Animal magnetism thus uncovers material sense, and shows it to be a belief without actual foundation. Change the belief, and the sensation changes. Destroy a belief, and the sensation disappears.
Material man is made up of involuntary and voluntary error, of a negative right and a positive wrong, — calling itself right.
Spiritual man is never wrong. He is the likeness of his Maker. Matter cannot connect mortals with the true origin and facts of being, in which all must end. It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality, and find the indissoluble spiritual link that establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his Creator.
The belief that matter and Mind are one, that matter is awake at one time and asleep at another, — sometimes presenting no appearance of Mind, — this belief culminates in another belief, namely, that man dies.
Science reveals material man as a dream at all times, and as never the real being. The dream or belief goes on, while our eyes are closed or open. In sleep memory and consciousness are lost from one body, whence they wander whither they will, with their own embodiment.
Awake, we dream of the pains and pleasures of matter. Who will say, even though not understanding Christian Science, that this dream — rather than a dreamer — is not mortal man? Who can rationally say otherwise, when the dream leaves mortal man intact in body and mind, and the so-called dreamer lies unconscious on the pillow? For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the mind, namely, spiritual existence.
