perfection are neither self-created, nor discerned through imperfection;
and of God as a person, human reason, imagination, and revelation give us
no knowledge. Error would fashion Deity in a manlike mould, while Truth is
moulding a Godlike man.

When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant
or cold, until better apprehended. This Principle is Mind, substance, Life,
Truth, Love. When understood, Principle is found to be the only term that
fully conveys the ideas of God,--one Mind, a perfect man, and divine
Science. As the divine Principle is comprehended, God's omnipotence and
omnipresence will dawn on mortals, and the notion of an everywhere-present
body--or of an infinite Mind starting from a finite body, and returning to
it--will disappear.

Ever-present Love must seem ever absent to ever-present selfishness or
material sense. Hence this asking amiss and receiving not, and the common
idolatry of man-worship. In divine Science, God is recognized as the only
power, presence, and glory.

Adam's mistiness and Satan's reasoning, ever since the flood,--when
specimens of every kind emerged from the ark,--have run through the veins
of all human philosophy. Human reason is a blind guide, a continued series
of mortal hypotheses, antagonistic to Revelation and Science. It is
continually straying into forbidden by-paths of sensualism, contrary to
the life and teachings of Jesus and Paul, and the vision of the Apocalypse.
Human philosophy has ninety-nine parts of error to the one-hundredth part
of Truth,--an unsafe decoction for the race. The Science that Jesus
demonstrated, whose views of Truth Confucius and Plato but dimly discerned,
Science and Health interprets. It was not a search after wisdom; it was
wisdom, and it grasped in spiritual law the universe,--all time, space,