that would make man mortal, and would make mortal mind a slave to the body, of which man should be the master.
Children. Love's spiritual thoughts and representatives;
sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of
creation, whose better originals are God's thoughts, not
in embryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of
life, substance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science
of Being.
Children of Israel. The representatives of Soul,
not sense; the offspring of Spirit; such as are governed
by Divine Science, — having wrestled with sin and sense,
and having risen higher in the scale of being through
great tribulation; part of the ideas of God, beheld as
men casting out error and healing the sick; Christ's
children.
Christ. Divine Principle, not person; Soul, outside
the body; not the person of the man Jesus, but his
eternal Spirit; the divine stepping-stone between God
and His human children, who are His spiritual ideas
reflected.
Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever
rests upon and proceeds from Divine Principle.
The Church is that institution which affords proof of its utility, and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs, to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of Divine Science, — casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
