Applying these distinctions to evil and God, we shall find that evil is egotistic,—­boastful, but fleeing like a shadow at daybreak; while God is egoistic, knowing only His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power.

Soul

We read in the Hebrew Scriptures, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

What is Soul?  Is it a reality within the mortal body?  Who can prove that?  Anatomy has not descried nor described Soul.  It was never touched by the scalpel nor cut with the dissecting-knife.  The five physical senses do not cognize it.

Who, then, dares define Soul as something within man?  As well might you declare some old castle to be peopled with demons or angels, though never a light or form was discerned therein, and not a spectre had ever been seen going in or coming out.

The common hypotheses about souls are even more vague than ordinary material conjectures, and have less basis; because material theories are built on the evidence of the material senses.

Soul must be God; since we learn Soul only as we learn God, by spiritualization.  As the five senses take no cognizance of Soul, so they take no cognizance of God.  Whatever cannot be taken in by mortal mind—­by human reflection, reason, or belief—­must be the unfathomable Mind, which “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.”  Soul stands in this relation to every hypothesis as to its human character.

If Soul sins, it is a sinner, and Jewish law condemned the sinner to death,—­as does all criminal law, to a certain extent.

Spirit never sins, because Spirit is God.  Hence, as Spirit, Soul is sinless, and is God.  Therefore there is, there can be, no spiritual death.

Transcending the evidence of the material senses, Science declares God to be the Soul of all being, the only Mind and intelligence in the universe.  There is but one God, one Soul, or Mind, and that one is infinite, supplying all that is absolutely immutable and eternal,—­Truth, Life, Love.

Science reveals Soul as that which the senses cannot define from any standpoint of their own.  What the physical senses miscall soul, Christian Science defines as material sense; and herein lies the discrepancy between the true Science of Soul and that material sense of a soul which that very sense declares can never be seen or measured or weighed or touched by physicality.

Often we can elucidate the deep meaning of the Scriptures by reading sense instead of soul, as in the Forty-second Psalm:  “Why art thou cast down, O my soul [sense]?...  Hope thou in God [Soul]:  for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God [my Soul, immortality].”

The Virgin-mother’s sense being uplifted to behold Spirit as the sole origin of man, she exclaimed, “My soul [spiritual sense] doth magnify the Lord.”

Human language constantly uses the word soul for sense.  This it does under the delusion that the senses can reverse the spiritual facts of Science, whereas Science reverses the testimony of the material senses.