leave but a meagre hope for a conscious eternal life. God, Spirit made soul the opposite quality to Spirit, i. e., spiritual, and it has taken on a material element through a material process, therefore, this material element must be dissolved through a spiritual process in order for the soul to return to its original condition, and to a conscious eternal life with its Creator. When we understand aright, we shall know that God created the soul spiritual, and that it has, through not understanding Spirit, taken on a material thought or "spirit of slumber" through which the matter or corruption. originated. Matter or corruption cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, the soul must dissolve or translate this matter here or hereafter, before it can be reinstated in its original condition, or become the pure image and likeness of immortality, that is, God Substance, man (soul) shadow, like into Substance.

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omy, physiology, and of the origin of disease in the body, is important, and is wisdom. Let us see if it is really so. He who knows much about sickness and is sick, knows more than the man who is ignorant of sickness and is well, but this knowledge will not make him well, and generally the more he knows about sickness the worse he will become. I am willing to accord such an one more knowledge than the well man possesses, but what is this knowledge? It surely is not Wisdom, since it does not enlighten him nor make him, in any sense, better. It is the absence of Wisdom, for with Wisdom a man is better and happier. He that is conscious of knowing nothing, is wiser than he who thinks he knows something when he does not. The more knowledge of sickness we have, the more we shall suffer from it, and our efforts to destroy the sickness according to our knowledge of it, only make it worse. This shows that what we call knowledge is not Wisdom, but is ignorance,

and the more of this ignorance we have the wiser we think we are.

Some who believe and teach that God causes sickness also say, if they were God they would have provided something that would cure the people, thus pretending to be wiser than God; and through such teaching they endeavor to turn the people against against God, thereby taking their God and Christ from under their feet, without giving them any better foundation to rest upon; leaving them without hope and without God in the world. Through these cruel teachings they endeavor to manifest their own knowledge, and depreciate that of their neighbor, and thus they disturb the peace of mind of those who believe in God and Christ, and turn them away from that little hope which they have. This is anti-Christ, for, in their ignorance and blindness, they do not understand that God did not send sickness, and that the spiritual understanding of him will destroy it; yet,

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this they are not ready or willing to learn, because they think they have sufficient knowledge already.

Those who believe Jesus took up into heaven the material body which he showed unto his disciples and others, are mistaken, for we know that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Therefore the flesh profiteth nothing. "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”

The foregoing opinions, which it has been attempted to contradict, and many more of a similar nature, are taught to-day for "Science and "Theology"; but we find them to be full of contradictions, and so long as we find contradictions we know we

*The word "him was not in the original manuscript, and should not have been inserted. The meaning was plain without it, or if any word be inserted it should be "flesh" instead of "him," for Paul claimed to know Christ always.

have not the immortal Truth. The world has not yet arrived at the full understanding of the teaching of Jesus and his disciples, which was the true Theology, and which, when understood, removes the apparent errors or darkness from the scriptures, and brings to light its harmony and consistency from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation. God is true Wisdom or Light, but the wisdom of the world is the absence of that Light or true Wisdom, and is darkness, ignorance, false wisdom or material understanding. The soul that God made stands between Light and darkness, Wisdom and ignorance, or between God and devil; one is eternal and the other is imaginary or the absence of the Eternal; and soul, being a changeable good, partakes of the changeable imaginary understanding (ignorance), and in this so-called understanding (the absence of true Wisdom) men have labored to invent, and to become wiser in the same direction, claiming this mortal