If it is true that man lives, this fact can never change in Science to the opposite belief that man dies. Life is Life not contingent on matter the law of Soul, even the law of the spirit of Truth, and Soul is never without its representative. Man's individual being can no more die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for both are immortal. If man believes in death now, he must disbelieve in it when learning that there is no reality in death, since the truth of being is deathless. The belief that existence is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and harmony obtained.
Death is but another phase of the dream that existence can be material. Nothing can interfere with the Mortality vanquished harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science. Man is the same after as before a bone is broken or the body guillotined. If man is never to overcome death, why do the Scriptures say, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death”? The tenor of the Word shows that we shall obtain the victory over death in proportion as we overcome sin. The great difficulty lies in ignorance of what God is. God, Life, Truth, and Love make man undying. Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.
Called to the bed of death, what material remedy has man when all such remedies have failed? Spirit is his No death nor inaction last resort, but it should have been his first and only resort. The dream of death must be mastered by Mind here or hereafter. Thought so will waken from its own material declaration, “I am dead,” to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, “There