In order to reach the true knowledge and consciousness of Life, we must learn it of good.  Of evil we can never learn it, because sin shuts out the real sense of Life, and brings in an unreal sense of suffering and death.

Knowledge of evil, or belief in it, involves a loss of the true sense of good, God; and to know death, or to believe in it, involves a temporary loss of God, the infinite and only Life.

Resurrection from the dead (that is, from the belief in death) must come to all sooner or later; and they who have part in this resurrection are they upon whom the second death has no power.

The sweet and sacred sense of the permanence of man’s unity with his Maker can illumine our present being with a continual presence and power of good, opening wide the portal from death into Life; and when this Life shall appear “we shall be like Him,” and we shall go to the Father, not through death, but through Life; not through error, but through Truth.

All Life is Spirit, and Spirit can never dwell in its antagonist, matter.  Life, therefore, is deathless, because God cannot be the opposite of Himself.  In Christian Science there is no matter; hence matter neither lives nor dies.  To the senses, matter appears to both live and die, and these phenomena appear to go on ad infinitum; but such a theory implies perpetual disagreement with Spirit.

Life, God, being everywhere, it must follow that death can be nowhere; because there is no place left for it.

Soul, Spirit, is deathless.  Matter, sin, and death are not the outcome of Spirit, holiness, and Life.  What then are matter, sin, and death?  They can be nothing except the results of material consciousness; but material consciousness can have no real existence, because it is not a living—­that is to say, a divine and intelligent—­reality.

That man must be vicious before he can be virtuous, dying before he can be deathless, material before he can be spiritual, is an error of the senses; for the very opposite of this error is the genuine Science of being.

Man, in Science, is as perfect and immortal now, as when “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”

With Christ, Life was not merely a sense of existence, but a sense of might and ability to subdue material conditions.  No wonder “people were astonished at his doctrine; for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”

As defined by Jesus, Life had no beginning; nor was it the result of organization, or of an infusion of power into matter.  To him, Life was Spirit.

Truth, defiant of error or matter, is Science, dispelling a false sense and leading man into the true sense of selfhood and Godhood; wherein the mortal does not develop the immortal, nor the material the spiritual, but wherein true manhood and womanhood go forth in the radiance of eternal being and its perfections, unchanged and unchangeable.