Sometimes it is said, by those who fail to understand me, that I monopolize; and this is said because ideas akin to mine have been held by a few spiritual thinkers in all ages.  So they have, but in a far different form.  Healing has gone on continually; yet healing, as I teach it, has not been practised since the days of Christ.

What is the cardinal point of the difference in my metaphysical system?  This:  that by knowing the unreality of disease, sin, and death, you demonstrate the allness of God.  This difference wholly separates my system from all others.  The reality of these so-called existences I deny, because they are not to be found in God, and this system is built on Him as the sole cause.  It would be difficult to name any previous teachers, save Jesus and his apostles, who have thus taught.

If there be any monopoly in my teaching, it lies in this utter reliance upon the one God, to whom belong all things.

Life is God, or Spirit, the supersensible eternal.  The universe and man are the spiritual phenomena of this one infinite Mind.  Spiritual phenomena never converge toward aught but infinite Deity.  Their gradations are spiritual and divine; they cannot collapse, or lapse into their opposites, for God is their divine Principle.  They live, because He lives; and they are eternally perfect, because He is perfect, and governs them in the Truth of divine Science, whereof God is the Alpha and Omega, the centre and circumference.

To attempt the calculation of His mighty ways, from the evidence before the material senses, is fatuous.  It is like commencing with the minus sign, to learn the principle of positive mathematics.

God was not in the whirlwind.  He is not the blind force of a material universe.  Mortals must learn this; unless, pursued by their fears, they would endeavor to hide from His presence under their own falsities, and call in vain for the mountains of unholiness to shield them from the penalty of error.

Jesus taught us to walk over, not into or with, the currents of matter, or mortal mind.  His teachings beard the lions in their dens.  He turned the water into wine, he commanded the winds, he healed the sick,—­all in direct opposition to human philosophy and so-called natural science.  He annulled the laws of matter, showing them to be laws of mortal mind, not of God.  He showed the need of changing this mind and its abortive laws.  He demanded a change of consciousness and evidence, and effected this change through the higher laws of God.  The palsied hand moved, despite the boastful sense of physical law and order.  Jesus stooped not to human consciousness, nor to the evidence of the senses.  He heeded not the taunt, “That withered hand looks very real and feels very real;” but he cut off this vain boasting and destroyed human pride by taking away the material evidence.  If his patient was a theologian of some bigoted sect,