This pantheistic error, or
so-called _serpent_, insists still upon the opposite of Truth,
saying, 'Ye shall be as gods;' that is, I will make error as real
and eternal as Truth.... 'I will put spirit into what I call
matter, and matter shall seem to have life as much as God, Spirit,
who _is_ the only Life.' This error has proved itself to be error.
Its life is found to be not Life, but only a transient, false
sense of an existence which ends in death" (pp. 306, 307).
"When will the error of believing that there is life in matter,
and that sin, sickness, and death are creations of God, be
unmasked? When will it be understood that matter has no
intelligence, life, nor sensation, and that the opposite belief is
the prolific source of all suffering? God created all through
Mind, and made all perfect and eternal. Where then is the
necessity for recreation or procreation?" (p. 205).
"Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth
still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou?
Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that
evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and
can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'" (pp. 307,
308). "Mortal mind inverts the true likeness, and confers animal
names and natures upon its own misconceptions.
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