| There are swift hours in life — strong, rushing hours, |
| That do the work of tempests in their might! |
| They shake down things that stood as rocks and towers |
| Unto th' undoubting mind; they pour in light |
| Where it but startles, like a burst of day, |
| For which the uprooting of an oak makes way; |
| They sweep the coloring mist from off our sight. |
The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real; the mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect; nor the inharmonious and self-destroying the harmonious and self-existing. These are tares and wheat that never mingle, but grow side by side until the harvest, when Science shall separate them, — through the apprehension of God as ever-present, and of man as made in His likeness.
Error is without the reality of Truth. The rule of reversion infers from error its opposite, Truth; and Truth is the link connecting man with his Maker. As mortals begin to understand Spirit they will give up the belief that there is aught substantial or intelligent — that there is any life — outside of God.
Nature and revelation inform us that like produces like. Matter is to be classified as error, because it falsely claims Life, Substance, and Intelligence — a claim ignored by Spirit.
Natural history presents minerals, vegetables, and animals as preserving their original species. A mineral is not produced by a vegetable, nor the human by the brute. In reproduction, throughout the entire round of nature, the order of genus and species is preserved. This indicates the spiritual Truth and Science of Being. Error relies upon a reversal of this order, asserts that
