wax wroth; therefore I marvel not that they said one man must die for the people, and I doubt not that it would be repeated to-day. Jesus did not die by the law for he had not sinned, but he died by the hands of the people. They did not like his works or his teachings; neither would he die by the law to-day, but through the people; therefore I think it is well that we cannot do the works that Jesus did, in a moment of time, because the world is not yet prepared to receive this work as from God or as done through the Understanding of God. It is only little by little that they can receive it. The wiser one is in this world's understanding, the more he has to unlearn before he can be truly wise; therefore, the so-called learned are farther from this truth, and consequently the more opposed to it. Jesus could teach the unlearned fisherman more easily than the scribes and pharisees.

Some even go so far as to assert that to claim to do any part of the work as done

by Jesus and his disciples, is blasphemy; but Jesus bade us all follow him, and said that we should do the works that he did, and even greater works than these, and we cannot err by following his commands. Paul was a learned man; but when he understood the immortal Truth, he counted all other knowledge as nothing for the gospel's sake.

In this chapter my aim has been to show

you that the world's understanding has no firm demonstrable foundation, but is built upon opinions beliefs, etc. -material understanding of this world; that it is not positive truth because it has no unchangeable demonstration; that it is started from a changeable standpoint, and, therefore, cannot become unchangeable, but continues in a direction opposed to, or apart from God; that to be God's children we must understand him, and that in order to do his work we must be his children; that material work may be good, but that it is of man, not of God; that the earth and the fulness thereof

was given man from the beginning and has never been taken away, therefore God has no material gifts to bestow, and has promised only everlasting Life to those who do his will.

CHAPTER III.

EXPLANATION OF THE SPIRITUAL UNDER-
STANDING.

You now realize that life is the man, not matter, and that this life or soul is changeable. It can be right, and can be wrong, thus, we term the soul or life of man spiritual or changeable life, and the material body the product or coarser fabric of the changeable life, -- the instrument which the life sustains and through which it acts.

God made soul (man) in the image and likeness of Spirit, it must, therefore, have been the opposite quality to Spirit. Although it may appear paradoxical to apply the terms, spiritual, changeable, mortal life, and shadow, to the soul, it will be found by a careful study of the following synopsis that these terms do, in reality, express the same quality or are synonymous.

It will also be seen in the preceding synopses that the terms applied to the soul represent an opposite quality to those applied to God. Thought Thought is the first product of life, and beliefs, opinions, prejudices, superstition, etc., are the result of material thought;