In reality there are no material states or stages of consciousness, and matter has neither Mind nor sensation.  Like evil, it is destitute of Mind, for Mind is God.

The less consciousness of evil or matter mortals have, the easier it is for them to evade sin, sickness, and death,—­which are but states of false belief,—­and awake from the troubled dream, a consciousness which is without Mind or Maker.

Matter and evil cannot be conscious, and consciousness should not be evil.  Adopt this rule of Science, and you will discover the material origin, growth, maturity, and death of sinners, as the history of man, disappears, and the everlasting facts of being appear, wherein man is the reflection of immutable good.

Reasoning from false premises,—­that Life is material, that immortal Soul is sinful, and hence that sin is eternal,—­the reality of being is neither seen, felt, heard, nor understood.  Human philosophy and human reason can never make one hair white or black, except in belief; whereas the demonstration of God, as in Christian Science, is gained through Christ as perfect manhood.

In pantheism the world is bereft of its God, whose place is ill supplied by the pretentious usurpation, by matter, of the heavenly sovereignty.

What say you of woman?

Man is the generic term for all humanity.  Woman is the highest species of man, and this word is the generic term for all women; but not one of all these individualities is an Eve or an Adam.  They have none of them lost their harmonious state, in the economy of God’s wisdom and government.

The Ego is divine consciousness, eternally radiating throughout all space in the idea of God, good, and not of His opposite, evil.  The Ego is revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; but the full Truth is found only in divine Science, where we see God as Life, Truth, and Love.  In the scientific relation of man to God, man is reflected not as human soul, but as the divine ideal, whose Soul is not in body, but is God,—­the divine Principle of man.  Hence Soul is sinless and immortal, in contradistinction to the supposition that there can be sinful souls or immortal sinners.

This Science of God and man is the Holy Ghost, which reveals and sustains the unbroken and eternal harmony of both God and the universe.  It is the kingdom of heaven, the ever-present reign of harmony, already with us.  Hence the need that human consciousness should become divine, in the coincidence of God and man, in contradistinction to the false consciousness of both good and evil, God and devil,—­of man separated from his Maker.  This is the precious redemption of soul, as mortal sense, through Christ’s immortal sense of Truth, which presents Truth’s spiritual idea, man and woman.

What say you of evil?

God is not the so-called ego of evil; for evil, as a supposition, is the father of itself,—­of the material world, the flesh, and the devil.  From this falsehood arise the self-destroying elements of this world, its unkind forces, its tempests, lightnings, earthquakes, poisons, rabid beasts, fatal reptiles, and mortals.