Please study the following excerpt from Science and Heath, p. 467 - we will read it together, and be ready to share any insights as to how we may practice what is written.
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Question. — What are the demands of the Science of Soul?
Answer. — The first demand of this Science is, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
This me is Spirit. Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt have no intelligence,
no life, no substance, no truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second is like unto it,
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." It should be thoroughly understood that all men
have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect
in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brotherhood of man
will be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind
to guide him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, having that Mind which
was also in Christ.
Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and God as not in man but as reflected by man.
The greater cannot be in the lesser. The belief that the greater can be in the lesser is an error
that works ill. This is a leading point in the Science of Soul, that Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul,
is not confined in man, and is never in matter. We reason imperfectly from effect
to cause, when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning
shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives the true mental idea.
We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind, through matter. Matter neither sees, hears,<
nor feels.
Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind,
we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it
and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we arrive at Truth, or intelligence,
which evolves its own unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human illusions.
If Soul sinned, it would be mortal, for sin is mortality's self, because it kills itself.
If Truth is immortal, error must be mortal, because error is unlike Truth.
Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot sin, for sin is not the eternal verity of being.