body to Mind. The in- tercommunication is always from God to His idea, man. 285:1 Matter is not sentient and cannot be cognizant of good or of evil, of pleasure or of pain. Man's individu- 285:3 ality is not material. This Science of being obtains not alone hereafter in what men call Paradise, but here and now; it is the great fact of being for time and 285:6 eternity. The human counterfeit What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness 285:9 of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the /unlikeness/ called sin, sickness, and death. The unreality of the claim that a mortal is 285:12 the true image of God is illustrated by the opposite na- tures of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is intelligence while the other is non-intelligence. Material misconceptions 285:15 Is God a physical personality? Spirit is not physical. The belief that a material body is man is a false con- ception of man. The time has come for a 285:18 finite conception of the infinite and of a ma- terial body as the seat of Mind to give place to a diviner sense of intelligence and its manifestations, 285:21 to the better understanding that Science gives of the Supreme Being, or divine Principle, and idea. Salvation is through reform By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour but not as 285:24 the saving Principle, or divine Love, we shall continue to seek salvation through pardon and not through reform, and resort to matter instead 285:27 of Spirit for the cure of the sick. As mortals reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from 285:30 the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and saving power.