306:21 The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest as matter, are not more distinct nor real to the mate- rial senses than are the Soul-created forms 306:24 to spiritual sense, which cognizes Life as per- manent. Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding 306:27 to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, - is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal. 306:30 God's man, spiritually created, is not material and mortal. The serpent's whisper The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, 307:1 the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter. 307:3 This pantheistic error, or so-called /serpent/, in- sists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying, "Ye shall be as gods;" that is, I will make error as real 307:6 and eternal as Truth. Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that there is more than one intelligence or God. It says: 307:9 "There shall be lords and gods many. I declare that God makes evil minds and evil spirits, and that I aid Him. Truth shall change sides and be unlike Spirit. I will 307:12 put spirit into what I call matter, and matter shall seem to have life as much as God, Spirit, who /is/ the only life." Bad results from error This error has proved itself to be error. Its life is found 307:15 to be not Life, but only a transient, false sense of an ex- istence which ends in death. Error charges its lie to Truth and says: "The Lord knows 307:18 it. He has made man immortal and material, out of mat- ter instead of Spirit." Thus error partakes of its own nature and utters its own falsities. If we regard matter 307:21 as intelligent, and Mind as both good and evil, every sin or supposed material pain and pleasure seems normal, a part of God's creation, and so weighs against our course 307:24 Spiritward. Higher statutes Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man 307:27 was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher 307:30 law of Mind. The great question