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Science and Health

ment that Truth is real necessarily includes the correlated statement, that error, Truth's unlikeness, is unreal.

The suppositional warfare between truth and error is only the mental conflict between the evidence of the The great conflict spiritual senses and the testimony of the material senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the understanding of divine Love.

Superstition and understanding can never combine. When the final physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign. The lightnings and thunderbolts of error may burst and flash till the cloud is cleared and the tumult dies away in the distance. Then the raindrops of divinity refresh the is earth. As St. Paul says: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God” (of Spirit).

The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, The chief stones in the temple good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no material life, and no death.

Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal The
Christ-element
man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses. The Christ-element in the Messiah made him the Way-shower, Truth and Life.

The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have learned from error, and man's real existence as a child