These are the mutations of sense, the varying clouds of mortal belief, that hide the Truth of Being.
The objects of sense have not the reality of Substance. They are what mortal belief names them, and are only what they appear to this belief. As we escape from a false sense of Life, Substance, and Intelligence, and pass from the standpoint of matter to the standpoint of Spirit, we gain the real and tangible. Then we find Soul, and lose all sense of matter, sin, and mortality.
Through false estimates of Soul in sense, and Mind in matter, belief strays into a temporary loss or absence of Soul. This state of error is the mortal dream of Life and Substance in matter, and it is directly opposite to the immortal reality of being. Waking to real Life, mortals find what they have learned from the senses to be reversed in the facts of existence. That which sense deems shadow is found to be substance; and what it deems substance becomes nothingness, when the dreams of the senses vanish, and reality appears.
The parent of all human discord was not God's man, spiritually created. It is a lie to say that man is material and mortal, originated in nothingness and dust, and sprang from matter instead of Spirit. This was the Adam-dream, that Life and Intelligence originated from and passed into matter. This error, first called the Serpent, suggested the opposite of Truth, saying: “I will make ye as gods.” In other words: “There is more than one Mind. I am mind, and there shall be lords and gods many, minds and spirits, both evil and good. Truth shall change sides, and be the opposite of Spirit. God, I will name Matter, and it shall seem to have Life, as much as God, or Spirit, that is Life.”
