The scientific real is the sensuous unreal. What seems real to sense is unreal in Science. Personal sense and Science have ever been antagonistic; and will so continue, till the testimony of the senses yields entirely to Science.
How can a Christian — having the stronger evidences of Truth, which contradict the evidence of error — think of error as real or true, either in the form of sickness or sin? You admit that Truth is God, and that God is omnipotent; and certainly Truth should destroy error.
We have not outlived the age of ghostly beliefs. All of us have them, more or less. We have not yet reached all reality.
All that is real is eternal. Perfection underlies reality. Without it, nothing is real. All things will continue to disappear, until perfection appears and reality is reached. We must give up the spectral at all points; or we shall continue to suffer from the nothingness of superstition, until we gladly give up all belief in it. When we learn that discord is not real, because it is not immortal harmony, we are ready for progress, “forgetting those things which are behind.”
The grave does not banish the ghost of materiality. So long as there are supposed limits to Mind, and those limits are assigned to man, so long will ghosts continue. Mind is limitless. It never was material. The notion of bodily minds is a mortal belief, — yea, a ghost; and Jesus is the authority for this assertion. The Principle of Being is spiritual and immortal; and from this it follows that whatever is laid off is the ghost of some unseen reality. Our material beliefs can neither demonstrate Christianity, nor apprehend the reality of being.
